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Sweet Home Alabama.
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Queens Gambit. Fine acting and great cinematography as well as costumes
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Sometimes this thread cracks me up. How has it gone on forever with recommendations a mile wide and an inch deep? "It held my interest." "I don't recommend." Really!

And would it kill you to include a link to the trailer of the movie? For instance, I too liked The Vast of the Night, and here is the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEiwpCJqMM0

See? It isn't hard!
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“The Outpost” on Netflix with Scott Eastwood (Clint Eastwood’s son). Military movie in Afghanistan.
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Here's the trailer to The Outpost (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp9JghhGPao
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Trial of the Chicago Seven on Netflix. It was awesome.
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Gattaca, on DVD, PG-13, 1997. A sci-fi drama where genetics matter. An interesting plot, but I thought it was slow in spots. It was OK. I think I liked it better the first time around (when the DVD first came out).
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gamboolman wrote: Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:48 am A Call To Spy

Excerpt from Rogerebert.com https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-ca ... eview-2020

"historical drama detailing the experiences of the "lady spies" recruited into England's Special Operations Executive (SOE) during WWII."

Do recommend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKQ2QofoMt4
This looks great. I hope to see it.
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You Know What I Mean wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 6:49 pm
gamboolman wrote: Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:48 am A Call To Spy

Excerpt from Rogerebert.com https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-ca ... eview-2020

"historical drama detailing the experiences of the "lady spies" recruited into England's Special Operations Executive (SOE) during WWII."

Do recommend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKQ2QofoMt4
This looks great. I hope to see it.
Just finished Foyle's War last night. The acting was superb.
And the last episode, "Elise", included something about these "lady spies", so this is quite timely.

And... we just watched the Queen's Gambit.
I thought some of the acting very early was a bit stilted, but then... it was first class all the way.
It was interesting to know a bit about chess, but not necessary. It did help at least to look up "Queen's Gambit", however, if one didn't already know.

We were very sorry to see both of them end.

Some really great suggestions here - thanks!
They've all really helped us through the tension about the election recently.
These good ones really captured our attention, and we were "there" with the characters, not "here" while watching :happy

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LadyGeek wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 5:59 pm Gattaca, on DVD, PG-13, 1997. A sci-fi drama where genetics matter. An interesting plot, but I thought it was slow in spots. It was OK. I think I liked it better the first time around (when the DVD first came out).
I always say that I strongly dislike science fiction, but that the only sci fi film I enjoyed is Gattaca.
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RustyShackleford wrote: Sat Oct 31, 2020 4:36 pm
Eowyn wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:50 pm Uncut Gems: Well made, good acting, but so hard to watch.
OMG, yes. Just a bunch of very unappealing people shouting at each other the whole time.
Seconded. It was a very well acted and well filmed stress dream.
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blueblock wrote: Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:50 pm Sometimes this thread cracks me up. How has it gone on forever with recommendations a mile wide and an inch deep? "It held my interest." "I don't recommend." Really!
Personally for me I try hard not to give spoilers, so my reviews are short and vague.
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I thought the cinematography for The Queen's Gambit was exceptional especially the scene when Beth enters the Las Vegas hotel.
Episode 3 around minute 23.
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Rowan Oak wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 8:05 pm I thought the cinematography for The Queen's Gambit was exceptional especially the scene when Beth enters the Las Vegas hotel.
Episode 3 around minute 23.
I liked her dance routine to "Fever". :twisted:
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Rented The Treasure of the Sierra Madre on iTunes. A classic morality tale, worth seeing more than once.

I know what gold does to men's souls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk4GDuzZAM8
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My Octopus Teacher on Netflix.

A documentary filmmaker experiencing a mid-life crisis spends a year observing (and filming) an octopus in the wild.

The visuals are stunning, the filmmaker's narration is thought-provoking. I'm going to watch it again, and maybe again after that.

Official trailer.
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cs412a wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 9:09 pm Rented The Treasure of the Sierra Madre on iTunes. A classic morality tale, worth seeing more than once.

I know what gold does to men's souls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk4GDuzZAM8
Truly excellent movie, Walter Huston's timeless performance. Greatest movie about greed ever (Wall Street hold my beer).
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cs412a wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 9:09 pm Rented The Treasure of the Sierra Madre on iTunes. A classic morality tale, worth seeing more than once.

I know what gold does to men's souls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk4GDuzZAM8
And the other famous scene, "We don't have... no stinkin' badges": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqomZQMZQCQ
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Bylo Selhi wrote: Thu Nov 12, 2020 6:52 am
cs412a wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 9:09 pm Rented The Treasure of the Sierra Madre on iTunes. A classic morality tale, worth seeing more than once.

I know what gold does to men's souls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk4GDuzZAM8
And the other famous scene, "We don't have... no stinkin' badges": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqomZQMZQCQ
Outstanding movie.
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We just finished the Queen's Gambit, and really enjoyed it. For a casual chess fan like me, I also like agadmator's analyses of a few of the games (minor spoilers in the videos, so would still recommend watching the series first).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaMv4cQtEnw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nNYjl2lAs4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIMaTKOZG-8
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We have a few posts discussing Queen's Gambit (not just hfj), a Netflix series. Please discuss this show in [What TV Show Have You Recently Watched?].
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cs412a wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 9:09 pm Rented The Treasure of the Sierra Madre on iTunes. A classic morality tale, worth seeing more than once.

I know what gold does to men's souls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk4GDuzZAM8
It’s my favorite film. I’ve seen it many times.
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I paid $7 to watch the A Call to Spy movie about a female spy working for the Brits in WW2 (she was an American). She also had lost part of one leg as a kid. Based on a true story. I thought it was very good. Don't want to give out any spoilers for those that haven't seen it.
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Nicolas wrote: Thu Nov 12, 2020 2:05 pm
cs412a wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 9:09 pm Rented The Treasure of the Sierra Madre on iTunes. A classic morality tale, worth seeing more than once.

I know what gold does to men's souls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk4GDuzZAM8
It’s my favorite film. I’ve seen it many times.
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It seems like Amazon Prime has a lot of good westerns. I just started getting into them a few years ago. :happy
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Quicksand (1950) Mickey Rooney, Peter Lorre, Jeanne Cagney (Jimmy’s sister), & Jack Elam in a bit part.

After taking twenty dollars from his employer to go on a hot date with plans to repay it the next day, an auto mechanic falls into increasingly disastrous circumstances for more and more money which rapidly spirals out of his control.

A delightful “B” film noir, and actually well done. Unintentionally funny, I was laughing through the whole film. It was fun to watch Mickey interacting with the masterfully slimy Lorre. A word to the wise to anyone contemplating petty embezzlement! Well worth my time. Recommended.

I streamed it on the Sci-Fi Collection on Roku. (The film is not sci-fi).
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black jack wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 11:54 pm My Octopus Teacher on Netflix.

A documentary filmmaker experiencing a mid-life crisis spends a year observing (and filming) an octopus in the wild.

The visuals are stunning, the filmmaker's narration is thought-provoking. I'm going to watch it again, and maybe again after that.

Official trailer.
We just watched this.

AMAZING. Almost unbelievable.
We really do not give enough credit to non-human animals sometimes.

But this was so touching as well.
We knew the general story, but still were not really prepared for the intensity of the interaction.

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Thesaints wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2019 2:46 pm Midsommar.
No debate about SWR in Hårga, Sweden.
This movie has been on my watch list for quite a while and I finally got around to it tonight. I think the second half when off the rails, unfortunately. My feelings are a bit mixed.
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Impossible Mission 6 on Hulu. Enjoyed it.
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Rollerball on DVD, Rated R, 1975. James Caan and John Houseman star in this futuristic sci-fi action sports venue. Big corporation sets the rules, but the main character has a different idea.
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Watched Wind River yesterday. Murder investigation on a Wyoming reservation. Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, and Graham Greene. One of the few movies I've actually purchased on Amazon Prime. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5362988/

This morning, I watched Jesse Stone: Stone Cold(2005): Free on Prime now. Stars Tom Selleck as a former big city detective, now a small Mass police chief investigating a series of murders and other stuff. Despite a couple of inaccuracies in the way things are handled, it's pretty good. Then again, Thomas Magnum and Frank Reagan usually does cop stuff well. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0431420/
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abuss368 wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 4:56 pm “The Outpost” on Netflix with Scott Eastwood (Clint Eastwood’s son). Military movie in Afghanistan.
It's pretty good. It is a bit confusing how they strung about 3 years into one tour. Keating was killed in 2006, and the Kamdesh shindig didn't happen until 2009. The Troop CP looked realistic. The one shot only 120, not so much. I'll watch it again.

While this is a bit death blossomy, this is a typical 120 suppression mission. 6 minute video-adult language warninghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o65nB1J4sPI

Here is a direct lay 60 being fired by dismounts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGh0QHyzGW0
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brokendirtdart wrote: Sun Nov 15, 2020 10:25 am
abuss368 wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 4:56 pm “The Outpost” on Netflix with Scott Eastwood (Clint Eastwood’s son). Military movie in Afghanistan.
It's pretty good. It is a bit confusing how they strung about 3 years into one tour. Keating was killed in 2006, and the Kamdesh shindig didn't happen until 2009. The Troop CP looked realistic. The one shot only 120, not so much. I'll watch it again.

While this is a bit death blossomy, this is a typical 120 suppression mission. 6 minute video-adult language warninghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o65nB1J4sPI

Here is a direct lay 60 being fired by dismounts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGh0QHyzGW0
I would agree. I also think Eastwood’s son definitely has acting talent! He has an awesome role model and teacher.
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LadyGeek wrote: Sun Nov 15, 2020 7:39 am Rollerball on DVD, Rated R, 1975. James Caan and John Houseman star in this futuristic sci-fi action sports venue. Big corporation sets the rules, but the main character has a different idea.
I'm not big on sci fi at all, but this was one of my favorites.
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abuss368 wrote: Sun Nov 15, 2020 11:07 am
brokendirtdart wrote: Sun Nov 15, 2020 10:25 am
abuss368 wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 4:56 pm “The Outpost” on Netflix with Scott Eastwood (Clint Eastwood’s son). Military movie in Afghanistan.
It's pretty good. It is a bit confusing how they strung about 3 years into one tour. Keating was killed in 2006, and the Kamdesh shindig didn't happen until 2009. The Troop CP looked realistic. The one shot only 120, not so much. I'll watch it again.

While this is a bit death blossomy, this is a typical 120 suppression mission. 6 minute video-adult language warninghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o65nB1J4sPI

Here is a direct lay 60 being fired by dismounts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGh0QHyzGW0
I would agree. I also think Eastwood’s son definitely has acting talent! He has an awesome role model and teacher.
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Yep. It was good to see and I'm looking forward to seeing some more with him.
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Have now watched all 6 Impossible Mission films on Hulu. Enjoyed them all.
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“Trump - The Art of the Insult” on Amazon. Interesting.
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“You’ve Been Trumped” on Amazon. Interesting.
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Holidate, on Netflix.

This is a made for Netflix romantic comedy. It is completely frivolous (This is a compliment, we like completely frivolous.) Two singles tired of being alone, or single at family functions, on holidays agree to a platonic relationship being the date for each other for every holiday. Of course it doesn't stay non-romantic.
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Another Man's Poison (1951) Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams

A mystery writer becomes involved in a tangled web of murderous deception not unlike the plots of her novels.

Not the best but I enjoyed it. I like Bette Davis but my wife says she overacts. Set in a dark English country house with some outdoor scenes in the Yorkshire moors. Recommended.

We streamed it on Roku.
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Much Ado About Nothing, on Amazon Prime.

This is a romantic comedy based on a play by WIlliam Shakespeare. The movie stars Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, and Kate Beckinsale and features Denzel Washingtin, Keanu Reeves and Michael Keaton. A very good movie.
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“Mom & Dad” on Hulu with Nicholas Cage. One of his very strange movies. I did not think it was that good at all.
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“71” on Hulu about the United Kingdom and Brits vs. Ireland in 1971. A soldier is missing in Ireland. I enjoyed it.
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Midsummers Night Dream, on Amazon Prime.

A fantasy based on a William Shakespeare play. The 2012 movie version stars Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, and Calista Flockhart. I recommend this movie.
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A Monster in Paris. It's not the greatest movie ever made and it is mostly based on clichés but it was entertaining.
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The Mrs told me about a snake nightmare the night before so I queued up Snakes on a Plane last night... she was not amused. Terrible movie BTW.
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MrBobcat wrote: Sat Nov 21, 2020 12:47 pm The Mrs told me about a snake nightmare the night before so I queued up Snakes on a Plane last night... she was not amused. Terrible movie BTW.
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White Lightning and its sequel, Gator.
DVR'd off of TCM. Early Burt Reynolds films.

White Lightning was his first film after Deliverance. Very dark, with several different "adult themes" in play, but rather good. It ends rather abruptly and somewhat unsatisfyingly. It's the only time I've seen Ned Beatty as a really bad guy (Lex Luthor's assistant hardly counts.) The Director was also Burt's stunt double.

Gator took the same character to a different level. And not a good one. Burt Reynolds was the director and it seemed rather self-serving. The show is all over the map - mostly comedy and crime thriller, by turns love story, and somewhat boring. But I can empathize a little with the giant who has to drive with his head poking out of the sunroof of a car.

Both films have plenty of hulking 1970s Detroit iron churning up the roads. Awesome.

Both films indulge too much in negative Southern US stereotypes, but also inspired The Dukes of Hazard TV show, and the movies Smokey and The Bandit and Hooper, which are much more positively oriented and entertaining. It's interesting to have now finally experienced the whole arc.
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Scarlet Street (1945) Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, directed by Fritz Lang.

When a man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, her venal fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.

This is a good film noir with good acting all around. I like Edward G. and I’d never seen this one. Dan Duryea is an Eddie Haskell-like slimeball. Recommended. I streamed it on Roku.
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“Snowden” on Netflix. Really good.
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Adaptation, on DVD, Rated R, 2002. Nicholas Cage and Meryl Streep. Listed as a comedy and drama, I'd say it's more of a black comedy with some serious drama. I liked it better when I watched it the first time around. This time around, meh.
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