Red Mosquito

The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs
The Mule
Marriage Story
Klaus
Uncut Gems
The Irishman

Really enjoyed rewatching Marriage Story. It connected better for me this second time. Wonderful acting by the cast.

Frighteners (1996)
Spy Game (2001)
Pearl (2022)
X (2022)
Infinity Pool (2023)
The French Connection (1971)
The Final Girls (2016)
House (1977)
Bringing out the Dead (1999)
Killer Joe (2011)


I was sick over the weekend so I watched a lot of movies this week. It's a really tough call between French Connection, Bringing out the Dead and Pearl. I think I'll give it to Pearl because it's the one I've thought the most about since seeing it.

Infinity Pool was a huge disappointment IMO

tommy wrote:Frighteners (1996)
Spy Game (2001)
Pearl (2022)
X (2022)
Infinity Pool (2023)
The French Connection (1971)
The Final Girls (2016)
House (1977)
Bringing out the Dead (1999)
Killer Joe (2011)


I was sick over the weekend so I watched a lot of movies this week. It's a really tough call between French Connection, Bringing out the Dead and Pearl. I think I'll give it to Pearl because it's the one I've thought the most about since seeing it.

Did you enjoy House?

House was great. Really crazy and imaginative.

I liked Infinity Pool well enough. I thought the performances were good and it was crazy enough to keep me engaged for 2 hours. Possessor was better though.

Reptile on Netflix with benecio del toro.

Goddamn riveting. I loved it. Incredible performance. He and Alicia silver stone were great

A few pieces not wrapped up but overall I couldn't take my eyes off the screen

Blindspotting
Leave No Trace
Boy Erased
The Guilty
Solo

Blindspotting was the best movie this week. Tense, serious, funny, moving, and even hilarious at times. One of the best of 2018.

Strat wrote:Reptile on Netflix with benecio del toro.

Goddamn riveting. I loved it. Incredible performance. He and Alicia silver stone were great

A few pieces not wrapped up but overall I couldn't take my eyes off the screen

I lost access to my sister's Netflix account after not using it for years and now I feel like I hear about a Netflix movie I'd like to watch every dang day.

Anders wrote:Blindspotting
Leave No Trace
Boy Erased
The Guilty
Solo

Blindspotting was the best movie this week. Tense, serious, funny, moving, and even hilarious at times. One of the best of 2018.

I've never heard of it. It is sounds good and it's on Max so I'm adding it to my list.

Can add that I also saw A Quiet Place yesterday, after making the post here. Still a good movie.

Strat wrote:Reptile on Netflix with benecio del toro.

Goddamn riveting. I loved it. Incredible performance. He and Alicia silver stone were great

A few pieces not wrapped up but overall I couldn't take my eyes off the screen

Nice. I look forward to seeing it.

"The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster"

Been a great week for movies. Finished all rewatches for 2018, had saved the best for last.

BlacKkKlansman
If Beale Street Could Talk
Bohemian Rhapsody
Upgrade
Searching
Capernaum
Green Book
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Avengers: Infinity War

Capernaum is probably the best movie from the entire year. My least favorite thing about it, is the conclusion of the trial. But some of the earlier scenes are incredibly powerful and well done. The cast is very autenthic, and was cast with that in mind, themselves immigrants and street kids in Lebanon. Was surprised to find out the lead actor now lives in Norway, which I did not now until this week, and had no part of how I judged the movie. He and his family got help, after he starred in this movie.

While Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse does have superheroes, supervillains, multiverses, Peter Porker and other stuff like this, it is just incredibly well done. So vivid and well told. I saw it for a second time yesterday, and loved it as much this time as the first.

Bohemian Rhapsody is also a huge favorite of mine. Love the music in the movie, the excellent cast, and the way the history of a group is told. If ever a movie about Pearl Jam is made, I hope it is as respectful and well told. Biggest minus is them changing a few historic facts, which only takes away from the movie, and was not needed.

Inside Man (2006)
Midnight Run (1988)
Scream (1996)
Heat (1995)
Carrie (1976)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
Manhunter (1986)

Best movie this week was Heat, but they were all winners this week.

Another solid list of movies that. Midnight Run probably my favorite of those.

The Purity Of Vengeance
The Night Comes For Us
Holiday
The Platform
Keep An Eye Out
The Predator
The 15:17 to Paris

Not the greatest list of movies above, but all the movies above were enjoyable. Some of the action in The Night Comes For Us was great, and The Purity Of Vengeance is a pretty good Danish crime thriller. Best thing I saw all week was the miniseries Sharp Objects, and watching the solid Midnight Mass now.

Keep An Eye Out was recommended to me on RM. Did genuinely laugh out loud a few tiimes, although overall I found the movie a bit uneven.

I've seen none of those. Would you recommend any of them?

All the movies on my list a week ago were better, no real standouts in my list this week, unless you count Sharp Objects, which while flawed, I found fascinating. Great performance by Amy Adams.

If you want an all out Asian based action movie, The Night Comes For Us, might be what you are looking for, only wish the story was better.

The Purity Of Vengeance is part of a series of Danish crime movies. If you’re going to see them, start with the first one.

Ms Harmless wrote:"The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster"

tommy wrote:Inside Man (2006)
Midnight Run (1988)
Scream (1996)
Heat (1995)
Carrie (1976)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
Manhunter (1986)

Best movie this week was Heat, but they were all winners this week.

Look forward to hearing about this week.