Star Wars Ep. 7 3D
Outstanding!!!!!!

This . Just incredible . Watching the Soviets as a kid and watching them slowly come over was a big deal here .

Concussion- will smith nfl movie. Pretty darn good. Solid performances and script. Worth watching.

99 Homes- Michael Shannon plays a bad-ass realtor opportunist who repo's and evicts during the housing bubble crisis of 08. Good solid movie, but relentlessly depressing. Shannon is fucking great.

Steve Jobs- not bad, not great. Seth Rogan was a surprise, he made it through the film without fucking up and distracting.

Spotlight- Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo break the pedo-priest coverups. Solid script and performances. More about journalism than about priests and abuse.(that's a positive)

Hateful Eight- more self-indulgent bullshit from Quentin. This one is just Reservoir Dogs set in the old west. (trapped in a confined space looking for the mole/traitor). The story is stolen directly from a 1960 episode of The Rebel called Fair Game. Punch that episode title into IMDB and read the synopsis after you watch Hateful.

Star Wars ep7- same beats repeated over again from the first three movies. Cantina, light sabre duel on high bridge, dropping bombs from an x-wing down a rabbit hole, blowing up a huge black death sphere, etc, etc. Same shit, different faces. Meh.

Joy- Jennifer Lawrence gives a good performance, but the movie takes way too long to kick-in. Doesn't really start until Bradley Cooper's character enters. Waste of DeNiro and not much of a story to tell.

Inside Out- Pixar kid pic with Amy Pohler. Not bad, but no Toy Story.

So far, the best of the year for me are Big Short, Diary of a Teenage Girl, Mad Max, and Love & Mercy. Still waiting to see Trumbo, Anomalisa, and the movie about The Who's managers Lambert & Stamp.

Western Binge: Hateful 8, Bone Tomahawk, The Homesman, The man from nowhere and China 9 Liberty 37.

Watching the whole first season of 'The Man in the High Castle.'

The Trail- a young widow has to survive on her own in the wilderness during winter after an Indian attack kills her husband. Not many characters in this film but it held my attention. It was somewhat moralizing with her faith in God and her perseverance but I'd give it 3 out of 5.
I kept hoping for a nude scene while bathing or something but no go. She was in a dress braless throughout and you could see she has some ample droopies.


The Trail at IMDB

Bukowski doc. ok i guess. it's older...watching the usual suspects (Penn, Waits, Bono) act all deep and edgy gets boring .

Being Evel (2015)

Finally saw Pumping Iron. It sucked.

The Stanford Prison Experiment.

Finally got around to watching the full Nekromantic movie. That's one hour and eleven minutes I'd like to have back. Gory, disgusting and irredeemable. For no reason at all. Best part was the ironic ending of the girlfriend supposedly digging up the boyfriends body for necro fucking.

Cleansed my movie palate with "Murder my sweet". Classic film noir. Great fucking movie.

^Awesome movie based on an even better book.

Dayum!!! BDM, you may not be able to shoot straight, but when it comes to classic cinema you are one prescient motherfucker because Murder, My Sweet is right now playing on Channel 13 (NYC's PBS Station). Fscking awesome, FREE and uninterrupted for this blizzzard.

Spout off about movies more often, fer fuck's sake.

Wow, I watched it on Warner Archive.
Last night I went schlocky with "Shock Waves" 1975 a bit of a cult movie with a brief appearance in the first 15 min. or so of John Carradine and a bigger part for Peter Cushing. Really wasn't that bad. Typical zombie [without any gore] drive in fare from the 70s.
Then I watched "The Ultimate Warrior" 1975 a futuristic post apocalypse movie with Yul Brynner and Max Von Sydow. Very good retro sci-fi.


Shock Waves

Ultimate Warrior

The original The Ladykillers.

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104348/

Great movie. "ABC, always -- be -- closing."

"Gone Baby Gone" I recommend it. Look it up.

Tomorrow land

Night Porter. At IFC in NYC yesterday at 11am. Watching it again at home.

That movie disturbs me to my core.

This is a band I knew many years ago in Atlanta called The Nightporters:

Nuts

Rafter Romance and Double Harness - 30s romantic comedies, first with a young and super sexy Ginger Rogers, directed by the underrated William Seiter. Second one with the great William Powell and Ann Harding. Great ending. Even minor comedies from this period are incredibly well structured and clever.

Wow. I bow to your superior film geekery.

He isn't Goddard, he's Godard.

Hope he ain't this Goddard:

Just a TCM subscription. Best TV channel ever.

My nom de plume comes from the director of this little gem.

I rewatched Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles and Dead Alive

Rewatched part of Carne (gasper noe) ( I rewatched a lot of old shit)

Xmen apocylpse because I had free tickets. It was actually a hell of a lot better than I thought it would be.

Rewatched the dark backward, I'd never seen the full movie and got board towards the end.

Rewatched some horrible low budget horror flick "mind killer" I'd seen as ateenager, God it was slow as shit, how the fuck did I watch this when I was young?


A stupid movie called brain dead (not the same as dead alive) this from 1990 it has Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton!! It was boring and I turned it off

Kind of skipped around through Angels Melancholy

The grossest bits from Dard Divorce

I sleep to interviews with Richard kuklinski and Ed kemper

Documentary about Jaco Patorius on Netflix

^Ha! In H.S. my mom found a dog on the day he died so I named him Joco. Really cool Black lab, dopey as fuck though.

Hail, Caesar! by the Coens. Funny stuff, in their Raising Arizona/Big Lebowski mode if not as funny as that but still mighty entertaining. Josh Brolin is great as usual.

Are 'Raising Arizona' and 'The Big Lebowski' the same mode? Drugged/zonked fantasy bits aside, I always thought 'Big Lebiwski' was more naturalistic and deadpan droll that anything, far moreso than even 'Fargo', its most memorable sequences for me are static shots of people talking casually. The were still burdened with Barry Sonenfeld on 'Raising Arizona', which I never liked all that much. 'Lebowski' was something new for them I think. It was genuinely touching in parts and the caricatures weren't so mean. Also what I like about it is that ordinary Midwesterners aren't hanging out as punching bags, being LA everyone is a little strange and tuned into their own frequency, like Jeff's landlord. I haven't seen all their movies but it is my favorite one that I have seen. 'Barton Fink' is up there too.

The similarity would be that they're both comedies and essentially meaningless. I agree that Raising Arizona hasn't aged as well. I remember no one seeming to like or get Lebowski when it came out as by that time everyone thought the Coens were 'important' filmmakers and couldn't dig on the Marx Bros. like mockery. I liked the lack of pretension.

I love just about everything I've ever seen by them.
Watched The Martian- pretty entertaining.

New Zappa documentary. Pretty great.

Another bio-doc from the music industry. I didn't know fuck all about DJ AM, but enjoyed this film very much.

The recently released remake of The Magnificent Seven starring Denzel Washington.

A version of 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' with Jack Lemmon and Kevin Spacey and the guy who played Larry Levy in 'The Player' and some older actress I didn't recognize. I only watched part of it. Not because it was a play shot on video because I have no problem with that. It's because Lemmon is so awful and who needs this when you see Ralph Richardson and Katherine Hepburn in that great old 60s version by Sidney Lumet?

Yeah the Lumet version is good, there's a Canadian film version that is also great.

Watched the Strange Loves of Martha Iveson, an interesting blend of gothic, melodrama and noir with the amazing Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflen, Liz Scott and a very young Kirk Douglas. Very good.

I liked it.

'All That Jazz' for the first time. 'STAR80' and 'Cabaret' are favorites so I don't know why I've never seen this other than bits and pieces here and there, and Roy Scheider is a very likeable actor, so... My first impression is I didn't care for it. Too insidey, too navel gazing, and it has in it what appears to be an actual open chest operation filmed from overhead. Way way over the top. I don't know though. I need to see it again I guess.

I hate ATJ. I was always told how brilliant it is and how it's Eight and a Half for Americans and shit, but I find it self-indulgent, boring, and annoying. It's showtime.

Go dig up Cisco Pike. It's been running on cable lately and is an unknown 70s gem. It might be on your TiVo.

Cisco Pike is mighty fine. The director went to film school with Bob Chinn of Johnny Wadd fame.

Watched the 70s film Joe again last night on fmovies.to. Hard to find Peter Boyle / Susan Sarandan flick that fits today's political world all too well. While looking for the image below to post, I found out that Boyle's racist diatribes from the film were also released as an album. Hate in Hi-Fi, 70s style.

Joe was a huge hit back then but little known now. Strange film with a great performance by Peter Boyle. I knew about it as a kid from reading the parody in Mad Magazine back issues.

The greatest political comedy ever, Sturges' The Great McGinty is playing TCM on November 3rd in my neck of the woods. If you haven't seen it do yourself a big favour and give it a watch. It shows just how corrupt things were back in 'the good old days' and what voter fraud really looks like. Plus it is hilarious and bittersweet.