86 minute running time so the perfect length, but long sequences of horse riding through the countryside to pad it out means you can fast forward large sections … Vincent Price plays a witch-finder in 17th C. England … lots of gooey orange fake blood shed …low budget … pretty lame all around, definitely give it a miss.
Perhaps in the quiet of your room tonight, you might be able to help me prove him guiltless.
107 minute running time so ten minutes too long … it wasn’t bad but I wasn’t super thrilled either … the music and sound effects were annoying for sure.
Dick Brody also wasn’t thrilled: “Nolan suppresses the mutilations and agonies of war to focus on its basic moral horror … a tribute to the virtue-inspiring power of war … ‘Dunkirk’ seems … like one of the self-censoring exhortations of wartime itself. “
David Edelstein also not a fan: “I find most of Nolan’s work to be pulp bloated by pomposity….“
Overly Orderly
137 minute running time, so at least 40! minutes too long ... what's with the love for foul-mouthed idiot white working-class Bostonians? I guess it’s supposed to be comical in parts, despite the tragedy (tragedies), and filled with confusing flashbacks. Too damn long, I couldn't even watch it at 4x fast forward. Armond White is the only mainstream critic who absolutely nailed it with his scathing review. A terrible movie you should definitely miss.
“a marathon of mutually fumbled schmaltz“
111 minute running time so 10 to 20 minutes too long, which is a shame, but I didn’t hate this one…. smart adaptation of a Philip Roth novel … the story of Roth’s college years in the midwest in the 1950s, semi-autobiographical, though he plays with the ending … typical of Philip Roth, there’s a beautiful, blue-eyed, blonde-haired WASP who falls for him and gives him a blowjob on the first date, and hand jobs following his appendicitis — Roth had an active imagination!
Really good acting (“performances!”) from the two lead kids (Lerman and Gadon) .. I was impressed. I’m giving it a rare green, go recommendation. I did not watch it in one sitting, but I’m going to make an exception and say see it despite it being overly long. Recommended!
Spurned
91 minute running time but felt longer because it was so dumb … stars a young Clive Owen and his cleft chin … frustrated novelist by day, casino worker (“croupier”) by night … gambling movies are so dull and this one is no exception … story makes no sense … not the least bit thrilling or even interesting … terrible and a total waste of time. Owen is a homosexual icon (though he’s not gay himself), which explains Farr’s gushing (and totally misguided) recommendation of this one. Skip it!
Go ahead and strangle him… please!
111 minute running time so at least 10 to 20 minutes too long … David Lynch’s weird love for middle America on display … all simple, good, kind people, don’t you know? … based on a true story, no doubt … brotherly love, family, kindness to strangers, horrors of war … it’s sweet but so much so that it feels a little fake, hate to say it … I see Kenny Turan wrote about the “fake-folksy script“ in his spot-on review. You can give it a miss.
Typically Lynchian backdrop of mounted antlers and burning house
In French. 118 minute running time so at least 20 to 25 minutes too long. Heist story … jewel shop, coming in through the ceiling, long silent scene … tough guys and double-dealing dames (whipped with belts) … crime doesn’t pay … surprised by how violent it was, graphically violent for the time, maybe the codes were different in France … I wasn’t super thrilled with it, I know it’s a “classic” and all, but it could have been tighter and less heavy-handed with the moralizing. (Blacklisted Dassin moved to France.)
Nippy.
In Italian. 108 minute running time so at least 10 minutes too long. A film noir of sorts, but set in the rice fields of northern Italy … has all the usual elements: dangerous men, crime, lust, greed, sex (well, rape), and violence … recommended by John Farr, who doesn’t often steer me wrong, but I wasn’t thrilled with this.
Ascella amaro
The great David Allan Coe … bless YouTube uploaders for these treasures, however incomplete.
“Sounds like Tom T. wrote this song….”
Day trading Twitter can be an awful place, full of liars and fakers and con men, people who are looking to lure in the naive and the greedy to their “services,” or show off their gains (without disclosing the risks taken) and carefully-cropped “top ticks” to make you feel bad.
But there are a few good people on there, and I thought I’d highlight ten of them. These guys are all experienced, knowledgeable, open, and generous … and all are must-follows in my opinion. Don’t be offended if I didn’t include you; I had to keep it to ten for clickbait reasons.
@Canny4 … Early 50s? (Generation-X) … full-time independent trader, recently began trading stock index futures, I believe. CANSLIM swing trader in the past. Tweets mainly about market philosophy and psychology, but not in an annoying way since you can tell he has been in the trenches and around the block … his interview with Anthony Crudele.
@CiocanaTrader … Late 20s? (Millennial) … full-time prop trader, does serious volume, hotkey master no doubt … makes priceless end-of-day “trader takeaways” from time to time on YouTube, which should be watched closely … drives girly white BMW (nobody’s perfect) … his Chat with Traders interview, and Notes for Chat with Traders, Episode 171.
@davemabe … Late 40s? (Gen-X) … CIO of Trade-Ideas … has the technical skills to have automated all his strategies so he doesn’t have to sit there pointing and clicking all day like the rest of us monkeys … rides his bike everywhere which means he’s a better person than you. His posts on Medium.
@madaznfootballr — Late 20s (Millennial) … full-time independent trader … a controversial pick maybe, but I think of madaz as a video gamer who happens to trade stocks and uses his P&L as the game score … typically grosses around $0.02 a share, which would appear crazy, but somehow he makes it work. Posts every day what he is watching at the open (always the right stuff) and his P&L at the close. He may be a maniac, but he has found a method that works for him. His Chat with Traders Interview, and Notes for Chat with Traders, Episode 124.
@maoxian … Late 40s (Gen-X) … full-time independent trader …how could I not include this guy? Faithfully posts all of his winning trades and none of the losers … whined for years about “not getting a borrow” before finally sending some money to a bookie so he can short hard-to-borrows … been around the world and the block and has traded beside some biggies who will forever go unnamed … now mainly writes concise movie reviews on his ancient blog which I refuse to link to.
@Michael_Katz11 … Late 30s? (Gen-Y) … full-time prop trader, another real pro, not a guy sitting in his basement on dial-up … I assume he does crazy size, but he’s honest about his mistakes and works on staying humble… makes priceless end-of-day “trader takeaways” from time to time on YouTube, which should be watched closely … his Chat with Traders interview, and Notes for Chat with Traders, Episode 156.
@Shaq48_Trading … Early 50s (Gen-X) … full-time independent trader, former prop trader … trades the ES exclusively … pithy market insights combined with constant disgust towards “FinTwit” … lots of priceless wisdom in his Medium posts … his Chat with Traders interview, and Notes for Chat with Traders, Episode 70. His interview with Anthony Crudele.
@SmashTheBid … Late 40s (Gen-X) … full-time independent trader … when I first met him he traded in-play stocks, but he has since switched to trading options on mainly Big Cap tech names (NFLX, NVDA, etc.) and the SPY … open about his “journey” (I hate that word), unpretentious, and always patient and generous with advice when asked dumb questions by strangers, this one anyway.
@team3dstocks … Late 40s maybe? I assume he’s Gen-X … I think he used to specialize in microcap hard-to-borrows, but like Smash above, has transitioned to day trading options on Big Cap names … lots of market wisdom in his every tweet, some of which contain mild profanity … his entire tweet stream has been collected and treasured by many … quick to reply to DMs … another generous old? guy who has been in the trenches.
@TSXtrad3r … Early 30s (Gen-Y) … full-time independent trader, formerly a prop trader … Canadian, so you know he’s honest … expert execution skills and fond of countertrend scalping as well as catching bigger turns. Generous with his knowledge, especially if you were a member of his room at one time or another.
