In Icelandic … 109 minute running time … heavy on the screechy violin music … a movie about grieving, complicated by the discovery that your late wife had been whoring around on you … pretty slow, I wasn’t thrilled. No sweet dreams after this grandpa’s bedtime stories. Not terrible but certainly doesn’t make my recommended list.
Carson Lund wasn’t thrilled either.
I can be a monster.
106 minute running time … I haven’t seen many movies from 2020 yet, but I’m pleased to say that one of the first ones I watched, this one, I liked well enough to recommend … it’s honest and funny and well-written and the lead actress makes it all work. Green-go.
You try even when you’re scared.
90 minute running time … a documentary of sorts … no idea who Leon Russell was (he was a talented musician, songwriter, and performer, no doubt … but he had a Charlie Manson quality about him) … bunch of stoned hippies throughout, amusing at times but mainly just depressing since this was filmed between 1972 and ‘74, a rock-bottom time for America.
[Stoner voice] The principle of the mind is predicated on comparing new information to known information
92 minute running time … sort of a preachy (”socially minded”) movie about mob violence, injustice, and revenge from the 1930s … it wasn’t bad, it was well-written, but like I said, preachy.
“… the law doesn't know that a lot of things that were very important to me... ...silly things, maybe, like a belief in justice......and an idea that men were civilized......and a feeling of pride that this country of mine was different from all others. The law doesn't know those things were burned to death within me that night.”
Bug-eyed
Flikka (a Swede) singing Favorite Kind of Girl, backed by Gotts Street Park (some lads from Leeds):
Jasmine Cephas Jones singing Little Bird … great voice and I like the song. Looks a little bit like the elder Tiger Cub.
102 minute running time … strange one, indie pic from the 70s, disc had poor audio quality and no subtitles, watched at 8x fast forward … about a poor white woman, a real simpleton, a down and outer and adrift, ends up with a criminal type who comes to a predictable end … written, directed, and starring Barbara Loden. Bizarre and depressing, I’m not sure why it was in my queue. Ah, I have John Farr to blame. You can give this one a miss unless you’re interested in gritty character studies from the early 1970s.
Do you want to look cheap?
105 minute running time … this was so bad I stopped watching it after 45 minutes and hated myself for watching that much … John Farr did me super dirty by recommending this one … I don’t know why Kristen Stewart gets so much work, her great acting talent lies in biting her lip or fingernail. Movie had to be sponsored by Apple given the severity of product placements. Complete crap, give it a miss. Same director as the awful “Clouds of Sils Maria,” I should have known better!
Farr; “[a] Hitchcockian thriller [NO!] progresses from an absorbing study in millennial detachment [STUDY IN MILLENNIAL TATTOO PLACEMENT] to a genuinely creepy exploration of the spiritual world [HELL NO!].“
Forbidden dress-up
115 minute running time so at least 15 to 20 minutes too long. This movie was nearly impossible to watch, I got physically sick from the bouncy cam and quick cuts and zoom in zoom out … it’s unbearable. The story is kind of stupid too, Bourne never sleeps and has unlimited cash and perfectly clean clothes day after day and is clean shaven and it’s just … unrealistic. This was made in 2007, back in the War Porn era post-9/11, feels a bit dated now. There are some good action sequences, but the terrible bouncy cam reigns supreme so give it a miss.
Issue a standing kill order on chubby-cheeked CIA officers, effective immediately.
In Hebrew. 110 minute running time. I really liked this one, the lead actress looks sort of like a Jewish Andie MacDowell … she has a lot of charm and spunk … it’s a cute story, funny and honest, well done. This is a green-go, recommended movie from the Chairman.
The words aren’t working for you. המילים לא עובדותבשבילך
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