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Sorry, but you can hate him.

Every time Susy was like "Oh, Sam! SAM!" I was like "Girl, what's he going to do for you? Tell you to feel your way to a policeman on your own?"
He disappears for 90% of the movie.Absence makes the heart grow fonder (from outright hatred to mild annoyance).



I don’t even remember Sam. I do recall loving the movie. I hereby declare that Sam does not exist and the movie remains a near perfect thriller.



It’d be worth it just to hear Garrison Keeler’s voice again. He was a part of so many great Saturdays. I can’t believe that movie is that old already.



“I was cured, all right!”
I’ve got some great news: He is in John Wick- Chapter 4!
That, for sure, is GREAT news! Hope he plays a big role and I really wish his career to get bigger after it. He deserves.



Victim of The Night

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The Heat - (2013)

I'd seen parts of this before, and it looked really funny - and while the film definitely does have it's moments I thought it was a little too one-note to sustain it's running time for me. I became a little tired of the schtick after 45 minutes or so, and it doesn't have a story that can help to maintain interest. Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock are funny and make a great team, but the film industry doesn't make very compelling comedies for the most part.

5/10
I was sorely disappointed by this. I'd heard it was such a good comedy, a recent best for both performers, yadda yadda, and so I decided I was intrigued enough to actually BUY it (the only way it was available at the time).
And now every time I see it in my "Purchased" queue on iTunes I am filled with the sense of having been completely duped and ripped-off.
A very mediocre, by the numbers, seen it before a thousand times comedy with neither performer acting one centimeter outside of their dead-center comfort zone and schtick.
Pretty much just a waste of time.



That, for sure, is GREAT news! Hope he plays a big role and I really wish his career to get bigger after it. He deserves.
The cast is just an action junky dream right now:

Donnie Yen
Hiroyuki Sanada
Scott Adkins
Marko Zaror
Clancy Brown

Just hitting all the fan favorite nostalgia hits, from 80s Cannon, Hong Kong, Japan to DTV… the amount of talent on display (from actors that will believably be able to go toe to toe with Wick) is astounding.



“I was cured, all right!”
The cast is just an action junky dream right now:

Donnie Yen
Hiroyuki Sanada
Scott Adkins
Marko Zaror
Clancy Brown

Just hitting all the fan favorite nostalgia hits, from 80s Cannon, Hong Kong, Japan to DTV… the amount of talent on display (from actors that will believably be able to go toe to toe with Wick) is astounding.
This is probably the only western release I'm looking forward right now. Seeing Mark Dacascos, Cecelia Arif Rahman and Yayan Ruhian in Chapter 3 was so damn good. They can bring Tony Jaa for the ultimate cast.



This is probably the only western release I'm looking forward right now. Seeing Mark Dacascos, Cecelia Arif Rahman and Yayan Ruhian in Chapter 3 was so damn good. They can bring Tony Jaa for the ultimate cast.
I’m shocked they Iko Uwais, given that he worked with Keanu in Man of Tai Chi.

I think Jaa, Uwais and Michael Jai White are probably the only glaring omissions in the franchise at this point. Chan and Yeoh don’t quite fit the tone. Maybe Jet Li and Sammo Hung? Guess they gotta leave talent for sequels.



“I was cured, all right!”
I’m shocked they Iko Uwais, given that he worked with Keanu in Man of Tai Chi.

I think Jaa, Uwais and Michael Jai White are probably the only glaring omissions in the franchise at this point. Chan and Yeoh don’t quite fit the tone. Maybe Jet Li and Sammo Hung? Guess they gotta leave talent for sequels.
Jai White is a great nameto be in the JW franchise. Uwais is attached to a lot of projects, maybe he is without time (he's recent films were awnful, unfortunally). Jet Li and Sammo fits well. Not sure if Yanin "Jeeja" Vismitananda is still going, but she would be a great cast too.





5 Against the House - 1955 caper film starring Guy Madison, Brian Keith, Kerwin Matthews, Alvy Moore and Kim Novak. I thought I was paying close enough attention but I'm still not sure if all four men are vets attending college on the GI Bill or just Al Mercer (Madison) and Brick (Keith). It is established early on that Brick saved Al's life in Korea and is obviously suffering from some form of PTSD.

While on a break from their studies the four visit Reno, Nevada and stop at Harold's Club casino. Ronnie (Matthews) and Roy (Moore) are inadvertently dragged into another patron's robbery attempt but eventually exonerated. After being told by a police detective that a successful heist is impossible Ronnie gets it in his head to pull one off. He has no intention of keeping the money mistakenly assuming that it won't be considered an actual crime.

He has no trouble talking Brick and Roy into helping him but since the operation needs four men they decide to rope the strait laced and unsuspecting Al into it. Coincidentally, Al and his girlfriend Kay (Novak) decide to get married and accompany the other three men to Reno for a spontaneous wedding. The remainder of the movie deals with loose cannon Brick hijacking the operation.

It's a small movie in scope and budget but it is ably directed by Phil Karlson and most of the cast would move on to bigger and more well known roles. Brian Keith's Brick is ultimately the heart of the story and he makes the most of a somewhat abridged role, doing a fine job of conveying the damaged vet's mindset and worldview. This should be considered meaningful in that it provided inspiration for later films like Ocean's 11 and Casino.

70/100



Jai White is a great nameto be in the JW franchise. Uwais is attached to a lot of projects, maybe he is without time (he's recent films were awnful, unfortunally). Jet Li and Sammo fits well. Not sure if Yanin "Jeeja" Vismitananda is still going, but she would be a great cast too.
She was in Triple Threat just in 2019 with White, Adkins and Uwais, so I think she’d be a great grab.

I can’t believe I forgot Veronica Ngo. Gonna go watch The Princess to atone.




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The Heat - (2013)

I'd seen parts of this before, and it looked really funny - and while the film definitely does have it's moments I thought it was a little too one-note to sustain it's running time for me. I became a little tired of the schtick after 45 minutes or so, and it doesn't have a story that can help to maintain interest. Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock are funny and make a great team, but the film industry doesn't make very compelling comedies for the most part.

5/10

The Heat was painfully mediocre





Across 110th Street, 1972

In a bold, unexpected heist, two amateur criminals, Jim (Paul Benjamin) and Joe (Ed Bernard) hold up an apartment where Harlem numbers men are squaring up with their Mafia counterparts. The men make off with a ton of money, but also kill several local gangsters, mafia men, and even two police officers. Lieutenant Pope (Yaphet Kotto) is assigned to the case alongside old-school captain Mattelli (Anthony Quinn), and the two race to find the perpetrators before ruthless mafia enforcer DiSalvio (Anthony Franciosa) gets his hands on them.

It would be easy to let the graphic, disturbing, and relentless violence be what sticks with you from this movie, and that element does add to the sense of the film as leaning toward exploitation. But the movie simply has too much on its mind to be written off that way.

A lot of what happens in the film is not subtle, especially when it comes to the race relations aspect. Teaming a Black police detective with a white one and watching the sparks fly is nothing new, and this film came out 5 years after perhaps its most famous incarnation, In the Heat of the Night. Quinn's Mettelli is hugely problematic as a character, with his racism so entrenched that at times he doesn't even seem to register it. (He is the kind of person for whom every Black man in the film is "boy"). When Pope tells him to stop torturing a suspect, Mattelli growls that he's tired of Pope's "liberal bullsh*t".

But while the interactions between the detectives are a bit more blunt in their conversation, there's some interesting stuff happening among the underworld elements who make up the other half of the narrative. You have characters like the gravel-voiced Doc Johnson (Richard Ward) who not only has Mattelli in his pocket, but is starting to openly resent white Mafia coming into Harlem just to keep their hands in the profits. DiSalvio is the most overtly racist character, and a lot is said in the looks between the Harlem enforcers who are sent to accompany him in tracking down the thieves. In one sequence the two Harlem men exchange some very significant looks as DiSalvio tortures a man for information. When DiSalvio calls for a rope, the loaded energy of the scene practically crackles. The killing of one character is referred to by many as a "crucifixion," but many aspect of it (including a castration) are straight out of the lynching playbook.

Despite causing the deaths of so many people in the beginning of the film, the thieves end up being some of the most sympathetic characters. Jim in particular lays out the misery of knowing that the best he could ever hope for is low-level work as a laborer or domestic, and you understand why he would take such a big swing despite the risks. A scene where he talks with his girlfriend about the life he imagines for them is genuinely heartbreaking. She's known from the beginning that he probably won't survive the day, but for a few minutes they agree to pretend. It's sweet and devastating all at once.

A gritty and brutal little piece of filmmaking. I wish that the police characters were a bit more compelling in their dynamic, despite really enjoying the performances, especially Kotto.




The Princess

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Le-Van Kiet’s “what if the Raid was about a live action Disney Princess” joint. 90 mins of action by way of King and Ngo. Delivered on its promises.

4/5



I forgot the opening line.

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The Iron Lady - (2011)

This might be my first repeat since I've been rating movies in this thread. I'll have to go back and take a gander at myself once I'm finished. Anyway, a lot of people on letterboxd get to this film and scream "Margaret Thatcher was a monster! How dare you humanize her!" - but I just think of this as being about a lady who is going through a process of grieving, suffering from the slightest of first signs of dementia and reliving certain portions of her life. Monster or not - it's interesting to see someone who has lived a remarkable life facing what we all face - our own mortality. Also, Meryl Streep gives one of the greatest performances of the 2010s, and as a biopic this film manages to evade the trap of simply being a series of vignettes that were occurrences in the subjects life. For all of that, in spite of avoiding some of the more awful things Thatcher did as Prime Minister, this is a decent film.

7/10


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The Devil Wears Prada - (2006)

Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is hired by editor-in-chief of Runway magazine, Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) as a personal assistant and is tasked with an enormous workload of the possible, and a heavy workload of the absolute impossible (such as finding a flight out of a city that's experiencing a hurricane, or finding a copy of a book that hasn't been published yet) - she actually manages to accomplish that last task, but after a while realises that she's being turned into another version of Priestly. I'm sorry people, but this wasn't my kind of movie - it's too full of horrible people and pat life lessons.

6/10


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About Time - (2013)

Has anyone else ever fantasized about being able to travel back in time and fix past mistakes? I have - because I've made so many mistakes in my life it would be nice to fix some of them. In this film Tim (Domhnall Gleeson) has that ability. About Time plays a bit fast and loose with the rules of what he can and can't do with his ability, but my biggest issue is with the mistakes he makes where I'd be screaming at the scream "Of course she doesn't know you anymore!" or "Of course you've got a different baby now!" Aside from that, the fact that I like Domhnall Gleeson and time travel helped with what I found to be the occasional mawkish moments that made me uncomfortable. It's like a mix of my most and least favourite genres.

7/10
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Victim of The Night


Across 110th Street, 1972

In a bold, unexpected heist, two amateur criminals, Jim (Paul Benjamin) and Joe (Ed Bernard) hold up an apartment where Harlem numbers men are squaring up with their Mafia counterparts. The men make off with a ton of money, but also kill several local gangsters, mafia men, and even two police officers. Lieutenant Pope (Yaphet Kotto) is assigned to the case alongside old-school captain Mattelli (Anthony Quinn), and the two race to find the perpetrators before ruthless mafia enforcer DiSalvio (Anthony Franciosa) gets his hands on them.

It would be easy to let the graphic, disturbing, and relentless violence be what sticks with you from this movie, and that element does add to the sense of the film as leaning toward exploitation. But the movie simply has too much on its mind to be written off that way.

A lot of what happens in the film is not subtle, especially when it comes to the race relations aspect. Teaming a Black police detective with a white one and watching the sparks fly is nothing new, and this film came out 5 years after perhaps its most famous incarnation, In the Heat of the Night. Quinn's Mettelli is hugely problematic as a character, with his racism so entrenched that at times he doesn't even seem to register it. (He is the kind of person for whom every Black man in the film is "boy"). When Pope tells him to stop torturing a suspect, Mattelli growls that he's tired of Pope's "liberal bullsh*t".

But while the interactions between the detectives are a bit more blunt in their conversation, there's some interesting stuff happening among the underworld elements who make up the other half of the narrative. You have characters like the gravel-voiced Doc Johnson (Richard Ward) who not only has Mattelli in his pocket, but is starting to openly resent white Mafia coming into Harlem just to keep their hands in the profits. DiSalvio is the most overtly racist character, and a lot is said in the looks between the Harlem enforcers who are sent to accompany him in tracking down the thieves. In one sequence the two Harlem men exchange some very significant looks as DiSalvio tortures a man for information. When DiSalvio calls for a rope, the loaded energy of the scene practically crackles. The killing of one character is referred to by many as a "crucifixion," but many aspect of it (including a castration) are straight out of the lynching playbook.

Despite causing the deaths of so many people in the beginning of the film, the thieves end up being some of the most sympathetic characters. Jim in particular lays out the misery of knowing that the best he could ever hope for is low-level work as a laborer or domestic, and you understand why he would take such a big swing despite the risks. A scene where he talks with his girlfriend about the life he imagines for them is genuinely heartbreaking. She's known from the beginning that he probably won't survive the day, but for a few minutes they agree to pretend. It's sweet and devastating all at once.

A gritty and brutal little piece of filmmaking. I wish that the police characters were a bit more compelling in their dynamic, despite really enjoying the performances, especially Kotto.

And one of the best theme songs of any movie, ever.