The Happy Road (Gene Kelly, 1957) O Pagador de Promessas aka The Given Word (Anselmo Duarte, 1962) Finger of Guilt aka The Intimate Stranger (Joseph Losey, 1956) Tony: London Serial Killer (Gerard Johnson, 2010)
Unemployed for 20 years, unassuming Tony (Peter Ferdinando) keeps busy by murdering various men who come back to his flat for sex, drugs and "rock and roll". Time Without Pity (Joseph Losey, 1957) The Pursuit of Happyness (Gabriele Muccino, 2006) - Full Frontal (Steven Soderbergh, 2002) + The Leopard (Lucino Visconti, 1963)
Sicily, 1860. The fading Prince of Salina (Burt Lancaster) resigns himself to the changes in the wind and dances with the newly-aristocratic fiancée (Claudia Cardinale) of his nephew (Alain Delon) at her coming out to society ball. White Peril (Don Horter, 1956) The Pope’s Toilet (César Charlone & Enrique Fernández, 2008) A Letter from a Soldier (Don Weis, 1951) The Salvation (Kristian Levring, 2014)
In the 1870s American West, Danish settler Mads Mikkelsen greets his arriving wife (Nanna Øland Fabricius) and son (Toke Lars Bjarke), and this sets off a violent tale of revenge. Invisible Invaders (Edward L. Cahn, 1959) The Man from Planet X (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1951) They Came from Beyond Space (Freddie Francis, 1967) No Country for Old Men (Coen Bros., 2007) +
”I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job. But, I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say, ‘O.K., I'll be part of this world.’" Perfect Sisters (Stan Brooks, 2014) + Armored Car Robbery (Richard Fleischer, 1950) - Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2007) + Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen, 2008)
Free-spirited American photographer Scarlett Johannson gets some tips on developing from fiery Spaniard Penelope Cruz.
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I assume the honest bits of japery in this were ad libbed by Rockwell and a few others, because the rest is just canned irradiated earnestness with a stale cookie coating.
Black Friday aka The Kidnapping (Arthur Allan Seidelman, 2007) + The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino, 1953) Make Mine Memories (No Director Listed, 1955) Nas: Time Is Illmatic (One9, 2014)
Twenty years after the release of Nas’ influential LP Illmatic, this doc shows the people behind the poet’s life and lyrics. Ticks (Tony Randel, 1993) Nature Calls (Todd Rohal, 2012) Mo’ Money (Peter Mcdonald, 1992) Inside Out (Pete Docter & Ronaldo Del Carmen, 2015)
The inner emotions of an eleven-year-old girl are introduced. She's just moved from Minnesota to San Francisco, so besides trying to fit in at her new school, she remembers what she no longer has. The Golden Idol (Ford Beebe, 1954) I Love Children, But! (David Barclay, 1952) 102 Dalmatians (Kevin Lima, 2000) Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang (Colin Offland, 2015)
Seemingly oblivious to the political situation, former NBA star and wild man Dennis Rodman arranges for a group of retired American players to put on a game against the North Korean state team on the birthday of its leader, Kim Jong-un. The Baroness and the Butler (Walter Lang, 1938) All Things Fall Apart (Mario Van Peebles, 2011) Where the Heart Is (John Boorman, 1990) + Poor White Trash aka Bayou (Harold Daniels, 1957)
Poor white trash (Timothy Carey) get horny and will use an axe to get their way, if necessary. The Magnificent Rebel (Georg Tressler, 1962) The Untamed Breed (Charles Lamont, 1948) Jackass Number Two (Jeff Tremaine, 2006) Aelita: Queen of Mars (Yakov Protazanov, 1924) -
Soviets travel to Mars and wish to create a Martian Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, but the Martian Army (shown) tries to stop them.
Chappie - I am very torn on this one. On one hand, it's got an interesting story about a police robot gaining sentience and how his surroundings shape who he becomes, but on the other hand, it's sort of a mixture of Short Circuit and Robocop, isn't it? There are things I loved, like Sharlto Copley's performance as the titular character, and Neill Blomkamp's direction, but then there are things I don't, like the supporting actors (who apparently are musicians of some sort in South Africa? Whoever they are, they are off putting and weird.), and the film's ending, which pushed my suspension of disbelief past where I was willing to go, and kind of went against all the moving, emotionally potent scenes from earlier by forcing a happy (and ridiculous) ending.
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Once again, my lady wanted to watch some old horror, and for some reason settled on this. This isn't too terrible, with a fairly decent who-done-it mystery associated with the murders, but aside from Jamie Lee Curtis, most of the players are pretty rough, including a somewhat goofy David Copperfield as a prime suspect. I have certainly seen better, but I think I have also seen much worse.
Detroit Rock City
(Rifkin, 1999)
Four teens set off to see Kiss live in Detroit in 1978. Decent enough, but lacks the authentic 70s feel of something like Foxes or Over the Edge, which were actually made in the 70s. Good for a couple oof laughs, but overall, fairly lackluster.
Eyes Wide Shut
(Kubrick, 1999)
Kubrick's treatise on trust set against a backdrop of secret societies and intrigue. Dreamlike in its execution, this is one of Kubrick's more obtuse pictures, which works in its favor for the most part, but falls flat in places, as well. My fiance felt there was too much focus on the Illuminati for the film to end the way it does, so she definitely didn't like it. I had seen it before, and having arrived at plenty of dead ends when I tried to puzzle out the cryptic Illuminati story, at this point, I just let the dream do its thing as i let the music and imagery wash over me. I still like this one.
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Pinocchio REWATCH
Letters from an Unknown Woman
Anastasia
X Men: Days of Future Past REWATCH
Sita Sings the Blues
Independence Day + REWATCH
Killer Joe +
Festen
Nightmare Before Christmas REWATCH
One-Eyed Jacks -
Yaaawn. Looks like I haven't updated you guys for so long, I already have a backlog worth of dozens of films. I finished watching films for today (trying to watch at least one very long film a day, like 3h+) and now listening to some new albums, so I may as well write about all of them.
Soundtrack to this post:
Films or not?
NSFW version can be found on YouTube.
The Kiss (1872) - Passage de Vénus (1874) - Cat in Trot Changing to Gallop (1887) - Buffalo Running (1883) - Throwing Self On Heap Of Hay (1887) -
These are some moving images made by Eadweard Muybridge. As you can see, they preceed the, what we know as, first film ever made. However, calling these films is going as far as calling rapidly changing pieces of paper with some sketches on them a movie. It's not cinematograph, anyway. It's a novelty called zoopraxiscope. No matter how you call it, these are a must see, if you think of yourself as of a cinephile. It should take like five minutes to watch all of them, of which 4 minutes will be you searching for them on YouTube. Anyway, the one that's really worth mentioning is The Kiss, which features two delightful nude (!!!) ladies performing a kiss (!!!) in the first lesbian (!!!) scene in history of (non-)cinema. A must-see for everyone! What really struck me is that these 'films' can be seen as GIFs today. Something Muybridge never ever dreamt of.
Dracula Hammer series:
Did somebody say: 'Blood pancakes'?
Dracula [Horror of Dracula] (1958) - The Brides of Dracula (1960) - Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) - Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) - Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) - Scars of Dracula (1970) -
Still a bunch of Dracula Hammer films left, but from what I've seen so far I can already tell that I like Christopher Lee's Dracula much more than Lugosi's one. The first installment is actually the one I liked the best. It has the always good Cushing as van Helsing kicking vampire butts since... I don't know. Just for a long time. The second one has Cushing, too, but sadly, Christopher Lee was replaced by another guy (he's not Dracula in this film anyway, just an 'average' vampire). The third one introduces Lee back, but sadly there's no more Cushing. I know the duo will come back in next installments, but I didn't get there yet. So far, some hilarious (I didn't laugh, just the ideas are hilarious) parts I've seen recently. One of them starts with a bat vomiting blood on Dracula's dead remainings and that brings him back to life! LOL! There are some other ridiculous scenes in these films, but it's all good fun, and surprisingly so, the series never get under the level of being good and entertaining.
Frankenstein Hammer series:
Best Hammer intro ever!
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) - The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) - The Evil of Frankenstein (1964) - Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) - Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) -
One Hammer Frankenstein movie left! Just one and I will be done with these series. Pretty good, too, only that surprisingly it's the penultimate installment I found the best. Every one of these films has Peter Cushing as the lead playing Baron Frankenstein (perhaps his best role!). They always end with a cliffhanger, in which Frankenstein is allegedly dead, but he always somehow survives, so he can still experiment with human bodies in the next episode. All the films in the series, just like Dracula, are very good and there are no crap films there. I also watched the original Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, but am not sure if I already wrote about them here. In case not, I give them both 3.5 stars.
Mummy films:
This is the kind of face you can't say no to.
The Mummy (1932) - The Mummy (1959) -
The weakest of the monster features I've been watching lately. The original one has Karloff being incredibly intelligent and cunning for a mummy, while the Hammer reimagination has a crazy Egyptian controlling the mummy that is simply Christopher Lee kicking everybody's ass. The scenes of him kicking in the door to rapidly catch a guy and strangle him, or breaking the balcony window to attack Peter Cushing were incredibly well done. Sadly, the ancient Egypt flashback scenes were not that good and boring.
Remordernist films:
Why don't we make our own cinema movement? MoFo-ernism!
Shooting at the Moon (2003) - Youngblood (1995) - So Tell Me Again (2009) - Self Portrait (2002) - Days Gone Not Forgotten (2011) -
Okay, so there's that 'new' movement in cinema I just learnt about recently. Basically, they hate moderinism and post-modernism and want more emotional and spiritual meaning in cinema, so they just made this movement and it's mostly short films. They're in no way masterpieces, or even great films, but interesting enough. It's worth reading their manifesto, in which Dogme 95 and Kubrick are called stupid and boring, respectively, among others. They also want Japanese philosophy of mono no aware to be in their films just like it's in Ozu films. Interesting stuff. They often shoot films in black'n'white and use some very good punk music as soundtrack. Shooting at the Moon is basically built of these beautiful songs I had to listen to again after I've watched the film, so even if these films (and the whole movement) is all built of mediocre films, at least they introduced me to some good music, so it's always a new discovery.
The rest:
Is this a pre-crab-crawl all deathcore sh*tty bands use nowadays? Haha. Lovely.
Stop Making Sense (1984) - (Incredible concert! One of the best I've ever seen! And I'm not even a fan of this band, I don't know any of their songs, but the sheer energy and fun at stage was enough to make me fall in love with them. The ideas are incredible. It starts with the frontman alone at the stage, playing acoustic guitar with a simple beat from a tape recorder. Then, the bassist (that lady is really charming and she even sings one of the songs!) kicks in and they make a duo, then a big platform with a drum set on it is introduced and then some other stuff, like a crazy black man with his hippie tribal drum set. They all have a lot of fun performing the songs. Loved to see the black ladies mimick the frontman's moves, the black drummer saying 'f*ck this' and simply having fun, interacting with the audience and running from one player to the other. Then, the leader performs a very weird dance with a lamp and then decides to run around the stage for no apparent reason, hence the title. This is simply the paragon of music concert. I wish more bands had so much fun at scene.) La coiffeuse (1905) - (A kinky refreshment! An erotic film from 1905!) Voci nel tempo [Voices Through Time] (1996) - (Who needs words, if there are beautiful images?) My Name Is Oona (1969) - (The title of the film repeated over and over by a little girl with some decent visuals to go by. Mediocre avantgarde.)
Voci nel tempo.
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) - (Already wrote about it in another thread! Awesome flick!) Hitler – Eine Karriere [Hitler, A Career] (1977) - (A very interesting documentary about Adolf Hitler. Highly recommended to all people who take keen interest in history.) Junkopia (1981) - (The director of La Jetee and Sans soleil made a lot of short films, like that cute cat film and what not. This time it's some sculptures made of junk by some hippies. The film has some post-apo feels to it and has a very nice mood of impending doom, even though all we see is some weird trash constructions.) World of Tomorrow (2015) - (The newest and maybe even the best Don Hertzfeldt film! A very powerful time-(and mind-)travel short.)
World of Tomorrow.
Dans le noir du temps [In the Darkness of Time] (2002) - (Godard's pseudo-intellectual mumbling for ten minutes. I like this kind of pretensiousness.) Zombi 2 [Zombie] (1979) - (Well, I'm not a fan of Fulci's non-giallo-nor-spaghetti films. This one is better than The Beyond, but still decent at best.) 自殺サークル [Suicide Club] (2002) - (Sion Sono used to make slow arthouse flicks, but later decided to delve into post-modernism. I enjoy his later films more than his early artsy stuff. This is the film that made him famous and it already has the feeling of his later features, such as Strange Circus, Love Exposure and Guilty of Romance.) Khual Yaang: To Summon The Spirits (2009) - (Artsy!!!)
Something is causing people want to kill themselves. An interesting take on a Japanese suicide problem in Sion Sono's Suicide Club.
Der Todesking [The Death King] (1990) - (Perhaps Buttgereit's most mature film. It's not as gorey nor brutal as Nekromentik or Schramm, but still manages to get to the point. Basically, it's about suicides, but there are some other meanings to it, as well. It has a scene of a guy watching Ilsa: The She Wolf of SS (MovieGal's beloved film), then blowing his girlfriend's head and then hanging a frame on the splash of blood on the white wall. ARTSY!) To Parsifal (1963) - (MOAR ARTSY!!!) Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted (1990) - (I love both Lynch and Cruise, but something just didn't work here) Begone Dull Care (1949) - (Brakhage ripped this guy off!!!)
Todesking's crude look makes it look very realistic.
Valse brillante de Chopin (1936) - Le coin des enfants [Children's Corner] (1936) - (These are just some early music videos.) The Wicker Man (1973) - (Already wrote about it in another thread. The film gets even scarier if you imagine Lord Summerisle being in fact MovieGal and the nosy policeman me.) 太極１ 從零開始 [Tai Chi Zero] (2012) - 太極２ 英雄崛起 [Tai Chi Hero] (2012) - (Modern wuxia? Can it be good? Of course! This is a steampunk wuxia to be more precise! The second part is just as good, so I don't even know why I didn't rate it 4 stars, too. Oh, and this is supposed to be a trilogy. I'm eagerly awaiting the final installment.)
Steampunk wuxia? Glorious!
Casa de lava [Down to Earth] (1994) - (Really wasn't in a mood for this, but gave it 3.5 in a credit. I thought about 3, but the idea of bluedeed's rant was enough to make me eventually raise the rating to 3.5.) Flora (1989) - (30 second film! All hail the short movies!) Il Gattopardo [The Leopard] (1963) - (Beautiful sceno- and cinematography. Lancaster, Delon and Cardinale were all amazing and the last two were hot as well! ) スウィングガールズ [Swing Girls] (2004) - (I am the King of Japanese Mainstreamness! This is a comedy film about some students creating a Big Band Jazz Orchestra. The final spectacle made me raise the rating by half a star. At the beginning I thought I'm not gonna survive this film, it felt stupid, jokes felt flat and everything felt like it's directed to Japanese high school students. And you know what? It's basically true. However, with time, the jokes started to make me laugh a little bit and I was really rooting for the girls (there was one boy, too). Not that bad in the end. The mannequin kissing in the elevator was the funniest scene in the movie. LOL.)
Masterpiece marathon: 5 days - 5 masterpieces
The Ritual.
Toutes les nuits [Every Night] (2001) - (Already wrote about this helluva film in Rate The Last Movie You Seen thread. Decided to watch more from the director. The very next day I watched...) Le monde vivant [The Living World] (2003) - (... this one. His second, chronologically. The whole thing is about the power of words. The guy has a shirt and jeans, but he refers to himself as a knight, so he indeed is a knight. The only item that would actually suggest he is one is his sword, but since he (and other people in the film) claim he is a knight, he freakin' is a knight! He also has a dog... lion, that is. He is the Lion Knight, after all. So, he has a dog companion following him, but since everyone says it is a lion, it indeed is a lion. There's a very nice medieval story with an ogre and princesses that have to be freed and the whole thing is beautiful. So, all in all, I say it is a masterpiece. Wait, it indeed is, no need to say it is not! It's not a film! It's a play! Well, I'm pretty close, too. The guy was a playwright before. Hell, this film is a pig! A big, bloasted pig! I like me some pig, figures.) 水の中の八月 [August in the Water] (1995) - (The movie starts casually. There are two guys and a girl, who loves high dive. Then things get more complitated and the movie's mood just becomes incredible! It really is some mythical stuff right here! I don't know, but at times I had Mothman Prophecies feels from it. It is the only film I've seen that I could say has a similar atmosphere, but while Richard Gere's mediocrity quickly loses mood and becomes dull, this Japanese gem gets more and more freaky! The ending is incredibly beautiful! It almost made me cry. All in all, the best alien film, without aliens!) 式日 [Ritual] (2000) - (This is a film based on a book and you know what? Steven Seagull's (pun intended) daughter wrote it and is the lead here! You know what? She's a better actress than her father. You know what? She must be a damn good writer, too, because this film is incredible. You know what? The movie is directed by Hideaki Anno, the director of Neon Genesis Evangelion anime (Guap probably starts looking for this movie at this point). You know what? The music is beautiful, but, sadly, was never released on CD. You know what? The film has an incredible scene I would compare to a certain Mirror's scene. No reason for that. Just both are amazing and I felt like comparing these two. You know what? The movie's ending made my cry. You know what? I don't wnat to say anything about the film itself, because it's so good to find out everything by yourself. You know what? Because I don't.) 카페 느와르 [Café Noir] (2009) - (That's a pretty weird Korean film. The titles kick in in the middle of this 3 hour long flick and after that the film's atmosphere almost completely changes. It also becomes a black'n'white picture for some reason. The second part is superior, anyways, but the film is so good. I mean, it just doesn't feel like a masterpiece and you don't feel like watching one during the film, but then it ends and you say to yourself: "Wow!". And it feels like a glorious film. It's quite complex, introduces a lot of characters, draws from other filmmakers and writers (Dostoyevsky is the most obvious, but there's more). It also has a scene of a guy saying his wife (or maybe it was daughter, can't remember) was killed by a monster in 2006!!! (obvious reference to Korean film The Host I haven't seen yet) . There's some more, but can't remember. Anyway, the ending is so beautiful and what happens to the, what seems to be, protagonist is so heart-breaking I just can't forget about it.)
Took me 4 hours to complete this post.
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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.
How to Sleep (Nick Grinde, 1935) Divorce American Style (Bud Yorkin, 1967) Handlebars (Jules White, 1933) + Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks, 1941)
Gangster’s moll Barbara Stanwyck hides out from the D.A. with some bookworms but starts to care for them, especially the youngest (Gary Cooper). One Got Fat (Dale Jennings, 1963) - Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955) Match Your Mood with Westinghouse (No Director Listed, 1968) Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, 1947)
Just back to the States after WWII, Robert Ryan says he has information about a friend wanted for questioning for murder, but veteran Robert Mitchum and homicide detective Robert Young doubt his veracity. Headline Bands (Jack Scholl, 1946) Duel Personalities (George Sidney, 1939) Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962) Kanal (Andrzej Wajda, 1957)
During WWII, Polish Resistance fighters retreat through the Warsaw sewers but manage to put up a battle anyway. Basque Sports (Van Campen Heilner, 1957) Movie Pests (Will Jason, 1944) Scandal (Akira Kurosawa, 1950) The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa, 1960)
A detail from the opening scene, a wedding at a business, foreshadows all sorts of lies and deaths in this film inspired by Hamlet. interMission (John Crowley, 2003) - The Big Dog House (Zion Myers & Will Jason, 1930) + Cherry Blossom Time in Japan (James A. FitzPatrick, 1936) Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu, 1960)
A low-key comedy of manners about three friends of a late co-worker trying to arrange marriages for his widow (Setsuko Hara) and her live-in daughter (Yôko Tsukasa) who doesn't want to leave her mother alone.
The Hustler
This was a darker film than I expected, certainly not your average sports movie. Paul Newman was good, it was well made and interesting, although I felt a little detached from it. I found it hard to follow the pool and the betting and what was actually going on in the games, but to an extent that was irrelevant, it was the greed and talent and addiction that were the important things. I was slightly dubious about the whole well worn 'sacrificing of the female character in order to teach the male character about what's important in life' trope, but it was made clear that she had her own demons and weaknesses just as he did, and I liked the parallel between them, that they're essentially both prostituting themselves to Bert Gordon in the end. I've no doubt it will show up on the 60s list although it wouldn't have made my personal top 25.
Anna Karenina (2012)
I don't know what to make of this. At times the staging seemed inspired, and yet it was so inconsistent. Perhaps it would have worked better for a film of something known as a play, for an adaptation of Anna Karenina it seemed reductive. It didn't help that the scope of it was reduced to a melodrama around the main love triangle with the sub plots and the interactions with the minor characters glossed over. Completely miscast as well. I think Keira Knightley can be a good actress but she didn't quite convince as Anna and Aaron Taylor Johnson looked like he was performing in Wes Anderson's Anna Karenina which was completely distracting. Jude Law was very good, though.
Ma Nuit Chez Maud
I think the best thing I can say is that this just wasn't my sort of film. Not because it's slow (although it is), but because I find films in which people with no real problems pontificate endlessly on philosophy and the nature of love to be excruciating. They talk endlessly about love but I never really get a sense that they actually feel it. I find it stifling to watch, like sitting at a dinner party with insufferable people and not being able to speak. Ma Nuit Chez Maud looks alright although not great. At least it was better than Claire's Knee.
Backstreet Justice (Chris McIntyre, 1994) - Factory Girl (George Hickenlooper, 2006) Passing Strange (Spike Lee, 2009) Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000)
Sitcom writer Damon Wayans wants to bury racist black shows forever, so he creates the most-racist one of all, but then it somehow becomes the network’s biggest hit. Ornette: Made in America (Shirley Clarke, 1986) Holy Rollers (Kevin Asch, 2010) Run Fatboy Run (David Schwimmer, 2007) + Where the Trail Ends (Jeremy Grant, 2012)
A small group of freeride mountain riders travel the world over to find the best ride that’s never been done before. It’s a dangerous, exhilarating variation for bikers on The Endless Summer. Every Which Way But Loose (James Fargo, 1978) Dude Bro Party Massacre III (Tomm Jacobsen, Michael Rousselet & Jon Salmon, 2015) Mail Order Bride (Burt Kennedy, 1964) Wild Tales (as Damián Szifron, 2014) -
In this six-part black comedy, the final segment features philandering husband Diego Gentile and his wife Erica Rivas who learns of his infidelity at their wedding. Cold in July (Jim Mickle, 2014) Cookie’s Fortune (Robert Altman, 1999) Borderland (Zev Berman, 2007) Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow, 2015)
A mosasaurus thinks it’s feeding time when an escaped pterosaur lands in its pool. Ted 2 (Seth McFarlane, 2015) + Julien Donkey-Boy (Harmony Korine, 1999) The Confession of Julien Donkey-Boy (Paul Zucker, 1999) The Past is a Grotesque Animal (Jason Miller, 2014)
A biography and a concert film of Kevin Barnes and his popular indie rock band of Montreal highlights Barnes’ energetic and offbeat stage persona and his numerous costume changes.
First in War− (Walter Doane, 1932) Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (Steve Pink, 2015) Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1971) Spy (Paul Feig, 2015) -
CIA analyst Melissa McCarthy reacts to a situation her James Bondish-agent (Jude Law) gets into. Henry Busse and His Orchestra (Jean Negulesco, 1940) Midnight Alibi (Alan Crosland, 1934) Lost Christmas (John Hay, 2011) The Return of Doctor X (Vincent Sherman, 1939)
Extremely-pale doctor’s assistant Humphrey Bogart seems to know a lot about blood when a series of murders strike NYC. King of the Underworld (Lewis Seiler, 1939) Snack and Drink (Bob Sabastion, 2000) The Adventures of Jane Arden (Terry Morse, 1939) Waking Life (Richard Linklater, 2001) +
The TV keeps changing channels, but do they reveal the land of dreams or the land of the dead? The Man Who Talked Too Much (Vincent Sherman, 1940) Flight From Destiny (Vincent Sherman, 1941) Brannigan (Douglas Hickox, 1975) + Home (Tim Johnson, 2015) +
A fearful, mistake-prone alien (voice of Jim Parsons) is part of a “friendly invasion” of Earth, but when he tries to hide from his own race, he meets a teenage girl (voice of Rihanna) who’s looking for her missing mom. McQ (John Sturges, 1974) + Rio Lobo (Howard Hawks, 1970) Cahill: United States Marshal (Andrew V. McLaglen, 1973) Dope (Rick Famuyiwa, 2015)
Nerdy Inglewood high school student Shameik Moore and his two best friends, Tony Revolori and Kiersey Clemons, mix their dreams of college with some dope they stumbled upon.
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