Last Movie You Watched

[André]

Howl's Moving Castle by Miyazaki. Not as enchanting as Spirited Away, with strong characters but a rather loose storyline. Superb animation. Miyazaki's special touch is immediately recognizable.

[aligreto]

My Cousin Rachel





This is a wonderful period drama. Sometimes we can get things so very wrong. It is definitely worth a watch.

[SonicMan46]

Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943) w/ Henry Fonda, Harry Morgan, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn, Jane Darwell, et al - short synopsis below - still a powerful indictment to 'mob behavior' with eerie parallels to recent race/social events in the United States (and likely elsewhere).  Highly recommended.

Petrified Forest, The (1936) w/ Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart as the gangster Duke Mantee (his mannerisms patterned after John Dillinger) - considered the film that made Bogart a star; actually filmed in the Petrified Forest (a National Park) in northern Arizona near Winslow (near the Meteor Crater), a visit for us many years ago.  Also highly recommended.  Dave

The Ox-Bow Incident is an American western film directed by William A. Wellman, starring Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews and Mary Beth Hughes, with Anthony Quinn, William Eythe, Harry Morgan and Jane Darwell. Two drifters are passing through a Western town, when news arrives that a local rancher has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The townspeople, joined by the drifters, form a posse to catch the perpetrators. They find three men in possession of the cattle, and are determined to see justice done on the spot. (Source)

The Petrified Forest is a 1936 American film directed by Archie Mayo and based on Robert E. Sherwood's 1935 Broadway drama of the same name. The motion picture stars Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart. The screenplay was written by Delmer Daves and Charles Kenyon, and adaptations were later performed on radio and television. The film is set in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. (Source)

   

[vandermolen]

I started watching The Maltese Falcon last night.  Amazingly I've never seen it before despite being a Film Noir fan.

[Christo]

Parasite

Please, tell us more. 

[Biffo]

I started watching The Maltese Falcon last night.  Amazingly I've never seen it before despite being a Film Noir fan.

Did you finish watching it? Like Casablanca, it has a great closing line.

[Thom]

Greyhound with/by Tom Hanks. I had expected more to be frank. Still, worthwhile watching.

[Madiel]

Greyhound with/by Tom Hanks. I had expected more to be frank. Still, worthwhile watching.

Apple is so keen on this that I had to say no to watching it just to get on and use my Apple TV the way I always did back when the company was in the technology business and not the content creation business.

Which I think is the first time they've done that with any of their shows. And it is not a welcome development.

[AlberichUndHagen]

I started watching The Maltese Falcon last night.  Amazingly I've never seen it before despite being a Film Noir fan.

One of my favorite film directors, John Huston. I love that film although I like Treasure of Sierra Madre and The Asphalt Jungle even more! He also made a great performance as a depraved villain in Chinatown.

[SonicMan46]

Greyhound with/by Tom Hanks. I had expected more to be frank. Still, worthwhile watching.

 

Greyhound - also watched last night; same feeling as above, i.e. thought the characters would be more developed, and the CGI was overdone to my eyes, although younger viewers brought up on this technology will likely enjoy - this REVIEW pretty much reflects my thoughts about the film w/ a 3*/5* rating given - a one time watch for me.  For another 'older' take (1957) on the same theme, The Enemy Below w/ Mitchum and Jurgens would be my recommendation; unfortunately, the blu-ray restoration (if even done for the video) leaves much to be desired (more HERE).  Dave

[drogulus]

Greyhound with/by Tom Hanks. I had expected more to be frank. Still, worthwhile watching.

     Hanks did some heavyweight research to produce a script so detailed about how a destroyer escort on convoy duty operated against a U-boat wolfpack.

Greyhound - also watched last night; same feeling as above, i.e. thought the characters would be more developed, and the CGI was overdone to my eyes, although younger viewers brought up on this technology will likely enjoy - this REVIEW pretty much reflects my thoughts about the film w/ a 3*/5* rating given - a one time watch for me.  For another 'older' take (1957) on the same theme, The Enemy Below w/ Mitchum and Jurgens would be my recommendation; unfortunately, the blu-ray restoration (if even done for the video) leaves much to be desired (more HERE).  Dave

     My father was in the Merchant Marine in the war. Us kids grew up with The Enemy Below.

[TheGSMoeller]

Haunting, and unforgettable. Unlike any other war film I've seen.

[Christo]

Haunting, and unforgettable. Unlike any other war film I've seen.

Saw it back in 1986, would love to see it again.

[Madiel]

All I'm getting is a blank box.

[aligreto]

Shutter Island





I had seen this one many years ago but I remembered it differently from when I saw it this time around.

[Christo]

All I'm getting is a blank box.

Am sorry! This one:

[SonicMan46]

Am sorry! This one:

+1 - saw back in the fall of 2015 when released - on a visit to our son in Carmel, Indiana - was in a big screen theater that had its own brewery and served food - quite an experience! More HERE - a number of posts around April 2016 on the film also - bought on an excellent BD and have watched a few times since.  Dave

[Karl Henning]

I started watching The Maltese Falcon last night.  Amazingly I've never seen it before despite being a Film Noir fan.

Keen to hear your report!

[Todd]

Dragged Across Concrete.  Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn star as cops who get filmed brutalizing a drug dealer, which necessitates their suspension.  Both have assorted personal issues that make a couple months without pay untenable, so they decide to rob some thieves.  The dialogue is neo-noir and not particularly good, and the film verges on the surreal in a Nicolas Winding Refn sort of way, but without the extreme visual stylization.  That written, S. Craig Zahler does some fine things.  First, he takes his sweet time with this two-and-a-half hour movie.  Pacing is deliberate yet not too slow.  Second, he takes time to properly introduce characters, including a minor character introduced halfway through the film.  Third, he eschews shaky handheld camerawork and instead uses long, steady shots.  That's refreshing.  Fourth, and here's where Refn or Gaspar Noé seem to be influences, Zahler uses short bursts of extreme (exaggerated) horror-film inspired violence to emphasize certain scenes.  It's not a great movie, but it has compelling moments, and it doesn't match up to Refn's best work, or at least I prefer Refn, but there's enough in this film to make me consider viewing Zahler's other work. 

[aligreto]

First Kill





A man takes his young son on a hunting trip and something that they witness plunges them into mortal danger.