“Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting.” image link Steve McQueen has always been an iconic actor to me and I wanted to learn more about him. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve watched two documentary biographies. Each covers a different time period of his life. If you want a broad…
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Castigation in Film
Today’s word of the day is castigation, which M-W defines as, “to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism”. In a bit of synchronicity, I watched a library loan movie, “Force Majeure” (2014), aka “Turist”, last night, which is a meticulous study of castigation. Imdb gives the minimal description, “A family vacationing in the French…
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Sorry to Bother You – No You’re Not! I was finally able to borrow a copy of, “Sorry to Bother You” from my local branch of the library and watched it last night. Although I had a general idea of what it was about, I’d purposely kept myself ignorant of spoilers and wanted to go…
Movie Review — Damsel (2018)
image link from imdb — Damsel (2018): It’s the Wild West, circa 1870. Samuel Alabaster, an affluent pioneer, ventures across the American frontier to marry the love of his life, Penelope. As his group traverses the west, the once-simple journey grows treacherous, blurring the lines between hero, villain and damsel. Written and Directed by: David…
Final Portrait (2017)
image link I’ve got 4 main sources for movies now, other than going to a theater: 1) netflix streaming; 2) netflix discs; 3) the library; and 4) Family Video. I try to obtain through free sources first. This was one I requisitioned from #2. I think I found it through looking for Armie Hammer movies. …
You Were Never Really Here (2017)
image link When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. You make lemonade, or in the protagonist’s case in the film, “You were Never Really Here”, a bloodbath wherever you go. Joaquin Phoenix plays Joe, a character who struggles with a reality that is liberally sprinkled with flashbacks of abuse, neglect, and soul-crunching trauma. What…
Paterson (2016)
insert link Yesterday the first disc arrived from my renewed subscription to netflix discs. I found it through an Adam Driver search and chose it when I saw Jim Jarmusch directs and saw that it was about a poet who has a day job. Who could resist this trifecta? I watched Paterson last night. Already…
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