EXTRAORDINARY: THE STAN ROMANEK STORY - Documentary. Stan claims he's been abducted by aliens many times, and provides the usual shaky, blurry, out of focus footage as proof. Any smart phone could provide pictures a thousand times better than that piece of crap he has. So these aliens travel thru inter-stellar space just to bug this guy by peeping in his window? And that alien was so phony it would have had me on the floor laughing. After an hour and 3/4 the only thing he convinced me of is that he craves attention. A 1/2 on the UF-O-Meter.
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Better Call Saul season 3 -
Funny, suspenseful, poignant and sad, Saul Goodman is well on his way to becoming the slimeball lawyer he will be in Breaking Bad. He's not there yet; it's a two steps forward, one step back kind of transformation. This was the best season so far, with some events that are sticking in my mind still. A+ filmmaking on all levels.
The Honeymoon -
Newlyweds go to the bride's family lake house in the middle of nowhere. Creepy stuff happens. What's going on? The answer is way less intriguing than the question of what's going on. I saw that the film got a lot of bad reviews, but I liked it quite a bit. It relied on dread and suggestion rather than jump scares and special effects. High ambitions for a low budget movie, and I was quite impressed. It's not for everybody and the ending falls a bit…but not much. Excellent chemistry between the two actors.
thx Banes
SOLACE - Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Colin Farrell, Abbie Cornish.
Psychic Hopkins is asked by JDM (FBI) to assist finding psychic serial killer. Starts off OK but half-way starts getting silly. Hopkins is executive producer too, did he read the script? Did anyone? Luckily for Morgan, he gets bumped off fairly early, but poor Colin and Abbie had to tough it out as did I. A 1 on the Moizmeter.
JACK REACHER: THE FINAL INSULT - Tom Cruise and a cast of thousands. Strictly Saturday Afternoon Matinee material. Jack thinks he has a daughter? If you're desperate watch and find out. Never a dull moment, getting a 1 on the Moizmeter.
DOM HEMMINGWAY - Jude Law and a cast of thousands. After 30 minutes I gave it a 5 more minute probation, it got the kybosh. A golden goose-egg on the Moizmeter.
MISS SLOANE - Jessica Chastain, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mark Strong, Jake Lacy, Michael Stuhlbarg, John Lithgow, Sam Waterston, Alison Pill. Jessica plays razor-sharp Washington lobbyist who switches camps aiming for stricter gun control laws. Watch out, she has a few tricks up her sleeve and uses them to catch a couple of big shots with their pants down, even if she has to take a small fall herself. The cockroach bit was ridiculous and all that US constitution flag waving seems lost when you find out movie was filmed mostly in Toronto, Canada. Pretty good watch even tho it didn't do well at box office, probably cuz no car chases, explosions or fights to attract those with SAS (short attention spans). A 3 1/2 on the Moizmeter.
WOMAN IN GOLD - Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Bruhl, Katie Holmes, Tatiana Maslany, Max Irons, Francis Fisher, Charles Dance, Elizabeth McGovern. Helen is Maria Altmann who escaped Austria just as the Nazi's rolled in and stole her family's artwork incl. Gustav Klimt's painting of her aunt (Woman In Gold). Now living in LA she works with lawyer (Ryan) to get the paintings back from an art gallery in Austria that she claims doesn't legally own them. This Klimt painting is worth over a 100 million bucks? why I don't know, maybe a map to a gold mine underneath? Still a good watch getting a 3 1/2 on the Klimt-O-Meter.
JACKIE - Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Crudup, Greta Gerwig, John Hurt, John Carroll Lynch, Caspar Phillipson. Follows Jackie in the week following the assassination of JFK. Wow, tobacco co's must have paid a bunch to have her smoking like a furnace most of the time. Good job by Natalie with the voice but not much in resemblence. Peter as Bobby not even a remote look-a-like and made no attempt at the voice. Didn't learn anything except Jackie was kind of dazed and confused. A fair watch getting 2 1/2 on the Moizmeter.
ALLIED - Marion Cottilard, Brad Pitt, Jared Harris, Simon McBurney. In 1942 Casablanca, Brad is sent to join Marion, a resistance fighter, to assassinate a Nazi commander. Dangerous deed done and both escape to London, fall in love and marry. They soon produce a little girl, The End, no wait, not quite, seems trouble looms when Brad is told Marion is a Nazi spy, yikes, say it isn't so! He doesn't believe it and goes to great lengths to prove her innocence. Will he? Watch and find out. Marion stunningly beautiful throughout but thot Brad seemed sort of stiff? A good show, getting a 4 on the Moizmeter!
I watched Original Sin, staring Angelina Joeli and Antonio Banderas.
I still don't understand why she's supposed to be so amazingly beautiful. She's a pretty good actor, she really is, I wish she'd do roles that didn't focus on presenting her as a great beauty… with her weird alien bugface.
I know that's horrible of me to say.
Antonio is a decent actor too, but you realise that without his long black hair he's actually a short guy with a soft pudgy face and a big squishy nose… Though he "plays" sexy more genuinely than Angelina.
Ok, the film:
Good period thriller about sex and revenge, with all sorts of twists and turns. The sex and sexiness felt stiff and unsexy, but the twists and turns and drama were very good.
I just started watching silicon valley.
It's very good, frighteningly clever. Very true to life.
Not many TV shows or movies ever go above my head, the writers are generally always slightly out of their depth on whatever subject they're faking for the show. They can convince the uninitiated but if you have any background knowledge about most things you can spot the holes and mistakes pretty quickly.
With a lot of things I watch I play a fun game of spotting all the inconsistencies, logical errors, and lazy writing, then I forgive it and sit back and enjoy the show- with a little bit of smugness that I know better than the show creators.
But on THIS show the writers really DO know their subject! Or at least they know it better than me. Which I find scary and invigorating.
By the 3rd episode though they started to get lazy… The Canadian guy getting his US Visa in 5 minutes flt was just a supremely lazy joke. But the subplot about the genius tech billionaire working out that he could make a killing on sesame seeds because Cicadas would decimate the crops was moronic. Cicadas don't eat anything once they hatch…
So the show writers are really good when it comes to tech startups but not about anything else.
PRAY FOR RAIN - Annabelle Stephenson, Jane Seymour, Nicholas Gonzalez, James Morrison, Ali Afshar, Paul Rodriguez, John Ducey, John Heard. Annabelle learns her father was killed in a tractor accident in drought stricken farming community. She soon doubts it was an accident. Local farmers are being forced to sell their property for peanuts to some big unknown corp. and various factions come under her suspicion. Kept me guessing all the way and very well done. John Heard's last roll. A 4 on the Moizmeter.
MY NAME IS KHAN - A benevolent Asperger's sufferer, Rizwan Khan (Shah Rukh Khan), sets out on a journey across America after 9/11 on a mission to win back his one true love. My Name Is Khan
Amazing film. Deserved an oscar or twenty.
Been toughing out THE MIST, a 10 part mini-series, fortunately only 2 more episodes to go, all these people are crackers and deserve what they're getting. Maybe last 2 will be super and change my view? Doubt it.
Well no such luck, got even dumber. A generous 1 on the Moizmeter.
BERLIN SYNDROME - Teresa Palmer, Max Riemelt, Emma Bading. Aussie Teresa on a work/vacation in Berlin meets Prince Charming Max. All is good until Teresa finds herself locked in Max's apt. which is in a wrecked part of the city with no access to the public. She's his prisoner, and looks like he's done this before. Apparently no knives in kitchen, but she does find a screwdriver but uses it on his hand where I would have applied it somewhere around his neck or temple. Will our girl find a way out? A 2 1/2 on the Moizmeter.
CURVE - Julianne Hough, Teddy Sears. Julianne reluctantly picks up a hitcher out in the middle of nowhere. Guess what? He's a psycho, no kidding! She tries a reckless curve and crashes down a hill trapped upside down, and Mr. Psycho is OK. He leaves her there. She spends several days trapped and even resorts to eating a rat! Psycho comes back now and then to torment her. Finally a storm washes the vehicle farther down but she escapes. Now time to get even? A 2 1/2 on the Moizmeter again.
PERSONAL SHOPPER - Kristen Stewart, does shopping for a rich bitch but also feels the presence of a ghost. Maybe her deceased bro who died young with a heart defect that she also has is trying to communicate with her. So of course she smokes, very smart Kristen. No doubt tobacco co.'s coughed up a bundle to have her puffing away. She spends oodles of time texting with an unknown entity but I'm thinking she's just talking to herself. So much for so little getting a 2 on the Moizmeter.
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS - Owen Wilson, Rachel (be still my heart) McAdams, Marion (be still my heart) Cotillard, Lea (be still my heart) Seydoux, Michael Sheen, Corey Stoll, Tom Hiddleston, Alison Pill, Kathy Bates, Adrian Brody.
Starts off with a fantastic visual tour of Paris leading to Owen, a writer, falling in love with the city. Rachel, his fiance is more interested in Michael Sheen. Owen goes out alone at midnight for a walk and magically ends up in 1920's Paree, and meets many famous artists, Scott Fitzgerald, Cole Porter, Hemmingway, Gertrude Stein, Picasso etc. He does these little walks every night much to the dissatisfaction of Rachel. On one trip he meets Marion and is smitten. Can this continue? Watch and enjoy, a 4 1/2 on the Moizmeter.
CHECK POINT - William Forsythe, Krista Grotte. Beyond stupid, got the kybosh after about 35 minutes, getting a Golden Goose-Egg on the Moizmeter.
DEAD AWAKE - Jocelin Donahue, Jesse Bradford, Lori Petty. Got off to a poor start, kept getting worse, had me reaching for the zapper but silly me kept watching in hopes it would get better. Notta. But I did finish it saving it from a goose-egg, so a 1/2 on the Moizmeter.
LIFE - Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, Rebecca Ferguson, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ariyon Bakare, Olga Dykhov??? A Martian life form gets aboard the ISS and chaos ensues. Similar to ALIEN but nowhere near as good. They call the Martian "Calvin" ha ha, looks like the Alien face-hugger with the Predator's face, slowly picks off the crew leaving only Jake & Rebecca. But they have a plan, will it work? A 2 on the Moizmeter.
Season…7, I think..? Season 7 of The Walking Dead.
I was a bit lost at the beginning of the season: it's been so long since I saw the previous season.
There are online complaints about this show, that it's fallen apart and relies too much on gore and nothing ever happens. Maybe it's the way I watch, binging the whole season in a week or less, that changes things for me. I find it absolutely compelling, still, with characters that draw me in and writing that is almost always character-centric and shocking (in a dramatic, emotionally intense way, not a blood n' guts way.
The "standalone" episodes, focusing on one or two characters, are almost always fantastic. Several episodes had me in tears by the end. One or two annoying episodes matter less when yer watching 2 or 3 a day, though.
Now that I'm done binging that sonovagun, I gotta get on these DD Awards presentations!
THE MASTER - Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Rami Malek, Jesse Plemons. (from 2012) Joaquin plays an alcoholic vet with a violent streak, encounters cult guru Hoffman (thinly disguised L. Ron Hubbard) who likes his moonshine drink. Drags on for over 2 hrs and goes absolutely nowhere. A generous 1 on the Moizmeter.
AFTERWARDS - John Malkovich, Romaine Duris, Evangeline Lily. From '08, Malkovich plays doctor who can see people who are about to die. And pretty well everyone does except him, too bad there. What a downer of a story getting a 1 1/2 on the Moizmeter.
THE UNBORN - Odette Annable, Gary Oldman, Idris Elba, Jane Alexander. Total stinkeroo about twins possessed by demons. Gary and Idris must have owed producer a favour I'm thinking. Somehow I toughed it out giving it 1 on the Moizmeter.
GERALD'S GAME - Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Henry Thomas, Chiara Aurelia, Carel Struycken. Kinky Bruce handcuffs wife Carla to bedposts then dies. Carla then spends most of boring hour talking to imaginary Bruce and herself. How long will she last? Stephen King's book must have been much better, I couldn't wait til the end. A 1 3/4 on the Moizmeter.
AFTERMATH - Arnold, Scoot McNairy, Maggie Grace, Judah Nelson. Inspired by true event where an Air Traffic Controller's mistake causes 2 planes to crash killing 271 people. Arnold's wife and daughter were on one of the planes and he is shattered as well as Scoot, who made the blunder. We see how they try and put their lives back together. I found it very good, getting a 3 1/2 on the Moizmeter.
moizmad wrote:I liked that one. I'm a sucker for romantic films.
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS - Owen Wilson, Rachel (be still my heart) McAdams, Marion (be still my heart) Cotillard, Lea (be still my heart) Seydoux, Michael Sheen, Corey Stoll, Tom Hiddleston, Alison Pill, Kathy Bates, Adrian Brody.
Starts off with a fantastic visual tour of Paris leading to Owen, a writer, falling in love with the city. Rachel, his fiance is more interested in Michael Sheen. Owen goes out alone at midnight for a walk and magically ends up in 1920's Paree, and meets many famous artists, Scott Fitzgerald, Cole Porter, Hemmingway, Gertrude Stein, Picasso etc. He does these little walks every night much to the dissatisfaction of Rachel. On one trip he meets Marion and is smitten. Can this continue? Watch and enjoy, a 4 1/2 on the Moizmeter.
Last night I saw Before Sunrise, and then the sequel Before Sunset. And soon I'll watch the last film, Before Midnight.
The first film is about two travellers meeting on a train white travelling through Austria, a young American guy and a French girl. They start chatting and then decide to spend the day together. They both have to make connections and be in other places the next day but they decide to just stick together, chat and see things…
It's lovely, it's SO naturalistic, not stylised or contrived at all. So easy to relate to, you know you've been those people. It's beautiful.
The action all takes place over a single day.
The second film concerns their reunion in Paris several years later. The action takes place in real time: as long as it takes the film to end. It's just as beautiful.
I recommend them both.
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