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Post by DCXMMXVI on Dec 12, 2015 22:50:47 GMT -8
Skeleton Twins, starring Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader.
I love this movie. I think I might have rated it on here before. I'm not sure what rating I gave it, but I'll give it a 10 now. Highly recommended.
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Post by myfavoritegirls on Dec 15, 2015 13:55:55 GMT -8
Skeleton Twins, starring Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader. I love this movie. I think I might have rated it on here before. I'm not sure what rating I gave it, but I'll give it a 10 now. Highly recommended. I haven't heard of this movie. I absolutely love Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig. I'm going to have to look for it. Thanks!
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Post by drizzletown on Dec 15, 2015 19:13:29 GMT -8
The Interview (the one about N. Korea). 5/10 The Best of Me. 3/10 (this one got 5/5 on Netflix, don't believe Netflix).
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Post by DCXMMXVI on Dec 15, 2015 20:34:50 GMT -8
Skeleton Twins, starring Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader. I love this movie. I think I might have rated it on here before. I'm not sure what rating I gave it, but I'll give it a 10 now. Highly recommended. I haven't heard of this movie. I absolutely love Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig. I'm going to have to look for it. Thanks! My profile pic is from the movie.
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Post by Ross on Feb 15, 2016 10:53:35 GMT -8
Mr Calzaghe
A very good documentary on the boxer Joe Calzaghe.
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Post by erik on Feb 15, 2016 15:51:04 GMT -8
WALL-ERevisiting the 2008 Disney animated sci-fi film about a sad-eyed trash compactor of the future who manages to save mankind from itself. 10/10.
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Post by erik on Apr 16, 2016 16:20:35 GMT -8
EYE IN THE SKYThe legal, military, and moral implications of 21st century drone warfare being conducted against suspected terrorist cells is at the heart of this intense drama, which features Helen Mirren, and, in his last film, Alan Rickman as British generals assigned to order a hit on a suspected Al-Shabab hideout in Nairobi without creating extreme "collateral damage." 9.5/10.
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Post by erik on Apr 29, 2016 9:38:43 GMT -8
A pair of films from documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald, both from 2013: WAR ON WHISTLEBLOWERS: FREE PRESS AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATEHow the government can censor, censure, and even put in prison anyone who blows the whistle on government incompetence or dissembling in this post-9/11 world of ours. UNMANNED: AMERICA'S DRONE WARSHow instigating drone attacks against suspected jihadists abroad could have severe consequences and blowback for us on our own soil in the future. Both films, though under seventy minutes in length, warrant a 10/10 rating (IMHO).
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Post by erik on Jun 5, 2016 16:01:21 GMT -8
MOMMIE DEARESTFour words: NO WIRE HANGERS...EVER!An enormously unflattering 1981 film about Joan Crawford with one of the most extreme perfromances by any actress in history, in this case, Faye Dunaway as the tempestuous screen legend. Arguably camp, but you take your chances. 8/10.
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Post by erik on Jun 23, 2016 6:01:01 GMT -8
WHERE TO INVADE NEXTFrom the man who gave us FAHRENHEIT 9/11 comes another semi-satirical documentary, released late in 2015, in which he finds out that the things that other countries have as a part of their social fabric we used to have here in America, but threw all of that away. 9/10.
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Post by erik on Jul 4, 2016 16:23:17 GMT -8
THE BFGThe relationship between a young British orphan (Ruby Barnill) and a 24 foot-tall giant (Mark Rylance) is at the heart of this brilliant mixture of live action and digital animation, based on Roald Dahl's 1982 children's book of the same name, from director Steven Spielberg. 9.5/10.
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Post by erik on Jul 13, 2016 18:18:06 GMT -8
THE PURGE: ELECTION YEARAm ambitious U.S. senator (Elizabeth Mitchell) running for President, who wants to do away with the annual "Purge" night of March 22nd, finds herself with her main protector (Frank Grillo) on the streets of D.C. when her security detail is fatally compromised by infiltrators from the National Founding Fathers of America (NFFA), in this third film of the series from writer/director James DeMonaco. Extremely violent at times, and excessive in its use of profanity, but still worth it. 7.5/10.
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Post by erik on Sept 16, 2016 6:12:50 GMT -8
SULLYTom Hanks does it... again! He portrays Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the pilot responsible for saving 155 lives onboard US Airways Flight 1549 when, on January 15, 2009, just half a minute after take-off from New York's LaGuardia International Airport on a flight to Charlotte, North Carolina, the aircraft was nailed by a bird strike, and both engines failed. With very little time to act, he made the decision to ditch the plane in the icy cold Hudson River, and thus, with the help of all of NYC's finest and bravest, saved all onboard (just a few suffered minor injuries). The film shows us how Hanks and his co-pilot (Aaron Eckhart) handled not only that situation but the lengthy aftermath and investigation, in which Sully's actions were heavily scrutinized. Clint Eastwood directed the film, which is based on Sullenberger's and Jeffrey Zaslow's book Highest Duty. 10/10.
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Post by erik on Sept 20, 2016 6:32:19 GMT -8
SNOWDENJoseph Gordon-Leavitt stars as the most wanted man in America, Edward Snowden, in this Oliver Stone-directed film about how the one-time NSA contractor uncovered the vast program of mass surveillance, not on terrorists, or on those dreaded Russians, but on Americans, and how making that information public in 2013 made him a marked man by the feds. Stone is not nearly as one-sided a director as everyone thinks he is, but he does question government power, which any true "patriot", like himself and like the real-life Snowden (who is still hiding in Russia), should do. 10/10.
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Post by oregonchickfan on Sept 20, 2016 11:34:24 GMT -8
Angry Birds
7/10
The first half our or so, most definitely had my attention. The last half, not so much.
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Post by ks4rs on Sept 20, 2016 11:42:57 GMT -8
Watched The Martian again last night, eighth time I think.
10/10
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Post by erik on Oct 7, 2016 15:15:33 GMT -8
Two this week. In theaters: DEEPWATER HORIZONMark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell star in this film based on the real-life horror that took place on April 20, 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig suffered a massive blowout and fire, killing eleven workers and creating the single greatest environmental catastrophe in American history, with 210 million gallons of crude oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. 9/10. On DVD: CITIZENFOURLaura Poitras' Oscar-winning 2014 documentary and interview with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who blew the whistle on the U.S. intelligence/espionage complex and made a wanted man of himself. As disturbing as any documentary on post-9/11 America has ever been. 10/10.
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Post by erik on Oct 22, 2016 9:46:48 GMT -8
DESIERTOJonas Cuaron, who co-wrote the screenplay to his brother Alfonso Cuaron's great 2013 sci-fi opus GRAVITY, directed this intense and frequently violent film of two desperate Mexican immigrants (Gael Garcia Bernal; Alondra Hidalgo) who are the only survivors among a group of migrants ambushed by a vigilante sniper (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) with a bullet to bury in "illegals" who cross the border. 8.5/10
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Post by oregonchickfan on Nov 25, 2016 19:50:25 GMT -8
Snowden: 8/10 I found the documentary quite intriguing. I was still engrossed in it when it was over. That doesn't happen too often.
Bad Moms: 7.5/10 I thought it was fairly funny. There was a point I started to get bored, but that was close to the end.
Sausage Party: 7.5/10 If you're looking for inappropriate, this movie is for you. Lol. It was a bit crazy.
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Post by thinwhitechick on Nov 27, 2016 10:47:08 GMT -8
7/10
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Post by erik on Dec 16, 2016 16:24:37 GMT -8
The tenth anniversary for both of these films: Both are still as relevant (even if in a different context now) as they each were in 2006 (IMHO).
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Post by erik on Jan 7, 2017 10:44:41 GMT -8
FENCESAugust Wilson's play transfers very well to the big screen in the hands of Denzel Washington, who both stars in and directs it. Here, he portrays a garbage man in the Pittsburgh of 1957 struggling to survive in a world that doesn't treat those of his skin color with any human dignity, and he also struggles with a secret he has tried to keep from his wife (Viola Davis) for years. Very colorful dialogue and great performances make this film one of the best of 2016 (IMHO). 10/10.
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Post by thinwhitechick on Jan 8, 2017 12:25:18 GMT -8
9/10 My favorite movie for 2016.
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Post by erik on Jan 15, 2017 16:58:51 GMT -8
PATRIOTS DAYMark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Kevin Bacon, and J.K. Simmons are among those portraying the law officers who went after the two young Chechan terrorists that set off pressure cooker bombs at the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Horror and heroism are captured quite well in this film, but be prepared for a great deal of graphic violence and language. 9/10.
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Post by erik on Feb 13, 2017 17:37:37 GMT -8
HIDDEN FIGURESTaraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janaelle Monae portray three African American women who are put in the position of coming up with the calculations that will eventually put an American into orbit in this excellent film, based on a true story, that shows how even NASA was slow to come around to the changes happening in America in the early 1960s. 9.5/10.
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