Movies

[Hongbit]

I saw the new Running Man.  It wasnt good but definitely wasn’t the complete garbage of a remake that it appeared to be.  I’d call it entertainingly bad.  

[Cruzer1]

I'm probably late to the party, but I just saw Sinners, and it was pretty good.

[IdahoBert]

My son who is 50 years younger than me, breathlessly recommended Caught Stealing which is now available on Netflix and I watched it with him.

The first 2/3 of the film is basically deplorable, gut wrenching violence and I wanted to just turn it off, but I also wanted to see how it ended and the last third’s redemptive violence sort of made up for it.

If you already have Netflix, it might be worth a watch if you don’t mind being somewhat stained and in the end somewhat entertained.

Austin Butler plays a former star baseball player-turned-bartender who unwittingly runs afoul of New York City's criminal underbelly while pet sitting for his neighbor. 

Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D'Onofrio, Benito Martínez Ocasio, Griffin Dunne, and Carol Kane appear in supporting roles.

[CMRivdogs]

Tis the season. Time to watch what I consider the ultimate Christmas movie. Lion in Winter. It came out in 1968. Peter O'Toole, Katherine Hepburn, a very young Anthony Hopkins. It's a period piece set in 1183. King Henry II gathers the family to name his successor to the throne. Three sons, all are vying for Henry's affection. Elenor his wife who spends most of the year imprisoned. They all spend their time together plotting to force him into a decision.

Some great quotes

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• Geoffrey: I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows, and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.

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• John: A knife! He's got a knife!
• Eleanor of Aquitaine: Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians! How clear we make it. Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war: not history's forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government, nor any other thing. We are the killers. We breed wars. We carry it like syphilis inside. Dead bodies rot in field and stream because the living ones are rotten. For the love of God, can't we love one another just a little - that's how peace begins. We have so much to love each other for. We have such possibilities, my children. We could change the world.