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Posted on 07/31/2016 11:14:58 AM PDT by gigster
What sleeper movies of the last ten years or so would you recommend to family or a friend.
Well, here it goes on a Sunday afternoon.
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Incredibly well done. You will get lost in this movie. Very enjoyable and humorous!
Definitely not a must see.
In honor of the summer olympics get Cidade de Deus (City of God). It deals with the lives of two boys growing up in the favalas. It is in subtitles. It is violent. It will make you turn away. It will make you uneasy. It will draw you to the screen. Don’t watch the stupid olympics watch this movie.
“Jodorowsky’s Dune” A film about the greatest movie never made.
Brooklyn
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local.
Really a good movie
AKA his seeing eye dog.
Historical Background
The real town of Trochenbrod (Polish: Zofiówka) was an exclusively Jewish shtetl located in the Wołyń Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic before the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland. After the German attack on the Soviet positions in eastern Poland during the 1941 Operation Barbarossa, a Jewish ghetto was established at Trochenbrod for local residents including those from nearby villages. The ghetto was liquidated during the Holocaust. In August and September 1942 nearly all Jews of Trochenbrod were murdered by the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in the presence of only a few German SS men. According to Virtual Shtetl over 5,000 Jews were massacred, 3,500 of them from Zofiówka and 1,200 from nearby Lozisht (Ignatówka) among other settlements.
Plot Summary
Jonathan Safran Foer (the author), a young American Jew, journeys to Ukraine in search of Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather's life during the Nazi liquidation of Trachimbrod, his family shtetl (a small town) in occupied eastern Poland. Armed with maps, cigarettes and many copies of an old photograph of Augustine and his grandfather, Jonathan begins his search with the help from Ukrainian native and soon-to-be good friend, Alexander "Alex" Perchov, who is Foer's age and very fond of American pop culture, albeit culture that is already out of date in the United States. Alexander studied English at his university, and even though his knowledge of the language is not "first-rate", he becomes Foer's translator. Alex's "blind" grandfather and his "deranged seeing-eye bitch," Sammy Davis, Jr., Jr., accompany them on their journey.
Names of cities are given in their Russian version (e.g., Lvov), although the Polish or Ukrainian naming would have been correct for the scenes in Trachimbrod and Ukraine.
Bone Tomahawk
Definitely won’t appeal to everyone though. I’m big a fan of both westerns AND horror movies so this really hit the sweet spot for me.
Have to wait a bit for Suicide Squad - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1386697/releaseinfo
Little Boy (2015) Pepper Busbee, is devasted when his father enlists in the army during WW2. The title refers to Little Boy; the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, as well as Pepper’s diminutive height. The child is convinced that if he wishes hard enough and prays hard enough, his father will come back home from the war. Very good film. Some may say too sentimental. I still liked it quite a bit. Hard parts were to be reminded of how intense the anti-Japanese sentiment was in America back then, but that too is part of our history.
It takes in-test-ines to watch that flick!
Stranger Things on Netflix.
The movie “Sleepers” was great
A couple of my favorites are:
The Dish - Story of the Australian team that managed the dish that sent the television signals to earth from the first moon landing.
Unconditional Love - Kathy Bates and an amazing ensemble telling the story of the aftermath of the murder of a closeted gay crooner.
Spinning Boris - The tale of some political consultants who assisted Boris Yeltsin’s first presidential campaign.
Will Suicide Squad be today’s version of “It’s a Mad,Mad,Mad World”? Just with no Ethel Merman or Ernest Borgnine, of course.
I like the old British horror moves, Hammer and Amicus. I watched The Asylum, written by the same author as Psycho, Robert Bloch. Not for everyone.
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