Pinging the usual suspects. Enjoy.
As always, recommendations of good stuff you’ve seen lately are encouraged.
Check out “The Outfit” on Amazon. A great thriller with a bunch of twists and turns. Keeps you guessing until the very end. Entire movie takes place on a single set - a tailor’s shop. Great acting, great dialogue and great writing.
Thanks for the recommendation. Sounds good.
I started watching “Hostile Territory” on Hulu. It’s an interesting and promising story about the “Orphan Trains” that apparently ran after the Civil War bringing the many thousands of war orphans to new homes. But the dialog is absolute garbage, the juxtaposition of modern mannerisms onto people in the 1860s is awful (high fives, “bro” hand clasps, modern slang), the acting is atrocious and maybe worst of all is that the movie jumps all over the continent from Virginia to New York to Missouri yet every single place looks like the mountains or high desert of Wyoming. Then there is the overarching multicultural aspect where the group of protagonists includes the white US army officer, an Indian, a black soldier, and a black woman (inexplicably found crawling with bare hands in snow 25 miles from a town). A kind-hearted young soldier (the son of the army officer who thinks his father is dead) befriends a young prostitute at a whorehouse and takes her to his new assignment in Montana with his own brother and sisters plus five other orphans they adopt.
It gets far worse from there. It’s rare I won’t finish watching something, but I turned off this drek. What a stinker.
Since you are recommending it, I assume they don’t bash Conservatives (either directly or indirectly). Also, that they don’t show 1953 London as a multi-cultural mecca.
The best movie about Shakespearean plays is:
“Theater of Blood” starring Vincent Price and ‘Emma Peel’
There is also a documentary out there by that name.
It’s about Willie Brown in San Francisco.
Bttt
can’t find where to watch it!
When A Man Loves...
Great Asian drama with interesting plot lines, a redemption arc, none of the usual Manga tropes, showing real life people overcoming real life challenges. Some romance but more gritty than sappy with a surprisingly sad ending.
For a wild ride fantasy adventure with a lot of romance, try Love Between Devil and Fairy. Lead female’s voice can irritate at the beginning, but gets deeper as the series goes on, so hang in there. Excellent acting, ethereal sets and costumes, and sacrifice for the sake of others. Just a lot of fun and a great escape with enough serious moments in between that you stay interested.
Someone on a recent thread mentioned the film, ‘Dog’. We watched it, and it’s excellent:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11252248/