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Some decent entertainment...

Black Bag.
.star studded cast..spy thriller sort..Cate Blanchett and Michael Fasbender..good overall
The Last Showgirl.
Just what it sounds like, Pam Anderson plays a show girl w a laundry list of problems, Las Vegas show she has been in for years is cancelled, when she looks for other gigs she is older than all auditioning dancers, some people ask her how old she is, and her estranged daughter comes around as she is losing her job.. Not very upbeat but a decent movie.
Slingshot
Cause Affleck and Lawrence Fishburn..tired plot.. Guy has to go into hibernation chamber for space travel, he has memory and flashback issues, trouble telling reality from dreams.. Pretty good..
Holland
Nicole Kidman plays mild mannered housewife from Holland Michigan. Movie has decent plot,all good actors and has multiple times when you feel other movies like Blue Velvet and some of the soundtrack feels exactly like Body Heat from 1981!! Starring Kathleen Turner, William Hurt and Mickey Rouke..and lots of the scenes in the film look to be taken directly from the 2 older films..entertaining..
 
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After Earth (2013) maybe should have been titled Wake Me Up When It's Over ! Another pedestrian M. Night. Shyamalan movie with terrible dialogue and performances . Just a dull Sci Fi movie. Shyamalan peaked with his first movie in the 90's with The Sixth Sense and never approached that standard again. Signs was probably his second best movie. A Will Smith vanity project that never rose above the mediocre.
 
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Knock At The Cabin (2023) mid range movie from M. Night. Shyamalan. Not bad overall. The main idea in the movie will either irritate you or intrigue you. The acting was hit and miss.

No Time To Die (2021) pretty typical James Bond movie but not one of the better ones. Watchable with some good action scenes.
 
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You'll Never Find Me (2023) slow burn Australian thriller. Very dialogue heavy with really only two characters in the entire movie. Maybe the ending didn't meet the standard of the rest of the movie and it was open to interpretation. Worth seeing if you don't mind slow movies. For the first time co-directors it was a good effort, especially the sound design which was very effective.. The two performances were also very good.
 
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The Sisters Brothers(2018) an offbeat western starring Joaquin Phoenix, John C.Reilly, Riz Ahmed and Jake Gyllenhaal. Very well acted with some great visuals. About two guns for hire that are supposed to do a routine job that turns into something more unpredictable. Worth watching.
 
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Sicario (2015) One of Dennis Villeneuve's best movies. A bleak story about how governments are losing the battle against the drug cartels and corruption. The sound design and cinematography are top notch and Benicio del Toro steals every scene he is in.
 
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Midsommar (2019) an unsettling horror/drama about some college students that travel to Sweden and become involved with a cult. A little on the long side but the final 40 minutes made it worthwhile. Some dark humour and impeccably made with a nice performance from Florence Pugh. Not your typical horror movie and all the better for it.
 
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Anatomy Of A Murder (1959) one of the great courtroom dramas. Well directed by Otto Preminger and superbly acted by James Stewart, George C Scott, Lee Remick and Ben Gazzara. Nice soundtrack by Duke Ellington as well. A lengthy movie but never dull.
 
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Movies to watch if you want to feel good during and after watching.. No particular order of quality..
My Old Ass 2024
..teen girl partying with friends, does mushrooms and connects with future self..
Deep Cover 2025..
bunch of sub par actors meet in classes, police recruit them to buy bootleg cigarettes, how hard can it be to play the role of somebody buying cigarettes, turns out it can be really hard
The Ballad of Wallis Island 2025
What happens when a nerd loner wins the lottery and can do whatever he wants..
Goodrich 2024
A husband and father who doesn't pay much attention, comes home, gets a call that drug addicted wife, something he didn't notice, will be in rehabilitation for 90+ days, he needs to step up and care for house, kids, life,ect.
A semi repeat character for Michael Keaton, Who starred in funny, Mr. Mom in 1983.. Bumbling around trying to do domestic stuff.
 
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Pretty Poison (1968) Quirky cult film with good performances from Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld and John Randolph. A troubled young man gets involved with a teenage girl and things go pear shaped but not in an obvious way. All about how people manipulate each other and keep their true selves hidden. Entertaining movie with some twists.
 
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movingtarget said:
Pretty Poison (1968) Quirky cult film with good performances from Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld and John Randolph. A troubled young man gets involved with a teenage girl and things go pear shaped but not in an obvious way. All about how people manipulate each other and keep their true selves hidden. Entertaining movie with some twists.
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3 or 4 Hollywood heavy character actors.. Some with careers that started in 1940s, early 50s, in too many shows and movies to count. This movie has some cool surprises..
** soundtrack of everything in this era is annoying..**
Thanks YouTube
 
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It’s been awhile since I did my last review but Happy Gilmore 2 was definitely worth the watch. One of Sandler’s better more recent movies and had multiple good laughs. It wasn’t anything more than it tried to be and a great movie to just sit down and unwind. Way better than the astronaut with the spider movie he did a couple years ago.
 
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Mostly bad news but some bright spots.

Weapons 2025

This movie is really bad, bunch of great actors, can't tell if the director is terrible because the story he is trying to tell is so poorly written doesn't look like he has a chance. Elementary school.. Class of 18..17 of the kids walk out of their houses in a trance never to be seen again. Of course obvious stuff like why one kid left behind.. What does the teacher have to do with it..

Honey Don't 2025

This movie is really bad, bunch of great actors, everything is terrible.. And as if someone couldn't be worse, Aubrey Plaza, Parks and Rec, Dirty Grandpa plays a kidnapping murderer.. It's bad

Highest 2 Lowest 2025

A Spike Lee movie in NYC, about hip hop music mogul played ( overplayed) by Denzel Washington.. The movie is terrible, direction is terrible, acting is terrible, just terrible.

The Naked Gun 2025

It's what it was before, some funny moments, actors are all good but lines and pratfalls are a little stale. It tries hard but I think Leslie Neilson used up good deliveries in first Naked Gun movies.

Nobody 2 2025..

Better Call Saul as a recovering, retired secret agent who never misses with a gun, doesn't ever lose a fight, always has a better plan than the bad guys..movie is boring, boring boring despite stuff blowing up or being shot at every couple of minutes.

Eenie Meanie 2025

Another movie about get away driver specialist, this time played by similar looking hot blonde Australian actress\ model Samara Weaving..movie starts dumb and stays that way until closing credits.

F1 The Movie 2025

Imagine Talladega Nights but it wasn't funny, driving sequences were terrible, the script had that old argument between the old timer and the new hotshot.. Brad Pitt is the grey haired great driver, the movie is really just about seeing how many different angles that they can shoot to establish Pitt's natural beauty.. He is really good looking, had I seen this in a movie theater for @$16-17 I would have vandalized the seat , intentionally spilled my popcorn and soda on the upholstered seats to the left and right of me and asked for a refund and still feel ripped off.

Eddington 2025

Movie has all the current best, super sharp subject matter, non standard Hollywood backdrop, good director, bad movie.

Night Always Comes 2025

Has a bunch of things that feel like Live and Die in LA but much more raw and gritty. Good movie Things go really bad for the girl from early on and she just keeps getting over one obstacle after another.

Friendship 2024

Starring Paul Rudd..and nothing is the same despite everything being the same. Rudd plays a TV news guy..this time not funny... Anchorman reverse.
Rudd plays a guy that befriends another guy like I Love You Man.. not the happy ending like that movie.
Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell were in The Shrink Next Door..2021..They have a growing friendship that goes sour really bad.. Friendship has some similar stuff very different ending....decent movie
 
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