Movies since (gulp) May
Little behind on this. What have y’all been watching; anything worthwhile?
Miller’s Crossing. My husband’s favorite movie. I think my favorite of the serious Coen Bros. movies. They alternate “funny” and “serious”; did you know?
Breakfast Club, Magic Mike, and Bridesmaids: with girlfriends, eating chocolate, drinking wine. Cliche? Maybe. Super fun? You betcha.
The Decoy Bride. Adorable Scottish rom-com, free on Netflix, starring David Tennant.
The Sting. Part of a Redford/Newman binge. Music and movie so good.
Smashed. Husband sat this earnest indie out. Didn’t love.
Cold Light of Day. Alas, really bad.
Much Ado About Nothing. Super charming, and Sean Maher made a GREAT Shakespeare villain.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1 and 2: with the kids. They loved the movies; I found all but #3 forgettable.
Killing Them Softly: decent, but with a sledgehammer message throughout that detracted.
Captain America, Avengers: girlfriends, wine, chocolates again.
Holy Motors: so weird. More of an experiment than a film. Critics loved it.
Princess Mononoke: with the kids. Glad we waited for this one; super violent.
Burn After Reading. Didn’t get great reviews, but I like it and LOVE Brad Pitt being funny. He should do that more often.
Pitch Perfect. Again. New classic. B movie, but love anyways. Aca-scuse me?
Vanishing Point. With the husband, in preparation for
Deathproof. Tarantino. As usual, overly violent, but worthwhile. Fascinatingly, passes the Bechdel test with flying colors.
Fantastic Mr. Fox: with kids, again. Love this cussin’ movie. Hot Box!
Sixteen Candles. With the GFs. Jake Ryan 4ever! Also love the scene with her dad.
Big Trouble in Little China. Kurt Russell again. Silly fun.
Rio Bravo, with the kids, who liked it lots.It’s one of my husband’s favorites, I don’t think I’d seen it all the way through. Apparently, Tarantino screens this for girlfriends to see if they’ll be compatible. One of the boys: “Dude (Dean Martin) is a really good singer!”
Men in Black, with the kids. They liked it a lot.
Prometheus. Some good stuff like my boyfriend Michael Fassbender as a non human, Idris Elba singing a line from a CSN song, and a tense surgery scene that will live in memory forever, but overall kind of a mess.
Sneakers. With the kids, who had fun.
Bring it On. Meaning to watch it since reminded of by Pitch Perfect. Fun, but not an essential.
To Be or Not to Be by Lubitsch. Lovely Criterion Collection. I see echoes of it in QT’s Inglourious Basterds.