The Assistant

A slow paced but effective commentary on toxic soul destroying corporate culture

Brought over my copy of "Who Killed Captain Alex?" and blew my friends' minds. Brought some brews too, but this is such a hilarious film. Please buy it, give these guys money to make more movies, they're all a treat.

Enter The Movie Fanatic
 

Well, I like good movies, anyway. But I'll take a chance on a promising story. Turner Classic Movies have been unloading a bevy of great ones lately. And if you still have a cable connection their website/app gives you On Demand access to every aired film for at least a week. I'm trying to watch as many as I can before my full time gig starts up again. So forgive the blather. ;)

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Beyond A Reasonable Doubt (1956, Fritz Lang)
To demonstrate how an innocent man could be sentenced to death on purely circumstantial evidence a newspaper publisher and a former reporter turned novelist find an unsolved crime and plant evidence that will condemn him while withholding direct evidence of his innocence and expected acquittal. Of course it doesn't work out as planned. And getting to the great ending is sometimes interesting. Some say this was director, Fritz Lang's (M, Metropolis) best American film but it doesn't hold a candle to Scarlet Street, imo. Dana Andrews as the writer is nicely cast. Joan Fontaine as his weary but loyal fiancé is too cool, especially up against the dippy but tough bottle blonde strippers that Andrews has to ingratiate himself with in order to carry out the big scheme. It's all an uneven affair - from the casting to the lighting (great nighttime shadows and contrasts but abysmal indoor floodlighting) but fun to watch once.

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Just watched this. I really like films that let you catch only glimpses of whatever entity is doing the spooking, and for the most part this got my hairs standing on end. Some of the effects don't stand up, but it was still a pretty decent film.

I really need a horror film that doesn't show me everything, that makes you feel like none of the characters are in control of their situation. I need to feel like I'm not sure what I just saw, something to disempower me.

Japanese and Korean horror are some of the best horror out there.

I last saw UNCLE BUCK (1989) on VHS :)

I tried watching the new Bill & Ted movie. I got about 20 minutes into it before giving up.

Hennessy (1975, Don Sharp)

Not a bad 70s political thriller, whose promotional team at the time touted Queen Elizabeth's dismissal - though her appearance figures prominently in the last third of the film. In it Rod Steiger plays a former IRA operative bent on revenge after a British soldier (inadvertently) kills his wife and child. Lee Remick joins Steiger with the Irish brogue and rounds out a cast full of illustrious British actors. It's an above average thriller streaming on APrime. There's a poor copy streaming on YouTube as well.

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A hairy Patrick Stewart and Steiger

Watched Tenet in the IMAX. It was so loud I went to the usher to complain, they said it was just an extra loud movie so they couldn't do anything about it. The rest of the movie I had to cover my ears on all the action sequences. The plot is obviously very convoluted but the horrible sound mix is by now notorious, a lot of the crucial dialogue is unintelligible. If this was the movie to get people back into theatres, they made a huge blunder out of it (just technically, leaving the merits of the plot aside). Would definitely recommend to skip seeing it in the cinema and wait for the digital version with subtitles.

I’m slightly jealous - been wanting to go to the cinema since the spring! Nothing happening in NYC for the foreseeable future. And YES, IMAX films are notoriously loud. Tenet is looking like a future APrime streamer. Thanks.