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Thats ok, i dont "read" you either.
U just did. Sucker#!
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Thats ok, i dont "read" you either.
U just did. Sucker#!
So did you. Duck you 
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Ride Lonesome
1959 dir: budd boetticher
Randolph Scott as Sam Burgade a bounty hunter bringing a prisoner in, but really he's after luring the man's brother (lee van cleef) into a showdown. He comes across a beautiful widow (Karen Steele) who's husband has been killed by indians on the warpath and forms an uneasy aliance with two outlaws who also want his prisoner as a means for getting amnesty - one of which is james coburn in his film debut just before he did mag7.
7.7 out of ten. And if marshall hates my western reviews? Tough titty.
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Sep 21, 2018 - 1:54 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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A SIMPLE FAVOR (2018) - 8/10
If you're an Anna Kendrick fan, this is a movie for you. She is in nearly every scene of this neo-noir. Kendrick plays "Stephanie," a mousy widowed mother, who gets by on what remains of her late husband's insurance and on proceeds from her video blog, Hi, Moms, in which she provides cooking and homemaking advice to middle-class women like herself. Her life changes when she meets "Emily" (Blake Lively), also a mother (and married), but a wealthy, worldly, enigmatic woman who works in public relations for a fashion house. An unlikely friendship develops between the two opposites, cemented over strong martinis and shared confessions.
Then one day, Emily asks Stephanie for "a simple favor": pick up her son from school and watch him--her husband is overseas and she must stay late at work. But Emily never comes to retrieve her son. She has completely and utterly disappeared. When the police alternately show little interest in Emily's disappearance, or worse (in Stephanie's eyes) consider Emily's handsome husband as a suspect, Stephanie decides to do some investigation of her own.
Those with a good sense for these things will probably suss out the film's twists ahead of time, but the movie's pleasures lie in watching Kendrick's character, a natural overachiever despite her awkwardness, bore into this mystery. The film is also laced with considerable humor, as well as with a well-developed relationship between the two female leads. Well worth your time.
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Sep 21, 2018 - 5:35 PM
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Grecchus
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Wanderer, I'm glad you have such a high rating to The Imitation Game. It is such a well-made and wonderfully acted movie. It is still a shock in this day and age that countries in the 40's and 50's still jailed men and women because of their sexual orientation.
As the cliché goes, Cumberbatch could read a telephone book and make it sound like a
Shakespearean play.
I've seen this film a few times and I can't say I like it in any way, shape or form. The main problem is this: it needed, at the very least, the same sort of depth and layering as the original BBC serial dramatisation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The film was merely a cartoon pastiche of a very real world environment that simply was not scaled and fleshed out in the proportions required to do the detailed elements of the story justice. Instead, they made a severely scaled-down version and packaged it for popcorn consumption. It needed to be a modern day Lawrence Of Arabia, albeit, set in the right context. What a lost opportunity.
I also found there to be a tremendous problem with the postcard coloring they decided to use for the film. I see it as one sees a colorised 3 or 4 tone overlay of an original B&W feature. In short, it is a tremendously disappointing piece of derivative fare.
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"the original BBC serial dramatisation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"
Now that is tremendous, even now.
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
6.5 out of 10
Tag
3.75 out of 10
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PRINCESS MONONOKE
10/10
A profound and utterly unique animated film.
For adults.
If you want to know why the PIXAR people worship Miyazaki, see this masterpiece.
brm
p.s. this is quite possible yet another big influence on AVATAR!
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In 1976 i was briefly in lurvve with Cornelia Sharpe.
Our affair lasted several nights.
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JURASSIC WORLD II
1/10
Just awful. Worse than JPIII.
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Im halfway thru that.
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