This movie was so good. Every scene, every performance were amazing.

The movie is about a woman named Paula (Ingrid Bergman) who decides to return back to London with her husband Gregory (Charles Boyer) to live in the house where her aunt was murdered years ago. After starting living there, she begins to imagine things which drrive her insane.

It was one of the best psychological dramas I had ever watched. Ingrid's performance was splendid. Her emotions, her face expression, her gaze and even her scream were all perfectly made. Charles had a really tyrannical role in this flick. >!Purposefully driving her wife insane to find the jewelleries of her aunt whom HE KILLED was pretty genius idea.!< And finally, Joseph Cotten (as Brian Cameron) was a perfect fit for the movie. I have watched him mainly in dramas but he performed pretty good in this one, too. He helped Paula to solve the case and most importantly, to keep her sanity.

Wonderful movie, with some great scenes and spooky atmosphere. Highly recommended!

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

A hit Broadway play. "A-list" actors. The 138 F bombs making it the movie with the highest number.

I thought this movie was fantastic! Every character is despicable and absolutely rotten to each other.

Shout out to Jack Lemon, this role blew away every character stereotype I had of his acting!

Favorite line "Who said you could work with men!" An enraged Al Pacino shouting at Kevin Spaceys character.

Pleasantly surprised that my favorite childhood movie still holds up to some good fun after all these years. Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino, and Dennis Hopper are wonderful in this movie! Didn’t even realize that Dennis Hopper was Deacon until I looked up who played him. Of course it was Dennis Hopper, should’ve realized it….. he almost was like his villain character in Speed with some of the mannerisms. The Deez!!!!

Great concept for a film, high production values imo. As an adult, you’re wondering how they made so much of it with such limited CGI work back in the day. I’ve learned that they actually built the floating set out in Hawaii. Makeup people were shuttled in on boats and shuttled back once they were done touching up the actors. They had cameras floating out there too that started to drift after the makeup people were done with what they were doing so the whole production was costly but complicated. No facilities on the floating set so if the actors had to pee or whatever, they had to be shuttled off the set by boat as well. The Valdez explosion towards the end of the film was achieved through a scale model of the boat’s deck and some camera trickery to give the illusion that the explosions are happening behind the Mariner (Kevin Costner).

Just wow. Yeah, there’s some 90s cheese. But overall, the movie is still a spectacle to me as it was back then. Most underrated movie imo, never understood the low ratings for it. It’s not in my top 10 films of all time list, but I really don’t mind rewatching this movie. There’s definitely a lot of heart and soul into the film.

I remember watching this in highschool enjoying Juno for all its quirkiness. Omg hamburger phone, totes wizard, am I right? Now; I feel like I look at it through a very different lens and I picked up on a lot more character nuances that I just didn't have appreciation for, especially from the adults of the film.

JK Simmons character as Juno's supportive father Mac was just a delight every time he was on screen. The scene where he and Bren were sitting to themselves after Junos confession got to me so much more this time around, especially as he was questioning himself on what he did wrong, how he hoped that Junos confession was something different like hard drugs etc. Truly Mac and Bren were both beautifully portrayed role models and it was really nice to see their family dynamic shine in this. Juno with tears in her eyes not long after giving birth with her dad holding her head as he says "you'll be back here someday on your own terms" was just so touching!

I remember thinking that Vanessa was slightly obsessive - but now that I've got my own little one (and truthfully I WAS HER in pregnancy) I have SO MUCH understanding for her in her situation, her nurturing disposition was much more apparent as well. As a new mum, that shot of her in the bed at the end with the bedside table with bottles and tissues scattered around was just so real. I think it provided a really great contrast of the picture perfect idyllic family that was leading up to the adoption that ultimately fell apart, versus a loving single mother caring for her baby in just a little bit of mess that is the newborn experience and getting her dreams come true in the end.

Juno says to Vanessa during the initial meeting something along the lines of "well you're lucky you're not pregnant" and it's such a minor but jarring moment that completely flew over my head when I first watched the movie, but now I found it heartbreaking to watch Vanessa's reaction. It's a blink and you'll miss it moment, but I thought that was a good illustration of comparing Juno/Vanessa's pregnancy experiences.

Mark was and still is uncomfortable to watch now for his creepy relationship towards Juno. I can also interpret his character as someone who wanted so desperately to cling to his youth whilst he was idolizing this newcomer that embraced his hobbies. He makes the comment of “my life is in boxes” which stuck out to me, and you can see how even his clothes devolve back into his casual grungy style as his relationship with Vanessa starts to break down.

It's not perfect by any means and I do feel like the criticism of "teenagers being written by adults" is valid, with a lot of the dialogue from the teens being quite cringey now. It also does have the oh so not subtle anti-choice connotations, but Diablo Cody has gone on to say that she wouldn't have written Juno if it had been made today because of the interpretation.

The movie copped a bit of backlash in “glamorizing” teen pregnancy. I think that it could've touched on some of the more realistic aspects that a teenager would go through, especially postpartum. They kind of glossed over how challenging it can all be. But with the way the movie wrapped up I don't feel like it had the space to dive in on more of that.

All in all it was a very good rewatch that had me crying on multiple occasions with a newfound perspective!

I had my stoner bestie over for Ferngully & pizza and he'd asked if I'd ever heard of this movie. I stared in millennial ('86 baby here). After Ferngully I looked this up on Prime and found it was $4 to rent.

No joke for the first ten minutes my genx bestie just held his pipe and didnt tag it because this movie (which he'd seen many times) in 4k uhd on my 55" oled? It was like a tech demo. Like you could just about touch the art almost.

I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Some stories were better than others but the different animation styles were a treat. It was giving "Love, Death, Robots" vibes to me. No story overstayed it's welcome, with each of them being just weird/funny enough to be enjoyable.

I enjoyed the first stories (or maybe 4?) the most. Cyberpunk noir cabbie with a backstabbing dame; John Candy he-man fantasy with Dan/Den (and the surfer lazy prince had me giggling along with the "sacrifice's" misshapen nipples changing in different shots); and the one with the stoner alien pilots and the secretary who wanted a "Jewish wedding". Nothing made sense, everything was too bright and colorful, and I enjoyed it all.

The very last story, the one featured on the cover, was more spectacle than "story" to me. Lengthy rotoscoping shots just because, like a Tarantino "long shot" without edits. All fluff and no substance. Still enjoyable to watch tho.

All in all well worth $4. The sequel is included in prime so I'll give that a watch next.

It hurts me to call this movie old, but it's already gonna be 17 this year

This was my, and i think a lot of people's, introduction to Colin Farrell as a legit actor. I truly think this is one of a few perfect films out there. The black comedy contrasting the real tragedy the story is built on creates such a wonderful dichotomy.

Every time i watch it, i catch something different. The script is tight, the performances are top notch, the pacing rips, and the emotions flow. I just... really love this movie

John Travolta And John Woo rev this baby up and aim for some high octane and witty action thriller, centered on two stealth pilots latter played by charming everyman underdog played by Christian Slater, carrying nukes over Utah desert!!

Samantha Mathis, Delroy Lindo and Frank Whaley add to the supportive cast. Unfortunately, Whaley as a "I am so smart, I scare myself" role got a heavy eye roll from me, the only drawback.

Travolta carries an underrated hostile swag, that's just quite unique to him, especially when he's playing the antagonist, he is the main reason that I keep visiting the movie back!

Utah mountainscape is another, the valleys and horizons make for a nice backdrop, almost primal! Slater although physically less intimidating than Travolta actually owns up to his virtuous role of not fighting dirty, be it in the ring or his life!

Odds keep stacking against him (Slater), but he keeps getting through besting Travolta and his squad with wit and Grit, I was sold! John woo without pigeon work strikes the perfect balance, for what an action movie should contain, Hans Zimmer knocks this one out like it's another Tuesday for him!

In my opinion it's an underrated flick with amazing action sequences starting off with Stealth fighter all the way to train carrying chopper with nukes : amping it up constantly! Almost 30 years old! Definitely worth a rewatch!

“They’ll find us here someday.”

This was darker and more intense than I expected. I thought it would be more of a lighthearted look at impending nuclear apocalypse, but far from it. Lots of interesting visuals here-  neon candy colors and weirdly empty Los Angeles streets. An interesting time capsule from the 1980s

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I'm a Christian with a love-hate relationship with Christian movies.

I watched The Apostle tonight for the first time in about 4.5 years. It's my favorite Christian movie (aside from Biblical films), but I just haven't taken the time to see it lately.

It's about a Pentecostal preacher (played by Robert Duvall) who loves telling others about Jesus, but he also has a temper and is on the run for committing a murder in a fit of rage. I have a love-hate relationship with Christian movies, but like I said, this is my favorite- many Christian movies have God-hating atheist villains, and that's their character.

Here, the worst person is a racist who has a change of heart. Our hero, the Pastor, has his flaws but he's still a good man at heart. It's also well-made and has a story that non-Christians can appreciate too- Roger Ebert struggled with his belief in God, and he gave the movie 4/4 stars.

Also, Duvall wrote and directed the movie and financed it when no one in Hollywood would. He was nominated for Best Actor for playing The Apostle but lost to Jack Nicholson for As Good As It Gets (which I can understand, although both roles are great.)

If you have never seen this, even if you're not religious, I highly recommend it. 10/10 for me.

This movie is bonkers. I watched the majority of this movie high but the parts I wasn’t stoned for were equally as insane. I thought this movie was about solving a murder? I felt like it was just cycling through every freakish person who lived in the town. The dream ? sequences were some of the most confusing things I’ve ever seen. I almost had a panic attack watching it. I felt like I was watching a straighter version of rocky horror picture show. Overall I was confused by the plot and the visuals and don’t think watching it sober would have helped at all.

This is the movie PTA would make a year before the more flashy Boogie Nights. While BN is a better movie, Hard Eight should not be underestimated especially for a first time director. It has the trademarks of a PTA film in spades. The long track shots. Slow zooms. Awesome camera movements. Great use of neon color. A cry baby manchild on the search for his family. It’s all in this. He also works with some of his reoccurring cast members from the beginning between Hall, Reilly, and Hoffman. PTA also shows his talent for choosing the perfect songs for the perfect moment in the film.

If you haven’t seen it, it’s basically about an older professional at living in Las Vegas taking a young man under his wing and showing him how to thrive and make money. Gwenyth shows up to be a potential love interest and Sam Jackson shows up as the unhinged madman friend.

I want to talk about Philip Baker Hall who is absolutely perfect in the lead role. You can’t tell any of his motivations through the entire movie but he gives a heartfelt performance. You can see why PTA continued to cast him in his next few movies.

obviously it’s not the best PTA movie when you’re talking about a man who has directed some of the best films of the last 30 years but it’s worth watching to see where he started. 4/5 stars

Gene Hackman in a mid seventies "neo-noir" that seems to be somewhat well received in its time. I found it entertainingly bad and very much of its time.

Filmed in '73 but not released until '75 because Melanie Griffith was only 16 when it was filmed so they waited until she was 18 to release it. The 1970s were weird, man.

Noir in that the plot was confusing with MacGuffins everywhere. Disjointed camera angles and cuts as were the fashion in that era.Laughable action sequences. Vague dialogue that wanted to imply something. Beautiful scenery but rundown. It was tough to take my eyes off of Hackman, Leslie Warren and the pubescent Griffith. It was meant to titillate and I am sure it succeeded for many. The dialogue was stilted although meant to be mysterious.

Not very good, but very entertaining.

I'll be honest, Braveheart kind of frustrated the hell out of me. Historical accuracy aside, the first half of Braveheart starts off so strong that I was convinced I was going to love it.

While the setup to the story is far from original, it was really well executed, and it got me invested. I was ready to see some epic war revenge action courtesy of Mr. William Wallace and his beloved fallen bride. The movie certainly delivered on that front, but once the film starts entering its second half, that's when the quality of its story and entertainment value started to taper off for me significantly.

Let's get this out of the way now: Braveheart does not need to be three hours long. The story is so simple and straightforward that the film didn't need three hours to tell this heavily fictionalized story of William Wallace. But because the movie is too long, the second half started to feel repetitive, with more battle sequences that don't feel as urgent or as epic as the first major battle did.

On top of that, we got far too many drawn-out expository scenes that kill the momentum and pacing the film did such a good job building up in the first half. A lot of those scenes just felt unnecessary and too long.

The forced romantic subplot between Wallace and Princess Isabelle was a bafflingly stupid decision that completely undermined the relationship Wallace had with his wife prior. It seems like the only reason the film added a second romance at all was to get revenge on the king by having Isabelle carry the son of Wallace.

And that also emotionally undermined the ending, where Wallace sees his dead wife in the crowd before his beheading. I felt little to no emotional impact because of that.

Braveheart is certainly a very well-directed film by Gibson, and its impressive visuals, score, and epic battle scenes are still incredible, even by today's standards. But I can't help but feel disappointed with how the film played out for me. It needed to be trimmed down, and it also could've benefited from giving Wallace a little bit more emotional complexity, as opposed to just having him be a perfect Christ-like figure, which felt very heavy-handed.

I would never call Braveheart a bad film, but it's just far from being the masterpiece that many have claimed it to be.

An absolutely bonkers film that is carried by Peter O'Toole. Playing one person but at least two characters. He plays the lightness and the abyssal darkness both so so well.

The opening, with the previous Earl preparing for his evening autoerotic asphyxiation, assisted by his dutiful manservant starts things off on the right tone.

There are more than a few spontaneous musical numbers that feel more flights of fancy than anything real. But that is kind of the point I figure of the Earl who believes himself God.

There was a while where I felt myself losing interest in the film. Where there was a slowness to the progression of anything, a bit of promiscuity between various members of this esteemed family, who had started early accusing each other of incest. (I don't believe there is any literal incest in the film).

The third act turn and his embrace by conservatives and the Peerage is so fucking savage. Just amazing. The complete and utter triumph of the ruling class, and the utter subjugation of the working class. It ends so incredibly darkly that I must applaud.

I was probably a teenager the first time I saw this. I clearly remember two feelings. The first was I cried, the second was how great the acting of both Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro was. I was familiar with both of them as actors already, but it was in that classic Williams and DeNiro way. I was blown away at how different these roles were for them and how great they played them.

But back to the first feeling - in my watch tonight I cried a little early, when Leonard's mom saw him after his "awakening." And I thought that was it, that's why I cried decades ago. But then with about 20 minutes left I remembered how it ended. And why I remember crying.

Terms of Endearment

Pretty solid film. A lot of nuanced characters.

But man it made my physically ill when they were talking about where the kids would go instead of the father continuing to raise them. I have 3 kids and couldn't imagine if I lost my wife not keeping the family together and my kids close to me. I lost my mom when I was 13 and that was really hard but at least we were all still together.

This has become probably one of my favorite movies. I had so much fun watching it and was so excited to see Bruce Lee kicking ass, as well as seeing John Saxon! I loved him in nightmare on elm street and he easily became my favorite character! I had a great time with this film and I plan to watch more. I just got done watching every Jackie Chan movie Tubi could offer, so this was a good change of pace.

Half-Man, Half-Machine, All Badass! (had to repost)

Christopher McDonald is the greatest 90s comedy villain

Bruce Lee was the ultimate master.

One of the best Frank Capra comedies!

The movie is about a greeting cards poet Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) going to New York after getting a 20 million dollars inheritance.

It was a lovely comedy with a gentle amount of drama. I love Gary, and his performance in this film was splendid. He made me laugh and cry at the same time. And lovely Jean Arthur... She had kinda same role as in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", but more brutal. She made mocking articles about Deeds, making people call him "Cinderella Man". >!But eventually she fell in love with him and fight for his innocence.!<

This movie easily became one of my favorites. Definitely worth watching!

Gotta tell you, it'd been a long time since I last watched a movie so effortlessly enjoyable, well crafted, well acted. Not one second was redundant, and the dialogues were perfect. Recommending this to anyone who is yet to see it.

After watching Nolan's Following (1998), I wanted to watch another movie that explores voyeurism. That's when I stumbled upon Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954).

This is my first Hitchcock's film. Considered by many to be one of Hitchcock's most entertaining film. One reviewer compared it to handkerchief trick in boxing. It's a simple trick where a boxer plants both of his feet on a table handkerchief and without using his hands fights a moving target (dodges).

The length of movie is 2 hours and it never feels dull or boring. The experience of movie is like watching our own neighbors and participating in hero's voyeurism.

I heard Hitchcock is a master of suspense. In this movie however, it is not nail biting suspense but a sustained one. It has likeable characters.

However, felt that this is not very rewatchable. It is mostly consistent but feels slightly rushed at the end.

The use of settings gives good ideas for indie filmmakers with less budget.

Great experience for first time viewing. 7/10

I've decided to go through all of the Star Trek movies, and this is the only one I've never actually seen all the way through. Funny how things pan out. When I was a kid the couple minutes I watched were so boring that it felt like 2 hours. Now at 47 I think I just watched one of my favorite Sci-Fi movies of all time.

First things first, the movie is light on characterization which is my biggest complaint. From the sequel on I always felt deeply connected to the characters but weirdly in this one I didn't as much. Make no mistake I was grinning ear to ear as all the characters slowly came back together and of course Bones is the man. But there's a special banter amongst the crew in the other films that just wasn't there as much in this one. The characters are essentially just there when the spectacular special effects aren't happening. But the cast has chemistry (and to be fair there is a bit of their banter sprinkled in) that carries things along just enough.

The first sequence/reveal of the Enterprise takes 6 minutes. The miniature work is unbelievable. The camera takes its time letting you drink in the ship and I don't know man for me it just lands. I was mesmerized by that special effect sequence.

The other special effects sequence that I wanted to mention was the entire third act when they're coasting along inside of the alien ship. I have already seen about a million jokes about the alien ship's butthole so I won't be so crass as to repeat them here. But such vulgarity notwithstanding, the whole alien ship and the story behind it I thought was pretty rad.

This movie is slow. It takes its time and again it just really landed for me. The pace was perfect, I never felt bored, and I was interested in what was going on. I chuckled at the bit of banter, sat with my eyes wide as I drank in the gorgeous special effects, and realized that at the end of the day this is a movie about what it's like to be a human, especially a human who's in love. I'm a sucker for such a simple theme encased within a big world ending alien threat.

Highly recommended if you want to see the gang all together when they're younger and also happen to be in the mood for a very slow, special effects heavy, cerebral Star Trek story. I was totally into it.