I liked Lurker a lot for most of its length, it got a little muddy toward the end, but it's a really well made film with an unsettling premise.

Bernardo wrote: Sat Dec 06, 2025 12:51 am In a Lonely Place, incredible.

Well, if you put on a five-star movie . . . you're gonna see a five-star movie.

enframed wrote: Jay Kelly. Awful, sappy, heavy-handed. Adam Sandler is proving to be a good, versatile actor though.

Have not seen this motion picture, but from what I've read, if you did but didn't care for it, you should watch The Hero by Satyajit Ray.

Of all of the movies I've seen, The Hero has one of the best screenplays that was written by the same person who directed the movie. The directing is tops as well.

DaveA wrote: Tue Dec 09, 2025 10:40 pm

enframed wrote: Jay Kelly. Awful, sappy, heavy-handed. Adam Sandler is proving to be a good, versatile actor though.

Have not seen this motion picture, but from what I've read, if you did but didn't care for it, you should watch The Hero by Satyajit Ray.

Of all of the movies I've seen, The Hero has one of the best screenplays that was written by the same person who directed the movie. The directing is tops as well.

Well, dare I suggest Baumbach ripped that one off? Just read about it, have not yet seen it.

Watched Shampoo for the first time. How George Burns beat out Jack Warden for Best Supporting Actor, I don't know.

Anemone. It's OK. The problem now is whenever I see a method actor start crying I'm going to picture Billy Crudup crying in Jay Kelly.

enframed wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 12:23 am Anemone. It's OK. The problem now is whenever I see a method actor start crying I'm going to picture Billy Crudup crying in Jay Kelly.

Crudup and Alba Rohrwacher, who played the film festival representative, were the best things about that movie, although ever since Sasquatch Sunset I'll have time for anything Riley Keough is in, too.

iembalm wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 7:38 am

enframed wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 12:23 am Anemone. It's OK. The problem now is whenever I see a method actor start crying I'm going to picture Billy Crudup crying in Jay Kelly.

Alba Rohrwacher, who played the film festival representative

She was outstanding, yes! I didn't know of her before this.

Wake Up Dead Man, the new Knives Out movie.

Definitely has a different vibe from the the first two, and it's the first one I've thought I really needed to watch again to really get. Don't want to post too much more since it just went streaming yesterday.

tallchris wrote: Sat Dec 13, 2025 5:27 pm Wake Up Dead Man, the new Knives Out movie.

Definitely has a different vibe from the the first two, and it's the first one I've thought I really needed to watch again to really get. Don't want to post too much more since it just went streaming yesterday.

I watched it yesterday. I liked it maybe equal to the others. There was a little more darkness to it. Brolin was fantastic. I find myself often rooting for what the correct kind of Christianity is, which is funny for a non-believer.

Reflection in a Dead Diamond

Throwback to 60's-70's eurospy action movies a genre I'm not remotely familiar with but enjoyed all the same mostly due to some adventurous and surrealist filmmaking. Total eye-candy. The directors also made The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears, another strong recommendation.

Gremlins

It's fuggin' Gremlins. It rules.