What Film (Movie) Have You Just Watched?

[Coss]

Hostiles (2017)

 

IMDb says: In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.

 

Well he didn't actually agree, but I digress.

 

- whilst this is a movie showing that the two enemies can become friends - heartwarming - it's also very good for the depictions of how f*cking violent and hostile the American country once was.

 

Rosamund Pike is very good.

 

Well worth a watch.

[cavanami]

Rebel in the Rye

 

The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, "The Catcher in the Rye". (imdb)

 

Interesting movie.

Many of us were required to read Catcher in the Rye for high school.

 

Worth a look.

 

*** 1/2

[Coss]

Into the Abyss (2011) - Conversations with death row inmate Michael Perry and those affected by his crime serve as an examination of why people - and the state - kill.

 

Director: Werner Herzog

 

I learnt a lot about 'merica

 

Well worth a watch.

 

And from the movie, Hostiles - a quote - "The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.†D.H. Lawrence

[cavanami]

Just had to watch it ....again...so many memories....great acting!

 

The World of Suzie Wong

 

A businessman moves to Hong Kong to pursue a career as an artist and falls in love with a prostitute he hires as a model.

 

****

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054483/

[Coss]

Black Water (2018) - Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Courtney B Turk, Jasmine Waltz.

 

Jean-Claude is old, complete with dyed chestnut brown hair so popular with olden men. and plastic surgery that still doesn't make him handsome.

 

But, this is a good movie, lotsa gun play, very little kung fu, in fact, only guns and knives. But for the premise, (black site in a sub under the water), this is prolly the best Van Damme movie I've seen.

 

Worth a watch.

[Coss]

The Commuter (2018) - Liam Neeson on a Train.

 

The man with a special set of skills on a train. Well it's better than that, still lots of blood, but a good flick this

 

I enjoyed it

 

Worth a watch.

[Coss]

Gringo (2018) - trouble for an American in Mexico

 

the cast is good, particularly David Oyelowo and Charlize Theron

 

Joel Edgerton

Charlize Theron

David Oyelowo

Thandie Newton

Amanda Seyfried

Harry Treadaway

Paris Jackson

 

are the names I recognise.

 

Worth a Watch.

[cavanami]

Chapter & Verse (2017)

 

Upon his return from serving a ten-year sentence in prison, reformed gang leader, S. Lance Ingram, struggles to adapt to a changed Harlem. Unable to use the technological skills he acquired...

 

Solid movie.

Good story line and acting.

 

*** 1/2

[cavanami]

The Last Witness (2018)

 

An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during the Second World War. A secret that has been kept hidden for far too many years. (by the UK and the USA)...seems Stalin/Russia killed masses of people in Poland about 1940, when Russia was allied with Germany, The blame was pushed to Germany but the truth is the truth...

 

****

[Coss]

The Last Witness (2018)

 

An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during the Second World War. A secret that has been kept hidden for far too many years. (by the UK and the USA)...seems Stalin/Russia killed masses of people in Poland about 1940, when Russia was allied with Germany, The blame was pushed to Germany but the truth is the truth...

 

****

 

Yes I just saw this - good - worth a watch, though I thought the lead male actor, overdid his brooding a little.