Last movie you watched......

Honeymoon in Vegas. Pretty silly and a major comedown after The Freshman. Shameful waste of Tony Shalhoub and Peter Boyle. Cage channels much of his Cage Rage into a lightweight romcom. Sarah Jessica Parker is absolute fire in it though. Absolute fire.

 

Stowaway.
Good cast. Interesting premise. But I could never figure out how the dude ended up inside that tight little space. It didn't track.

 

Well, I liked it a lot better than you did, apparently. I saw it at a drive-in and thoroughly enjoyed it, as well as on repeated viewings on cable. It's kind of like "Ruthless People" (which came a few years earlier) in that it's kinda gotten lost in time, but if I ever come across it, I'll definitely watch.
I didn't even remember that Shalhoub was in it. You're right about SPJ, though. I haven't ever seen her look better than she did in that movie.
BTW, you're post prompted me to take a look at the cast list, and I knew about some of the other minor cast members (Seymour Cassell and Jerry Tarkanian in the poker game, for instance), but I also noticed that a young Bruno Mars (!) had a quick appearance as a pint-sized Elvis impersonator.

 

And Earnie Shavers as himself!

 

I loved that movie. SJP was throwing 95 in that movie along with Miami Rhapsody.

 

Watched Ma Rainey tonight. Saw it on Broadway with Charles Dutton and it was far superior.

 

Tenet

What the fuck?

 

See also, Snake Eyes. No SJP, but hella Nic Cage. And De Palma? Sheeet.

 

We finally got access to Hulu and watched “Nomadland.” The rest of my family loved it. I thought that it was very good, but found parts of it sort of preachy, especially segments with Bob Wells. He’s not a actor, but more of a van life evangelical, so I guess that’s to be expected.

It’s interesting how “Nomadland” is similar to one of Chloe Zhao’s earlier films, “Songs My Brothers Taught Taught Me,” about live on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The shooting style and style and strung-together vignettes seem to be one of Zhao’s trademarks. I wonder how much of that might carry over when she directs “Eternals” in the Marvel Universe.

 

Woman in the Window. A dreadful waste of talent in front of the camera (Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Brian Tyree Henry) and beyond (script by the great actor/playwright Tracy Letts). Skip it.

 

The Little Things. There aren’t many Denzel Washington movies I’ve missed, but this is one I wish I’d skipped. It was slow, weird and awful. Glad I only paid 80 cents to rent it.

 

It is preachy. I appreciated that in a sense. I think you get to the nomad life in part because you’re a little separate from the pack about the meaning of life and the world.

it’s a sneaky good character study because, as you reflect on it, you realize Fern has pushed a lot of decent people away. She turns down three offers from kind people/families who really like her for something far more uncertain, among people who come off a little like shallow flakes. By the end I was ready to be done with the nomads and I considered that a strength of the movie.