Last movie you watched......

Watched it tonight and I liked, "Don't Look Up." Yeah, it's on the nose. I think that's the point.

Of course it could've been 20-30 minutes shorter. No matter. I'll watch it again.

It might be interesting to look back on 10, 20, 30 years from now.

 

Eyes of Tammy Faye. Jessica Chastain is awesome as always, but a subpar script sinks it. Cool seeing the science teacher from Stranger Things though.

 

Unfortunately, a comet will strike the earth before then ...

 

We can hope.

 

We went to see C’mon C’mon at an art museum Sunday. It stars Joaquin Phoenix, a new kid actor (Woody Norman) and Gaby Hoffmann (no relation). The basic plot is that Phoenix has to take care of his sister’s boy while she sorts out getting help for her husband’s mental crisis. Of course, it’s much more complicated with relationships and history to be somewhat sorted out with the boy as kind of a conduit and barometer.

B+W format aids the intimacy of the interactions and a side-plot of Phoenix’s radio journalist assignment recording interviews with children in various cities creates clips that both give a short break from and seem to offer context for the central plot.

It brought the rest of my family to tears. I, being a geezer, found the kid to be a bit irritating at times, but thought it was very well done.

 

Come for Stonehenge.
Stay for the cold sores.

 

Being the Ricardo’s isn’t all that good, but has a couple fantastic scenes. Kidman and Bardem don’t click as Lucy and Ricky; seems like they are acting around each other rather than together.

 

Licorice Pizza. First trip to a theater since probably late 2019. There were five people there for a matinee, including myself. Really enjoyed it. Tremendous soundtrack.

 

So you're all in on pedophilia? I was just going to post do not waste your time to see this. If it were a 28-year-old guy and a 15-year-old girl, this movie would have never been made.

 

Caught “Tender Bar” on Amazon Prime. It’s J.R. Maguire’s memoir. The actor who plays Maguire as a boy and Ben Affleck were good. But the movie dragged along and the time shifts to different periods of Maguire’s life were clumsy. Tye Sheridan, who plays the older Maguire, stumbles through the role with no energy.

As a TV movie it would have been OK, but Amazon Prime is supposed to be more than that.

 

This isn’t pedophilia.