💯! Full stop, this is a beautiful film… It is based on the Esquire article, “The Friend”, by Matthew Teague. You can google-search to find the article online, but watch the film first!
Another best of 2021…
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Man, this film was gorgeous. Even though it (almost) rips off the similar plot of ‘The Road’, I loved it…
Just watched the trailer…McAwoy didn’t get a script when he was acting in this film? Hm…interesting. Anyone seen it?
Yes I watched it, apparently McAvoy improvised his script. I thought the film was pretty damn good…
My Bro is a huge star wars geek, and he asked me to watch this with him. And after seeing the fantastic cast list ~ I had to agree. I mean, it even has ‘Wuhnuh’ in it! Wtf Herzog?!
We were both thoroughly entertained. Yodababy stol dis one…💖
thanks so much for writing on this. i had no idea about it, and i love shows like this.
A nice little peek into how Hauer thinks of himself and his career.
He had the most beautiful smile. He was gorgeous right until the end.
I know it seems stupid, like being a groupie, but I really miss him being in the world. 75 is too soon. He seemed true to himself, and relaxed. Gorgeous in every way.
His book is really interesting. ‘All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners’, and is free to dl from Library Genesis, if you fancy epub - ebooks.
This film (uncut) is 5 hours and 17 minutes long, in 2 parts. All of the links here are only for Part 1.
Second only to Cronenberg’s other brilliant film with Viggo (Eastern Promises)!💯👍
What a dark and extraordinary film this was. One of the best of 2018, if not THE best… A strange and marvelous work of art, from Iranian-Swedish director Ali Abbasi. Highly recommend it!💯
‘Women Make Film’ at Wikipedia, has the complete list of films covered in this documentary.
Another fantastic ‘Dracula’ pic! It almost pushes Coppola’s (Gary Oldman/Dracula) out of it’s top spot, almost…😎
One of my faves… Paxton’s always so smarmy, but in this it wasn’t unpleasant. Of course, it also stars McConaughey and that debbel Boothe. The best kind of thriller, *cool n creepy.
Thankyou! Pity that there is only a link to part one. I will watch!
Ahhh great, this.. Along with ‘The Big Snit’, Log Drivers Waltz, and Black Fly are some of the BEST NFB shorts.
‘The Apprentice’ is hilarious ~ boing… It was my fave short, back in the Super Channel era.
🤣 Thanks lol I was at work, rushing, scrolling down and hit the wrong 1!
💯! Just when I thought “they’re never gonna make anything great again”, I come across this wicked little piece of work… And, it stars three of my favourite working actors ~ Peter, Rosamund and Dianne! One of the best, so far, of 2021…
Go back for Season 3
Ya reckon? Okay, so skip Season 2 completely? And carry on to 3…
This series is really creeping me out, like all the ‘catch-phrase’ news that Reuters
sends out to all the global news and media outlets. Rolling out the script and
programming. Flatten that curve! It’s a brave new world…
Keaton was great in this top notch series! The Sackler family should be stripped of all their wealth, and be imprisoned for life… (I would say hang them all, but we don’t solve problems like that anymore, which is too bad).
💯! Okay, I admit that my initial interest in this HBO epic was the ‘dragons’!
“There be dragons here…” Of course, once I was balls deep into it, I had much respect and gratitude for the excellence in story/plot, cast/character development, and the spectacular filming locations.
I’ve never read the books that this series is adapted from, and even after watching this HBO rendition, I have no desire to…
It seems to me, that George Martin ran out of steam, in his authoring further books, once HBO got a hold of the story… ka ching $ ka ching $
The series soon caught up to, and surpassed, where George was ~ with his published GOT saga…
Nevertheless, although I was ‘wtf’ waiting to see the dragons, after every ep, the journey was a grand one. I would chant, “we need more cowbell”, I mean dragons!
Gwendoline Christie and Peter Dinklage were my favourites. Their character portrayals really stood out. Hopefully we’ll see much more of these two in future projects…
Streamtape link includes LBJ EP 3 We Shall Overcome, and LBJ EP 4 The Last Believer
Streamtape link includes LBJ EP 1 Beautiful Texas, and LBJ EP 2 My Fellow Americans
Haha, maybe this is where you meant to wait…
https://www.primewire.ag/tv/92709/watch-oscars-season-2021-episode-1
Kate is great (of course), watching her and Guy in ‘’Mare of Easttown’ brought me here. This is also directed by Todd Haynes, it’s a keeper! Just need some better host links.
This was a really effink good flick! Another ‘under the radar’ gold nugget? Probably…sigh.
Anyways, I’m becoming seriously impressed with Casey Affleck. He’s come a long way from his (flakey turd) role in, ‘Good Will Hunting’. His film role choices are building a portfolio of very fine work. I think I must love him now, yes…
A similar thing happened with Bruce Willis, after he was ‘Butch’. Before ‘Pulp Fiction’, he was kinda lame IMO. But Bruce lately wtf. Hmmm, could he be having financial difficulty? One wonders…
This is an excellent mini series. Very intense.
I think i’ll also check out the original 70’s Bergman version.
This film will be the movie high of my year. I know it will be good and i’ll watch whatever crap cam we get first, because I can’t wait. The books are fantastic, I re-read them every few years. Top notch scifi! Frank Herbert was the best…
McConaughey is so nasty in this, he was brilliant, so is this film…
‘Mystic River’ and ‘At Close Range’ are my fave Penn flicks. ‘Bad Boys’ and ‘The Professor and the Madman’ are also pretty good.
This got badly low-balled on IMDB, so fck that sht. This is a great little film! I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Very well done, and it’s Viggo’s first film as director and writer! 💯👍
Julie Strain was only 58 when she died, this past January. She had been in the later stages of dementia, before her death. How awful… :(