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The Guest (2014)- watched on Netflix, starring Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey, Legion), a low budget thriller about a guy who appears on a family’s door step claiming to be a friend of their son and a fellow veteran (their son who had died during military duty). Soon after people start dying. Dan Stevens is a good actor, the story is intriguing enough, but is stretched at the end. You might kind of enjoy it, but maybe not. :)

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Huntn said:
Disney's Jungle Cruise (2021)- A $30 rental, 5 people in attendance (3 children) and the tally is 3👍, 2 👎. Maybe if you are an adult, and a huge blind fan of The Rock's. ;) Zero edge, mostly mindless cotton candy fun, if you like over dosing on sugar. Note, I have liked Dwayne Johnson in other movies, but not this and not the Jumanji remake. In the Jumanji remake, it was the writing I really could not stand. It was an insult to the original <opinion>. :)

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Just finished Jungle Cruise tonight. I thought the Johnson’s Jumanji films were great escapist light entertainment…didn’t expect much from this film but but Jungle Cruise was a dreadful slog. Zero chemistry between Johnson and Emily Blunt. Cloyingly overcooked, overstaturated (if high-end) CG. A story I would fail a freshman for submitting to English lit 101.

Jack Whitehall provided a few genuinely funny moments, which I clung to like a shipwrecked sailor to avoid drowning in the mediocrity of the rest of the film. The fact that I remember Paul Giamatti’s cameo at all serves only to highlight the lack of depth in any of the more ‘important’ character’s performances.

And (finally) this film has the silliest German villains I’ve seen since Mel Brooks was making films. Can we, in the Anglosphere/Hollywood, please just agree that the German villains thing is played out in 2021? Let the Germans alone already…it worked great in Raiders of the Lost Ark…in 1981.

I have only myself to blame for watching this, of course.
 
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Session 9 (2001)

A disturbing, phycological horror/thriller, if you get the film it will literally crawl under your skin. Cleverly builds & presents an unyielding feeling of being uncomfortable, almost like being in the wrong skin...

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Peter Mullan is an actor I like very much, especially in Top of the Lake. I'm not into horror flicks, but I hope he does a good job in this one.
 
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Red Sparrow (2018)- Most excellent espionage story. Moles, double agents. Jennifer Lawrence is a superb actress. Nice twist on the book.

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I had wanted to watch this and somehow it slipped off my list. Glad to hear it's a good one, and I look forward to it.
 
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Black Death (2010)- a very dark medieval story starring Sean Bean about Christians seeking a demonic source of the plague, and Pagans who think Christianity is the pits, with plenty of suffering to go around. There is no redemption to be found here.
 
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Black Death (2010)- a very dark medieval story starring Sean Bean about Christians seeking a demonic source of the plague, and Pagans who think Christianity is the pits, with plenty of suffering to go around. There is no redemption to be found here.
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Awww, Sean and Carice together again, sort of.

I watched Red Sparrow tonight, and liked the plot and Jennifer Lawrence's acting overall, but I felt much of the casting was pretty weak, with the exception of Charlotte Rampling, Jeremy Irons, and Mary-Louise Parker. Ciaran Hinds in particular, an actor whose work I generally like, seemed ill suited to that role. I can't come up with a better suggestion yet, but someone with more dark brooding power and reserved dignity like Joe Pesci in The Irishman.
 
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About the guy who was allegedly forced to become Uday Hussein’s body double. Excellent work by Dominic Cooper in dual roles.
 
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Another film outside the ordinary for those who like challenging films. Just a bunch of hikers on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees talking as they walk and rest. It's all about the scenery, the hikers (American, Dutch, Irish, and &), their history, motivations, etc. Great film if one is interested in human nature. Very interesting individuals. Humorous and tragic.
 

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Witches of Eastwick (1987)- Jack Nicholson tour de force, if you like Jack Nicholson. ;) Three women are taken in by a wealthy man for a more or less unholy lifestyle before they tire of his devilish ways.

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