Pfff Topher Grace and Omar Epps could pass as brothers.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales - 3.5 out of 5

Latter half of the film was very good but that first half just dragged on too long and the overall story felt weaker than the other films in the series.

Spotlight-9/10

Stellar ensemble cast tells the story of the Boston globe exposing the Catholic church for sexually assaulting countless boys thru the years. This movie is 5 years old and I never heard of it. Glad I found it.

Election - 3/4

I tried to watch this with my parents over dinner but it got real smutty real fast.
I finished it at home, it was classic Alexander Payne with the naturally bizarre side of human relationships. You can tell Payne is much more emotionally intelligent than a Wes Anderson or a David O Russell because the weirdness just feels right in his films. It's not a gimmick, more of a portioning out of the extremes of human behaviour along with the more standard beats.

Good performance by Chris Klein in this. He was pretty perfect actually.

I wouldn't say this was as entertaining as About Schmidt, Sideways, The Descendants or Nebraska but it shares a lot of the style. All of his films have a closeness or a sort of comfortable confinement that keeps the world small and the people in it few enough that you know them well by the end.

Coco - 98%

So the wife and I have been trying to find good kids things to watch with our son that are both things he would like and not really stupid like most kids things. I heard this movie was good even though I can’t remember any marketing for it when it came out which is bizarre for a Pixar movie.

Holy shit this movie is incredible. It is as visually beautiful as Finding Nemo and Wall-E, the story is fantastic, and the ending caught us completely by surprise.

I should do a sub thread of all the kids movies I watch

Freaky.

Pretty entertaining.

This was the first movie I took my daughter to see in a theater. She's been enamoured with it ever since.

I am watching "The Passion Of Darkly Noon", "One False Move" and "Defending Your Life" tonight.

So far "The Passion Of Darkly Noon" is pretty unusual and it is shot beautifully. It feels like a fairytale or a really high class porn film.
The sort they make in France with almost no sex in.

Actually I think maybe it's just 90's Ashley Judd combined with the HD creating an almost Dior or Chanel style fantasy out of the surroundings.

Pretty sexy stuff for what is purportedly a psychological drama or thriller.

Ok, this is starting to feel like some sort of old American allegory from the first settlements.
A frontier fable.
It jumps from dreamlike and sexy to full on psycho delirium in no time.

Brendan Fraser is pretty good in this. He's playing 100% against type.

The big shoe thing is pretty weird.
I like it though.

This film is the right sort of strange.
Only real life could feel this much like a dream. It's all weird but it all makes sense.

I want to compare it to "The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser" in that it could happen and if it did it would baffle anyone on the outside looking in.

The Passion Of Darkly Noon - 3.5/4

Whatever the hell this is, it went big and I can respect that.
Still trying to decide if it would cost a fortune to make despite being a confined set with only two locations. The camera quality is way higher than you'd expect for an indie from the mid 90's. I mean this would have been a great waste to see on screens back then.

It looks pretty incredible now anyway.

A weird, weird film with an ending that will blow your tits off.

Justice League Dark - 6/10

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8/10.
Pretty good movie, exceedingly good for a modern movie. Was really good up until the ending, which they botched imo, with "Stronk womyn" trope, but other then that really enjoy it.

New Mutants 6.5/10

Better then expected but doesn't seem like it has much rewatch material. Even the final battle was just ok.

Still better then Dark Phoenix which is a shame considering the talent in that movie compared to this.

Mystery Team - 3/4

Somebody should have put me on to this when it came out. It's not massively laugh-out-loud funny but there are some well delivered gags that keep it trucking along.

Good stuff.
Just a nice wee comedy from the start of Donald Glover's career.

Watching Taika Waititi's "Boy".

Big laugh count and a lovely optimistic tone with that trademark hint of heartbreak ever looming.
Great so far.

Boy - 4/4

Taika Waititi has a 100% success rate at making beautiful, wonderfully funny films that don't look or feel the same as anything else at all.

He's the best writer/director working and he's going to be considered one of the very best of all time eventually.

"Boy" jumps straight into my favourite films of all time. The lead role was played as well as you'll see a child act, really a tremendous film from top to bottom with no foot out of place and it's easily the best acting job Taika has ever done.

Blues Brothers - 6/10

I’ve been meaning to watch this for a long time. Such a good time.

RUN - 8.5/10

Might just be the best thriller I've watched all year (it's on Hulu).

Watching Ghost (1990) on Netflix in bits and pieces...

Son, that is a 8/10 film, minimum.

I might consider purchasing it and viewing it again in the near future.

I also need to "reevaluate" how I rate these movies.

Fuck I love Patrick Swayze. Rest in Peace.

I am a sucker for such movies.

Ghost - 6/10

The Bodyguard is surprisingly watchable.
Give that one a go.

Dave, have you seen "Boy" yet?

Watched 1997's forgotten classic "RocketMan".
The "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" bit and the "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" bit are friggin hilarious.
It stars the guy that played the piss drinking traffic cop in Dumb and Dumber.
Pretty great.

I might since I love the director.

The only bit I remember was him farting in the tube and blaming it on the lady who's name I think was Julie.

That was definitely Julie

Masaan - 10/10

Hillbilly Elegy - 7/10

I don't understand the bad reviews at all. The acting is good, in particular Glenn Close and Amy Adams delivers. A story about addiction and breaking the cycle in dysfunctional families. A bit touching.

It looks awful.

You should be watching Joe Carnahan's new joint.
Frank Grillo and Mel Gibson inside a video game.

Getcha some!

The Christmas Chronicles-7/10

Kurt Russell vibes as easily the coolest and most charismatic Santa to hit a screen, imo, in a funny little family movie.

Watching Adam McKay's Vice and it is pretty boring so far.