Review the Last Movie You Saw
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I enjoyed the documentary The Spy Behind Home Plate, about the major leaguer Moe Berg, who went on to work for the OSS during World War II. It does a good job tying together the various parts of his life, even though it drags a bit towards the end. The 2018 movie The Catcher was A Spy, with Paul Rudd as Berg, was panned by critics. I don't remember it showing up in local theatres.
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Anybody else seen The Last Black Man in San Francisco? It showed me a side of San Francisco that I had hardly imagined, much less seen: a San Francisco that was invisible to me. The demographic setting is that the black population of SF has gone from around 12% to around 6% since 1970. The dramatic setting is around a young black man trying to preserve the house his family once lived in, although they had had to move out years earlier. He skateboards over to the house, now occupied by white folks, and when they're not there, he paints the trim and woodwork and weeds the garden. They catch him now and again and of course they think he's crazy.
It's also about his friendship with another young black man, a budding playwright who both writes about and sketches the neighborhood. They're both dreamers and although their dreams are different, they come together in this house in a surprising and moving way.
It's really quite an extraordinary movie.
It's also about his friendship with another young black man, a budding playwright who both writes about and sketches the neighborhood. They're both dreamers and although their dreams are different, they come together in this house in a surprising and moving way.
It's really quite an extraordinary movie.
One Cut of the Dead
I've been hearing about this movie from time to time over the course of a year or so, and finally watched it last night.
So. Brilliant. It's a Japanese movie from 2017 about a film crew that's making a zombie movie that gets overrun by zombies, and the first 37 minutes are one continuous take... and then it takes a sharp right-hand turn that I won't say anything about because it's too good to spoil.
So. Brilliant. It's streaming on Shudder (which you can get a free week trial of on Amazon). Don't let the zombie part throw you. If you've seen The Walking Dead, you've seen much worse on the blood and guts front. Well, maybe not the blood, but definitely the guts.
Please give it a chance. So. Brilliant.
I've been hearing about this movie from time to time over the course of a year or so, and finally watched it last night.
So. Brilliant. It's a Japanese movie from 2017 about a film crew that's making a zombie movie that gets overrun by zombies, and the first 37 minutes are one continuous take... and then it takes a sharp right-hand turn that I won't say anything about because it's too good to spoil.
So. Brilliant. It's streaming on Shudder (which you can get a free week trial of on Amazon). Don't let the zombie part throw you. If you've seen The Walking Dead, you've seen much worse on the blood and guts front. Well, maybe not the blood, but definitely the guts.
Please give it a chance. So. Brilliant.
Jumanji The Next Level, 3 stars out of 4. If you like Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle, you will like this one too. They have actually done a good job with these two movies that you wouldn't think after the Robin Williams Jumanji (which was terrific), would be any good, but the Rock and company do a nice job. Danny DeVito is a nice addition to this one, as well as giving the cast some new ways to work their characters.
