The opposite of Jessica Chastain who's boobs have gotten bigger over time.
I'm not sure a biopic of Gleason is need, better to make a film on the making of The Hustler - that I'll line up on opening night to watch.
The Best Film of 2019
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I'm not sure a biopic of Gleason is need, better to make a film on the making of The Hustler - that I'll line up on opening night to watch.
I just saw recently The Parasite and looking forward to 1917 this weekend, the Parasite a South Korean film was awesome, I would highly recommend it because we need to get out there and support films like this otherwise we will leave in a world where all we get is the work of Kathleen Kennedy and Rise of Skywalker. That is not a world I want to live in.
Disney has been strangling the film industry for awhile now. They'll do anything to make a buck except produce original content which they are hopeless at.
Now that Disney owns Fox Entertainment the lawsuit against Tom Hardy may still go through. He was supposed to deliver S2 of Taboo this winter but he took the rich contract from Sony to make the Venom trilogy instead. The Hardy - Steven Knight team gave them A Christmas Carol instead. It was supposed to be a three part mini-series but someone in the Disney machine decided that it should be a film instead. Although still very good, you could see that it got truncated. Guy Pearce as Ebenezer Scrooge is amazing, he separates himself from Alister Sim and George C Scott by playing Scrooge as a corporate raider with a heart of stone.
And now that they own Fox, they can do what they want with its catalog.
Scouser1, your words are True as the Light of the Sun.
If you truly appreciate the Cinematic Art, films like "Parasite", "Pain & Glory" and "An Elephant Sitting Still" need to be supported and seen. We are so lucky to live in a city where you can see these on a screen just a drive away.
If you travel around the world, you'll know Asia, Europe et al are aware of "Titanic", "Lord of the Rings" and other financial behemoths but they also champion their own films (such as the above mentioned) which although released in North America, this market knows very little about. In fact, Hollywood films often carry a level of disdain overseas. Witness how poorly the 'Star Wars' films do in China (possibly the biggest film market) even when you include Chinese A list actors in the cast.
It's quite shameful really, just because these films contain subtitles. How petty is that? I daresay Canadians are more open to it (I suspect due to some excellent francophone offerings, "Jesus of Montreal" anyone...?) but in the U.S.A, oy vey!
A world where your only choices would be Walmart, Disney and MacDonald's is worth visiting the closest bridge in order to jump off it.
The respected Jeremy Jahns releases his Top 10 list of 2019.
I can understand the sentiment behind No. 7, Batman (1966) is still on my watchlist - I love Adam West. Joker although derived from Taxi Driver is a better film than its being given credit for. Part of it has to do with the attention to detail. Some folks were wondering why I was laughing uncontrollably at the beginning of the riot scene. The marquee featured Zorro The Gay Blade, a running joke of mine for many years.
I can understand the sentiment behind No. 7, Batman (1966) is still on my watchlist - I love Adam West. Joker although derived from Taxi Driver is a better film than its being given credit for. Part of it has to do with the attention to detail. Some folks were wondering why I was laughing uncontrollably at the beginning of the riot scene. The marquee featured Zorro The Gay Blade, a running joke of mine for many years.
I just came back from it. Hate to say it but it did not resonate with me on any level and I did not find it funny.
Just saw "Uncut Gems", with Adam Sandler killing it in a dramatic role.
Great movie.
My favourites this year;
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Joker
The Irishman
Ford vs. Ferrari
Great movie.
My favourites this year;
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Joker
The Irishman
Ford vs. Ferrari
Haven't seen Richard Jewell yet, hopefully I'll get a chance today. As it stand, imho.
1. Midsommar
2. Joker
3. Ford vs Ferrari
Although not a movie, i binge watched Euphoria, perhaps the best series of the year. This is Barry Levinson's comeback project (he was big in the 90's with Rain Man, Toys and wag the Dog) and produced by Drake. It begins with a Breaking Bad level intro that sets up the rest of the season. Great work by Eric Dane and Hunter Schafer for pulling it off. I latter found out that Schafer started life as a boy - I got over it. Honestly I couldn't tell.
1. Midsommar
2. Joker
3. Ford vs Ferrari
Although not a movie, i binge watched Euphoria, perhaps the best series of the year. This is Barry Levinson's comeback project (he was big in the 90's with Rain Man, Toys and wag the Dog) and produced by Drake. It begins with a Breaking Bad level intro that sets up the rest of the season. Great work by Eric Dane and Hunter Schafer for pulling it off. I latter found out that Schafer started life as a boy - I got over it. Honestly I couldn't tell.
definitely not in the same lines of fury apoco now,schin list, full met, peral harb. jojo's alter ego richard simmon look alike was not funny at all. but what the heck, scarlet made it worth while
Is there anyone who doesn't like Scarlett Johansson, please stand up...crickets..crickets. And she's smart, Florence Pugh didn't have to audition to play Yelena Romanov.
Too bad it didn't resonate with you. All the great elements are there.
6 Oscar nominations and the top award at TIFF point out its huge appeal.
It was nominated for the Academy Awards’ prestigious best picture category in Tuesday’s announcement, along with nods for best adapted screenplay, film editing, costume design and production design. Scarlett Johansson, who plays Jojo’s mother, received a best supporting actress nomination.
Said Director Taika Waititi: “Comedy has always, for thousands and thousands of years, been a way of connecting audiences and delivering more profound messages by disarming them and opening them up to receive those messages,” he said. “Comedy is a way more powerful tool than just straight drama, because with drama, people tend to switch off or feel a sense of guilt or leave feeling depressed … Often it doesn’t sit with them as much as a comedy does.”
Scarlett Johansson wasn't nominated for Best Actress in Marriage Story?
I saw Richard Jewell, was disappointed. Clint Eastwood is getting soft in the head, he made the press look like morons and the FBI weren't much better. I didn't get a sense as to why they considered Richard Jewell a suspect, they did get it horribly wrong though. Jon Hamm and Olivia Wilde were both playing Snidley Whiplash, it was almost comical. However Kathy Bates deserves to win Best Supporting Actress, she's heartbreaking as the emotionally crushed mother Bobi Jewell.
I probably won't watch 1917, there was nothing heroic about WW I. The High Command of the Allies and the Germans didn't give a rat's ass about human life. With all the casualties the Canadians were taking, they broke free of British Command. After that came Vimy Ridge. I'll probably see Parasite next.
I saw Richard Jewell, was disappointed. Clint Eastwood is getting soft in the head, he made the press look like morons and the FBI weren't much better. I didn't get a sense as to why they considered Richard Jewell a suspect, they did get it horribly wrong though. Jon Hamm and Olivia Wilde were both playing Snidley Whiplash, it was almost comical. However Kathy Bates deserves to win Best Supporting Actress, she's heartbreaking as the emotionally crushed mother Bobi Jewell.
I probably won't watch 1917, there was nothing heroic about WW I. The High Command of the Allies and the Germans didn't give a rat's ass about human life. With all the casualties the Canadians were taking, they broke free of British Command. After that came Vimy Ridge. I'll probably see Parasite next.
TBH, Don, I consider myself to be pretty open-minded and with a pretty liberal sense of humour, but that is my personal opinion. I actually read a year end review from Peter Howell and he mentioned something to the effect of it bordering "on the edge of offensive". Put me on the wrong side of that border.
I am just finishing up The Two Popes which will make 6 of the 9 best picture nominees with 1917 still to come for a 7th. JJR is my least favourite.
Screw the politicians and the higher ups, but I think that you are totally insulting the soldiers that risked their lives in horrible conditions. From the clips I've seen (will see it soon) that seems to be what the movie is about.
You said it yourself shack, they risked their lives in horrific conditions. If Sam Mendes sanitizes trench life for the box - office then I will avoid 1917 with extreme prejudice. In the First Battle of the Somme and the Siege of Verdun, over a million infantry men on both sides lost their lives. And they had to subsist in the vilest conditions many times going without food...while Lord Kitchener ate caviar on crumpet in Paris. And on top of all that pestilence was taking as many lives as battle. Flesh Eating Disease first appeared in the trenches, then came The Blue Soldier (formerly the Spanish Flu). I'm giving it a pass, I'll rerun Saving Private Ryan instead.
Talking about the Irishman....
'The Irishman' tells us Frank Sheeran killed Jimmy Hoffa, but a lawyer says his secret documents show otherwise. 'If he (Sheeran) could come back and we could watch the movie together, we'd be laughing our butts off'
MOORESTOWN, N.J. — To get to the big man, you had to get past the toughs.
Guys with calloused hands and hard-set jaws, massed there at the bar in the Rickshaw, a mob hangout with a pagoda on the roof, across from the racetrack in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
“What are you doin’ here?” they asked, not in a welcoming manner, when the young lawyer walked in.
“I’m here to see Frank,” said the lawyer, a 33-year-old with hangdog eyes and a perfect part named Glenn Zeitz.
“It was like the Red Sea parted,” Zeitz, now semiretired, recalled one recent morning, looking back on that day 40 years ago.
The big man came into view at the other side of the bar, a glass of red wine in his hand, a 6-foot-4 inch, 250-pound hulk. Frank Sheeran — known as “Big Irish,” the Teamsters honcho, the legend.
Sheeran only wanted to know a few things before hiring his new lawyer. Was Zeitz mostly a skirt chaser or mostly a drinker? Zeitz answered by ordering a Crown Royal. The other thing he wanted to know is whether Zeitz would promise to pound two ideas into the heads of the feds and the public: Sheeran would never be a rat and, most important, he had nothing to do with the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, his boss, the Teamsters powerhouse.
That settled, Sheeran handed Zeitz an envelope. It had $10,000 in cash inside.
The brief encounter set in motion a decades-long business and personal relationship that still gnaws at Zeitz. Over the years — one of Sheeran’s daughters and, on occasion, Sheeran himself — have suggested that Sheeran killed Hoffa, a claim that would put to rest one of the great mysteries in American criminal history.
In all that time, Sheeran’s tendency to tell many versions of the Hoffa disappearance cut into his credibility, even after he purportedly confessed to the crime shortly before his 2003 death. But the notion of the big man as Hoffa’s executioner has never been given a greater platform and more promotion than it has in the last few weeks with the unveiling of the blockbuster Netflix film, “The Irishman,” starring Robert De Niro as Sheeran and Al Pacino as Hoffa.
The film, which garnered 10 Oscars nominations, is based on the 2004 book “I Heard You Paint Houses” by a former prosecutor, crime novelist and erstwhile attorney of Sheeran’s, Charles Brandt. Both the book and the film unequivocally portray Sheeran as Hoffa’s killer, as well as fingering him as the killer of “Crazy Joe” Gallo, the victim in one of the most notorious unsolved killings in Mafia history. The film, like many movies that depict real people and events, is once again raising questions about how the public consumes history, and whether a disputed or skewed version of events shown on the screen can become received wisdom.
Since the publication of “I Heard You Paint Houses,” Zeitz has quietly nursed an obsession, in a sense building a defence of Sheeran, acting as his old friend’s posthumous lawyer. Zeitz hired a private investigator and consulted a pricey legal-ethics adviser to determine what he could reveal without violating the attorney-client privilege, which extends beyond death.
https://nationalpost.com/news/world...wyer-says-his-secret-documents-show-otherwise
'The Irishman' tells us Frank Sheeran killed Jimmy Hoffa, but a lawyer says his secret documents show otherwise. 'If he (Sheeran) could come back and we could watch the movie together, we'd be laughing our butts off'
MOORESTOWN, N.J. — To get to the big man, you had to get past the toughs.
Guys with calloused hands and hard-set jaws, massed there at the bar in the Rickshaw, a mob hangout with a pagoda on the roof, across from the racetrack in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
“What are you doin’ here?” they asked, not in a welcoming manner, when the young lawyer walked in.
“I’m here to see Frank,” said the lawyer, a 33-year-old with hangdog eyes and a perfect part named Glenn Zeitz.
“It was like the Red Sea parted,” Zeitz, now semiretired, recalled one recent morning, looking back on that day 40 years ago.
The big man came into view at the other side of the bar, a glass of red wine in his hand, a 6-foot-4 inch, 250-pound hulk. Frank Sheeran — known as “Big Irish,” the Teamsters honcho, the legend.
Sheeran only wanted to know a few things before hiring his new lawyer. Was Zeitz mostly a skirt chaser or mostly a drinker? Zeitz answered by ordering a Crown Royal. The other thing he wanted to know is whether Zeitz would promise to pound two ideas into the heads of the feds and the public: Sheeran would never be a rat and, most important, he had nothing to do with the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, his boss, the Teamsters powerhouse.
That settled, Sheeran handed Zeitz an envelope. It had $10,000 in cash inside.
The brief encounter set in motion a decades-long business and personal relationship that still gnaws at Zeitz. Over the years — one of Sheeran’s daughters and, on occasion, Sheeran himself — have suggested that Sheeran killed Hoffa, a claim that would put to rest one of the great mysteries in American criminal history.
In all that time, Sheeran’s tendency to tell many versions of the Hoffa disappearance cut into his credibility, even after he purportedly confessed to the crime shortly before his 2003 death. But the notion of the big man as Hoffa’s executioner has never been given a greater platform and more promotion than it has in the last few weeks with the unveiling of the blockbuster Netflix film, “The Irishman,” starring Robert De Niro as Sheeran and Al Pacino as Hoffa.
The film, which garnered 10 Oscars nominations, is based on the 2004 book “I Heard You Paint Houses” by a former prosecutor, crime novelist and erstwhile attorney of Sheeran’s, Charles Brandt. Both the book and the film unequivocally portray Sheeran as Hoffa’s killer, as well as fingering him as the killer of “Crazy Joe” Gallo, the victim in one of the most notorious unsolved killings in Mafia history. The film, like many movies that depict real people and events, is once again raising questions about how the public consumes history, and whether a disputed or skewed version of events shown on the screen can become received wisdom.
Since the publication of “I Heard You Paint Houses,” Zeitz has quietly nursed an obsession, in a sense building a defence of Sheeran, acting as his old friend’s posthumous lawyer. Zeitz hired a private investigator and consulted a pricey legal-ethics adviser to determine what he could reveal without violating the attorney-client privilege, which extends beyond death.
https://nationalpost.com/news/world...wyer-says-his-secret-documents-show-otherwise
