some people are upset about historical inaccuracies in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Well, now it's ruined for me, too. Drat. I'm going to go watch Season 1 of Merlin to get over it.
It's not like she blew me off. She just left with another guy, that's all.
Riley ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Calli - Jan 04, 2019 11:47:27 am PST #1855 of 3463
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Tom Scola - Jan 04, 2019 11:50:10 am PST #1856 of 3463
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
IMDB ruins EVERYTHING.
Calli - Jan 05, 2019 12:13:37 pm PST #1857 of 3463
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I saw The Favorite this afternoon. That was weird. I think I liked it? Anyway, Olivia Coleman and the others gave some great performances.
bennett - Jan 05, 2019 1:05:44 pm PST #1858 of 3463
I saw The Favourite this afternoon as well and quite enjoyed it. Good acting, entertaining dialog, great costumes and setting. I don't know that I'd want to ever meet any of the characters, but they were fun to watch from a distance. Now I need to find a good history of the time to see what was real and what was made up.
Jesse - Jan 05, 2019 1:24:39 pm PST #1859 of 3463
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I feel like a shocking amount of it was real!
bennett - Jan 05, 2019 1:43:20 pm PST #1860 of 3463
I suspect the intrigues of court life were very real. I need to find out more about Queen Anne's court and reign for more.
Jesse - Jan 05, 2019 5:08:46 pm PST #1861 of 3463
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
On the flipside, I just saw Spider-Man, and YAY.
erikaj - Jan 07, 2019 3:18:11 pm PST #1862 of 3463
Always Anti-fascist!
I blogged about "Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot." [link]
megan walker - Jan 08, 2019 4:58:19 pm PST #1863 of 3463
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Finally wrote up thoughts on the 250 movies I saw in 2018:
Part 1
Part 2
This year I really need to get back to quarterly film posts. This was far too difficult to do in one fell swoop.
DavidS - Jan 08, 2019 8:18:05 pm PST #1864 of 3463
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Part 1
Love Assault on Precinct 13.
I've written about The Innocents in my early sixties horror series. It's an amazing movie. (script by Truman Capote!) and very influential on John Carpenter's Halloween.
Vivacious Lady has that incredible slap scene with Ginger Rogers.
I love The Black Cat and White Zombie! What's the problem here?
They both have the weirdness I crave in pre-code horror.
Noirvember:
Clash by Night, Ride the Pink Horse and Criss Cross are all favorites.
I associate Clash by Night in a double bill of my imagination with another Stanwyck melodrama/noir Crime of Passion (with a rare female noir scriptwriter, Jo Eisinger).
Ride the Pink Horse is based on a novel by female crime writer, Dorothy Hughes. (NYRB Classic has started reissuing her work).
Criss Cross is usually a noir double-bill with The Killers for Burt