I consider myself a modest WW2 history buff, but I knew nothing about this.
To create suitable carrier takeoff and landing training without tying up actual warships, or risking carriers to sub attacks during training, the USN converted two Great Lakes based coal powered ships with working...
Read a review that suggested the writers/director went out of their way to avoid taking a "side," and instead strive to make everyone look ridiculous.
Not unprecedented. The Hunt was the same, and pulled it off really well.
Okey dokey.
Thought it was good. It slows down a bit in the mid-episodes, but wraps up well, and sets the table nicely for season 2.
Will definitely continue watching.
This movie is a great surprise. It's a mashup of a bunch of different genres. They Live meets Foxy Brown meets Scooby Doo meets Westworld meets Pulp Fiction.
And if that sounds improbable, it is. And very funny. The writing is really good. Jamie Foxx's character is a pimp, and feels like...
A dark subject and an ugly, not-well-known chapter in American history. Great director, great cast, and a harrowing, real-life story. Should be a formula for success. Expected it to be well done, based on reviews. Instead, was a bit disappointed.
First and foremost, it's too long (3 hours...
Watched the first episode last weekend. M'eh.
Taylor Sheridan sometimes shows a tendency to compress too much story into too little space, turning just about every character into a simple caricature. In the currently very hip-and-hyped "white man bad, black man good, red man good" narrative...
For every 50 failed sequels, there is a Godfather Part 2 or Aliens.
Michael Mann is a very good script writer and director. Gonna have some faith that it will be good. Other than Adam Driver is too tall to play Neil.
BTW, if you liked Heat, and have never watched Thief with James Caan, do...
2016 film starring Viggo Mortensen. Highly rated on IMDB and by critics. Let me start by saying this movie is controversial. It mixes a bunch of stereotypes. It directly (and effectively) questions American social norms and institutions.
The plot surrounds a family of six kids being raised...
Caught this 2018 film the other night. Really liked it. It's based on a real life LAPD detective, Russell Poole, who lost his career and retirement over the Christopher Wallace, a.k.a, rapper Notorious B.I.G., murder case.
The plot is largely about Poole's investigation, and his uphill fight...
Watched this tonight. Currently $5.99 Amazon Prime rental. Well worth it. A lot of Hollywood/action/reality stretching going on, but it is fast paced and the story humanizes the people the U.S. left behind to suffer at the hands of the Taliban.
Williams made a bunch of sub-par movies, but they were never bad because of his acting. His philosophy seemed to be akin to Gene Hackman's: Don't take work for granted.
He also had a substantial live stage pedigree. He was a talented vocalist as well as an actor, and that got him many...
Killed in a motorcycle accident earlier today. Very gifted actor.
Prince of the City and Hair are two of my favorite movies, and he was a big reason for that.
Unusual WW2 flick.
Plot: An SS detachment is chasing a Wermacht deserter through the Rhineland in April, 1945. He's not their real mission. Just a temporary distraction. What they are really after is a box of gold bars, stolen from Jews and hidden away in a nearby, small vilage.
Things get...