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  1. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Double feature last night: In a Valley of Violence - recent low-key, small-scale (only around eight speaking parts) western with Ethan Hawke, John Travolta, Karen Gillan, and Taissa Farmiga. Lots of classic and spaghetti western tropes are well used herein, and I found it surprisingly...
  2. Doctor Strange

    More Akubra advice please

    Disclaimer: I'm in suburbia/exurbia and the city, so I can't really comment on how these hats wear if you're giving them serious outdoor use daily, like on a ranch... Just normal around town/in and out of the car wear on the fedoras, and frequent hiking/yard work wear on the country hats. My...
  3. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Godfather looks better every time I watch it. Back in 1972, I thought it was just a good potboiler... now I think it's a masterpiece that says alot about America. What's to pick apart? Certain Women - a weird little indie film. I'm not sure what the point was supposed to be, there are...
  4. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Girl on the Train on Showtime. Twisty, disturbing psychological relationship/crime flick with some excellent performances, and clever misdirection of who's guilty of what. Of special interest if you've spent a lot of time riding the Metro-North Hudson Line, as much of it was shot aboard...
  5. Doctor Strange

    Ask a question, get an answer

    I didn't mean to suggest they were self-aggrandizing. Just that it's a vastly different world with loads more visual evidence - of style, and everything else - than the old days.
  7. Doctor Strange

    Ask a question, get an answer

    Unlike many folks here, after a lifetime of hat wearing I have settled on very few hats. A couple of gray fedoras, and one brown one. A brown herringbone tweed cap, and a black one. One panama hat. A couple of Akubra country hats for hiking and yard work in different seasons. That's it...
  8. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I needed something light, so I watched a bunch of episodes of Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee on Netflix. Not all of his guests are equally funny or interesting, but the series definitely has its moments, and some of the cars are very cool.
  9. Doctor Strange

    Akubra size question

    Akubra's felt just shrugs off rain and wet, that's not what shrinks them. But won't any felt hat shrink if exposed to major heat? I've been careful never to leave any of my hats in the car with the windows closed and blazing sun for that reason.
  10. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    King Arthur: Legend of the Sword Okay, I have hated nearly all of Guy Ritchie's films, but this is a contender for one of the worst films I've ever forced myself to watch to the end. It makes other recent "reimaginings" like Dracula Untold and Victor Frankenstein look like Shakespeare. It's...
  11. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Right. For example, the "Blue Ribbon"-titled Merrie Melodies were reissues of earlier WB cartoons.
  13. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Of course he had seen the film, Serling was already a pro writer in 1950. I never suggested that he hadn't, just that film was not as well known to the general public when he wrote the TZ episode as you might assume based on later distribution policies and post-broadcast era media. My first...
  14. Doctor Strange

    Films and shows that COULD NEVER Be Made Today!

    Fading Fast... That was me, of course. I'm the one who's been a huge cartoon buff - collecting them on Super 8 and 16mm film from long before home video - since the moment at around age 18 when my appreciation flipped from entertained kid to fascinated adult. For years, I haunted revival...
  15. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    One of the few movie books I have somehow lost over the years that I really miss is a Janus Films rental catalog circa 1970. It was like a single-volume foreign film masterpiece syllabus. Their logo was always a mark of quality! Just last night(!) I watched a classic DVR'd from TCM that...
  16. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Indeed. I was one of those kids eagerly watching the broadcast TV premieres of films like Hitchcock's fifties masterworks on NBC Saturday Night at the Movies back then. (I remember being pretty baffled by Vertigo, which wasn't yet considered one of Hitch's greatest films, but a confusing...
  17. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Okay, I am not going to defend "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" for being partly inspired by Sunset Boulevard,... but I am going to inject a little reminder about 1959. Sunset Boulevard had had a successful theatrical run nine years earlier... and disappeared. In 1959, most big Hollywood...
  19. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Yes, that's it. And it's a very good adaptation, better than I expected - though once it was announced that Ian McShane was cast, I knew they were on the right track. He's literally THE perfect actor for the part. All the casting, and the various ways that the adaptation updates/extends the...
  20. Doctor Strange

    Taylor's police jacket sale

    FYI, Taylor's had said last week that the sale was extended to yesterday... But the sale page and $99 prices are still there this morning, with many styles/sizes available. Just sayin'...
  21. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    It's TOO beautifully done. I think its over-the-top opulence actually detracts from the storytelling. Sure, all of the ceremonial stuff has to be that opulent, but for example, in the second season there are side-trips minus the main characters just to set up current events that obviously cost...
  22. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Light Between Oceans, recent film set in post-WWI Australia with Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander. Beautifully shot, and the leads have powerful romantic chemistry, but the problematical story is ultimately not very satisfying.
  23. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    One of the great seminal SF films. Some things you didn't credit: taut direction by Robert Wise fantastic score by Bernard Herrmann (with innovative use of theremin, electric guitar, other amplified instruments, vibes, multiple pianos, etc.) subtle lead performance by Michael Rennie dear Sam Jaffe

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