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  1. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" owes a debt to Sunset Boulevard, it's true. But we'll give it a pass since it's a very early episode - number four - and Zone was just finding its way. And we have to remember that in 1959 if you hadn't seen Sunset Boulevard since 1950, you probably hadn't seen...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    "Mute" - along with many Zone episodes from the fourth season when they unwisely expanded the show to an hour - is padded and slow moving, but it's such an interesting idea. (Hey, it's a Richard Matheson script.) Do you realize that the little girl was played by eighties TV sexpot Ann...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Immigrant, a recent indie flick with Marion Cotillard as a Polish woman who comes to NYC in 1921. Nice looking, but it doesn't amount to much. And it all felt like it took place in the backgrounds of the Ellis Island and Little Italy flashbacks of The Godfather, Part II.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Actually, this episode is the lone case where TZ outsourced. It was a short adapting the Bierce story made in France. They just bookended it with Serling's narration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge_(film) This is no knock on Zone, which has long been nearly...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Just saw this, what an awful way to start the year. Rich Conaty was a tremendous resource, and The Big Broadcast a national treasure. Oy.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    A Royal Night Out, in which Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret escape their chaperones and have adventures amidst the celebrating crowds in London on VE Day. (A very fictionalized account of what was apparently a far more controlled, less exciting event.) Reasonably diverting with a good...
  8. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I'm working my way through the second season of Daredevil on Netflix. Overall it's not as good as the first season, but it has its moments.
  9. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Hateful Eight. I generally dislike (or at least, have some problems with) Tarantino's films, but I liked this one.
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    God's Pocket

    An okay little indie flick, directed by Mad Men's John Slattery, that ably captures some desperate inner city lives. Besides Hoffman, it has a great performance by (the also always great) Richard Jenkins. It's set in South Philadelphia, but was filmed in rundown neighborhoods in my old...
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    New Member to the Hat Forum

    I am a minimalist compared to many here: after some shakedowns, I only have three fedoras (Akubra Stylemaster and Campdraft, and a custom from Northwest Hats). I realized early on that I needed both a gray one (to match black, blue, gray - the "Batman colors" I wear the most) and a brown or tan...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Regarding the discussion of baby boomers and the 1946-1964 dates usually ascribed... It's clear that there are several different cohorts within this huge category. Growing up in the early fifties vs. late sixties were quite different experiences (and we won't even discuss where you grew up...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Sunshine - not the 2007 Danny Boyle SF film, the 1999 epic detailing several generations of a successful Hungarian Jewish family across a hundred years. It's got everything you'd expect: rebellious younger generations, anti-Semitism, conversions to be allowed into the oligarchy, pseudo-incest...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Agreed, some of the animated DC films are very good. I was especially impressed recently by Batman: Under the Red Hood. Re an outcry... No, because the truly faithful recognize Batfleck's older, pissed-off Batman as essentially a gloss on Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns Batman - who DOES...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Apartment is my favorite Billy Wilder film, which if you know how many great movies he made, is quite a strong statement. It's just brilliant in every way. And 2jakes, Mitchum is downright TERRIFYING in the original Cape Fear! It's tied with The Night of the Hunter for his scariest...
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    Woody Allen Film "Café Society"

    Don't bother, I consider To Rome With Love his worst film. Sure, it occasionally has an amusing moment here and there - Woody can still land a joke. But it's an embarrassment: Essentially three VERY half-baked sketch ideas that he shoved together into a screenplay when the Italian government...
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    Woody Allen Film "Café Society"

    I will see it when it hits cable, and be disappointed. He's reached the point where he only makes a good, or near-good, film every third time out. For every worthwhile Midnight In Paris or Blue Jasmine, you have to sit through a couple of Irrational Mans, Magic in the Moonlights, or To Rome...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Miles Ahead - the second disappointing new musician biopic I've watched in a week (besides I Saw The Light). Don Cheadle does fine as Miles Davis... but with such an interesting life, the film's having to invent a British music reporter who assists in the stealing and recovering of an alleged...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I totally agree about The Country Girl - any doubts that Crosby couldn't act are quashed. He's heartbreaking. It's the same syndrome as when people are so shocked that comedians turn out to be fine dramatic actors. There have been countless examples from Chaplin to today's sitcom stars. It...
  22. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Midnight Special, in which the parents of a very special child kidnap him from an insular religious community and try and outrun the FBI. Has a great cast - Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, etc. - and some exciting sequences... but I just couldn't buy it. Not recommended.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I'm skipping it. After 40 years, it's enough Star Wars for me. I'll see it when it hits cable... and likely be underwhelmed then.

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