What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

bob hoskins one last night - ruthless gangsters in London - and a very adorable and very young lookin Helen Mirren "the long good friday " brutal film Helen was the only bright spot!!
 
The Mule
Clint Eastwood. does a superb job in this role.
Broke, alone and facing foreclosure on his business, 90-year-old horticulturist Earl Stone takes a job as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. His immediate success leads to easy money and a larger shipment that soon draws the attention of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates. When Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on his conscience, he must decide whether to right those wrongs before law enforcement and cartel thugs catch up to him.
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Currently watching (& signing along) to Selena. The Biopic for Tehano sensation Selena Quintanilla who was murdered, shot in Texas on 31 March 1995 at 23 years old. A style of music I love as our Spanish teacher got us signing in Spanish at least twice during school session every day. Here's the IMDb link:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0702373/?ref_=fn_al_nm_2

The next one lined up is "The Seventh Sign" with Demi Moore
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096073/
 
The Gifted on Tubi. It was pretty good. About a little girl who is exceptionally intelligent and her uncle who takes care of her after her mother died.

Small Crimes on Netflix. This movie made me think a lot about how some people are. It's quite gruesome at times but I liked it.
 
Wild is the Wind on Netflix . About 2 cops and their dealings with crime in south Africa 🌍. I thought it was a good movie 🍿.
 
Purple Hearts
Cassie, a struggling singer-songwriter agrees to marry a troubled Marine, Luke for military benefits. The line between real and pretend begins to blur.

There’s no big stars in this nor is it high budget but it sure is an affectionate, moving romance that leaves you thinking about the main characters long after it’s finished.

What interest me is that one of the main characters is a working musician and the other a military man and the plot sounded interesting. This is a ‘feel good’ unpretentious romance with some tasteful music mixed in.

Highly recommend it
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"Storm Warning", a 1951 Stuart Heisler directed film noir with a strong dose of social commentary, was aired on Saturday night on TCM. It's a frank, brutal, and for the time period, shocking depiction of small southern town bigotry. The KKK is not a secret in this movie, but a visible fact of life in your average American community.

Storm Warning

Ginger Rogers and Doris Day each get two of their best acting roles ever in this film. Playing (non-glamorous, non-singing, non-clowning) sisters, they are excellent. (In fact, Day so impressed Alfred Hitchcock with the film that after viewing it he offered her a lead role as Jimmy Stewart's wife in "The Man Who Knew Too Much".)

Steve Cochran, who plays Doris Day's husband, is first-rate as well. Totally try to ignore the fact that his character is obviously based on Stanley Kowalski from "A Streetcar Named Desire", and watch this not-too-bright, but handsome and macho redneck attempt to win brownie points with the KKK.

Ronald Reagan is fine in the role of the square-dealing, full of integrity district attorney who wants to close down the KKK. I think it would have been more effective with someone like William Holden or Burt Lancaster in the role — but Reagan is fine.

One off-screen tidbit: Although the film doesn't specify where Rock Point is located, it was shot in Corona, California, which reputedly had numerous Klansmen in its population, one of whom actually walked up to Reagan and offered to rent KKK robes to the filmmakers.

So check out "Storm Warning" for something out of the ordinary with good acting and a look at the way the racist organizations were treated in films in the Jim Crow era.

 
PeppermintPatty said:
The Mule
Clint Eastwood. does a superb job in this role.
Broke, alone and facing foreclosure on his business, 90-year-old horticulturist Earl Stone takes a job as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. His immediate success leads to easy money and a larger shipment that soon draws the attention of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates. When Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on his conscience, he must decide whether to right those wrongs before law enforcement and cartel thugs catch up to him.
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I've never heard of this one....I'll see if it's on one of my ROKU channels.
 
Ruthanne said:
The Mule starring Clint Eastwood on Netflix. At first I thought it was so-so and then it got very good. Produced and directed by Eastwood as well. About a man who pursued his dreams and neglected his family for many years and then changes.
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Watched it awhile back. In my opinion it's very good. The beginning not so much but the rest really makes it very much worth watching.
 
Last film watched just a couple minutes ago, "Knight and Day".

After going back to main screen on Disney+ daughter and I are enjoying the newly added series of "Home Improvements" with Tim Allen.

Having a good laugh...
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With artificial intelligence and robotics developing rapidly, M3gan is a timely and well-crafted science fiction/horror movie now available on Amazon Prime video.

When a young girl’s parents die tragically, her scientist-aunt, assuming guardianship, presents the girl with an autonomous robotic AI as a companion and teacher tasked with protecting the girl from harm, physical and emotional. Although just 4’ high, the M3gan android proves itself to be a mini-terminator, dispatching perceived threats left and right while maintaining an eerie, creepy quality. No “living doll,” this!

 
Deep Water
A psychological thriller. Not my normal genre but it was interesting. It’s not a movie I’d highly recommend though. Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas play good parts. Parts of the story don’t really connect but I’ll leave that out in case anyone wants to watch it.


Vic and Melinda Van Allen are a couple in the small town of Little Wesley. Their loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family.
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Bella said:
"Storm Warning", a 1951 Stuart Heisler directed film noir with a strong dose of social commentary, was aired on Saturday night on TCM. It's a frank, brutal, and for the time period, shocking depiction of small southern town bigotry. The KKK is not a secret in this movie, but a visible fact of life in your average American community.
Storm Warning

Ginger Rogers and Doris Day each get two of their best acting roles ever in this film. Playing (non-glamorous, non-singing, non-clowning) sisters, they are excellent. (In fact, Day so impressed Alfred Hitchcock with the film that after viewing it he offered her a lead role as Jimmy Stewart's wife in "The Man Who Knew Too Much".)

Steve Cochran, who plays Doris Day's husband, is first-rate as well. Totally try to ignore the fact that his character is obviously based on Stanley Kowalski from "A Streetcar Named Desire", and watch this not-too-bright, but handsome and macho redneck attempt to win brownie points with the KKK.

Ronald Reagan is fine in the role of the square-dealing, full of integrity district attorney who wants to close down the KKK. I think it would have been more effective with someone like William Holden or Burt Lancaster in the role — but Reagan is fine.

One off-screen tidbit: Although the film doesn't specify where Rock Point is located, it was shot in Corona, California, which reputedly had numerous Klansmen in its population, one of whom actually walked up to Reagan and offered to rent KKK robes to the filmmakers.

So check out "Storm Warning" for something out of the ordinary with good acting and a look at the way the racist organizations were treated in films in the Jim Crow era.
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There is a movie similar theme starring Bette Davis, "Storm Center". About a librarian who fights a City Council and some of the town about removing a book a communism. She makes a point in about the importance of understanding what something is and isn't IN reality, so you can make informed decisions and are less likely to be swayed by propaganda for or against it.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049800/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_52_act
 
Last night i watched 'The Invisible Guardian'. The first movie in a Spanish trilogy called the BazTan Trilogy. Plan on watching the other two later this week. They feature a female detective who actually trained with FBI in USA. The first story takes place in home town/valley. Surrounded by thick forest. Beautifully filmed, with most scenes in shade of black, grey and blue setting a 'mood'. And her report on this case hints at what will main feature of the next one, "The Legacy of the Bones".

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4924942/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
 
Hopeful1 said:
“Marty” (1955) movie with Ernest Borgnine.
He won an Academy award for this one.

I really like it. It kind of lingers with you afterwards.
Makes you wish the story would continue. 🙂

It’s on Tubi.
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Agree it's a terrific movie.

I watched it about a year ago and was staggered by how much our attitudes have changed about ageing. In the movie, his aunt warns his widowed mother that if Marty marries, the mother's life's purpose and usefulness will be over - nobody left in the nest to cook and clean for.
 

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