What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

I watched the Netflix series called Sweet Magnolias--two seasons are available now. I thought it was good and it got better in time. About 3 women friends and their lives in a town called Serenity. It shows their new business start up, things they deal with in the town, their love lives, and their deep friendship, and also how they love Margueritas! :D (y) I enjoyed it and am hoping they will have some more seasons to come.
 

Paco Dennis said:

MEL GIBSON - TIM (1979)​

Fans of Mel Gibson can't miss this romantic drama movie from the same year of his first Interceptor, based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough. A handsome but developmentally impaired 20-year-old man works as a laborer. Everyone abuses his naiveté except a nice 40-year-old American woman who hires him one day. When they become close, however, the town and his family disapprove...

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I saw this many years ago (obviously). It was an excellent film!
 

This morning I watched The Descendants on Prime. I liked it even if it was sad, it was realistic and heart wrenching. About a woman who is in a bad accident and in a coma and who's husband and kids struggle with the whole thing.
 
Just finished a very obscure British propaganda film, Fires Were Started, produced in 1943 by the legendary Ian Dalrymple's Crown Film Unit. It was about a typical squad of AFS firemen during one nighttime Blitz raid in 1940. London accents were so thick it was difficult to understand at times (no captions), but overall it was classic Dalrymple faire, from the happy go lucky watch room, the "stiff upper lip" calm professionalism while bombs went off all around, and the quick-witted improvisation when a German bomb hits the water mains. Casualties, of course, but the cargo ship full of ammunition is saved.
 
The French Dispatch (2021)
It's a Wes Anderson movie through and through. While highly entertaining, I didn't think it was as funny as they wanted it to be. Great production value but there is one scene that uses animation instead of live action that felt a bit jarring.
 
Not a movie but a series on Prime Video, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 4 just started. There was something like a two year wait between the last season. It is free but you would have to watch the previous seasons to understand it I think.
 
My last movie (streaming) was Tender Bar, on Amazon Prime. Don't always like Ben Affleck, but did in this:
In 1972, 9-year-old J.R. Maguire moves into his grandfather's dilapidated house in Long Island, N.Y. Searching for a father figure, he falls under the unconventional tutelage of his uncle Charlie, a charismatic, self-educated bartender who introduces him to a handful of the bar's colorful regulars. As the years pass and J.R. grows into a young man, he tries to fulfill his dream of becoming a writer.

It was charming & pleasant & the cast was good. It was also only 1 hour 45 minutes, my attention span.
 
Pepper said:
My last movie (streaming) was Tender Bar, on Amazon Prime. Don't always like Ben Affleck, but did in this:
In 1972, 9-year-old J.R. Maguire moves into his grandfather's dilapidated house in Long Island, N.Y. Searching for a father figure, he falls under the unconventional tutelage of his uncle Charlie, a charismatic, self-educated bartender who introduces him to a handful of the bar's colorful regulars. As the years pass and J.R. grows into a young man, he tries to fulfill his dream of becoming a writer.

It was charming & pleasant & the cast was good. It was also only 1 hour 45 minutes, my attention span.
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I agree; I think the book was a tiny bit better but that does happen sometimes with movies. Moehringer has written another book called Sutton, a fictionalized account of bank robber Willie Sutton, I recommend it highly; 2 fave quotes from it:

"A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death."

"You want to be a prophet? You want to be a f*ckin Nostradamus? Predict a[n economic] crash. You’ll never be wrong."
 
Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
In just 93 days, what started as peaceful student demonstrations became a violent revolution. Netflix original documentary Winter on Fire brings you the story of Ukraine's fight for freedom from the frontlines of the 2014 uprising.


Winter on Fire is a fascinating documentary and extremely relevant to what's going on there right now. It's a bit graphic since it contains actual footage of the violence, so if you can't handle that kind of thing, give the film a pass.
 
Last night it was How The West Was Won, from 1962. Everything about the movie was in epic proportion, from the Cinerama wide screen to the list of stars, the big name directors, to the length. It should have been one of the very best movies of the sixties, except the writing was mediocre at best, and there were some annoying camera flaws with close up motion. Not even the likes of James Stewart, Henry Fonda and Debbie Reynolds could do much to improve it. Still, it was worth watching.

The highlights: Karl Malden talking about his farm at the beginning, and the buffalo stampede.

The lowlights: a plot written to show off the wide screen special effects, and the fisheye camera artifacts when the effects didn't work.
 

BOWIE AS ANDY WARHOL IN BASQUIAT​

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity. Basquiat is a 1996 American biographical drama film directed, co-written and co-composed by Julian Schnabel in his feature directorial debut. The film is based on the life of American postmodernist/neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Basquiat, born in Brooklyn, used his graffiti roots as a foundation to create collage-style paintings on canvas.

 

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