Back in the day when movies were events, this one was talked up quite a bit. It was initially to get an NC-17 rating and still has a lot of violent sex in it. A Hitchcock/femme fatale/feel to it.
* * * * of 5
Almost Famous (2000)
20th anniversary of this movie this year - planning a rewatch.
Cast looks very Kevin Smith - Jason Lee, Frances McDormand
An autobiographic look at the 70s by Cameron Crowe, who did a similar memoir which turned into the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which I read for the 1st time in 1981 in Playboy magazine.
Shawshank Redemption (1993)
Regular chosen as a favorite movie of many, this prison story about thriving despite the bad situation probably makes many think "Perhaps I could handle it". Starring Tim Robbins as Andy and Morgan Freeman (interesting name meaning!) as Red, Andy is sentenced to life for double murder that appears to be a railroad job. Red, the long-time inmate, shows him the ropes.
The period piece of this gothic prison look make the time look like something that probably never was. Interesting cinematography with many aerial shots and looking through long holes: a safe, the inevitable escape attempt. Similar 90s movies of that time were Forrest Gump and My Dog Skip.
* * * * of 5
Walk Hard (2007)
Billed as a biopic spoof, it turned out to be much more original that expected. John C. Reilly, an underrated comic actor stars as Dewey Cox, a singer who comes of age in the 1950s start of rock n' roll and has a storybook rise/fall/rise in the general story of Johnny Cash. Along the way he checks in Forrest Gump-style to every event along the way.
Best part was the original music. That time of the 00s had a lot of music creativity along with similar comedic movies Get Him to the Greek and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Also it was quite a star-making turn for just about every actor of the day: Jack Black, Jenna Fischer, Ed Helms, Jonah Hill, Craig Robinson and all the other Judd Apatow favorites.
Directed by Jake Kasdan and co-written with him and Judd Apatow.
Proudly R-rated!
He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
A funny Rom Com from 2009 - 2 decades ago!
Starring Bradley Cooper, Scarlett Johansson, among others...
but Ginnifer Goodwin and Jennifer Connelly get top billing?
As noted things have changed in 2 decades,
but the battles between men and women dating do continue.
Tenet
Theaters have re-opened! Cinemark has good procedures in place for social distance, and they took it to the extreme - only 2 people in the theater on a Friday afternoon.
Tenet is a palindrome, spelled the same forwards and backwards. That is a clue as to this complex time travelling plot. The Protagonist (John David Washington) and Neil (Robert Pattinson) are members of a shadowy, extra-legal enforcement organization (like Men in Black, Blade Runner) who travel forwards and backwards fighting evil (so to speak), from a red to a blue world, and trying to figure out if what they do means anything or not.
Very much a Bond movie, John David (son of Denzel) is witty, suave and an athletic fighter, so he does well. His sidekick Neil is cast in the same mold.
Part of the complexity is the Storm Trooper aspect - you can't tell who is who, good or bad, in many of the group scenes, of which there are a lot.
* * * * of 5. Worth a rewatch to figure out the details.
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