Recommend some good movies!

kosmo wrote:
My first exposure to The Sparks was that truly forgettable movie Rollercoaster (1977) and I was a bit creeped out by their image.  Never really got it to them, but their cult following is strong and I can take them in small doses now.  And honestly the FFS project resonates more with with me than straight up Sparks.

My first exposure to Sparks was the dance scene in Rad (1986) where Bart Taylor and the Reynolds twins strut their stuff to Music You Can Dance To before Cru Jones and convict Lori Loughlin bicycle boogie to Real Life's Send Me An Angel.

This looks good
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
(Goes a thousand miles an hour)

Going to see the new Conjuring movie tomorrow.  Hope it is good!!  Watched the first Insidious movie last night.  FUCK, that is a great film!!  That ending!  I am felling fully, possessed.

was curious (but don't really like the genre), but this fact jumped out at me…especially since I never heard of it
Insidious was one of the most profitable films of 2011
a total of $97 million worldwide.

WalkOnBack wrote:
Going to see the new Conjuring movie tomorrow.  Hope it is good!!  Watched the first Insidious movie last night.  FUCK, that is a great film!!  That ending!  I am felling fully, possessed.

I'm just now starting it…

Shit. Now I'm possessed too. Please do not watch this movie. The last thing we need is a whole board of possessed people.

Or do we?

excontradiction wrote: The last thing we need is a whole board of possessed people.

How the hell would you know what we do or do not need? You’re getting awful big for your britches.

excontradiction wrote:
Or do we?

I did allow for other possibilities. I mean, if you're gonn…grbh… grrrgh… ARRRGRRRUHH

excontradiction wrote:if you're gonn…grbh… grrrgh… ARRRGRRRUHH

are these the tell-tale signs of demonic possession?

Since my daughter kept referring to it as a movie prior to watching it, I'll drop it in this thread

The new Bo Burnham special on Netflix is really good

About to consume Blade Runner 2049, in the theatre!  Watched Blade Runner, The Final Cut last night, in preparation.

God, I love being able to return to the, theater.

Space wrote:
"Nobody," streaming in Prime.

I love Bob Odenkirk and plan on watching this movie at some point, but I want to say that I would pay money to see 9:30 Forum Hutch play this role.


Summary: When two thieves break into his suburban home one night, Hutch (Bob Odenkirk) declines to defend himself or his family, hoping to prevent serious violence. His teenage son, Blake (Gage Munroe), is disappointed in him and his wife, Becca (Connie Nielsen), seems to pull only further away. The aftermath of the incident strikes a match to Hutch’s long-simmering rage, triggering dormant instincts and propelling him on a brutal path that will surface dark secrets and lethal skills. In a barrage of fists, gunfire and squealing tires, Hutch must save his family from a dangerous adversary (Aleksey Serebryakov)—and ensure that he will never be underestimated as a nobody again.

I'm not usually a fan of films with lots of violence, but this one was thoroughly entertaining.

no idea if this will be good, so i can't recommend it yet:

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band to release new film, The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts

add to the chorus of Summer of Soul being a must see, it's amazing and the highlight is probably Nina Simone's appearance..

one interesting tidbit was the very end after the credits, Stevie Wonder is seen with a member of his band and i was thinking he looks familiar… someone did the research and it turns it was Gene Key who was his musical director at the time… Gene was a friend of my parents and a well respected arranger.

kosmo wrote:
add to the chorus of Summer of Soul being a must see, it's amazing and the highlight is probably Nina Simone's appearance..

one interesting tidbit was the very end after the credits, Stevie Wonder is seen with a member of his band and i was thinking he looks familiar… someone did the research and it turns it was Gene Key who was his musical director at the time… Gene was a friend of my parents and a well respected arranger.

Cool seeing Stevie behind the drum kit

Bagley wrote:

Cool seeing Stevie behind the drum kit

One of my favorite scenes

kosmo wrote:
add to the chorus of Summer of Soul being a must see, it's amazing and the highlight is probably Nina Simone's appearance..

one interesting tidbit was the very end after the credits, Stevie Wonder is seen with a member of his band and i was thinking he looks familiar… someone did the research and it turns it was Gene Key who was his musical director at the time… Gene was a friend of my parents and a well respected arranger.

You buried the lede: everyone on the board is now three degrees of separation from Stevie Wonder.

excontradiction wrote:

kosmo wrote:
add to the chorus of Summer of Soul being a must see, it's amazing and the highlight is probably Nina Simone's appearance..

one interesting tidbit was the very end after the credits, Stevie Wonder is seen with a member of his band and i was thinking he looks familiar… someone did the research and it turns it was Gene Key who was his musical director at the time… Gene was a friend of my parents and a well respected arranger.

You buried the lede: everyone on the board is now three degrees of separation from Stevie Wonder.

Speak for yourself.

excontradiction wrote:

kosmo wrote:
add to the chorus of Summer of Soul being a must see, it's amazing and the highlight is probably Nina Simone's appearance..

one interesting tidbit was the very end after the credits, Stevie Wonder is seen with a member of his band and i was thinking he looks familiar… someone did the research and it turns it was Gene Key who was his musical director at the time… Gene was a friend of my parents and a well respected arranger.

You buried the lede: everyone on the board is now three degrees of separation from Stevie Wonder.

technically it's two degrees… as I've met Thomas "Beans" Bowels who was a Funk Brother playing Flute and Saxophone.  He is credited with doing a flute solo on Fingertips for an obscure album called "The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie Wonder".  That flute solo eventually became the Harmonic solo in a little ditty called Fingertips part 2…