Recently watched movies 2025

[Deepster]

Red Right Hand (2024) -

When I think of Orlando Bloom I think of him as a fairy or as Captain Jack Sparrow's sidekick.

Holy crap, you have to see him in this movie. Didn't even know it was him until I looked up the cast.

So, Andie McDowell is a family "mob" boss with a real evil manner. At the beginning of her appearance in the movie, it was a tough sell, but it didn't take long to buy into. She was a bad ass.

Orlando Bloom was in her posse but was able to get out. Alas, she reeled him back in with a threat to his family.

The movie is really entertaining. Garret Dillahunt is also in it and was pretty damned good.



Lastly, I walked into the room one day and wife had a movie called Ride (2024) on. All I want to know is, what the hell happened to C. Thomas Howell?

You lost me at Andie McDowell "mob boss".

 

[Dove]

You lost me at Andie McDowell "mob boss".

I rolled my eyes, too, at first but she reeled me in.

 

[Dove]

Mob Land (2023)

Hit a home run picking this one. John Travolta is a small town sheriff. His nephew, excellently played by Shiloh Fernandez, gets mixed up in a heist gone wrong led by his brother, played by Kevin Dillon.

Then, New Orleans mob tough guy played by Stephen Dorff shows up and starts eliminating people.

Entertaining movie.

 

[Dove]

Last night was stormy so Mrs. Dove and I got out to dinner early and got back early. Then, double feature night.

I picked:

In The Heart of the Sea (20215)

A Ron Howard film with Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy and Brendan Gleeson. I didn't know anything about the film but it was a cool period piece about a whaling ship out of Nantucket that met its fate against a really mean whale. The whole movie was a story that was being given by one of the survivors to a successful book writer. The writer was Herman Melville.

Very entertaining.

She picked:

Late Night with The Devil (2024)

My wife loves horror, and I hate getting caught up looking for a movie to watch.

She wanted to tap out after 10 minutes. I was intrigued so we kept watching.

An interesting concept for a movie. Set in 1977, the set up was a late night talk show host who just couldn't pass Johnny Carson. After his wife passed away, and a hiatus, he came back to low ratings. So, on Halloween, he scheduled a show focused on the occult (The Exorcist was still big back then) and scheduled some guests around it. The highlight being a doctor and her patient, a possessed girl who survived a mass cult suicide.

Things got out of hand.

I liked the movie.

 

[Dove]

Sure, Dove starts watching movies and thread dies.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Sure, Dove starts watching movies and thread dies.

Well what did you do that for?

 

[Dove]

Well what did you do that for?

More coming soon. My actor wannabe sister in law is here through tomorrow. Movies on tap.

 

[nwhoopfan]

More coming soon. My actor wannabe sister in law is here through tomorrow. Movies on tap.

I've been watching some tv series lately but I'll get back to some movie reviews at some point.

Wait, she's a wannabe actor or wannabe sister?

 

[HuskyHawk]

The Man with the Iron Heart. Jason Clarke is Reinhold Heydrich, architect of Hitler’s final solution and Intelligence head of the SS. Roamund Pike plays his wife. It starts in the late 20s and he’s a normal Navy man, not a member of the N party. She pushes him towards it, she’s from a wealthy family that lost a lot post WWI. He’s named Reichprotektor of Poland and the Czech Republic and former Czech and Slovakian soldiers who escaped to Scotland plot to kill him. The movie then shifts mostly to their story and the challenges they face working with the resistance and executing their plan. Jack O’Connell plays Jan Kubis and Jack Reynor plays Jozef Gabcik. This is all based on a true story. Well done. Slow at times but a good movie.

 

[storrsroars]

The Man with the Iron Heart. Jason Clarke is Reinhold Heydrich, architect of Hitler’s final solution and Intelligence head of the SS. Roamund Pike plays his wife. It starts in the late 20s and he’s a normal Navy man, not a member of the N party. She pushes him towards it, she’s from a wealthy family that lost a lot post WWI. He’s named Reichprotektor of Poland and the Czech Republic and former Czech and Slovakian soldiers who escaped to Scotland plot to kill him. The movie then shifts mostly to their story and the challenges they face working with the resistance and executing their plan. Jack O’Connell playa Jan Kubis and Jack Reynor plays Jozef Gabcik. This is all based on a true story. Well done. Slow at times but a good movie.

Hadn't heard of it, but Heydrich certainly is a vile character who's been the subject of many movies. I still find "Conspiracy" to be perhaps the most chilling movie I've ever seen regarding how depraved humans can go. Kenneth Branagh played him and had difficulty carrying out the script. I have not seen the original West German television movie on the Wannsee Conference that it was adapted from - that remains a goal.

I will look for this.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Hadn't heard of it, but Heydrich certainly is a vile character who's been the subject of many movies. I still find "Conspiracy" to be perhaps the most chilling movie I've ever seen regarding how depraved humans can go. Kenneth Branagh played him and had difficulty carrying out the script. I have not seen the original West German television movie on the Wannsee Conference that it was adapted from - that remains a goal.

I will look for this.

Saw that one. I didn’t even really like typing the review, because yes, he’s just that bad. They show that but also a bit of what drove him to it perhaps. Saw Conspiracy. Both are good.

 

[Dove]

I've been watching some tv series lately but I'll get back to some movie reviews at some point.

Wait, she's a wannabe actor or wannabe sister?

Wannabe actor. She's a career server in NYC.

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Have been on a Movie Theater kick lately.

Went to see Parthenope on Sunday, new Paolo Sorrentino movie. Very interesting, beautifully shot, dialogue was unique, not incredibly deep but also deep at the same time with more than surface level meaning. Touches on the Odyssey, Parthenope is a siren in it so relates back.

Interesting is the best way to describe it. It doesn’t have particularly great reviews but I liked it. Doesn’t hurt that the lead is gorgeous, but I really enjoyed all the side characters and her interactions with them, even if it felt sort of like a drawn out beauty commercial at times.

I then watched another of Sorrentino’s, The Hand of God, which I liked even more. Again, I love his cinematography, dialogue lacks at times which I think is a common occurrence with him. But a really good coming of age story which is auto-biographical. I went to Napoli the Summer of 2023 and was somewhat enthralled by the city, so that adds to my enjoyement of these films. But all in all, I recommend both.

 

[superjohn]

Last night was stormy so Mrs. Dove and I got out to dinner early and got back early. Then, double feature night.

I picked:

In The Heart of the Sea (20215)

A Ron Howard film with Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy and Brendan Gleeson. I didn't know anything about the film but it was a cool period piece about a whaling ship out of Nantucket that met its fate against a really mean whale. The whole movie was a story that was being given by one of the survivors to a successful book writer. The writer was Herman Melville.

Very entertaining.

She picked:

Late Night with The Devil (2024)

My wife loves horror, and I hate getting caught up looking for a movie to watch.

She wanted to tap out after 10 minutes. I was intrigued so we kept watching.

An interesting concept for a movie. Set in 1977, the set up was a late night talk show host who just couldn't pass Johnny Carson. After his wife passed away, and a hiatus, he came back to low ratings. So, on Halloween, he scheduled a show focused on the occult (The Exorcist was still big back then) and scheduled some guests around it. The highlight being a doctor and her patient, a possessed girl who survived a mass cult suicide.

Things got out of hand.

I liked the movie.

I liked Late Night with the Devil. They really captured the timeperiod perfectly and it was a unique movie. The main character was excellent, I've seen him before playing a psychopath.

 

[nwhoopfan]

"Flow' is in some ways what "Wild Robot" could've been. Animated feature with several different types of animals. This one has no dialogue. The animals make their normal sounds. The animation is simple but appealing. Animals are for the most part realistic in their appearance and behavior. I probably shouldn't say too much about it, just check it out if you're interested in the concept of a wordless animation. It's streaming on Max. Billed as a kids movie, but there isn't the usual dose of goofiness/silliness as your typical cartoon.

 

[CardiacAndre7]

"Flow' is in some ways what "Wild Robot" could've been. Animated feature with several different types of animals. This one has no dialogue. The animals make their normal sounds. The animation is simple but appealing. Animals are for the most part realistic in their appearance and behavior. I probably shouldn't say too much about it, just check it out if you're interested in the concept of a wordless animation. It's streaming on Max. Billed as a kids movie, but there isn't the usual dose of goofiness/silliness as your typical cartoon.

Gotta watch Flow, heard great things.

I thought the Wild Robot was amazing though.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Gotta watch Flow, heard great things.

I thought the Wild Robot was amazing though.

I enjoyed Wild Robot, it wasn't quite what I thought it would be.

Flow was...different. I enjoyed it also. Probably not everyone's cup of tea.

 

[HuskyHawk]

"Flow' is in some ways what "Wild Robot" could've been. Animated feature with several different types of animals. This one has no dialogue. The animals make their normal sounds. The animation is simple but appealing. Animals are for the most part realistic in their appearance and behavior. I probably shouldn't say too much about it, just check it out if you're interested in the concept of a wordless animation. It's streaming on Max. Billed as a kids movie, but there isn't the usual dose of goofiness/silliness as your typical cartoon.

My daughter told us we need to watch it. This is our cat

 

[Deepster]

"We Beat the Dream Team" - Good sports documentary about the Select team of college athletes who scrimmaged and beat the Dream Team before the 1992 olympics. They have game film of the scrimmage that I've never seen before and lots of good interview bits. Grant Hill, Chris Webber, Bobby Hurley, Jamal Mashburn, Allen Houston, Eric Montross. They "would" have been the Olympic team that year until the pros were allowed in and they were a little miffed about that. Really good hour long story.

 

[CL82]

Sure, Dove starts watching movies and thread dies.

 

[nwhoopfan]

"Suze" streaming on Kanopy. Not sure it ever hit theaters. I saw a trailer for it recently, then next thing I know it's streaming. I liked it. I've seen Michaela Watkins in a bunch of stuff but she's usually not the star. She was good. Without over explaining, through a series of circumstances she ends up bonding with her daughter's ex-boyfriend, played by Charlie Gillespie. He comes off as a likable doofus, but there's a little bit more to him. It's mostly mildly amusing, not hilarious, but has some more emotional parts. Basically everybody has gone through some stuff in life, it can be hard, try to be nice to people.

edit--filmed in Hamilton, Ontario, looks like most of the cast is Canadian. Not Michaela but she was born in Syracuse, NY, so that's almost in Canada, right?

 

[NEforceUConn]

The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnen and The Three Musketeers: Milady. Both on Hulu.

Both are French films. Hulu has the dubbed versions of each or in French with subtitles. I do not like dubbed films so I went with the original format in French. I thought both were very well done and some of the better movies I have seen in a few years.

I'm taking your suggestion, English dubbed version.