Phat Mack Eyeballs The Flicks

Battle Royale 2001 Special Edition; The lost Write-Up In the beginning: Beat Takashi, 7th Grade teacher, gets knifed. At the dawn of the millennium: The Nation collapsed! 800,00 students: Boycotted school! Look, there she is: The winner is a girl! Go, Shuya! Now they have: Digital watches around their necks! No! It’s Cliff Clavin’s shock collar! Beat lands in a chopper! Chigusa: Gogo Yubari!!! Spoiler: And then a girl whispers and Beat kills her with this really cool throwing knife right to the forehead while they kill the teacher* and then they have a training film** and all the boys are wearing western-cut suits but Shuya is Nobu’s friend whose dad hung himself after writing a pep talk on an entire roll of toilet paper who (Nobu) teaches him (Shuyu) to play guitar*** while they are in the same foster care and then comes back to the school trip after the nice girl asks him but is the first kid killed by his exploding necklace so Shuya takes over the nice girl he likes and tries to pro

Elevator to the Gallows I like Noir flicks, and I like French flicks, but I usually hate French noir flicks: they never seem to get it right--they always insist on trying to insert a moral into the ending. Last night I saw a possible exception, Elevator to the Gallows. I think it may have been Louis Malle's first movie. It had the typical French ending problems, but it also had a fantastic sound track composed by Miles Davis that more than made up for it. It was sort of a minimalist scoring comprised of sweet jazz--perfect in every way from the minute the film begins to roll. The movie was worth going to just to listen to music interact with the action. After Miles Davis scored this flick, I don't see how anybody made a noir flick without asking him to do the sound track. Compare it to the wailing gangs of saxes used in a Japanese noir film, let's say Tokyo Drifter (a film I dearly love), and it becomes apparent how difficult it is to nail it. This film was recently remaste

The Post Smoking everywhere: Ah, the good old days! NYT: The firstest with the mostest. Daniel Ellsberg: walked the walk. Lies: hypothetically speaking. Wars: lost causes. Lemonade: 1971's BitCoin! Abuse of Power: Never again! Press: the beginning of their love affair with themselves. I wished it had Rosalind Russell, but nevertheless, I, too, love press movies. Check it out. Addendum: The kid who plays the Post's lawyer is the same guy who always called Walter "Mr. White" on Breaking Bad. It came to me as I was folding laundry. Called Jesse Plemons. The Judith Martin who gets thrown out of the White House for crashing wedding receptions is the same Judith Martin who went on to write Miss Manners. Sometimes life is too good to be true. Somebody should do a movie about her.

I, Tonya ++ ++ Totally Real! check. Wholesome American family: check. Beautiful girl, lovely dress Where she is now, I can only guess 'Cause it's gone daddy, gone The love is gone You **** dumb: You don't marry dumb. I won't back down: check. Best in the world: check. Don't you know that you are A shooting star... The Incident: check. Two of my top operatives: Every skater's recurring nightmare. Not: My fault. I was loved: for a minute. ...And all the world will love you Just as long, as long as you are? Fun movie. Great acting. Fantastic use of soundtrack. Check it out.

Last Jedi Warning: This is only the second Star Wars flick I've seen. I may have had some trouble figuring out who the characters were, but eventually got it all straight. Opening title crawl: check. Rebels: check, but alas, no monuments. Phone pranks: check (the kids love phone pranks). "Dreadnaughts" & "Bombs Away!": check. Darth Vader: now played by Adam Driver. Pescatarian Jedi: Played by Luke Skywalker. Mark Hamill: now played by Orson Welles in his greatest role. Washed-up has-been Jedi: played superbly by Mark Hamil. Young Luke: now a girl named Rey. Intergender violence: Carrie Fisher. Rey and Luke: get in a light saber fight in the rain (but not sexy). Then: Rey goes to the Death Star (I never figured out why). Then: Rey and Adam Driver and Smeagol get in a light saber fight. I think maybe Rey won. Then: some other stuff happens. Then: Rey is on the Millennium Falcon with Chewbacca (I missed the part that explained how). Filmies: some beautiful matc

The Greatest Showman Killer opening: check. Real dancers: check. P.T Barnum: Wolverine, dancing and singing. Freaks: wanted. Jenny Lind: Pop star. Young love: Nothing like junior high rope drills. Freak Flags: Flying. Pompadours: Poised for a big resurgence. Model trains: And CGI elephants. Maybe the best thing I've seen in a long time. Check it out. Quote: Originally Posted by  Howard Beale   I just saw The Greatest Showman and I'd give it half of the Oscars right now. One of the best movies I've seen in years and I don't normally care for musicals. Yeah, pretty much this. 

The Disaster Artist James Franco: Played by Dennis Hopper in his greatest role. Dennis Hopper's Brother: Play by Tom Cruise impersonator, David Franco. Tom Cruise's friend Tommy: Played, of course, by James Franco, the Star of both movies. Melanie Griffith and Sharon Stone: Hollywood eye candy. Coneheads, from France? Nah, Nah Oluns... Be the best: On Tommy's planet. I did not: Hit her. Do it like Shakespeare: but sexy. Malcolm in the Middle: check. This is a fun flick. Check it out. Seeing this flick in no way obligates you to see The Room.