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    Video: The US Navy's Smartest Idea of WW2

    I consider myself a modest WW2 history buff, but I knew nothing about this. To create suitable carrier takeoff and landing training without tying up actual warships, or risking carriers to sub attacks during training, the USN converted two Great Lakes based coal powered ships with working...

  2. Civil War

    Read a review that suggested the writers/director went out of their way to avoid taking a "side," and instead strive to make everyone look ridiculous. Not unprecedented. The Hunt was the same, and pulled it off really well.

  3. Does Fallout (on Amazon Prime now) remind any of you nerds out there of the old Gamma World role playing game?

    Okey dokey. Thought it was good. It slows down a bit in the mid-episodes, but wraps up well, and sets the table nicely for season 2. Will definitely continue watching.

  4. Does Fallout (on Amazon Prime now) remind any of you nerds out there of the old Gamma World role playing game?

    We're enjoying it at our house. Love Walter Goggins. That dude can flat out act.

  5. They Cloned Tyrone

    Also: Recommend watching with subtitles. The dialogue is fast.

  6. They Cloned Tyrone

    This movie is a great surprise. It's a mashup of a bunch of different genres. They Live meets Foxy Brown meets Scooby Doo meets Westworld meets Pulp Fiction. And if that sounds improbable, it is. And very funny. The writing is really good. Jamie Foxx's character is a pimp, and feels like...

  7. Killers of the Flower Moon

    A dark subject and an ugly, not-well-known chapter in American history. Great director, great cast, and a harrowing, real-life story. Should be a formula for success. Expected it to be well done, based on reviews. Instead, was a bit disappointed. First and foremost, it's too long (3 hours...

  8. Anybody else watching Lawmen:Bass Reeves?

    Watched the first episode last weekend. M'eh. Taylor Sheridan sometimes shows a tendency to compress too much story into too little space, turning just about every character into a simple caricature. In the currently very hip-and-hyped "white man bad, black man good, red man good" narrative...
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    This movie looks great, gonna make some heads explode

    American Fiction, starring Jeffrey Wright, who is an exceptional talent, IMHO.
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    Gonna be a Heat 2

    For every 50 failed sequels, there is a Godfather Part 2 or Aliens. Michael Mann is a very good script writer and director. Gonna have some faith that it will be good. Other than Adam Driver is too tall to play Neil. BTW, if you liked Heat, and have never watched Thief with James Caan, do...

  11. Captain Fantastic

    2016 film starring Viggo Mortensen. Highly rated on IMDB and by critics. Let me start by saying this movie is controversial. It mixes a bunch of stereotypes. It directly (and effectively) questions American social norms and institutions. The plot surrounds a family of six kids being raised...

  12. City of Lies

    Caught this 2018 film the other night. Really liked it. It's based on a real life LAPD detective, Russell Poole, who lost his career and retirement over the Christopher Wallace, a.k.a, rapper Notorious B.I.G., murder case. The plot is largely about Poole's investigation, and his uphill fight...

  13. The Covenant

    Watched this tonight. Currently $5.99 Amazon Prime rental. Well worth it. A lot of Hollywood/action/reality stretching going on, but it is fast paced and the story humanizes the people the U.S. left behind to suffer at the hands of the Taliban.

  14. RIP Treat Williams

    Williams made a bunch of sub-par movies, but they were never bad because of his acting. His philosophy seemed to be akin to Gene Hackman's: Don't take work for granted. He also had a substantial live stage pedigree. He was a talented vocalist as well as an actor, and that got him many...

  15. RIP Treat Williams

  16. RIP Treat Williams

    Killed in a motorcycle accident earlier today. Very gifted actor. Prince of the City and Hair are two of my favorite movies, and he was a big reason for that.

  17. Netflix: Blood and Gold

    Unusual WW2 flick. Plot: An SS detachment is chasing a Wermacht deserter through the Rhineland in April, 1945. He's not their real mission. Just a temporary distraction. What they are really after is a box of gold bars, stolen from Jews and hidden away in a nearby, small vilage. Things get...
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    The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors By James B. Hornfischer

    Great WW2 non-fiction about the Battle of Leyte Gulf, told largely from the perspective of the crews of the destroyers and destroyer escorts sent to defend against the powerful Japanese surface armada trying to destroy the U.S. invasion force going ashore in the Philipines. I'm sure a lot of...

  19. Gomorrah

    If you're in between a bunch of other shows, or just looking for something new to watch, I highly recommend this series. It's a crime drama set in modern day Naples, Italy, and depicts the struggles of a mob family trying to maintain control of the Secondigliano neighborhood in Naples. Best...

  20. Jeremy Renner critically injured in snow plowing accident

    The Bourne Legacy and Mayor of Kingstown are two of my favorites. Just read an updated report that he was run over by his own snow plow. Traumatic leg injury with substantial blood loss.
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