Re: Movies
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2022 9:13 am
769 - Pride (2014) - 8/10 - In 1984, coal miners went on strike in the UK. A group of lesbians and gays forms to raise money and support the miners, eventually traveling to a small village in Wales to continue their activities. This support proves a bit divisive, especially at first due to the source of that support. There was plenty of humor in the film and I thought it was well acted and entertaining.
770 - Zodiac (2007) - 7.5/10 - David Fincher directed this film about the Zodiac Killer who murdered a number of people in the San Francisco area in the late 1960s and sent messages in puzzle form to police and newspapers. The first hour or so was excellent and shows the confirmed attacks and initial investigations. Robert Downey, Jr. is a reporter working on the story while Jake Gyllenhaal is a cartoonist at the same paper who becomes obsessed with unmasking the killer. Mark Ruffalo is a police detective working on the case. The film jumps ahead a number of years as Gyllenhaal's character dives deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole. I thought that part of the film kind of dragged, though it wasn't bad.
771 - Topaze (1933) - 7/10 - John Barrymore stars as Professor Topaze, an earnest, but naive teacher who gets tricked into promoting a drink under false pretenses. It's a pleasant enough film, though I thought it was a bit skimpy on plot and could have been expanded a bit more.
772 - Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924) - 7/10 - Siegfried is the son of a king who has a number of adventures while on his way to ask King Gunther of Burgundy for permission to marry Gunther's sister. The sets and costumes were all very good. The story bored me a bit, but was okay.
773 - Casbah (1948) - 7/10 - Tony Martin stars as Pepe le Moko, the leader of a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah. Pepe is in Algiers to escape jail in France. He falls for a French visitor named Gaby (Marta Toren) which does not make his girlfriend Inez (Yvonne DeCarlo) happy. Peter Lorre must like movies that take place in North Africa since he has a role in this film as a detective. It's a decent film with a few songs thrown in.