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All I remember about it at the time was that it was somewhat controversial because it depicted what amounted to a grown man who appeared as a young boy (stunted growth from trauma of war, etc.) and there was I think a (not graphic) love scene with a grown woman so everyone freaked out about...

Deacon, Bar none the most intense and historically fascinating WWII film I have seen in years is Come and See (1985). It tells the story of a young wide eyed kid from Belarus enlisting with the Soviet army/resistance to fight Germans as they retreated and laid waste to entire Belarusian...

Found this list on IMDB... WWII Movies From A German Perspective... I have seen a number of them but not for many years. I remember Tin Drum being a big movie about a kid whose age and growth are (I think not sure) metaphorically stunted by the horrors of war. And I have seen several others...

This one is WWI and primarily shows the insanity of Western Front trench warfare from the view of some very young late arriving German recruits... very young... under trained... unprepared... etc. There is also a focus on the last six hours of fierce combat just prior to the surrender which is...

Watch this German remake of All Quiet on The Western Front this weekend streaming on Netflix it was pretty epic. Default soundtrack on Netflix was crappy dubbed English but it can be toggled back to original German thankfully. Brutal retelling of events as depicted in the original 1930 classic...

Watched Hail Mary on Amazon this weekend we enjoyed it. Kind of a comic relief Interstellar-Lite if that makes any sense. But well done and good sci-fi story in and around the comic relief.

Psyched for this one...

Watched Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die this weekend. Not particularly original AI doomsday scenario warning theme. It was like a hybrid of a dozen previous films and borrowed from all of them... but that's not a knock on it because to me it felt more like a tribute to them vs. a straight rip...

Counting the days until November 6th.

Short top ten list of must see (for me) current directors in no particular order... 1. Park Chan-wook 2. Ari Aster 3. Yorgos Lanthimos 4. Bong Joon Ho 5. Robert Eggers 6. Alex Garland 7. Christopher Nolan 8. Brandon Cronenberg 9. Osgood Perkins 10. Rose Glass And honorable mention junior must...

Watched No Other Choice this weekend a crazy mix of current A.I. job replacement themes and vintage Park Chan-wook (very) dark and somewhat violent sense of humor. If you are a fan of his work then you will like this one IMO. Takes a while to get rolling but gets pretty crazy like most of his...

Saw this creepy latest A24 thing in the theater early Sunday morning. Pretty cool soundtrack the majority of the scary parts are heard and not seen. A lot of effort went into the sound mix which I appreciated. One unfortunate thing was that there was a loud action movie playing in the adjacent...

After the opening scene I fast forwarded through the rest of Monarch episode four then switched to Car Wow videos on the treadmill this morning. This season of Monarch is losing my interest rapidly.

Dune 3 trailer looks great hoping it comes to local IMAX.

I still need to see Hamnet, Train Dreams, Sentimental Value and Secret Agent. Side note I was glad to see Amy Madigan win a supporting actress award for Weapons... which I know was not for everyone... but her performance was bonkers and award worthy IMO. Less interested in Marty Supreme I like...