Monday: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A drifter named Frank ends up getting a job at a restaurant/ gas station. He gets to know the owner Nick and his young wife Cora. Cora is the classic femme fatale in this film noir movie. She is mysterious and dangerous. She is unhappy in her marriage. She and Frank soon fall in love. Cora knows Nick will never divorce her. She also wants the restaurant for herself. They grow desperate and decide to kill Nick and make it look like an accident. Things do not go as planned. This is a good movie. If your wanting to watch a classic film noir this is it.
Tuesday: The Gold Rush (1925)
This is a classic Charlie Chaplin film. His character the Tramp has gone to Alaska to mine gold. He is not prepared for the cold or for surviving in the mountains. He ends up stuck in a cabin with two other gold miners during a long storm. They soon run out of food. The Tramp resorts to eating candles and even one of his shoes. When the storm passes he heads to town. There he meets Georgia. He falls for her. She doesn't feel the same way. But she leads him on out of boredom. It does have a good ending for both of them. I liked this movie. Although it was a little long for a silent film.
Thursday: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
Liz is a young single mother trying to support her daughter. She meets a handsome young man named Ted Bundy. They fall in love quickly. They are happy. Then Liz finds out Ted was arrested on his recent trip. Soon other states come after him with different charges. They charge him with abducting women and murder. More and more of his crimes come to light. Liz doesn't believe any of it at first. Ted claims to be innocent. But as it goes on Liz can't ignore it. She becomes depressed. Ted has many trials where he continues to say his is innocent. He escapes many times. This is based on a true story so it doesn't spoil much to say he ends up with many years in prison and then is executed. Only near the end of his life does he start to admit what he did in little bits and pieces. I liked the movie ok. It was interesting that it was all from Liz's perspective. There wasn't a lot blood and gore. It makes it hard for you to believe that he could do all these things. Zac Efron did fine. But his character was still handsome and charming. I would like to see him in role where he is not handsome or charming. See if he can actually handle a dramatic role just on his acting skills alone.
Friday: Pokemon Detective Pikachu (2019)
Tim lives in the suburbs. He has a boring life. Unlike most people he doesn't have his own Pokemon. Then he learns that his estranged detective father has died. Tim goes to the city to pack up his father's things. There he meets his dad's Pokemon partner Pikachu. He is able to understand what Pikachu is saying and Pikachu can understand him. No one else can understand Pikachu. Tim learns that Pikachu and his dad were working on a case. Something happened that lead to his father dying and Pikachu losing his memory. They must work together to figure out what happened. This is a cute movie. You have to wait a little for Ryan Reynolds as Pikachu to come into the movie for the movie to start to be good. The Pokemon are really cute. Other than that the movie is only ok.
A drifter named Frank ends up getting a job at a restaurant/ gas station. He gets to know the owner Nick and his young wife Cora. Cora is the classic femme fatale in this film noir movie. She is mysterious and dangerous. She is unhappy in her marriage. She and Frank soon fall in love. Cora knows Nick will never divorce her. She also wants the restaurant for herself. They grow desperate and decide to kill Nick and make it look like an accident. Things do not go as planned. This is a good movie. If your wanting to watch a classic film noir this is it.
Tuesday: The Gold Rush (1925)
This is a classic Charlie Chaplin film. His character the Tramp has gone to Alaska to mine gold. He is not prepared for the cold or for surviving in the mountains. He ends up stuck in a cabin with two other gold miners during a long storm. They soon run out of food. The Tramp resorts to eating candles and even one of his shoes. When the storm passes he heads to town. There he meets Georgia. He falls for her. She doesn't feel the same way. But she leads him on out of boredom. It does have a good ending for both of them. I liked this movie. Although it was a little long for a silent film.
Thursday: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
Liz is a young single mother trying to support her daughter. She meets a handsome young man named Ted Bundy. They fall in love quickly. They are happy. Then Liz finds out Ted was arrested on his recent trip. Soon other states come after him with different charges. They charge him with abducting women and murder. More and more of his crimes come to light. Liz doesn't believe any of it at first. Ted claims to be innocent. But as it goes on Liz can't ignore it. She becomes depressed. Ted has many trials where he continues to say his is innocent. He escapes many times. This is based on a true story so it doesn't spoil much to say he ends up with many years in prison and then is executed. Only near the end of his life does he start to admit what he did in little bits and pieces. I liked the movie ok. It was interesting that it was all from Liz's perspective. There wasn't a lot blood and gore. It makes it hard for you to believe that he could do all these things. Zac Efron did fine. But his character was still handsome and charming. I would like to see him in role where he is not handsome or charming. See if he can actually handle a dramatic role just on his acting skills alone.
Friday: Pokemon Detective Pikachu (2019)
Tim lives in the suburbs. He has a boring life. Unlike most people he doesn't have his own Pokemon. Then he learns that his estranged detective father has died. Tim goes to the city to pack up his father's things. There he meets his dad's Pokemon partner Pikachu. He is able to understand what Pikachu is saying and Pikachu can understand him. No one else can understand Pikachu. Tim learns that Pikachu and his dad were working on a case. Something happened that lead to his father dying and Pikachu losing his memory. They must work together to figure out what happened. This is a cute movie. You have to wait a little for Ryan Reynolds as Pikachu to come into the movie for the movie to start to be good. The Pokemon are really cute. Other than that the movie is only ok.
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