Tuesday: Woman of the Hour (2024)
This is based on a true story. Set in the 70s, Sheryl is an aspiring actress in Hollywood. She books a gig as a contestant on The Dating Game. She hope it will give her exposure. She ends up picking Rodney Alcala. He seems like a great guy. Little does she know he is a serial killer. I thought this movie was alright. I had heard about him before on a podcast I listen to. It was interesting to see it from her point of view.
Thursday: The Black Cat (1934)
The movie, as the credits say, is suggested by the Edgar Allan Poe story. Peter and Joan are newlyweds on their honeymoon in Hungary. They ends up sharing a train compartment with a doctor named Vitus. They gets off at the same stop and take the same taxi bus. There is an accident. Luckily they are near Vitus's destination. The home of famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig. He reluctantly lets them in. Joan was hurt in the crash. While she is recovering Peter learns more about the two men. Hjalmar was responsible for Vitus going to prison after the war and the death of his wife. Vitus wants to know what happened to his daughter. Hjalmar gives little away. But it becomes clear he is a leader of a Satanic cult. Peter and Joan are trapped and have to find a way to escape. This movie was alright. It was called The Black Cat mostly because Vitus is afraid of cats.
Friday: Here (2024)
This movie tells the story on a piece of land and all those who lived on it. From the dinosaurs to present day. There was a Native American couple. A pilot and his family in the early 1900s. A couple in the 20s. The family of a WWII vet. And a black family in current time. We check in on all the families periodically. Mostly it focuses on the family of the WWII vet. They have three children, one of whom is named Richard. Before he graduates high school he gets his girlfriend, Margaret, pregnant. He had dreamed of being an artist and she wanted to be a lawyer. Their lives go in a different direction after they get pregnant. They face many challenges. They have a life of love and loss. I thought this movie was alright. It's a unique way of telling a story. And a unique way of filming it. The camera never moves. While the land and house may change, the camera is always facing the same direction. That's all we see. The story jumped around too much. Again I don't know what people have against just telling a story from beginning to end.
Saturday: Velvet Goldmine (1998)
When Arthur was a teenager he became obsessed with 70s glam rockers Brain Slade and Curt Wild. Brian pushed the boundaries of rock. He wore make up, dressed femininely and didn't hide the fact that he was bisexual. Curt was a crazy rocker who joined Brain's band. They eventually had an affair. Later Brain gets shot on stage. It turns out it was a hoax. Soon after Brian disappears. 10 years later Arthur is a journalist and is assigned a piece on Brian. Tracking him down and finding what really happened. By doing so Arthur relives what it was like for him during that time. Struggling to fit in and come to terms with his sexuality. This movie was alright. It's one of the movies I remember seeing a Blockbuster when ever I would go and was curious. There are certain movies that I always remember seeing when I went. Like Billy Elliot, The Dark Crystal, and A Night at the Roxbury to name a few.
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