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  1. Sam Sanchez
    Just finished up watching the Cursed Films series on Shudder and it's great. It's free for 30 days right now with code: SHUTIN. The overall tone of the show is basically calling bullshit on the idea of a "curse" and it's awesome. It's a short 5-episode series. The weakest episode is the first on The Exorcist. The 2nd episode on The Omen is solid, but the final three on Poltergeist, The Crow, and Twilight Zone: The Movie are all great and tough subject matter tackled very respectfully and gut-punching at times. In The Crow episode, there's a pretty good demonstration of how blanks work and how the Brandon Lee accident occurred. It also doesn't go too easy on John Landis for the Twilight Zone debacle. The show looks great and very well shot for what is basically a talking heads documentary, but looks better than pretty much any I ever see. Worth checking for anyone who likes to hear behind the scenes stuff on horror movies. If you don't enjoy The Exorcist episode since it has some "sillier" stuff in it, though it is for a purpose, stick with it all the way through. It's just 5 short 30-minute episodes.
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    The batch of movies is underwhelming at least. I remember enjoying Midnight Special though
  3. Sam Sanchez
    For any horror fans out there, Shudder streaming service is having a 30 day free trial using code: SHUTIN right now, they normally only do a 7 day trial. You could probably watch a good chunk of their stuff in 30 days. I would recommend checking out there Cursed Films series that just launched today. First episode on The Exorcist launched today and thought it was good, just 30 minutes long. There’s four more episodes on The Omen, Poltergeist, The Crow, and Twilight Zone: The Movie coming in the next two weeks. The director of the series is Jay Cheel, is the host of a podcast I’ve been listening to for over 10 years and he knows horror and has a great sense of humor, so curious how it’ll translate to the show. First episode is solid and have heard good things about the rest. Worth checking out if you’re into horror and curious about surrounding stories about the making of the movies and news stories surrounding it.
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    More TCM watching recommendations. Apparently they’re having a Akira Kurosawa/Toshiro Mifune marathon today. Recommend pretty much all of it but definitely Yojimb, High and Low, Seven Samurai and Rashomon. Though Drunken Angel and Stray Dog for early morning watching are good too though those start like right now so that might be too late.
  5. Sam Sanchez
    I’m more of a classic Looney Tunes guy. Actually, I grew up with the 90s Simpsons, so I’ve been rewatching those a bit as cartoons go.
  6. Sam Sanchez
    I have three kids in elementary school that I’m helping with all their schoolwork with and then just watching a ton of movies on the rest of the downtime so I don’t normally watch regular TV and have no baseball to watch.
  7. Sam Sanchez
    Actually, yeah I think you’re right. I’m remembering the police one now and it does show up in the quotes in a google search. The “people” one was him and the Wanda character back at the bar.
  8. Sam Sanchez
    I thought it was “I hate people”. Which I actually like even more.
  9. Sam Sanchez
    I still have never seen The Sand Pebbles or Cincinnati Kid myself. As TCM goes, they cancelled their film festival, and instead are doing an "Home Edition" film festival between April 16th and 19th. The lineup is pretty solid: http://filmfestival.tcm.com/special-home-edition/ Some stuff I'd recommend though a lot are obvious: 4/16 - Metropolis (1927) - if you're into classic silent sci-fi 4/17 - The Seventh Seal (1957) - the classic Bergman. RIP Max Von Sydow 4/17 - A Hard Day's Night (1964) - for Beatles fans 4/17 - North by Northwest (1959) - classic Hitchcock 4/17 - Some Like It Hot (1959) - classic Wilder 4/17 - Deliverance (1972) - Weeeeeeee! 4/17 - Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) - great late era Universal monster movie 4/18 - Safety Last (1923) - Classic Harold Lloyd silent comedy. Up there with Keaton and Chaplin's best 4/18 - They Live By Night (1949) - great film noir. Bonnie & Clyde type of story. 4/18 - Network (1976) - classic Sidney Lumet 4/18 - Night and the City (1950) - Among my favorite film noirs. Richard Widmark is always great. 4/18 - The Lady Vanishes (1938) - Early Hitchcock, still great. 4/18 - The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) - Among the greatest silent films of all-time 4/19 - The Set-Up (1949) - Also among my favorite film noirs and likely my favorite boxing related movie. 4/19 - Red Headed Woman (1932) - fun pre-code movie 4/19 - Singin' in the Rain (1952) - joyous fun 4/19 - Baby Face (1933) - pre-code Barbara Stanwyck
  10. Sam Sanchez
    Have been watching a ton of movies throughout the month, having not had to work for a few weeks. A few of the highlights: The Man Who Whould Be King (1975) - great late era John Huston adventure movie starring Michael Caine and Sean Connery. Lenny (1974) - great 70s Dustin Hoffman playing Lenny Bruce. Mommy (2014) - Depressing, but great recent French canadian drama Speed Racer (2008)- - I remember this being incredibly divisive when it came out, almost most negative, but I thought it was a great sports narrative in a unique packaging. Red Rock West (1993) - a somewhat restrained Nic Cage in a solid neo-noir Barfly (1987) - Mickey Rourke plays Henry Chinaski, for the Bukowski fans The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) - I love Jean Arthur The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) - Likely wouldn't recommend this to most, but I loved it. Also rewatched: The King of New York 12 Angry Men Sullivan's Travels Shaun of the Dead The Nice Guys Which are still great.
  11. Sam Sanchez
    Co-signing on Lust for Life and even moreso Paths of Glory. Ace in the Hole is essential and might be my overall favorite of his movies. Other of noir movies are definitely worth checking out: Out of the Past, I Walk Alone, The Bad and the Beautiful, and Detective Story. Great career and long life.
  12. Sam Sanchez
    Best Mookie to ever put on a Dodgers uniform?
  13. Sam Sanchez
    Well not with THAT attitude.
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    Wasn't De Niro of Irish descent in Goodfellas too? Didnt seem like a big deal to me in either movie
  15. Sam Sanchez
    I am a fan of Bale in general so I don’t think I’d hate it but just a movie I think at most I would just think was decent . I guess most I’ve heard about it was that it was better than expected with a great Bale performance. I still plan to check it out at some time just not sure when. Maybe some time before the Oscars as that and 1917 are the main two movies of note that I haven’t seen yet
  16. Sam Sanchez
    Parasite is worth seeing.
  17. Sam Sanchez
    Marriage Story was probably my #3 movie of the year so I’ll support the best picture nod there. Still need to catch up with 1917 and Ford v Ferrari from that list though have no real interest in Ford v Ferrari to be honest
  18. Sam Sanchez
    Jackie Brown is my favorite Tarantino. That said though, I did like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Yes, the ending was over the top, but felt what followed afterward was a nice capper to just give the audience a nice fairy tale ending on what could have been.
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    1917, Little Women, and Waves are like the only movies from last year that I still really need to catch up with. Didn't really have much interest in 1917 initially, but despite still hearing mixed reviews in general, the positive ones have me curious.
  20. Sam Sanchez
    Trout/Adell/Marsh the 2020s' Salmon/Anderson/Edmonds?
  21. Sam Sanchez
    Watched Uncut Gems and Knives Out fairly recently. Uncut Gems is likely going to be my favorite movie of the year. Have seen pretty much of everything I'm interested in this year with the exception of Little Women, Waves, and Honey Boy, and I'm not sure any of those will beat out Uncut Gems. It's just an anxiety inducing mess, but it's great. Knives Out is also good if you enjoy murder mystery whodunits along the lines of And There Were None, Sleuth, Gosford Park, etc... Marriage Story is also worth checking out on NetFlix. Among my top 5 for the year currently.
  22. Sam Sanchez
    That's a solid spray chart for Marsh
  23. Sam Sanchez
    I'm indifferent. I don't hate them but not one of them are among favorites of any given year. As comic movies go, I actually thinking something like Logan has been better than anything from the MCU.
  24. Sam Sanchez
    I actually remember liking The Hitcher haha. Though I haven't seen it in like 10 years but it's reputation is actually very positive especially compared to something like Nothing But Trouble. But yeah, Rutger Hauer was also good in Nighthawks as well as a lot of the early Paul Verhoeven movies like Soldier of Orange, Spetters and Flesh & Blood.
  25. Sam Sanchez
    I've worked there before but I'm currently in Santa Ana.
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