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The Kidnappers (1953)
A Vague Memory of seeing this movie
In early 1953, when I was just six, I became quite ill with Rheumatic Fever. After spending six weeks in the hospital, I convalesced at home but I wasn't allowed to strain my heart so I wasn't allowed to walk or to climb stairs. Gradually the doctor gave me permission to stand and then, to take a few steps. I still couldn't climb stairs so had to be carried up to the bathroom.
I turned seven in June of '53 and around the same time friend of my mother's loaned us an antique wheelchair which provided both freedom and thrills if my brother was my chauffeur.
Well, I remember when The Kidnapers opened at a nearby theatre which might have been 100m from our house. So my mother took me to a matinee but not in the wheelchair but in a baby stroller! I still remember going into that dark theatre in that stroller, all arms and legs, like a chimp.
Now I have fond memories of my mother pushing me up the street and into that dark theatre in that baby stroller almost seventy years ago. But I only have vague recollections of that movie....not enough to actually review it. I think it was sad and quite scary...maybe too much so, for a pale little boy who couldn't walk 100 metres.
Karen Pirie (2022)
Great series.
We really enjoyed this mini-series. Lately our Britbox seems to have reduced the overall sound quality but subtitles and new hearing aids solved that problem for me, at least.
While the young, cold case team leader DS Pirie worked long and thought hard to unravel and ultimately to solve the twenty-five year old case, she has left herself open to jeopardizing the case and to being investigated herself by the AC 12 team (Line of Duty!.)
Now, "Mother of God," of all people, she should have known that she should have first obtained a search warrant before entering a premise and extracting critical evidence.
We look forward to watching future episodes in which DS Pirie rebuilds her career and, of course, the case unravelled by her inexperience.
Best Sellers (2021)
Terrible
This film reminded me of some of the stuff DeNiro was cranking out late in his career, like he desperately needed money and didn't much care about the script, or his craft. I'd rank it just a tad higher than that dreadful Casey Affleck movie, A Ghost Story.
The acting and plot were very weak. Does the director think we're stupid? Caine's fake phlegmy cough, Aubrey Plaza's fake barfing, the dumping of a beer mug (seriously?) full of Elizabeth's and then Harris' ashes (I thought the cat had died,) was too much. Who attempts self-immolation in a bookstore and gets some seemingly fast healing hand and arm burns?
I didn't feel any of Aubrey's anxiety, never sensed that she was on the brink of losing this publishing company because of Caine's drunken insipidness, never felt like she was in fact the brains behind this teetering enterprise.
This movie was a waste of time and money.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Waste of time.
This was simply terrible. I have to put it on the same level as "Roma" and the ridiculous "A Ghost Story," as the most boring films of 2018.
Why oh why do I allow myself to get sucked into these, waiting, waiting for something to happen or for the plot to improve?
Shame on me.
Nicole Kidman must have needed a bit of pocket change to add this lump of coal to her repertoire.
Roma (2018)
Two + hours wasted
It's a tossup-Roma or A Ghost Story (Casey Affleck) deserve the award for the dullest movie of the year.