For the first time ever I watched a movie entirely on YouTube! Really good. Very powerful movie, especially for 1955. I need to own it now. This is the earliest Sidney Poitier film I've seen to date. Even if he was too old to play a teen really, he has that leading man quality about him. You can see he's on the brink of superstardom, kind of like watching Leo DiCaprio in Romeo and Juliet.
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Driving Miss Daisy 1989
Sweet little movie, but Best Picture? Really? It's not even like it was a lousy year. Dead Poet's Society, Born on the Fourth of July, My left Foot... The REAL best film of 1989, Do The Right Thing, wasn't even nominated! The 80's truly was the decade of the baffling Best Picture winners.
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Brawl in Cell Block 99 2017
Fucking brutal! It's not often I see a movie that has me physically flinching at what I'm seeing. And I'm not Vince Vaughn's biggest fan but he kills it in this film. Now it's made me want to see Bone Tomahawk, which I've been told is even better.
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Apocalypto 2006
Nothing like being pleasantly surprised. Lockdown has found me with a lot of free time, and I thought I would put it to good use by getting through my watchlist. This was one of those 'Let's get it out of the way' watches. The last film I saw directed by Mel Gibson was Braveheart, and I wasn't blown away by it. I was expecting this to be a Dances With Wolves type epic, with a bit of social commentary thrown…
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