John---Charade is a good choice. I like that movie as well; the music is mesmerizing. You'll laugh; my favorite scene is when Audrey Hepburn and her friend rush to see Monsieur Felix, and he's there looking lovingly at those incredibly rare stamps he had traded with Jean-Louis. As a collector, I loved listening to him briefly describe why each stamp was so significant, and their incredible value. I remember his line, "Oh, the value is unimportant" to convey their priceless nature. Yeah, good selection, John. --- Brian Powell

Brian,
That stamp scene is great...and as collectors we can certainly relate to his feelings.

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All good stuff Hugh, Badges, Badges?, we don't need no stinkin' badges...

Just watched '65' on Netflix - pretty good =- interesting idea.

Last night was the first time in a month that my wife and I could watch a movie (last movie we saw was on July 4th, in theaters). Before that might have been another month. Anyway...she came to me and asked to watch Butch Cassidy. Remembering this thread I recommended The Verdict. We started the film and she said, "I didn't want to watch old men, I wanted young attractive men." LOL

Anyway, it was a great movie. My wife was very tense, feeling very bad for the whole situation. We finished the movie at midnight. Thanks for the recommendation.

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we saw Asteroid City on July 4th. What a strange movie! we liked it, because we like strange movies.

Since we're talking about Indy films, have you seen MOONRISE KINGDOM?

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Movie to recommend, came out 2-3 years ago: CODA (Child of Deaf Adults). A++ rating.

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End of another summer. What has everyone been watching? Here's what I've seen while not teaching.
Young Woman And the Sea (2024)
Across the Universe (2007)
Twister (1996)
The Fall Guy (2024)
Dune v.1 (2021)
Pure Country (1992)
Jack Reacher (2012)
Captain America (2011)
Spiderman Homecoming (2017)
Marvel: Infinity Wars (2018)
Marvel: Endgame (2019)
Batman: Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Rewatching series: Rings of Power (Amazon)

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Been watching "The Black List" Netflix series lately and it has been great so far.
I had no idea this series began in 2013 but sadly was ended last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PveqHsANmI

My goodness, there have been some fantastic movies mentioned. "The Verdict" several times and for good reason - one of my favorites.

Here a couple of great movies, maybe not big at the box office, but fantastic and well worth the watch:

"The Three burials of Melquiades Estrada"

If you like Tommy Lee Jones and Barry Pepper this one you have to watch.

"Valdez is Coming"

Burt Lancaster in one of his best roles.

"American History X"

The best movie Edward Norton has ever made.

Check them out, WARNING - "American History X" is not for children!

I went to see the new Aliens movie a couple weeks ago. I thought it was an OK movie. Not really a big fan of that franchise though. But my buddy thought it was a very good movie and he's a fan of those movies.
We were going to see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice this weekend but putting it off until next Saturday because we're going to Fenway Wednesday for the Sox game.

Madame Web was probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen in the theater. I slept for a hour and a half during it and still saw too much.

Two fairly recent movies I would recommend would be "Violent Night" and "Bullet Train". Both did very little at the box office when they came out last year, but I thought they were really entertaining.

Both movies are Action/Comedy movies that are pretty violent.

Here's a trailer for Bullet Train:

https://youtu.be/0IOsk2Vlc4o

And for "Violent Night":

https://youtu.be/a53e4HHnx_s

One of the funnest action movies I've seen in recent history is "Nobody" with Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad).

Came out during the early part of the pandemic so "nobody" really saw it until it hit their streaming platform.

Odenkirk makes a strangely compelling action star. Just imagine Saul Goodman stepping in for Keanu Reeves in kind of an anti-John Wick movie, if you can possibly imagine that.

Trailer below:

https://youtu.be/wZti8QKBWPo?si=UQ-wjb7WdI4G3Z0S

I think I might have to watch this, it seems like it is probably my type of movie. The trailer looked pretty good. Thanks for posting it!

Not contemporary, but just watched on TCM - again! - "Chinatown" - with Jack Nicholson. It's about 50 years old, but still a good one.

Reminds me, I recently watched the new Faye Dunaway documentary on HBO/MAX.

Not exactly ground-breaking, but an interesting piece.

My wife had never seen GOOD WILL HUNTING, so we watched that one last week. It's still amazing that Damon and Affleck wrote that at such a young age.

My wife is a Minnie Driver fan, and I've told her we need to watch GROSS POINT BLANK. I find the basis of that movie funny. Its worth a watch if you missed it when it came out in the mid-90s.

Another Damon movie we watched was THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU. It's not a great movie, but it had an interesting plot about fate.

Since I seem to be a sucker for a great screenplay, this is my vote for #1 all-time. It's a Greek tragedy as a detective story.

I have The Hustler in my top ten, but I'll mention Altman's California Split also captures the psychology of the twilight world really well.