Seven new-to-me movies in one weekend! GODZILLA MINUS ONE - what took me so long to watch this I don't know - is brilliant.

The movies are laser-focused on murder-solving, but at the same time, Benoit Blanc is so colorful that his personality (and the rich supporting cast of suspects) prevents the movies from becoming generic crime procedurals.

I'm making peace with the fact that having children continues to hamper my movie-watching frequency and influence what I get to see. At the same time I won't miss an opportunity to do a little catching up. More to come tomorrow, knock off a few more movies from my to watch list.

How did I make this list? It's a combination of Best Picture nominees from the last 10 years, and a random assortment of movies that I can't watch in front of my children. Then I sorted the list into movies I could watch for free on my streaming subscriptions, and ones that have to pay for...

October 1991: I saw RICOCHET in the theater! All I remember is villain John Lithgow had a bizarre revenge scheme against the cop (Denzel Washington) who put him away. My review here: stubhubby.blogspot.com/1991/10/rico...

Fun rabbit hole, thanks!

Would the NYT "Great Read" profile on you call it "an odd turn", "a new path", or "a final chapter"?

I used to drive a 1990 Honda CRX Si, it was the most fun-to-drive care I ever owned. Love me a pocket rocket.

This reminds me of a conversation a very PR-savvy friend once had "You want to promote your film festival? Just invent a moviemaking award, give it a prestigious title, and tell Famous Director X they won it. They show up to accept it, there's your press"

I think Netflix and HBO Max are my two most-expensive monthly subscriptions. All I know for sure is, Netflix isn't going to cut that revenue stream in half 😔

Bling will still be there long after we are all dust

That's Sela Ward in THE FUGITIVE, I think the only thing I saw Jeanne Tripplehorn in was BASIC INSTINCT?

I laughed out loud when they cut to the shot of Selina and Bruce and the giant raging fire between them.

Hang on, I am not criticizing the work, and I don't have a professional eye to tell a difference between Netflix and 4K - I just noticed she looked younger!

Now that I think about it, at the beginning of the heist, just as Argyle and Karl enter the lobby and before they shoot the security guard, it would have been a nice touch if a couple of Holly's coworkers were seen in the background, headed out, just missing being hostages.

There is one shot I remember of Olivia Colman at the beginning of the movie in the kitchen flashback where they met, where she looks very...unlined