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William Bendix - The Blue Dahlia (1946) Elisha Cook Jr. - The Maltese Falcon (1941) Howard Da Silva - 1776 (1972) Ruth Gordon - Harold & Maude (1971) Beulah Bondi - Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) Gladys George - Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936)

The movie and the title are an homage to the works of H.P. Lovecraft, whose books/stories included such florid titles as At the Mountains of Madness and The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

Bilbo Baggins isn't supposed to be a hunk. He's a dopey little gnome who gets thrown into an adventure. If you need some guys to ogle, Orlando Bloom and Luke Evans show up later on, but the Hobbit movies are generally about gnomes and dwarfs, and casting someone that looks like Errol Flynn in those roles would be silly, although there are a few of the dwarf characters played by guys who are normally considered handsome (Richard Armitage and Aidan Turner for example), outside of their dwarf-character make-up and costumes. All that being said, while I love the Lord of the Rings movies, I thought the Hobbit movies were far inferior.

My thoughts on the above list: Several of them I have listed as being from previous years: Tigers Are Not Afraid, One Cut of the Dead, High Life, etc. I really liked Tigers Are Not Afraid and Midsommar. I really disliked One Cut of the Dead, High Life, and Glass. I thought The Dead Don't Die, Climax, Crawl, Godzilla, In the Tall Grass, Velvet Buzzsaw, and Us were pretty good and worth a see. I thought Child's Play, Brightburn, and Hellboy were passable. I'd skip Eli, and Nightmare Cinema. I haven't seen the others. I'm surprised by the omission of the highly-praised The Lighthouse and The Lodge. I haven't seen either of them, but look forward to.

Another year, another questionable "best of" list. Perhaps one or two missed your attention, and now you'll give them a look. Tigers Are Not Afraid Parasite Us Midsommar One Cut of the Dead Velvet Buzzsaw High Life It: Chapter Two Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror Doctor Sleep Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark The Perfection Lifechanger In the Tall Grass Happy Death Day 2 U The Hole in the Ground The Head Hunter Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse Bliss Godzilla: King of the Monsters Boar Little Monsters Ready or Not Harpoon Kindred Spirits The Wind Luz Crawl All That We Destroy Ma Climax Satanic Panic Eli Sweetheart Depraved Culture Shock Girl on the Third Floor Rabid Brightburn Darlin' Pilgrim The Banana Splits Movie Child's Play Haunt Nightmare Cinema Pet Sematary Glass Rattlesnake 47 Meters Down: Uncaged Hellboy Belzebuth Fractured Annabelle Comes Home Escape Room The Dead Don't Die The Field Guide to Evil Thriller The Prodigy https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/best-horror-movies-2019

The first Lethal Weapon is set during Christmas.

I watched Valley of the Dragons in the past year or two. I thought it was pretty awful. It may have been better in 1961 and if I was 11 years old. Co-star Joan Staley passed away two weeks ago at age 79.

I liked it, too. However, I agree with the critic that Glass and Serenity were awful.

This movie, as good as it might be (I haven't seen it), seems to be following the bad box-office trend of other recent scripted films based on or at least following hit documentaries on the same subject. The Walk (2015), based on Man on Wire (2008), and Welcome to Marwen (2018), based on Marwencol (2010), both failed at the box office. This new Mr. Rogers movie may not be a direct film version of the very successful and critically acclaimed Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018), but many viewers will find the new film redundant. It used to be generally regarded that most of the paying audience wouldn't likely see a documentary, as even the most successful in that genre had a far smaller paying audience than scripted films. But in the streaming age, documentary viewership has skyrocketed, and they are just as much a part of the zeitgeist conversation as scripted films. Thus the later scripted versions seem pointless.

Those weren't strange, just bad.

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You may be right, but I can't say that I'd understand such a sentiment. "Showing respect"? That's just silly. Don't misunderstand, I don't mean that you're silly, but the idea that someone would need to feel validation from a cable channel in regards to a movie they liked and already owned a copy of that they could watch at their leisure. But people have expressed other baffling emotional nonsense, so this wouldn't be the first or only instance. And I've always been a "show me something new" viewer, rather than a "show me the same things over and over again" type viewer.

March 2020 Bug (1975) March 10 Inseminoid (1981) March 10 Masked and Anonymous (2003) March 10 Universal Horror Collection Vol. 4 March 17 Night Key (1937) Night Monster (1942) The Climax (1944) House of Horrors (1946) April Fool's Day (1986) March 24 Frankenstein: The True Story (1973) March 24 The Wizard (1989) March 24 Bones (2001) March 31 Munster, Go Home! (1966) March 31

Christmas in Connecticut DVD $8.99 Miracle on 34th Street DVD $6.69 It's a Wonderful Life DVD $3.96 For roughly $20 you could buy all three and then never have to rely on TV to show them again.

Well, De Palma directed several early films with Robert De Niro, including The Wedding Party , Greetings, and Hi, Mom. De Niro appeared in The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, where the star was Jerry Orbach playing a character named "Kid Sally". James Goldstone was the director. However, in none of them did De Niro play a clown, as far as I remember. And none are circus pictures. An intriguing mystery, to be sure... Sally was a common nickname for men named Salvatore.

I also have a difference of over a thousand. Maybe the count under our avatars is the total, and the Most Posts section subtracts for deleted posts, or those from threads that were deleted. https://forums.tcm.com/topmembers/?filter=forums_Topic_Post

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I don't have the channel anymore, but I'll still indulge in my annual tradition of listing the only films during February that I haven't seen: Little Women (1949) Lassie Come Home (1943) Lady Be Good (1941) Cimarron (1960) The Princess and the Pirate (1944) All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953) Back Street (1941) None Shall Escape (1944) Mister Buddwing (1966) The Red Danube (1949) The Spanish Main (1945) Strike Up the Band (1940) The Facts of Life (1960) The Merry Widow (1952) Rich, Young and Pretty (1951) The Chocolate Soldier (1941) Vacation from Marriage (1945) Experiment Perilous (1944) The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) Too Young to Kiss (1951) Kisses for My President (1964) The Perils of Pauline (1967) Wee Willie Winkie (1937) Varsity Show (1937) My Wild Irish Rose (1947) Green Dolphin Street (1947) Music in Manhattan (1944) Hot Millions (1968) I Want You (1951) That's about three times more than usual that I haven't seen. However, I'm not really interested in seeing any of those, either.

Roma is being released by Criterion next year, and that will be the first Netflix feature on disc, as far as I know. I hope it means more will follow, as there is one or two others I'd like to own on disc, including The Irishman.

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I know you didn't ask me, but here's my answer anyway. Ranked from favorite to least favorite. Taxi Driver (10/10) Raging Bull Goodfellas The King of Comedy Mean Streets (9/10) Casino Silence The Age of Innocence (8/10) The Departed Cape Fear Gangs of New York The Irishman After Hours The Aviator The Last Temptation of Christ The Wolf of Wall Street The Color of Money (7/10) Kundun Shutter Island Hugo Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Who's That Knocking at My Door New York, New York (6/10) Bringing Out the Dead Boxcar Bertha

Yes, I liked that. In fact, I enjoyed a few versions of the story at one time. But the number of adaptations from film and television (TV movies, mini-series, and standalone episodes or specials, like the Black Adder one you mention) has grown excessive and tiresome, and I've grown to dislike the story.

Yeah.

Yes, she's made up for the role of Queen Elizabeth I.