#Iwatched #ACompleteUnknown (2024). As a biopic it's kind of a miss. It's not historically accurate by far, nor does it provide insights into Dylan's mind ("I'm Not There" did that). He arrives in NYC 1961 as an introverted asshole with genius song writing skills and leaves Newport Folk Festival the same way in 1965. His character development remains opaque. But you do get the chance to experience this time and the NYC folk scene and watch some phenomenal singing performances by the actors.

when I was new to the internet and hanging out on forums someone posted an image of what looked like a classifieds ad in a newspaper. you know the one about going back in time. today #Iwatched a film inspired by this famous ad. and even though I had heard it was good I didn't expect much. but it was good. like really good. that's all I'm allowed to say. I gotta go. #SafetyNotGuaranteed (2012)

#Iwatched Nobody (2021) — a brutal, fun action romp. The influence of #JohnWick creator Derek Kolstad is felt in the spectacularly choreographed action scenes. The story about a middle aged ex-CIA-killer, now sandwiched between a boring office job and a listless marriage, before rediscovering his masculinity with super violent vigilantism, one would like to discount as just silly. But the pent-up male frustration sits in the target audience and the film's veiled message is deeply conservative.

#Iwatched #AfterTheHunt (2025) with a phenomenal #JuliaRoberts as a Yale prof caught between her fave student accusing her friend & colleague of sexual assault. Both sides expect her blind support and thus the stage is set for the film's dissection of each generation's moral defects. Although it's mostly the older generation speaking here, we directly witness their lapses in integrity and clinging to power. There is no winner in this confrontation and very little learned but some great lines.

#Iwatched #HuntForTheWilderPeople (2016) with #SamNeill and some fat kid, who both played well. The story was entertaining enough, sometimes funny too, but not as often as it wanted to be. Mainly though the hunt has no real stakes in anything. It's an escapist fantasy on easy mode. I've seen kids movies deal with problems in a more mature way. Which made this comfortable watching but ultimately lightweight and forgettable.

#Iwatched
- #TradingPlaces (1983) good comedy fun with #DanAykroyd, #EddieMurphy. contains gratuitous boobs  and some dated gay jokes  
- #StElmosFire (1985) the #bratpack movie and #Friends precursor suffers from shallow script, unlikable characters and sirupy score  
- #TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo (2011) upright journalist and magical hacker girl hunt down rich antisemitic ripper. too many characters and repulsive rape scenes included 

#Iwatched Brats (2024) a documentary by #AndrewMcCarthy in which he interviews other members of the #bratpack about the impact this label had on their careers and lives. It originally came from a scathing magazine article about these young actors, who didn't have much in common until then. This is all wholly uninteresting if you don't know who the bratpack was. But if you were young in the 80s, you probably want to see this.

#Iwatched the 2007 adaption of #StephenKing's #TheMist in which good actors have to take their last stand in a closed off supermarket against generic monsters on one side and generic survivors on the other, which turn a bit too quickly into hysterical bible-thumpers lusting for human sacrifice. As usual King didn't really have an ending for his story, so the film tacked on a new one, that neither fits the tone nor the message of the rest of the story. But it's a real downer. So there is that.

#Iwatched #DavidCronenberg's #EasternPromises (2007) in which #ViggoMortensen plays the driver for a violent Russian mob family in London. When an English nurse inquires about a diary she found on one of her patients, she gets dragged into their dealings. The film is appropriately heavy-hearted and ruthless for a Russian mob thriller, violent only in pecise dosage, and outstandingly well acted with a script that holds some unforeseen twists.