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Let us know what you have been watching recently on the big and small screen. Excited about any upcoming releases? Doing anything fun this weekend? Simply sitting around in your underwear eating dang quesadillas while watching movies and endlessly scrolling through social media? Let us know below!
WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS
Here are some articles from this past week that we encourage you to check out and jump in (or start) the conversation.
We celebrated a couple of Birthday boys this week by picking some of our favorite performances of theirs. Kevin Bacon and Tom Hanks
How well do you know your Summer Camp and Submarine movies?
Check Romona’s review of The Best Man!
MONSOONVISION SHOWINGS THIS WEEK
(Subject to Change)
Sunday 7/12 at 9PM CST
DOUBLE FEATURE
Movie: Italian Spiderman (2007)
“When an otherworldly substance with amazing cloning properties falls into the hands of the evil criminal mastermind, Captain Maximum, only the extreme powers of the Italian Spiderman can save the world.”
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How To Watch This Film: DVD/Blu-ray, Netflix, HBO GO, iTunes, Amazon, YouTube, or however you can muster it.
Movie: Kung Fury (2015)
“In 1985, Kung Fury, the toughest martial artist cop in Miami, goes back in time to kill the worst criminal of all time – Kung Führer, a.k.a. Adolf Hitler.”
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Wednesday 7/15 9M CST
Movie: Cut and Run (1985)
“A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec’s missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.”
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MOVIES WATCHED THIS WEEK
The Devil’s Rejects (2005)
“The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape a vengeful police force which is not afraid of being as ruthless as their target.”
Here are mine and Sailor’s thoughts from Double Impact!
Sisters (1972)
“A fledgling Staten Island journalist witnesses a brutal murder in the neighboring apartment of a French-Canadian model, but the police do not believe that the crime took place. With the help of a private detective, she seeks out the truth.”
A solid little thriller that is a bit on the melodramatic side. Young Margot Kidder is pretty adorable here and De Palma is definitely in his Hitchcock groove here. It walks the line of almost being too silly but never goes too far. (4/5)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
“A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.”
I’ll admit that I only watch the basic training portion of this and man does it still kill me. R. Lee Ermey just dominates this part of the film and he is pitch-perfect as the money, foul-mouthed Gunnery Sergeant. The fact that he ad-libbed almost all his lines and only needed a couple of takes at times is mind-boggling. (5/5)
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