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WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS
Here are some articles from this past week that we encourage you to check out and jump in (or start) the conversation.
Sailor and Duke conclude their list of The 100 Greatest ’80s Movie Characters. Let’s see where they got it wrong!
Check out some recommendations to celebrate some celebrities birthdays: Richard Linklater, John David Washington, and Sandra Bullock.
Have you seen Manchester by the Sea? Check out one it’s most powerful scenes.
MONSOONVISION SHOWINGS THIS WEEK
(Subject to Change)
Sunday 8/2 at 9PM CST
Movie: The Crazies (2010)
“After a strange and insecure plane crash, an unusual toxic virus enters a quaint farming town. A young couple is quarantined, but they fight for survival along with help from a couple of people.”
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How To Watch This Film: DVD/Blu-ray, Netflix, HBO GO, iTunes, Amazon, YouTube, or however you can muster it
Wednesday 8/5 at 9PM CST
Movie: StageFright (1987) *2nd annual showing*
“A group of stage actors lock themselves in the theater for a rehearsal of their upcoming musical production, unaware that an escaped psychopath has sneaked into the theater with them.”
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MOVIES WATCHED THIS WEEK
Starred Up (2013)
“Eric Love, 19, is locked up in prison. On the first day, he assaults another inmate and several guards. He’s offered group therapy and his dad, an inmate as well, tries to talk sense into him. Can he be rehabilitated?”
Instantly one of my favorite prison dramas after this first watch. Ben Mendelsohn is great but Jack O’Connell carries the film so well. He seems like he should be a bigger star. I definitely want to check out more of his roles. He plays every emotion with precision and believability. Director David Mackenzie leaves it just unpolished enough that it has an almost documentary feel to it. Highly recommended. (4.5/5)
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
“A pharmacy-robbing dope fiend and his crew pop pills and evade the law.”
Something didn’t click with me here but I do think this was really good. Matt Dillon was fantastic as the leader of a group of bumbling junkies who are constantly looking for their next score while avoiding James Remar. Gus Van Sant delivers a stylish but realistic look at the seedy drug life of those who live on the fringes of society. (4/5)
Session 9 (2001)
“Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.”
I have lost count on how many times I have seen this movie but I love introducing it to people and watching it with them the first time. This is a great horror movie that is sorely overlooked and not talked about enough. With rewatches of my favorite movies, I like to focus on different aspects of the film and this time I really paid attention to the setting and the background of each scene. Being filmed at an actual asylum, the feel of this film is all the more creepy. Events of the film just felt more skin-crawling than it being on a set or somewhere dressed up to look abandoned. WATCH THIS MOVIE! (4.5/5)
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