Your Evening's Viewing...

[Ash Armstrong]

Now the football is done, this evening's cinematic entertainment is Die Hard.

Dir. John McTiernan (1988)

Bruce Willis
Alan Rickman
Bonnie Bedelia
Alexander Godunov

Years since I've seen it. I picked up this BluRay set last week. I've not seen the 5th film at all, and I'm not sure I've seen the 3rd one either. I'd not thought the 1st one was from as early as 1988; I'd assumed it was early 90s.

[Ash Armstrong]

Many years since I've seen this. Like Die Hard in 1988, Lethal Weapon is also a Christmas movie...
Dir. Richard Donner (1987)

Mel Gibson
Danny Glover
Gary Busey

[Ash Armstrong]

Back to the Future (1985)
Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Michael J. Fox
Christopher Lloyd
Lea Thompson
Crispin Glover

It's entirely possible I haven't seen Back to the Future this century, which kind of makes me a time traveller, doesn't it? Yes, it does.
Vworp Vworp.

[Ash Armstrong]

With the third and final part of the adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials being unveiled over Christmas, it seems the right time to begin at the beginning.
It's one of my favourite books.

[Ash Armstrong]

Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
A Film by Dziga Vertov.

With a score by Michael Nyman.

The Koyanisquatsi of its day!

[Ash Armstrong]

Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera.
(1929)

[Gilly Goodness]

ENOLA HOLMES 2

She's just so adorable!!!

"The game is afoot. Again."

Tremendous fun again. Breezy, punchy, funny, clever sequel sees Millie Bobby Brown's titular character open her own detective agency. Her first case is to find a missin' girl. Mayhem ensues. In Victorian London's seedy underbelly. Matchstick makin' factory. There is corruption from on high.

Millie is by turns plucky, perky, silly, brave and always so adorable. Is there any better young actress who can do it all? Zendaya? Maybe. She is like Hermione Grainger on steroids. When she gets punched in the face, you feel it. Tremendous fight choreography.

The edittin' deserves mention. Pulsatin' and whip smart. Funny. Lots of jokes. A rollickin' fun time for the whole family and ya gotta love a mainstream, modern film where the main theme is

WORKERS UNITED, WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED


Bravo!! 5 stars *****
Netflix.

[soundchaser09]

With the third and final part of the adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials being unveiled over Christmas, it seems the right time to begin at the beginning.
It's one of my favourite books.

amber spyglass should be a fascinating adaptation.

[Ash Armstrong]

This evening's feature presentation:
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Dir. Robert Wise (1979)
Director's Cut 2022

William Shatner
Leonard Nimoy
De Forest Kelley
Nichelle Nichols
James Doohan
Walter Koenig
George Takei
Persis Khambatta
Stephen Collins

[Grey Wolf]

Speaking of Star Trek, I found this bizarre commercial for the original series.

[Ash Armstrong]

This evening's feature presentation:

Back to the Future Part 3
Dir. Robert Zemeckis (1990)

Michael J. Fox
Christopher Lloyd
Lea Thompson
Mary Steenburgen
Richard Dysart
ZZ Top

It's the second time-travel film in which Mary Steenburgen appeared, after 1979's Time After Time, which also starred Malcolm McDowell and David Warner. McDowell and Steenburgen got married shortly after.

[Ash Armstrong]

The Outer Limits
S1: E9
"Corpus Earthling"
1963

Robert Culp
Salome Jens
Barry Atwater

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667809/

Salome Jens played the head changeling in ST: DS9

[Ash Armstrong]

Fiend Without a Face

Dir. Arthur Crabtree (1958)

Marshall Thompson, as well as playing the lead role, also directed most of the film as titular director Arthur Crabtree thought science-fiction and horror beneath him so he seldom turned up on set, and withdrew completely before filming was concluded. I remember seeing this late at night in the 70s, and it really gave me the willies. It holds up really well.

[Ash Armstrong]

Just finished watching His Dark Materials. 😢
I've read the book three times so I knew how it ends, but I'm still in bits 😢
❤️

[Ash Armstrong]

Arsenic and Old Lace

Dir. Frank Capra (1944)

Cary Grant
Priscilla Lane
Raymond Massey
Jack Carson
Peter Lorre
Edward Everett Horton
James Gleason
Josephine Hull
Jean Adair
John Alexander