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Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:39:23 AM
Why did you change instruments?
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:00:00 AMDUST BUNNY (2025): A little girl hires the hitman who lives down the hall to kill the monster that lives under her bed. Bryan Fuller (in his feature directing debut) rigorously maintains a unique dark storybook tone, something like "Leon: The Professional" directed by Tim Burton. Mads Mikkelson is good as the hitman (although I had trouble understanding his English at times---to the movie's credit his pronunciation becomes a running joke) and Sigourney Weaver has a nice supporting role. 3.5/5.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: World Cup?
Last post by Trevor - Today at 08:46:37 AMQuote from: Dr. Whom on Today at 12:47:44 AMAnd we're through! Belgium beat Senegal after what I gather was a very tense match. So we are doing better than Germany and Holland, which is something.
First time I've been woken up by noisy supporters this World Cup
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: World Cup?
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:45:28 AMQuote from: zombie no.one on Today at 07:36:48 AMQuote from: Dr. Whom on Today at 12:47:44 AMAnd we're through! Belgium beat Senegal after what I gather was a very tense match. So we are doing better than Germany and Holland, which is something.
First time I've been woken up by noisy supporters this World Cup
I think I kind assumed you were English for some reason... didn't realise you were Belgiumish.
you guys have chocolate and JCVD... anything else is a bonus
Hopefully the US will provide Dr. Whom with a better night's sleep on Monday.
Belgium also has waffles and fries, and, most importantly, the world's best beer by far.
#8
Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:16:00 AM"Not a Miles Davis fan" does not compute. 
Almost skipped this one, very glad I gave it a listen. Excellent performances of selections right to my taste, although I'm still a little skeptical of the idea of a clarinet trio with no clarinet.
Almost skipped this one, very glad I gave it a listen. Excellent performances of selections right to my taste, although I'm still a little skeptical of the idea of a clarinet trio with no clarinet.
#9
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 07:57:16 AMHOW TO MAKE A KILLING (2026):
A Madame pick, which I probably would've liked more if I'd understood what it was when I agreed to watch it, though it's also possible the film hasn't totally decided what it is or wants to be. Grinning lantern-headed star Glen Powell automatically makes me think any film will be a glib comedy, even THE RUNNING MAN, which was a glib action-comedy that did have some serious social commentary amidst the glibness. There are extravagant dashes of very broad humor in HOW TO MAKE A KILLING, though there are also very serious (occasionally resonant) moments, and by the end it reveals itself to be an extremely cynical noir.
If I'd known that was the plan, though, my patience might've been greater throughout.
Powell plays the black-sheep-at-birth reject of a grotesquely wealthy family and begins to prune the hedges ala KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS/"Gentleman's Guide To Love & Murder". Margaret Qualley is his childhood crush (and eventually the femme fatale), the lovely Jessica Henwick (from GLASS ONION and elsewhere) is the Girl Next Door, Ed Harris is the largely unseen patriarch, Bill (SALEM'S LOT) Camp gives good Paul Giamatti as the one relative Powell doesn't want to murder, and Topher Grace shows up briefly w/ a samurai sword. (A lotta' those in movies lately.) Other actors look familiar but I've never heard of them, which is also kind of a thing in recent streaming features.
The casting is weird. 37 year-old Powell's character is clearly supposed to be the same age as 31 year-old Qualley - mid-20s tops - which Qualley can pull off effortlessly but Powell cannot. He also gets a Christian Bale haircut and his character dresses like Patrick Batman, both of which are pretty distracting, but quickly it's clear that Powell is trying to give a Christian Bale performance, too. Powell isn't a bad actor honestly but his already-established glib muscular persona doesn't easily lend itself to being Bale, who invested almost 20 years in being a serious actor before he became an action hero. Qualley also receives some, ehhh, odd hairstyling (though her legs are on devastating display). Her role seems ephemeral for a long while and it's initially unclear why Qualley would want to play this part, until 2/3rds through the film where it's revealed (MILD SPOILER) that she's some sort of Keyser Sose-level depraved criminal mastermind.
Perhaps you might like it more if you approach it w/ a dark neo-noir mindset. 3/5 Madame had to comment on how Qualley is much less attractive than her mother (who if she were a redhead would resemble Madame a bit) but uhhh you will hear no complaints from me about Margaret either.
A Madame pick, which I probably would've liked more if I'd understood what it was when I agreed to watch it, though it's also possible the film hasn't totally decided what it is or wants to be. Grinning lantern-headed star Glen Powell automatically makes me think any film will be a glib comedy, even THE RUNNING MAN, which was a glib action-comedy that did have some serious social commentary amidst the glibness. There are extravagant dashes of very broad humor in HOW TO MAKE A KILLING, though there are also very serious (occasionally resonant) moments, and by the end it reveals itself to be an extremely cynical noir.
If I'd known that was the plan, though, my patience might've been greater throughout.Powell plays the black-sheep-at-birth reject of a grotesquely wealthy family and begins to prune the hedges ala KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS/"Gentleman's Guide To Love & Murder". Margaret Qualley is his childhood crush (and eventually the femme fatale), the lovely Jessica Henwick (from GLASS ONION and elsewhere) is the Girl Next Door, Ed Harris is the largely unseen patriarch, Bill (SALEM'S LOT) Camp gives good Paul Giamatti as the one relative Powell doesn't want to murder, and Topher Grace shows up briefly w/ a samurai sword. (A lotta' those in movies lately.) Other actors look familiar but I've never heard of them, which is also kind of a thing in recent streaming features.
The casting is weird. 37 year-old Powell's character is clearly supposed to be the same age as 31 year-old Qualley - mid-20s tops - which Qualley can pull off effortlessly but Powell cannot. He also gets a Christian Bale haircut and his character dresses like Patrick Batman, both of which are pretty distracting, but quickly it's clear that Powell is trying to give a Christian Bale performance, too. Powell isn't a bad actor honestly but his already-established glib muscular persona doesn't easily lend itself to being Bale, who invested almost 20 years in being a serious actor before he became an action hero. Qualley also receives some, ehhh, odd hairstyling (though her legs are on devastating display). Her role seems ephemeral for a long while and it's initially unclear why Qualley would want to play this part, until 2/3rds through the film where it's revealed (MILD SPOILER) that she's some sort of Keyser Sose-level depraved criminal mastermind.
Perhaps you might like it more if you approach it w/ a dark neo-noir mindset. 3/5 Madame had to comment on how Qualley is much less attractive than her mother (who if she were a redhead would resemble Madame a bit) but uhhh you will hear no complaints from me about Margaret either.
#10
Off Topic Discussion / Re: World Cup?
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 07:36:48 AMQuote from: Dr. Whom on Today at 12:47:44 AMAnd we're through! Belgium beat Senegal after what I gather was a very tense match. So we are doing better than Germany and Holland, which is something.
First time I've been woken up by noisy supporters this World Cup
I think I kind assumed you were English for some reason... didn't realise you were Belgiumish.
you guys have chocolate and JCVD... anything else is a bonus