The Most Recent Movie You've Seen on Streaming, Broadcast TV, or Movie Theater?

I like film noir. And luckily, youtube's got a big selection. So the other day I watched "The Hitch-Hiker" (1953) with Edmund O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy. William Talman (Hamilton Burger in the Perry Mason series) plays the psychotic killer. Great scenery in Arizona and Mexico (actually California), great old lumbering sedans, and pretty good acting, especially Talman, who really gets into the head of the maniacal sadistic killer. Directed by Ida Lupino, too.

If you like film noir and don't mind subtitles you can't go far wrong with this.

Bloody HAH!

I used to get TMC’s Noir Alley where I-saw this. Wonderful movie.

There are so many of them! It's funny, a number of times I've started watching one and then realize about fifteen minutes in that I'd watched it before! That happened this week when I watched "He Walked by Night" and "The Big Bluff". (Both fine movies.)

The Endless (2017)
Really trippy low-budget indie existential, cosmic horror film. Solid acting and script. Worth the Netflix watch.

Oh definiately, The Endless.

I watched it within the last year and was thoroughly tripped out.
What fun.

Maybe 3 days ago I put it back on my list to watch again.


Speaking of Trippy.
Not a NF movie, but I would like to put in a word for the animated "Midnight Gospel"

The first couple minutes I was thinking "Oh god this is dumb".
Then the shrooms or acid or whatever I had taken kicked in and it was like "dude"

To make the best of it, I suggest only watching one 20ish minutes episode at a time though. Don't ruin the buzz.

I tried the Ballad of Buster Scruggs, because I am a fan of westerns. It was divided into short stories. Not long after Scruggs was shot between the eyes, I lost interest and shut it down.

Edgar, please give it another chance and try another of the stories. I too found Buster himself annoying and silly.

At least watch the one call "The Girl Who Got Rattled"

I think that may have been the only one I truly liked, and made me cry.

I know you like your westerns Ed, check these out.

The Duel (2016) Woody Harrelson & Liam Hemsworth
A Texas Ranger investigates a series of unexplained deaths in a town called Helena.
Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vInSRt_KYio

Never grow old (2019) Emile Hirsch & John Cusack
An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful American frontier town, but his family comes under threat as the death toll rises.
Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIDpnUWcFTo

Hostiles (2017) Wes Studi, Christian Bale & Rosamund Pike
In 1892, a legendary Army Captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.
Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJz5l5ru7ws

Slow West (2015) Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender & Ben Mendelsohn
A young Scottish man travels across America in pursuit of the woman he loves, attracting the attention of an outlaw who is willing to serve as a guide.
Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utxE3AmHbHs

In a valley of violence (2016) Ethan Hawke & John Travolta
A mysterious stranger and a random act of violence drag a town of misfits and nitwits into the bloody crosshairs of revenge.
Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUi-bkIYLEg

The Sisters Brothers (2018) John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix & Jake Gyllenhaal
In 1850s Oregon, the infamous duo of assassins, Eli Sisters and Charlie Sisters, chase a gold prospector and his unexpected ally.
Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaCGqfn_qzs

Hope you find one you like Hopalong

I will at least take a gander. I never heard of any of them.

Thanks for those, euro. I would also recommend Open Range (2003)with Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner.

Just watched Django Unchained. The bloodiest western shootouts I can recall.

Yeah well, with Tarantino that's not surprising.

I really liked Christoph Waltz in that.

For a killer, he was just so sincere.

Watched "Killing of a Sacred Deer" last night.

I honestly don't know what to think of it. But one does think.

It really is a Greek tragedy.

I haven't seen that yet, but I have seen "The Lobster", also directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.

I'm still not sure if I like it or not. I keep thinking about it though.

Made me appreciate Colin Farrell as a good versatile actor, as the last films I saw him in was action comedy The Gentleman and fantasy film Fantastic Beasts.

What is your opinion of "The Hateful Eight", Snood. I consider it another Tarantino winner. Not up to the standards of Pulp Fiction...but an enjoyable film to watch, if you like blood, hatred, and mayhem.

And who doesn't?

I did like The Lobster. But I had an idea from an interview I heard beforehand that it was quirkly.

I like quirky.


Killing of a Sacred Deer also has a quirkiness, but the emotions it brings up are very different.

That's all I'll say except take a look.

Yup, Open Range is a great western for sure but i was suggesting more recent westerns.

One i forgot to mention was Bone Tomahawk (2015) Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox & Richard Jenkins
In the dying days of the old west, an elderly sheriff and his posse set out to rescue their town's doctors wife from cannibalistic cave dwellers.
Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuGmtoQBPEM

The mention of The Hateful Eight (meh) brought Kurt Russell to mind and he brought Bone Tomahawk to mind.
Clockwork.

There's a (quirky) great show we used to watch called Ideal.

It was on BBC 3, i'm not sure where you can see it now, maybe Amazon.

`Ideal' stars Johnny Vegas as Moz, a small-time dope dealer who operates his business out of his run-down Manchester flat. Needless to say, Moz has no real ambitions outside of his `profession' ... and is quite happy about it. His main supplier is a police constable who brings Moz the cannabis that authorities have confiscated from other dealers. The series mostly revolves around the activity in Moz's flat, the setting for an array of very colourful friends, customers and misfits who pass through his life on a daily basis.

Some great characters in it.