What was the last movie you watched?

Just finished watching "The Dressmaker" - a strange Australian blend of a spaghetti western
and the prodigal child returning to a small town for revenue against those who sent her away.
Some kind of Amazon funded film, not Baz Luhrmann, but like Baz, it just went and went and went ...
Kate Winslet, Hugo Weaving and a cast of many (grin)
funny and strange but too long ... a lot of good places where they could have stopped ...

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I saw The Exception yesterday. It's in limited release here in the U.S.

Fiction, but quite plausible. In 1940, a German officer is assigned to provide security to the aging Kaiser Wilhelm II. His real mission is to ferret out monarchists, who are seen as a threat to the Third Reich. Christopher Plummer is the Kaiser, and he delusionally holds hope that the Reich will restore him to the throne. Eventually, the officer's focus changes to finding a spy close to the Kaiser.

A British actor named Eddie Marsan plays a terrifyingly creepy Heinrich Himmler. The dinner scene is bloodcurdling.
 
The Girl Can't Help It (1956) Jayne Mansfield's first starring role, and her big break, but the big attraction here isn't the somewhat silly story, it's the Dawn of Rock & Roll performances by Little Richard, Fats Domino, Eddie Cochran, The Platters, Gene Vincent & more!

Sure, they're lip synced but the performances are terrific and seeing these performer in their prime, in CinemaScope and in Color, beats the hell out of Kine-scoped Ed Sullivan reruns.

This film desperately needs a Blu-ray release, the DVD is adequate but it could look so much better.

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I found and watched almost every Jayne Mansfield movie I could find after my wife and I inherited a portfolio of Autographed pictures from her uncle. He was a Hair Stylist and Wig maker in Atlantic City NJ during the 40s thru 70s. He was also very close friends with Skinny Diamato, who owned and ran the 500 Club, where many of the Rat Pack performed early in life. We have 5 autographed and inscribed pictures of Jayne. It took me some time, but I was able to contact Jayne's daughter and sent her copies of all the pics. So now we also have 2 inscribed pics of Mariska Hargitay to go with all her mothers pics. The coolest thing tho was the night the phone rang, and it was Mariska calling us to thank us more personally. Class act like her mother.

here is a pic of Jane, husband and Mr Universe Micky, and my wife's Uncle. She was getting her Wig done up the day she put her hand and footprints in the Walk of Fame in the sidewalk of the 500 Club.

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Return of the Fly (1959) completely inferior followup to the 1958 original.

It's entertaining enough but it's just exploitation, it makes no attempt at being good Sci-Fi.

It's not even in color, but at least it's in Cinemascope.
It looks pretty decent for a standard DVD.

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"The Package" (1989, stars Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Tommy Lee Jones, and Dennis Franz)

Hackman is veteran Green Beret Sgt. Johnny Gallagher, who is assigned to escort a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette (Jones) back to the States from Germany. Boyette manages to give Johnny the slip in an airport men`s room, and the chase begins. Johnny enlists the help of his ex-wife (Cassidy), and his old cop buddy (Franz), and finds out that Boyette is not at all what he appeared to be, and his real purpose is to pull off a political assassination of a high-ranking official. Intelligent and fast-moving....worth watching.
 
Wonder Woman. One of the best super hero ones for quite some time. Heck one of the better movies in quite some time.

The new Mummy movie. There was one good thing: the theater was air conditioned.

Dr Strange. Better than I expected. They had a bit too much fun with the 3D CGI which detracted from the story but other than that it was entertaining.

Passengers. Much better than I expected. With only two actors in most of it and those being ones I haven't been impressed with in the past I thought I might not make it through it but they did a good job.
 
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Autobiographical; It describes the plight of some US citizens who relocated to help the cause of communism. Willie Nelson comes in at 50 minutes.

 
On Thursday I watched "Curse of The Fly" (1965) this Fly movie really had nothing in common with the first two other than it was still about the Delambre family.
No Fly in this, one, just some rather silly looking Humans mangled by the transporter machine.

The movie isn't completely terrible, it's more modern in style than the first two.

Friday it was "Dressed to Kill" from 1941, a rather lighthearted Murder Mystery featuring the Private Detective character Michael Shayne.
Very enjoyable in that "Mr Mustard did it in the Kitchen with a Gun" sort of way.
 
"Kiss Me Deadly" (1955)

Ralph Meeker stars as Mike Hammer, one of the most rough-and-tumble private eyes of his time. One night, Mike picks up a nearly-naked woman hitchhiker, who is soon murdered, involving Mike in a case with a mysterious box containing stolen radioactive material. There is a quite bizarre, apocalyptic ending to the film, taking place in a beach house, where the mystery box is opened by a deranged woman.
 
Denial (2016). A despicable little Alt-Right Holocaust denier sues a Holocaust scholar for libel, and loses.

Very well done, and based, sadly, on a true story.
 
Fantastic Beasts and where to find them ...
Odd little hairy Potter spin-off thingee
Eddie Redmayne, Colin Farrel, Alison Sudol, and a wee bit part (uncredited) by Johnnie Depp.
Good cgi, plot got lost a few times ...Meh ...
 
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