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This is a general thread to post about movies and TV shows on Netflix. Last night I saw on Netflix their new original animated movie Leo. Although it's very silly, by the end it was one of my favorite movies of the year. Several laughs (at least for me). Appropriate for kids from my pov. My...

I enjoyed first season of The Gilded Age, created by Julian Fellowes, who of course is the person behind Downton Abbey. The second season of the show starts today....

I recently binged both miniseries seasons of this entertaining (to me at least), often well-acted, comedy-drama-soap opera. The trailers below give a fairly good sense of what it's like. As a fan of Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham (Salieri, of course, in Amadeus), I thought I'd...

Watched this dystopian AI movie last night, which has dashes of Philip K. Dick and The Terminator. The trailer has spoilers. The movie itself is a good "B-grade" sci fi movie from my pov, but on the poignant and grim side.

What have been your favorite movies of 2022? Hope to see some top ten lists (or whatever number) here. Here are my favorites of 2022.... 1. The Fabelmans A heartfelt and yet sometimes sharply pointed exploration of the intertwining of family and film. I hope to see Oscar nominations for Judd...

I found this new 8-episode show The Recruit on Netflix really entertaining! It's equal mixes of comedy, drama, and action. Set in the CIA, but inspired by the Office, Parks and Rec, and other dysfunctional workplace dramas, this show has lots of twists and turns, and enough realism mixed with...

Title: Till Tagline: Witness the power of a mother’s love. Genre: Drama, History Director: Chinonye Chukwu Cast: Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison, Haley Bennett, John Douglas Thompson, Whoopi Goldberg, Jayme Lawson, Tosin Cole, Kevin Carroll, Sean Patrick Thomas, Roger...

For the past couple of months I've been listening to an excellent biography of director Michael Curtiz by Alan K. Rode, which is wonderfully read by Grover Gardner. It's a huge book, more than 25 hours long, but since the Hungarian-born Curtiz directed more than 80 films in Hollywood, from the...

I'm not even sure how to describe this strange new "reality" show on hbomax. Here's the trailer: I watched the first episode, and it gave me uncomfortable feeling, which clearly was intended. I had sympathy for both the creator of the show, Nathan Fielder, as well as the first "subject," Kor...

The first episode of this show, which is loosely based on a real story, was directed by Michael Mann, who is also one of the producers. Good crime drama. The tension builds slowly. It's somewhat realistic.

HTF Moderating Staff to HTF Members: This thread will contain spoilers so if there is any James Bond film you haven't seen yet, the reading of this thread is at your own peril. Again, James Bond spoilers will be discussed in this thread without any warnings. Robert Crawford HTF Moderator...

This year Netflix has been releasing a new movie every week. Most of these movies don't get or need a thread of their own, and so I'm setting up this thread for thoughts on the many Netflix movies, new and not-so-new...

Is anyone else reading, or listening to, Oliver Stone's new memoir Chasing the Light? He delivers thoughtful and yet often raw narratives and analysis of himself and his early movies, including extended thoughts on Midnight Express, The Hand, Scarface, Salvador, and Platoon. The audiobook is...

What are your favorite movies released last year? Please post your top 25 movies from 2019. If you don't have 25 favorites feel free to stop at 20, 10, or whatever.

Title: The King (2019) Tagline: All hail Genre: Drama, History, War Director: David Michôd Release: 2019-10-11 Runtime: 140 Plot: England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the...

This desert island has a first class hotel with an excellent movie theater. You are going to be there for ten days, and you are organizing a chronological Steven Spielberg film festival. What ten movies do you pick? Obviously some favorites are going to have to drop away, making for some tough...

I enjoy old advertisements. Here are three from late 1927 from the Saturday Evening Post, along with a cover by J.C. Leyendecker announcing the upcoming year of 1928.

I've just started a rewatch of Disney's hand-drawn animated classics. Many of these are movies I've loved all my life. They work on multiple levels, but part of it is that hand-drawn animation can take us into a kind dream world in a way that maybe no other type of movie can. This article has a...

Here's a thread for reporting on what you are watching on Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc.

There are often years when we might personally wish that a different movie, actor, cinematographer, composer, director, art director/production designer, etc. had won the Academy Award for that particular year. Why not go year-by-year starting in 1940 and say what choices you might have made for...

This show stars Sean Bean and is set in the early 19th century. My wife and I have watched the first two episodes and we really like it so far—although it's creepy! Wonderful production design. It's on Netflix. Has anyone else seen this?

I'm catching up on some of the movies from the 1930s that I've missed over the years. Some of these I've known about for decades, but have only now gotten around to watching. For example, yesterday I watched "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex," which is a Technicolor film from Warner...

I hope it's ok to post this here, but the hit show from the 1970s The Waltons is available for for "free" streaming on Amazon Prime. It's in HD and looks fairly good, but they've made it widescreen. I feel mixed about the widescreen, but when it comes to classic TV I watched sometimes as a kid...

I couldn't find a thread for this excellent and epic BBC production of War and Peace. I've never been able to make it through the 1000+ page novel, but obviously a single movie isn't quite the right format for such a huge book. This 2016 BBC production has almost movie-level production values, a...

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In this time of peak TV, sometimes even really good shows don't seem to get much attention. Perhaps I missed it, but I didn't see a thread for TURN: Washington's Spies, a 4-season, 40 episode rather epic series about the American Revolution. Strong cast, excellent production design, interesting...

Thanks to having MoviePass for the past few months, I've seen more movies in the theaters this year than perhaps any other year in my life. I did miss a lot of significant movies in the first half of the year. But here are my ratings so far of movies released in 2017, and I hope some others will...

As this decade draws to a close, we are experiencing one of the greatest eras ever for good television. What are your personal top 10 favorites for shows that premiered starting in 2010? Here's my preliminary list, although probably I'm forgetting something. 1. Westworld 2016- Even though it's...

1939 has long been held up an an amazing year for Hollywood, and it's difficult to argue with that. After all, 1939 saw the release of not only The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, but also Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Dark Victory, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Ninotchka...

I know the year isn't quite over yet, and there are some movies still to be seen. For instance, I should probably see Carol, The Hateful Eight, The Big Short, and the Revenant before I try to make a list. But what the heck. We can always revise, add, and subtract. So what are your top ten movies...