What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

LizzieMaine said:

That's a pretty good summation of Reagan's acting style. I was aware of him as an actor before I had any real awareness of him as a politician, and I always thought of him as being a Jack Carson type -- good looking in a bland, blurry sort of way, and fine in roles that called for the kind of character who was probably the BMOC in a small-town high school when he was younger, but, shall we say, lacked cultural sophistication. I've never actually disliked him in a movie -- he rarely stands out, but he's not as bad as he's often made out to be either. I think he comes across even better on radio, where he was also a frequent presence thru the 1940s.

A fun novel revolving around early Reagan is "Time On My Hands" by Peter Delacorte, published in the late 90s. The premise is that a lefty-leaning mad scientist type recruits a blase travel writer to go back to 1938 in his time machine and alter the course of Reagan's life so that he never becomes president. The writer accepts the job, makes the trip, and ends up befriending young "Dutch Ree-gan" in spite of himself. Despite the premise, it's not a political story as much as it is a rather engaging portrait of an aw-shucks young actor from the midwest trying to find his place in Hollywood, and there's a real sense of the atmosphere of the Warner lot at the time, with several real-life personalities besides Reagan making key appearances in the story. Delacorte did his homework and puts together a pretty convincing slice of Hollywood life.

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Touchofevil said:

A cup of coffee and The Hunted on TCM’s Noir Alley this fine Sunday morning.

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Edward said:

Last night I had the honour of performing doctor Everett (Von) Scott as part of a global Rocky Horror Picture Show floorshow cast marking the 30th Anniversary of TimeWarp, the UK's only official RHS/RHPS fan club. Richard O'Brien himself was in attendance and enjoyed himself thoroughly (my 'Eddie note' used during the show is now signed). This was Richard's last and final appearance in the UK, likely to be his last visit to the UK ever.

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MisterCairo said:

The Hallowe'en cavalcade continues. I was on my own for some time, so I started off watching Zombie Apocalypse 2012, a low budget cheese fest cashing in on the Walking Dead craze developing at that time. I gather the SyFy network makes these things.

Anyhoo, the family arrived back home, we watched a wee bit more but then changed over to Hocus Pocus, one of our absolute favourites. After the family outing, my wife and I watched John Carpenter's The Fog. My wife prefers it to The Thing by Carpenter, but I love both.

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Fading Fast said:

Turned it on in the middle, but decided to wait until it is on again to watch from the beginning. What did you think of it?

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HanauMan said:

Just watched one of my old time favorites, namely Panic in the Streets (1950).

Yeah, yeah, Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas are a good 'buddy - buddy team and Barbara Bel Geddes is swell as Widmark's wife but for me it is the bad guys which make the film such a great movie watching experience. Jack Palance and Zero Mostel, as the gangster and his flunky, are almost a comic act if it wasn't for the pure evil menace Palance oozes from every pore in every scene. And you just can't help but warm to Mostel's character. I've watched this film many times and nowadays tend to fast forward the preachy Widmark / Douglas and Widmark / Bel Geddes scenes and head straight to the Palance / Mostel gems.

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