I watched just 5 movies last week:
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- Fool for Love feels a little like Robert Altman doing David Lynch, which is no less weird than this being a Cannon Films production. Oddly dreamlike, even hallucinatory, I’m not entirely sure it works, or even how it’s supposed to, but there’s an undeniably interesting vibe to everything.
- The actors, particularly Redford and Winger, are a lot better than the plot in Legal Eagles, of which there is far too much, and little of which makes much sense.
- Murder My Sweet is a pretty decent film noir that takes some interesting turns.
- Timebomb is the low-rent ’90s direct-to-DVD version of The Bourne Identity. Sometimes that works, sometimes not so much.
- The Day of the Dolphin is such a strange movie—and not just because it’s a sci-fi thriller written by Buck Henry and directed by Mike Nichols, of all people. It’s at times deeply boring, and yet its goofy plot and strong performances also make it very compelling at times. I genuinely couldn’t tell if the whole thing was good or bad.
I also rewatched Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde, as part of #HorrorWatch on Bluesky. The movie remains a lot better and less problematic than you might expect a 1971 gender-swapping Hammer Films adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson story to go.