Andrew POE!

At least it's not Spirit or Frontier, where the inflight entertainment system are the other passengers.

Movies watched today.... Booksmart (Peacock, leaving at the end of the month) Made in Heaven (Criterion Channel, leaving at the end of the month) Melo (Mubi, leaving at the end of the month)

Movies watched today.... When Strangers Marry / Betrayed (Criterion, leaving at the end of the month) Luzifer (Mubi, leaving on Wednesday) Kiss The Blood Off My Hands (Criterion, leaving at the end of the month)

Or like I've been saying since Embracer has started, their company is a money laundering front. They were counting on Saudi Arabia to finance the company and that fell through.

Having the Young Bucks win the tag titles isn't part of the recovery.

What's crazy is both movies came out in the same year. I guess let's give that version a Criterion Collection edition too!

More movies today.... Sasquatch Sunset (saw at the theater) Housekeeping For Beginners (saw at the theater) Black Rain (Shohei Imamura) (Mubi, leaving at the end of the month) My Name Is Julia Ross (Criterion Channel, leaving at the end of the month)

Yeah, I didn't feel it went far enough either. It'll be interesting to see where the conversation is about this movie six months from now or even around the time for the Oscars.

More movies seen.... The Florida Project (leaving Netflix at the end of the month) Love & Basketball (leaving Netflix at the end of the month) Eve's Bayou (leaving Mubi at the end of the month) The Grandmaster (leaving Criterion Channel at the end of the month)

Movies today.... It's All About Love (Criterion Channel, leaving at the end of the month) How To Have Sex (Mubi, not leaving any time soon as far as I know, watched this off and on last several weeks) The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (saw at the theater) The House on Telegraph Hill (Criterion Channel, leaving at the end of the month)

Yeah, I'll probably try to watch everything from Powell/Pressburger. Let's not forget The Red Shoes (which I see at Barnes & Noble and it calls to me but I never answer the call). They are seriously a film school by themselves. It's almost like all our favorite directors (Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Nolan, etc) watched their films religiously for the right way to do it. I'm finding I like Gene Tierney as well now. She has intelligence and personality in her roles - if she were alive today, she would be there with Meryl Streep and Glenn Close. It's sad that Jean Luc Godard had some disappointing movies that are leaving Mubi. His earlier work aged better than his later work - the two movies I saw yesterday from the '80s and '90s had everyone in a perpetual state of being mad at each other.

The Platinum for Singularity is rough to get - it had annoying multiplayer trophies when they weren't needed. I guess at some point I'll go back and finish up Lollipop Chainsaw and work on El Shaddai for platinums.

Movies today.... The Married Woman (Mubi, leaving at the end of the month) The Book of Mary / Hail Mary (Mubi, leaving at the end of the month) Abigail (saw at the theater) For Ever Mozart (Mubi, leaving at the end of the month)

Trailer felt like Taika Waikititi doing a Transformers movie. I mean that's slightly better than Michael Bay doing Transformers. The jokes in the trailer felt like jokes I've seen before. We just need Christopher Nolan to make a Transformers movie now. Or Wes Anderson.

The Limey will be on there as will Girl Interrupted, Bringing Out The Dead (!!!!!), Ghost Dog, Go, and The Insider. I may end up watching every single 1999 movie that's added in a week, seriously.

Yeah, most of the ones leaving Criterion Channel this month are ghost/heaven movies. Except for Love Unto Death (which was okay), most of the ones I've seen are stone cold classics.

More movies today...all on the Criterion Channel, all leaving this month. The Ghost And Mrs. Muir Love Unto Death Here Comes Mr. Jordan A Matter Of Life And Death

Movies today.... Cowboys & Aliens (leaving Netflix at the end of the month) Irena's Vow (saw at the theater) Heaven Can Wait (1943) (leaving Criterion Channel at the end of the month)

Movies today.... Norte: The End of History (Mubi leaving on Thursday, watched this off and on over the weekend and today) The Zookeeper's Wife (Netflix, leaving after today) Horse Money (Mubi, leaving after Thursday)

I'm going to be so fucking broke with Pekinpah, Farewell My Concubine, and Perfect Days (!!!). I'll pass on Risky Business unless it shows up on the Criterion Channel.

Movies I saw today... La Chimera (saw at the theater) Civil War (saw at the theater)

Movies today - was out of town most of the day so I didn't watch as much: Neighbouring Sounds (leaving Mubi next week) Play Misty For Me (leaving Netflix at the end of the month)

The Beast is one I'll try to find tickets to see - only one theater in Atlanta is showing it so I'll have to go to Plaza Theater to see it. I can see Apple or Netflix spending the money to have Megalopolis on their services instead of it playing in theaters.

Movies on Friday Rebels of the Neon God (Mubi, leaving Wednesday) Monkey Man (saw at the theater)

John Hughes has a lot of other influences too - George Lucas from American Graffiti spring to mind for me for the teen movies and Fellini springs to mind as well for the Vacation movies he wrote, but I think it's more of the fact that he has "Chicago as a character" like Scorsese and Cassavetes have "New York City as a character" in their films. How he accomplishes it is vastly different - Cassavetes is more of a frame of reference than an actual influence like it was for Scorsese.