Netflix Friday - Volume 111

Some Netflix film tips for the weekend! And there is something for everyone, since I picked a movie for all the different genres.
 

Action: Interceptor (2022)
One Army Captain (Elsa Pataky) must use her years of tactical training and military expertise when a simultaneous coordinated attach threatens the remote missile interceptor station she is in command of.
 

Drama: Moneyball (2011)
Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane’s (Brad Pitt) successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.
 

Comedy: Long Shot (2019)
Journalist Fled Flarsky (Seth Rogen) reunites with his childhood crush, Charlotte Fields (Charlize Theron), now one of the most influential women in the world. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter and sparks fly.
 

Animation: A Whisker Away (2020)
Miyo Sasaki is in love with her classmate Kento Hinode and tries repeatedly to get Kento’s attention by transforming into a cat, but at some point, the boundary between herself and the cat becomes ambiguous.
 

Romance: What Happens in Vegas (2008)
A man (Ashton Kutcher) and a woman (Cameron Diaz) are compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a couple for a limited period of time. At stake is a large amount of money.
 

Horror: The Prodigy (2019)
A mother (Taylor Schilling) concerned about her young son’s disturbing behavior thinks something supernatural may be affecting him.
 

Science Fiction: The Core (2013)
The only way to save Earth from catastrophe is to drill down to the core and set it spinning again.

Crime: Spiderhead (2022)
In the near future, convicts are offered the chance to volunteer as medical subjects to shorten their sentence. One such subject for a new drug capable of generating feelings of love beings questioning the reality of his emotions.
 

Thriller: Fear (1996)
When Nicole (Reese Witherspoon) met David (Mark Wahlberg); handsome, charming, affectionate, he was everything. It seemed perfect, but soon she sees that David has a darker side. And his adoration turns to obsession, their dream into a nightmare, and her love into fear.
 

Documentary: Misha and the Wolves (2022)
“Misha and the Wolves” is the dramatic tale of a woman whose holocaust memoir took the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher, who turned detective, revealed an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.
 

Family: The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of fairies and other creatures.

Netflix Friday - Volume 19

Some Netflix film tips for the weekend! And there is something for everyone, since I picked a movie for all the different genres.

Action: Godzilla (2014)
The world is beset by the appearance of monstrous creatures, but one of them may be the only one who can save humanity.

Drama: Big Fish (2003)
A frustrated son (Billy Crudup) tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father’s (Albert Finney) life.

Comedy: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
Benjamin Barry (Matthew McConaughey) is an advertising executive and ladies’ man who, to win a big campaign, bets that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days.

Animation: The Secret Life of Pets (2016)
The quiet life of a terrier named Max (Louis C.K.) is upended when his owner takes in Duke Eric Stonestreet), a stray whom Max instantly dislikes.

Romance: Ghost (1990)
After Sam (Patrick Swayze) is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his girlfriend Molly (Demi Moore) impending on danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic (Whoopi Goldberg).

Horror: The Purge: Election Year (2016)
Former Police Sergeant Barnes (Frank Grillo) becomes head of security for Senator Charlie Roan (Elizabeth Mitchell), a Presidential candidate targeted for death on Purge night due her vow to eliminate the Purge.

Science Fiction: The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
The affair between a politician (Matt Damon) and a contemporary dancer (Emily Blunt) is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.

Crime: The Last Castle (2001)
A court-martialed General (Robert Redforf) rallies together twelve hundred inmates to rise against a corrupt and sadistic warden.

Thriller: Fear (1996)
When Nicole (Reese Witherspoon) met David (Mark Wahlberg); handsome, charming, affectionate, he was everything. It seemed perfect, but soon she sees that David has a darker side. And his adoration turns to obsession, their dream into a nightmare, and her love into fear.

Documentary: Birders (2019)
Bird watchers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border share their enthusiasm for protecting and preserving some of the world’s most beautiful bird species.

Family: Rudy (1993)
Rudy (Sean Astin) has always been told that he was too small to play college football. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame.

90s Movie Review - Fear

Director: James Foley
Genre: Thriller
Runtime: 97 minutes
Year: 1996
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Mark Wahlberg, William Petersen, Alyssa Milano, Amy Brenneman

Description: When Nicole (Reese Witherspoon) met David (Mark Wahlberg); handsome, charming, affectionate, he was everything. It seemed perfect, but soon she sees that David has a darker side. And his adoration turns to obsession, their dream into a nightmare, and her love into fear.

Review: Daddy’s little girl is all grown up. That’s what Steve realizes when his daughter Nicole comes home with her boyfriend David. A charming and good looking young man at first sight. But David has a dark side.
Steve didn’t like him from the start. He starts an investigation, to find out any dirt about David. But neither Nicole nor his wife Laura seem to see the problem. When Nicole sees a more aggressive side of David, she starts to be scared of him.
“Fear” is a really strong thriller, in Reese Witherspoon and Mark Wahlberg’s early days. Especially Wahlberg is good, as the psychopath David. The movie is entertaining and a lot better than most reviews claim it to be.

Rating: 3, 5/ 5

Five to Watch - Movies About Stalkers

With “You” and “Dirty John” being popular shows on Netflix, I came up with the theme for this item. Movies about stalkers. Here are five films I think are not as well-known or deserve more attention. And I think you should definitely give them a shot.

The Crush
When 14-year-old Darian develops a crush on journalist Nick, who rents an apartment from her father, she will go very far to get what she wants. It’s fun to see a stalker in the form of a teenage girl, played by a very young Alicia Silverstone.

The Fan
Robert DeNiro plays baseball fan Gil Renard, who has developed an unhealthy form of worship for baseball player Bobby Rayburn, played by Wesley Snipes. A movie that not a lot of people know, but it’s pretty good.

Fear
Nicole is a sheltered teenager and she meets David at a rave. She immediately becomes smitten, but David has a violent streak. Nicole’s father starts looking into that, but David is going to cause them all a lot of grief.

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
A movie you should definitely not watch when you are hiring a nanny. Rebecca De Mornay plays a nanny in “The Hand that Rocks the Cradle”. Her husband killed himself and she loses her child. She becomes the nanny of a young family, where she embarks on a mission of vengeance against the mother and her family.

One Hour Photo
Sy Parrish is a strange obsessive loner. He attaches himself to the lives of his costumers, which unspool in batches of the photo he develops for them. He’s particularly drawn to the Yorkin family, who actually notice him, where other people pass him by. In addition to collecting copies of all of Yorkin’s photos, he begins to start taking photos of the family on his own. A real creepy and different role from Robin Williams, who portrays Sy.