This past weekend there were two different movies that opened in movie theaters that I wanted to see. “Amsterdam” and “Tár”. Here are the pros and cons of my movie theater experiences. I decided to […]
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Saidi’s Take – 10/11/2022
Hello everyone, Little bit of humor…. This is REAL: THE MOVIE WAS PLAYING ON A CABLE CHANNEL TODAY (Columbus Day) but it’s not about him AT ALL. I actually watched a little bit of the movie. […]
Review – Confess, Fletch
Movie studios are always looking to create movies and TV series from bestselling books. Characters like Hercule Poirot (from Agatha Christie mysteries), Jack Reacher (from the books by Lee Child), Jack Ryan (from the books by Tom Clancy), […]
Best Sports Movies
There’s been several lists of best sports movies but they always miss some gems. Here’s a better list! Baseball: Over the years there’s been dozens of different types of baseball movies such as “Major League” […]
ARE MOVIES GETTING LONGER?
The running time for the upcoming “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” will be 2 hours and 41 minutes which will make it the 2nd longest Marvel movie so far (“Avengers: Endgame” was 3 hours 1 minute). Plus, […]
saidi’s take – 10/3/2022
Little Bit of Humor…. Feel old yet….. Sean Connery also played Bond in the “unofficial” Bond movie “Never Say Never Again” in 1983. It’s unofficial since it wasn’t produced by EON Films – the producer […]
review – the automat
This documentary is about the rise and fall of the Horn and Hardart “Automat” chain of restaurants. Although they only had locations in Philadelphia and New York City, the were the BIGGEST restaurant chain in the […]
Steve Martin Film Festival
Since the 2nd season of “Only Murders in the Building” is now done and since I’ve read a few stories that say Steve Martin is considering retiring after the TV series is finished, I decided to […]
Movies About The Biz
Since there are a few new movies about the movie industry coming out soon including “Blonde” (a somewhat fictionalized biography of Marylin Monroe), “The Fabelmans” (Steven Spielberg movie partly based on his childhood), “Empire of […]
Saidi’s take – 9/28/2022
The Epix premium cable channel was just renamed “MGM+” which seems kind of odd to me since MGM is now owned by Amazon (shouldn’t they just put the MGM library on Amazon Prime?). Also, the […]
Saidi’s Take 9/26/2022
This past weekend the domestic box office improved 17% over the previous weekend. It was the first time since the end of July that 3 movies made over $10 million at the domestic box office. […]
Review – Bullet Train
First, send 5 assassins – “Ladybug” (Brad Pitt), “Tangerine” (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), “Lemon” (Brian Tyree Henry), “Wolf” (Benito A Martinez Ocasio aka Bad Bunny), and “The Hornet” (Zazie Beetz) – to a high-speed train to retrieve […]
LOS ANGELES FILM REVIEW 