Movies for February 2022: The Power of the Dog (2021) and West Side Story (2021)

John C is hosting in February and the movies to see are:

The Power of the Dog (2021)

Charismatic rancher Sherlock Holmes inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love.

Director: Jane Campion

Writers: Jane Campion, Thomas Savage

Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons

West Side Story (2021)

An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Tony Kushner, Bud Shakespeare, Arthur Laurents

Stars: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose

How to find streaming sources for movies: https://www.justwatch.com/

Scores for January 2022 Movies

No Time To Die (2021)  6.00 / 10
Casablanca (1942)  9.33 / 10

Films of Merit

14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14079374/

A French Village/Un Village Français (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1288631/

Bad Education (2019) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8206668/

Being the Ricardos (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4995540/

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083798/

Dear God (1996) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116059/

Don't Look Up (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11286314/

Finch (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3420504/

Finding You (2020) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8760280/

King Richard (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9620288/

Old Henry (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12731980/

Only Murders in the Building (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12851524/

Sex Education (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7767422/

Stop Making Sense (1984) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088178/

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5618690/

The Alpinist (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11790780/

The Beatles: Get Back (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9735318/

The Hand of God (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12680684/

The Lost Daughter (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9100054/

tick, tick...BOOM! (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8721424/

Yellowstone (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4236770/

Movies for January 2022: No Time To Die and Casablanca

Bill T is hosting in January and the movies to see are:

No Time To Die (2021)

Bond James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond James Bond onto the trail of a mysterious one armed man who is unable to mix a proper martini.

Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writers: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Stars: Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas, Rami Malek

Casablanca (1942)

A cynical American gin joint owner who is no good at being noble struggles to decide whether to help out a pal or build a hill of beans with his former lover but the usual suspects are shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Writers: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Dooley Wilson

How to find streaming sources for movies: https://www.justwatch.com/

Scores for December 2021 Movies

Repo Man (1984)  5.1 / 10

Farewell, My Lovely (1975)  7.50 / 10

Films of Merit

Call the Midwife (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1983079/

Foundation (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804484/

House of Gucci (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11214590/

King Richard (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9620288/ 

Minari (2020) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10633456/

My Garden of a Thousand Bees (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15196228/

My Life as a Turkey (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2101982/  

On the Rocks (2020) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9606374/

Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11852724/

The Lost Leonardo (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11225756/

The Morning Show (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7203552/

The North Water (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7660970/

The Shrink Next Door (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11947248/

The Soloist (2009) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0821642/  

The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0155267/

Movies for December 2021: Repo Man and Farewell, My Lovely

 Nic is hosting next month and the movies to see are:

Repo Man (1984)

A young punk recruited by a car repossession agency finds himself in pursuit of a Chevrolet Malibu that is wanted for a $20,000 bounty - and has something otherworldly stashed in its trunk.

Director: Alex Cox
Writer: Alex Cox
Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter

Farewell, My Lovely (1975)

Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by all around nice guy Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.

Director: Dick Richards
Writers: David Zelag Goodman, Raymond Chandler
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Harry Dean Stanton

Scores for November 2021 Movies

Baby Mama (2008)   5.90 / 10
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)  7.20 / 10

How to find streaming sources for movies: https://www.justwatch.com/

Films of Merit

• 12 Angry Men (1997) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118528/
• Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7671064/
• Dopesick (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9174558/
• Dune (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1160419/
• For the Left Hand (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7476336/
• Hampstead (2017) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5153236/
• Hostiles (2017) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5478478/
• Isle of Dogs (2018) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5104604/
• Lansky (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5078852/
• Long Strange Trip (2017) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4143508/
• Manhunt (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5618256/
• Muhammad Ali (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6719950/  
• Resistance (2020) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6914122/
• Stuck Together - Huit Rue de l'Humanite (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13834006/
• The French Dispatch (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8847712/
• The Forgotten Battle (2020) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10521092/
• Un Village Français (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1288631/
• Undercover Brother (2002) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279493/
• Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413615/
• Wild Mountain Thyme (2020) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6842770/

Movies for November 2021: Baby Mama and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Joe is hosting in November and the movies to see are:

Baby Mama (2008)

A successful, single businesswoman wearing glasses dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.

Director: Michael McCullers

Writer: Michael McCullers

Stars: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)

The lives of a disparate group of contestants and a chronic alcoholic hasbeen intertwine in an inhumanely grueling dance marathon.

Director: Sydney Pollack

Writers: Horace McCoy, James Poe, Robert E. Thompson

Stars: Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young

Scores for October 2021 Movies

The Courier (2020) 7.18 / 10

Bullitt (1968) 6.45 / 10

How to find streaming sources for movies: https://www.justwatch.com/

Films of Merit

• Betrayal at Attica (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15210254/
• Breaking Away (1979) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078902/
• Counterpart (Series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4643084/ 
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095031/
• Flesh and Blood (Series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9704798/
• Hacks (Series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11815682/
• In Their Own Words: Elon Musk (Documentary) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14644530/?ref_=ttep_ep5
• McCartney 3,2,1 (Documentary) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13679628/
• Muhammad Ali (Documentary) - https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/muhammad-ali/
• Squid Game (Series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10919420/
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6412452/
• The Chair (Series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11834150/
• The Mad Women's Ball (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11681282/
• The Many Saints of Newark (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8110232/
• The Starling (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5164438/
• The Thomas Crown Affair (1967) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063688/
• The White Lotus (Series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13406094/
• Unforgotten (Series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4192812/

Book Recommendation

 Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee: https://www.powells.com/book/uncommon-carriers-9780865477391

Movies for October 2021: The Courier and Bullitt

 Dean is hosting in October and the movies to see are:

The Courier (2020)

Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Director: Dominic Cooke
Writer: Tom O'Connor
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan

Bullitt (1968)

An all-guts, no-glory San Francisco cop lives in a sewer and becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.

Director: Peter Yates

Writers: Alan Trustman, Harry Kleiner, Robert L. Fish

Stars: Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn

How to find streaming sources for movies: https://www.justwatch.com/

Scores for September 2021 Movies

Pig (2021)  6.36 / 10

Night Moves (2013)  5.5 / 10

Films of Merit

• Dr. Pimple Popper (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6045142/
• Five Feet Apart (2019) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6472976/
• Flaked (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4973548/
• For Your Consideration (2009) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470765/
• Irrational Man (2015) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3715320/
• Only Murders in the Building (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12851524/
• Schmigadoon (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11808942/
• Secret Agent (1936) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028231/
• The Howlin' Wolf Story (2003) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465500/
• The Maltese Falcon (1941) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033870/
• Unforgotten (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4192812/

Movies for September 2021: Pig and Night Moves (2013 version)

Bill G is hosting in September and the movies to see are:

Pig (2021)

A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.

Director: Michael Sarnoski

Writers: Vanessa Block, Michael Sarnoski

Stars: Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, Adam Arkin

Night Moves (2013)

Three radical environmentalists look to execute the protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.

Director: Kelly Reichardt

Writers: Jonathan Raymond, Kelly Reichardt

Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard

How to find streaming sources for movies: https://www.justwatch.com/

Scores for August 2021 Movies

I'll See You in My Dreams (2015)  5.22 / 10

Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)  4.44 / 10

Films of Merit

• Arrested Development (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367279/
• Blow the Man Down (2019) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8299768/
• Bo Burnham: Inside (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14544192/ 
• Bosch (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3502248/
• Chinatown (1974) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071315/
• Cloudburst (2002) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1466054/
• Documentary Now! (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4677934/
• Fantastic Fungi (2019) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8258074/
• Flawless (2007) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780516/
• High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14540468/
• King of Hearts (1966) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060908/
• Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14512538/
• Ted Lasso (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10986410/
• The Long Way Up (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12824922/
• The Kominsky Method (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7255502/
• The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031619/ 
• The Pollinators (2019) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10187550/ 
• The White Lotus (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13406094/
• Unforgotten (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4192812/

Movies for August 2021: Oh! What a Lovely War and I'll See You in My Dreams

Hugh is hosting in August and the movies to see are:

I'll See You in My Dreams (2015)

A widow and former songstress discovers that life can begin anew at any age.

Director: Brett Haley

Writers: Brett Haley, Marc Basch

Stars: Blythe Danner, Martin Starr, Sam Elliott

Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.

Director: Richard Attenborough

Writers: Charles Chilton, Ted Allan, Len Deighton

Stars: Wendy Allnutt, Colin Farrell, Malcolm McFee

Scores for July 2021 Movies

Sound of Metal (2019)  7.22 / 10
Lone Star (1996)  7.70 / 10

How to find streaming sources for movies: https://www.justwatch.com/

Films of Merit

• A Month In The Country - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093562/ 
• Call My Agent (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4277922/  
• Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1705977/ 
• Clarkson’s Farm (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10541088/  
• Hacks (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11815682/
• Midnight Run - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095631/
• Movie 43 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1333125/ 
• My Love: Six Stories of True Love (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14267526/ 
• One Mississippi (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4947608/
• Postcards From The Edge - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100395/
• Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11422728/
• The Mauritanian - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4761112/ 
• The Mosquito Coast (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11041132/ 
• The Rider - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6217608/ 
• Unforgotten (TV series) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4192812/