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The Interview (2014)
President Obama loves Seth and I love him even more!
Sight unseen, I am all for this movie reaching every screen, every DVD player, every computer and mobile device, not just in America -- but the world!!! C'mon, Sony. Do the right thing! Don't submit to blackmail!!! We already had figured out what was in your e-mails. We've been watching your movies all our lives and we had already figured out you were less than respectable people. Don't be so nervous about it. Let this movie GO!!!!
Republicans are begging for it, Democrats are begging for it, you can be heroes just by throwing a bed sheet out the window in Culver City and projecting the movie onto it to prove you are not afraid. You have nothing to be ashamed of for green lighting and making this movie -- and everything to be ashamed of it you don't stand up to blackmail, wherever it is coming from. Listen to George Clooney.
Cisco Pike (1971)
One of the most underrated movies ever made
This is a wonderful movie about a unique time and place in the life of America, done with wonderful, almost creepy authenticity. It is smoggy LA with a beautiful score. Kris Kristofferson and Gene Hackman are just plain terrific, and so are Viva and Harry Dean Stanton. (And it's got a great cast of Hollywood character actors.) Along with The Player and Boogie Nights, it is one of the best movies ever made about L.A. Along with Nashville and This Is Spinal Tap, it's one of the best movies ever made about the American music scene. If you can find it, see it!
Cobb (1994)
tommy lee jones hits it out of the park
I couldn't care less if Ty Cobb was the greatest baseball player who ever lived, but Tommy Lee Jones gives one of recent movie history's greatest performances as a dying man walking the blurry line between genius and insanity. Jones delivers his dialogue with perfect pitch and makes you yearn for the days (before television) when sports players claimed the space to be the unvarnished rotters so many of them must be to let loose with the kind of killer instincts it takes to win at professional sports. Jones get almost no help at all from the supporting cast, including Robert Wuhl, cable TV's "Arliss," whose rubbery face is just that: rubbery. He unattractively mugs his way through the key supporting role of Cobb's befuddled but entranced biographer-for-hire, Al Stump. Ron Shelton (the director and writer) doesn't know when to leave a point alone (he keeps hitting you over the head with them like a baseball bat) and the film could have used more flashbacks of Jones playing the younger Cobb, to let Jones' face out from behind the age makeup every once in a while. But finally none of that matters because Jones takes the picture between his teeth and never lets go of it; he shows you a 100 percent human being.
This is a good movie to rent if you're a woman who loves movies to watch with a man who doesn't readily share your enthusiasm. You'll both be fascinated.