What did you watch this week champ? (05/05-05/11)

Yo!
Another crazy week at work... just 3 movies. Here they are:

Widows (2018 Blu-ray) : When you’re a compulsive movie buyer like me, you win some and you lose some. In this case I lost some. Not that the movie is terrible; it actually has lots of redeeming qualities. But I paid 14$ for a movie that was cool but way below my expectations. There were too many “what”s and “but how?”s and the last 3-4 scenes felt like they were trying to wrap the story but weren’t really sure how. The acting is good but I found Kaluuya was a miscast; he wasn’t credible as a psycho. The cinematography was nice but the editing was a bit weird. The story had enough twist to keep me interested but none of them was really strong. My rating: 6/10


Flirting with disaster (1996 DVD): “A young man, his wife, and his incompetent case worker travel across country to find his birth parents.” This movie came in a combo with Duplex, which I saw 2 weeks ago and found to be meh and rated 6/10. Well this one is a winner. It’s low-budget but effective, funny and intelligent. Great acting by the ensemble cast and Arquette is just wonderful. This is a really great 90’s comedy and one more reason why David O Russell is becoming one of my top directors. My rating: 7.5-8/10


Intolerable Cruelty (2003 DVD): This was one of the last 5 Coen movies I am yet to see. I like most of their movies but I never felt like this one would be a movie for me and indeed it was not but that being said, it was not bad at all. I liked most of the actors and the dialogues ranged from clever to funny to soap-opera-stupid. 6/10