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Susan Oliver was playing a green-skinned Orion slave girl, but I had to test her makeup because she was too expensive and I was under contract already; I was cheap, they had to pay me anyway. The makeup they put on me was green as green can be, but they kept on sending out the rushes and we would get it back for the next day, and there I was just as pink and rosy as could possibly be. This went on for three days until they finally called the lab and said, “What do we do? We’re trying to get it green.” And they said, “You want that? We’ve been color-correcting.”

Excerpt from: The Fifty-Year Mission: The First 25 Years

I recommend this. I found this rather unknown flick looking for something to watch with my YouTube Premium subscription. Rotten Tomatoes had it on their list.

Infinity was directed and starred Matthew Broderick and was written by his mother, Patricia Broderick. With a $5 million budget, it earned less than $200,000 at the box office.

The younger years of Nobel Prize-winning genius Richard Feynman is the background to this underrated love story.

I don't know how these things work, but the ending credits make it look like a Broderick family indie project. Despite being formatted for a 4:3 TV, some of the New Mexico exteriors are lovely!

Free on YouTube Premium or with ads

Rotten Tomatoes 63%

IMDb 6.1/10

This enchanting comedy takes place in Scotland and America, and is full of character quirks that are engaging and charming. The humor is infectious. It was nearly two hours well spent with people who were fascinating and made you smile and laugh, and appreciate a life different than your own.

Burt Lancaster has a supporting role in this in a character unlike any I've ever seen from him. To say that it is out there a bit is to foreshadow, and I won't spoil it (and the role didn't spoil it, either).

I subscribe to You-Tube Premium and this was one of the free movies that came with the deal. There have been two DVD releases of this title so your local library probably has it too. On Rotten Tomatoes, the Critics universally loved this movie and the Audience Score agreed 87%.

Currently on Netflix. The movie got nearly universal positive professional reviews and scored a 79% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

This movie stars Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe as investigators of the disappearance of somebody named Amelia (Margaret Qualley).

It is very hard to care about anybody in this film as they all pretty much are terrible people. It is practically a farce parade and I kept waiting for someone to care about and any reason to care. Finally after about 60 minutes, I asked my spouse if he was getting into this at all. After about five more minutes he also was in the same space: enough is enough, turn it off.

Last night, I watched The Four Feathers movie starring Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Djimon Hounsou and Kate Hudson. This is one of those movies that the critics were lukewarm about but the audience seemed to love better than that. Count me among those lovers.

It is an exquisitely done period piece based on a novel. Not only is the photography stunning, but the story is well told.

The feathers in the title are from an old tradition of shaming cowardice by handing the purported coward a white feather. To say anymore would be moving into spoiler territory.

The movie is a little more than two hours, well spent in my opinion.

In the USA, I found this on Paramount Plus.