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Deep Cover

2025

Kat is an improv comedy teacher beginning to question if she’s missed her shot at success. When an undercover cop offers her the role of a lifetime, she recruits two of her students to infiltrate London’s gangland by impersonating dangerous criminals.

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Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot. - @SimCityAT

I remember this movie when it was first released.  It was the first non-Indiana Jones movie I'd seen with Harrison Ford in it.

Afternoon movie: - Western in Technicolor from 1954, 1h 34m.  Filmed in Mexico.

Great cast of solid actors of the age - Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster - and excellent support from Ernest Borgnine and the ever present wonky eyed Jack Elam.

Also notable for Charles Bronson being there under his real name, Charles Buchinsky.

Ernest Borgnine was retired in New Mexico  somewhere near Albuquerque when we lived there.

So many retired movie stars move to NM.

Not sure why, the dry air?

There is still a feel of the old west over there. Not sure what it is, the high desert heat, dry air or more likely the lack of oxygen. The air is thin there and it takes awhile to get used to it? Makes you tired at first.

My husband never enjoyed the thin air so one reason we left.

The city is 5,000 feet above sea level.

Ernest Borgnine was retired in New Mexico somewhere near Albuquerque when we lived there.So many retired movie stars move to NM.Not sure why, the dry air?There is still a feel of the old west over there. Not sure what it is, the high desert heat, dry air or more likely the lack of oxygen. The air is thin there and it takes awhile to get used to it? Makes you tired at first.My husband never enjoyed the thin air so one reason we left.The city is 5,000 feet above sea level. - @Marilyn Tassy

Borgnine wasn't the kind of person who - visually - you'd think of being a popular actor but he was really rather good and dedicated to his craft.  Solid person.  His wife had a cosmetics company she sold to QVC.   Successful in her own right.

I don't know anything about Albuquerque except it's where Walter White of Breaking Bad lived.   

Maybe people who live there adapt by growing extra lung bits to cope with the lack of oxygen.   

Borgnine used to be a heavy smoker and was probably told to live somewhere healthy, perhaps to improve his lung function.  Still, the guy died at 95 so he wasn't doing so bad in the end.

Afternoon movie:

, 1951, 1h 24m, B&W.   

Good stars in this workable Western - I'll have my afternoon movie with a dollop of (Virginia) Mayo.

New Netflix series - The Waterfront.   

Don't know what it's about yet except it involves aggravation in the seafood industry.   Might be drugs involved with the sushi as a DEA agent is listed as a character in the cast list.  How exciting (not)!   Not a fan of sushi - raw and cold fish. Yuck.

Drops 19 June 2025.

Plane

2023 ‧ Action/Thriller

Pilot Brodie Torrance saves passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island -- only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When dangerous rebels take most of the passengers hostage, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare, an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI.

I just started watching (again) Space 1999.  Only 2 seasons and about 40 episodes.  I remember watching it when I was a kid.  Downloadable if you know where to look for it.

I spent the evening watching this movie - - at the Korean Cultural Centre.  It's a Korean psychodrama.   Afterwards, we had a moderated discussion on the themes and issues of the movie.   It was quite interesting to hear analysis and interpretation.  It's downloadable - the writer and director financed the movie from his wife's dental surgery/business.  It's considered a classic turning point of Korean post-war cinema.

Trainwreck: Poop Cruise

2025

Documentary

An engine fire leaves 4,000 passengers stranded at sea without power and plumbing in this wild documentary about the infamous "poop cruise" of 2013.