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Ray Donovan: The Movie (2022)
Did you really watch the movie?
Sorry cgsallee, but Brian Adams' "Cuts like a Knife" was released in 1983, not 1990. But what's the point anyway? Even if that bar scene took place in 1990, Ray is clearly a young man by then, old enough to be served. That would put the present-day RD in his early fifties. Seems to be the right age to me. The rest of your "review" is just as cockeyed as your math skills and knowledge of music history.
Backfire (1950)
What was that tune you were playing on the piano, Viveca?
In spite of liking every one of the actors in this movie (in other films), I have to declare that it is the worst noir I have ever seen (just edging out Lightning Strikes Twice ). The plot has deep holes, the acting seems terribly rushed (I mean you, Ed Begley), and the musical score is an awful muddle. What was the director thinking, having Viveca Lindfors sing instead of Gordon MacRae?
Emma. (2020)
Just awful
This travesty has all the subtlety of a music video. No surprise that the director made her mark in the music video world. The characters move as though they are choreographed to the music. The photography is terrible; everything is brightly lit and shot in symmetrical composition. There is no nuance to the images unlike the visual splendor of Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility or the 1996 version of Emma. It's all done in the "Look at me, I'm so clever" school of film making that so many young directors today belong too. I like Jane Austin a lot; this drivel isn't even worthy of Jane Doe.
Modern Love (2019)
Definitely watch the first episode; skip the rest
They definitely front-loaded the series by putting the best episode first. I absolutely loved the "Doorman" episode-great writing and wonderful acting by the two principle leads. Unfortunately, the rest of the episodes didn't live up to the first. The third episode with Anne Hathaway as a lonely bipolar single was thought-provoking, despite its "La La Land" opening (I really hated that movie) and the unlikely premise that a woman with such wild mood swings could have gotten through law school and been hired by a high pressure Manhattan law firm. The episode about the young woman with daddy issues was also a sad depiction of two very complex people, though I really wonder what we are supposed to take from that last line. I found the rest of the episodes to be fairly disappointing, so a 7 from me for the series as a whole.