Movies I Have Seen - November 2018 (7 movies)

The Post. 2017, Starring Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham, Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee,
Sarah Paulson as Antoinette "Tony" Pinchot Bradlee
Bob Odenkirk as Ben Bagdikian
Tracy Letts as Fritz Beebe
Bradley Whitford as Arthur Parsons
Bruce Greenwood as Robert McNamara
Matthew Rhys as Daniel Ellsberg
Alison Brie as Lally Graham
Carrie Coon as Meg Greenfield
Jesse Plemons as Roger Clark
David Cross as Howard Simons
Michael Stuhlbarg as A. M. Rosenthal
Zach Woods as Anthony Essaye
David Costabile as Art Buchwald
Pat Healy as Philip L. Geyelin
John Rue as Gene Patterson
Rick Holmes as Murrey Marder
Philip Casnoff as Chalmers Roberts
Jessie Mueller as Judith Martin
Stark Sands as Donald E. Graham
Michael Cyril Creighton as Jake
Brent Langdon as Paul Ignatius
Gary Wilmes as Punch Sulzberger
Christopher Innvar as James L. Greenfield
James Riordan as Vice Admiral Joseph Francis Blouin
Kelly AuCoin as Assistant Attorney General Maroney
Cotter Smith as William Macomber
Jennifer Dundas as Liz Hylton. The Movie Network, November 1, 2018. Soundtrack: "Green River" -
Written by John Fogerty
Performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Courtesy of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Oh Harry
(from Night and the City (1950))
Written by Franz Waxman
Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Written by Bob Dylan
On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
Written by Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner
Performed by Peter Duchin
Courtesy of Geffen Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
Put on a Happy Face
Written by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams
Performed by The Peter Duchin Orchestra
Arranged by Stanley Schwartz
Produced by Barry Lazarowitz
Love Walked In
Written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin
Performed by The Peter Duchin Orchestra
Arranged by Stanley Schwartz
Produced by Barry Lazarowitz. Anachronisms: 1. Robert McNamara is seen wearing a Ralph Lauren Polo golf shirt. The scene takes place in 1971. Ralph Lauren introduced the shirt in 1972. McNamara probably would have been wearing a Lacoste "Alligator" (or more precisely, "Crocodile" - Rene Lacoste's nickname) shirt. 2. Movie starts out in Vietnam 1966 - The song playing in the background is "Green River" by Creedence Clearwater Revival. "Green River" was originally recorded at Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco, California during the summer of 1969. 3. While most of the telephones used were the correct vintage and had hard wired handset cords, several, including the phone in Ben Bradlee's kitchen, have a flat cord with a 4P4C jack connection. These were not introduced until the mid 1970's. 4. When the Post intern is seen crossing the street after he arrived in New York City, the street he is crossing in front of the New York Times building has a painted bike lane, something that was not in place in NYC (or really any US city) in 1971. 5. The informational card under the dial of the payphone used by Ben Bagdikian to call Ellsberg includes instructions on using a calling card to make a phone call. Calling card technology did not exist until the mid-1970s, and did not gain widespread use until years later. 6. In one scene, Katharine Graham glances at a photo of her late husband on a bookshelf, and next to the photo is a copy of William Barry Furlong's 1974 book "Season with Solti." 7. The General Motors delivery trucks carrying the newspapers are of a 1973 and later cab design, and would not have been available in summer of 1971. 8. An anti-war demonstration depicted in the film shows a speaker with a bullhorn reciting the exact words of Mario Savio's 1964 speech at UC Berkeley about stopping the gears of the machine. The scene is supposed to be in 1971. Also, the demonstrators are chanting "we don't want your stinking war." This must have been self-censorship to maintain a PG-13 rating. 9. Ben Bradlee's family television is a late 1950s black and white model with an overly rounded bezel. Color TV was popular by the late sixties (with most of the shows displaying an "up next" image bearing the words "in color"). By 1971, with virtually every program being in color, Bradlee would certainly have had a contemporary color television. 10. When Ben Bagdikian goes outside to use the bank of pay phones in June 1971, a blue 1972 Cadillac sedan drives past. The 1972 models would not have been available until August 1971. 11. When showing the rear section of the secretary of defense's airplane, the seats were of the slimline variety used today rather than the more padded, thicker seats used in the '60s. 12. In the McNamara's press conference right out of the plate, situated in 1966, one of the cameras that is clearly seen in the hands of a photojournalist is a Pentax ME, this model was release to the market in the year 1976. 13. Ellsberg's bushy hair and longish sideburns weren't out of place in 1971, but in 1966 very few men outside of rock musicians had hair that covered their ears and if one looks at pictures of Ellsberg while he was in Vietnam, he had close cropped hair. 14. When Post staffer goes to a pay phone to call Ellsberg, he apparently direct dials a long distance number, something you couldn't do from a pay phone in 1971.

Deep Blue Sea 2. 2018, Starring Danielle Savre as Dr. Misty Calhoun, Rob Mayes as Trent Slater, Michael Beach as Carl Durant, Nathan Lynn as Aaron Ellroy, Kim Syster as Leslie Kim, Jeremy Jess Boado as Daniel Kim, Darron Meyer as Craig Burns, Adrian Collins as Mike Shutello and Cameron Robertson as Josh Hooper. Crave, November 5, 2018. Soundtrack: "Into The Blue" - Written and performed by Sean Murray.

Jigsaw. 2017, Starring
Matt Passmore[5] as Logan Nelson,
Callum Keith Rennie[5] as Detective Halloran[7][6]
Clé Bennett[8] as Detective Keith Hunt[7][6]
Hannah Emily Anderson[5] as Eleanor Bonneville[6]
Laura Vandervoort[9] as Anna[7][6]
Paul Braunstein[8] as Ryan[7][6]
Mandela Van Peebles[10] as Mitch[7][6]
Brittany Allen[5] as Carly[7][6]
Josiah Black[5] as Edgar Munsen[6]
Tobin Bell as John Kramer / Jigsaw. Crave, November 7, 2018. Soundtrack: "Never Fade Away" - Performed by Great American Canyon Band, Courtesy of Six Degrees Records, By Arrangement with Primary Wave Entertainment.

Darkest Hour. 2017, Starring
Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill
Kristin Scott Thomas as Clemmie
Lily James as Elizabeth Layton
Stephen Dillane as Viscount Halifax
Ronald Pickup as Neville Chamberlain
Samuel West as Sir Anthony Eden
Ben Mendelsohn as King George VI
Richard Lumsden as General Ismay
Malcolm Storry as General Ironside
Nicholas Jones as Sir John Simon
David Schofield as Clement Attlee
Hilton McRae as Arthur Greenwood
Benjamin Whitrow as Sir Samuel Hoare.
Joe Armstrong as John Evans
Adrian Rawlins as Air Chief Marshal Dowding
David Bamber as Admiral Ramsay
Paul Leonard as Admiral Dudley Pound
American actor David Strathairn provided the voice of President Roosevelt, heard on a phone call with Churchill. Crave, November 14, 2018. Soundtrack: Music by Dario Marianelli. Anachronisms: 1. When Churchill is summoned by the king, as his car drives onto the the grounds of Buckingham Palace, the Union Flag can be seen flying above the Palace. At that time the only flag to be flown over the Palace was the Royal Standard, and only when the monarch was present. This rule was not changed until 1997, and even today, the Royal Standard is flown whenever the monarch is present. 2. Churchill is seen flying to France is a Douglas C-47 with RAF markings in May 1940. The C-47 did not make its first flight until December 1941 and did not enter RAF service until 1942. 3. The film takes place in May 1940. Elizabeth Layton did not become Winston Churchill's secretary until 1941. 4. Live broadcasting from Parliament did not begin until the 1970s so his speeches could not have been heard on the radio as they were being made. He repeated some of them later for the BBC and these are the recordings that are now available. 5. Four RAF fighter planes are seen flying over London in a finger four formation. While Luftwaffe had started using that tactic earlier, the RAF used a three plane "vic" formation until the end phases of Battle of Britain. 6. Winston Churchill's first use of the 'V' finger sign did not occur until the middle of 1941, a year after this film takes place. 7. Early on in the film a black Riley RM drives past 10 Downing Street. This was a post war model (1945 - 55). Also, a black 1949 - 53 Ford Anglia E494A is seen later on in the film. 8. At some point of the movie, you can see a Quartz clock (It being Quartz can be understood by the movement of the seconds hand. In mechanical clocks the movement of the seconds hand is smooth with step sizes as small as 1/6th or 1/8th of a second, while in Quartz clocks usually the seconds hand jumps for a step size of 1 second, and then pauses until it makes its next 1-second step jump for the next second). The Quartz clocks were of course invented before the time of the movie. But as late as 1960s that the development of cheap semiconductor digital logic made their public and domestic use possible, their use was just limited to some specific applications (like some scientific laboratories and so on).

Thoroughbreds. 2017, Starring Olivia Cooke as Amanda, Anya Taylor-Joy as Lily, Anton Yelchin as Tim,
Paul Sparks Paul Sparks ... Mark
Francie Swift Francie Swift ... Cynthia
Kaili Vernoff Kaili Vernoff ... Karen
Svetlana Orlova Svetlana Orlova ... Housekeeper
Alyssa Fishenden Alyssa Fishenden ... Jessica
Jackson Damon Jackson Damon ... Phil
James Haddad James Haddad ... Michael
Nolan Ball Nolan Ball ... Delivery Guy
Celeste Oliva Celeste Oliva ... Receptionist
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kristen Annese Kristen Annese ... Waitress (uncredited)
Stephanie Atkinson Stephanie Atkinson ... Knitting Therapist (uncredited)
Xavier Dillingham Xavier Dillingham ... Party goer (uncredited)
Lauren Laperriere Lauren Laperriere ... Mental Patient (uncredited)
Daniel Martignetti Daniel Martignetti ... CT State Policeman (uncredited)
Jack Norton Jack Norton ... Mental Patient (uncredited)
Leah Procito Leah Procito ... Doctor (uncredited)
Max Ripley Max Ripley ... Boy in cafe (uncredited)
Chaunty Spillane Chaunty Spillane ... Lackadaisical Mental Patient (uncredited)
Alex Wolff Alex Wolff ... Party Friend. Crave, November 27, 2018. Soundtrack: "Sila
Written by Ian Campeau, Tim Hill (as Timothy Hill), Bear Witness (as Ehren Thomas) & Tanya Tagaq (as Tanya Tagaq Gillis)
Performed by A Tribe Called Red featuring Tanya Tagaq
Courtesy of The Greater Goods Co.
All the Things
Written by The Sweet Hurt (as Wendy Wang) & Evan Voytas
Performed by The Sweet Hurt
Courtesy of The Sweet Hurt
Dancin' in the Moonlight
Written by Sherman Kelly
Performed by King Harvest
Courtesy of Darbo Music, LLC and Universal Music France
Chameleon
Written by Kim Petras, Lauren Vogel, Eroc, Alyssa Suede, David Campbell & Manifesto
Performed by Rome Will Burn
Courtesy of Blue Mask Records
Ellens Gessang III (Ave Maria!): Ellens Gesang III, D. 839, Hymn an die Jungfrau
Written by Franz Schubert
Performed by Irwin Gage & Sibylla Rubens
Courtesy of Naxos of America
Meditation-Memory
Written and Performed by Bryan Lurie
Courtesy of Bryan Lurie
Ce N'Est Pas Moi
Written by Tanis Chalopin
Performed by Tanis Chalopin (as Tanis)
Courtesy of Tanis
Uja
Written and Performed by Tanya Tagaq, Jesse Zubot, Jean Martin & Michael Edwards
Courtesy of Six Shooter Records, Inc.

Unsane. 2018, Starring Claire Foy as Sawyer Valentini,
Joshua Leonard as David Strine, Sawyer's stalker
Jay Pharoah as Nate Hoffman, Sawyer's friend at the institution
Juno Temple as Violet, a patient of the institution
Aimee Mullins as Ashley Brighterhouse, head of the institution
Amy Irving as Angela Valentini, Sawyer's mother
Polly McKie as Nurse Boles, head nurse at the institution
Zach Cherry as Denis, a new employee of the institution
Sarah Stiles as Jill, a coworker of Sawyer's whom she dislikes
Matt Damon as Detective Ferguson, a detective who advises Sawyer
Raúl Castillo as Jacob
Mike Mihm as Steve
Robert Kelly as Steve's Partner
Colin Woodell as Mark. Crave, November 27, 2018. Soundtrack: "Burn
Written by Lola G.
Performed by DTCV
Courtesy of Vivarock Music (ASCAP).
Trivia: The film was shot entirely on the iPhone 7 Plus in 4K using the app FiLMiC Pro.

Paul, Apostle of Christ.2018, Starring
James Faulkner as Saint Paul[5]
Jim Caviezel as Saint Luke[5]
Olivier Martinez as Mauritius, prefect of Mamertine Prison[5]
Antonia Campbell-Hughes as Irenica, wife of Mauritius
Joanne Whalley as Priscilla, companion of Paul and Aquilla's wife[6]
John Lynch as Aquilla, companion of Paul and Priscilla's husband[6]
Noah Huntley as Publius
Yorgos Karamihos Saul of Tarsus, i.e. Paul before his conversion to Christianity[7]
Alessandro Sperduti as Cassius. Crave, November 30, 2018. Soundtrack: Music by Jan A.P. Kaczmarek.