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Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

>The Crying Game (Showtime) 1992 movie written and directed by Neil 
>Jordan and staring Stephen Rea as an IRA member who kidnaps a British 
>solder played by Forest Whitaker.  While a hostage Rea and Whitaker sort 
>of become friends and Whitaker tells Rea about his girlfriend back in 
>London.  Whitaker winds getting killed during a rescue attempt and Rea 
>decides to head to London to look up Whitaker's girl.  But in a shocking 
>reveal Whitaker's girl turns out to be a Goa'uld named Ra.

And then... he entirely dropped out of movie acting.

>Repo Men (blu-ray) 2010 sci-fi movie starring Jude Law and Forest 
>Whitaker as repo men who instead of repossessing cars for a missed 
>payment, they repossess human organs while the person is still out and 
>about on the street.  Things take a turn when Jude Law winds up with one 
>of the company's hearts keeping him alive and his best friend Whitaker 
>is sent to retrieve it.  This has been on my rewatch list forever.  I 
>haven't watched this since seeing it the theater and forgot pretty much 
>everything about it except the ending.

Oh, I want to like this movie. Wasn't this like the second or third
adaptation? I was really never clear. I think it's from a graphic novel.

>The Talented Mr. Ripley (blu-ray) 1999 movie starring Matt Damon as a 
>con man who is paid by Jude Law's father to travel to Italy and talk his 
>son into returning to America.  But instead Damon weasels his way into 
>Jude's life and begins to take it over, especially after he murders Law 
>and has to keep murdering people to cover up what he did.  The movie 
>holds up great.  It's been on my rewatch list forever.  I finally broke 
>down and forced myself to watch it again since there is a new Netflix 
>series debuting next week.

There is? Why?

The performances are great, especially Jude Law. This movie needed to be
better.

>The Regime (HBO) - "Midnight Feast" - Picking up a few months after the 
>last episode, Kate Winselt's henchman has been rotting in a dungeon. He 
>then meets the previous prime minister who was also locked away.  The 
>former minister thinks the henchman would make a good ally, but the 
>henchman has other plans.

I need to catch up, or decide to drop it.