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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-23 (Saturday)
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:33:12 -0800
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On 11/24/24 11:26 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> 
>> Sister Act (blu-ray) 1992 musical starring Whoopi Goldberg as a singer
>> dating a gangster (hey that's Harvey Keitel) who she accidentally
>> witnesses murdering someone (hey that's Rom from Star Trek: DS9).  She
>> runs to the police and the police hide her with a group of nuns in San
>> Francisco headed by Maggie Smith. At first she doesn't fit in, but when
>> she discovered they have a choir she quickly takes over and brings them
>> success.  I don't think I've watched this since the early 90s.  It holds
>> up very well.
> 
> This is timeless because it's such a basic plot that even Hollywood
> cannot fuck up.
> 
> For some reason I was thinking Lilia Skala was in this movie as an elderly
> nun but she's not. She was in Flashdance and I can't picture her
> character.
> 
>> The Others (4K disc) - Another squeeze in.  This is a 2001 movie
>> starring Nicole Kidman as the mother of two young children with a
>> condition that prevents them from being in sunlight.  She and her newly
>> hired caretakers try their best to protect the children from the sun,
>> but they soon discover there are "others" also living in the home who
>> don't like keeping the curtains closed.  A pre Doctor Who Christopher
>> Eccleston also pops up as the children's father.  If you've never seen
>> this movie before it's worth watching, but best to go in knowing as
>> little about it as possible.
> 
> Hey! How did this fit into your Whoopi Goldberg marathon?

Maybe he's gearing up to watch Nicole Kidman on "Lioness" on Pee+?...