Monday, 16 May 2016

Also Watched - Everest, Angels with Dirty Faces, The Ox-Bow Incident, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Silicon Valley



Also watched this week Everest, Angels with Dirty Faces, The Ox-Bow Incident, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Silicon Valley.
Everest (2015)
Written by:
William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy (screenplay)

Directed by: Baltasar Kormákur
Starring: Jason Clarke, Ang Sherpa Phula, Thomas Wright, John Hawkes, Michael Kelly, Josh Brolin, Kiera Knightly, Sam Worthington, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robin Wright, 
Rated: PG-13

As you might guess, this is a hiking expedition up Mt. Everest based on the events of the Mt. Everest disaster of May 10, 1996, one of the deadliest days on Everest.

Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Written by:
John Wexley and Warren Duff (screen play), Rowland Brown (from a story by), Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (uncredited)

Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Starring: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft
Rated: --

Childhood friends choose different life paths, one a gangster and the other a priest.

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Written by:
Lamar Trotti (written for the screen by), Walter Van Tilburg Clark (from the novel by)

Directed by: William A. Wellman
Starring: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes 
Rated: --

A posse is divided on how to carry out justice. Should the murderers get a trial or a lynching?

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
Written by:
William M. Finkelstein (screenplay)

Directed by: Werner Herzog
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Russell M. Haeuser, Val Kilmer, Xzibit, Fairuza Balk, Michael Shannon
Rated: R

Terence McDonagh is a cop with drug and gambling problems trying to solve a crime in post-Katrina New Orleans.  He's willing to compromise to get drugs and arrests. He'll even beat up old ladies. 

Silicon Valley (2014-)
Season 3 (2016)
Created by:  John Altschuler, Mike Judge, Dave Krinsky
Starring:  Thomas Middleditch, T.J. Miller, Martin Starr, Kumail Nanjiani, Zach Woods, Josh Brener


This HBO comedy focuses on the founders of a start up company, from developing the technology to generating funding, and navigating the board room.

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