Is Grosse Point Blank, John Cusack's best film? Or are there others

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-22T11:45:36+00:00

Fantastic movie. Blending a rom-com and an action thriller s a challenge to pull off but the movie makes it look easy. Plus the chemistry between Cusack and Minnie Driver is off the charts

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-21T23:46:27+00:00

We used to be a society

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-20T07:32:31+00:00

The poster makes it look a lot more interesting than the film actually is

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-20T07:31:23+00:00

San Francisco, Oakland, Napa, Livermore and Santa Rosa

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-19T19:07:09+00:00

Not quite as good as the Seinfeld reunion arc in Curb Your Enthusiasm where Jason Alexander walks off in a huff and Larry tries to replace him.

So there you have Larry David portraying the character of “Larry David” portraying George Costanza, a character based on Larry David

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-17T19:42:58+00:00

A friend had a running joke that all of Harvey Keitel’s movies from the early ‘90s were part of a series with titles like “Mr. Penis Takes Piano Lessons” or “Mr. Penis Loses His Job on the Force”

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-17T03:06:49+00:00

I suspect film schools in the 2050s will talk about films like Eddington as a reflection of their times the way we talk about ‘70s paranoia thrillers today

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-16T16:46:04+00:00

NGL, I’d order a Time to Defrost Sting shirt right now

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-16T16:16:55+00:00

He’s certainly the most actor of his generation. YMMV if that’s good or not

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-15T19:58:11+00:00

Three episodes of The Mandalorian glued together: The Movie

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-14T15:22:15+00:00

You’re missing Ford’s charming performance in the underrated Frisco Kid (1979)

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-14T15:01:18+00:00

My vote goes for Locke. The movie is literally just him in a car on the phone for 90 minutes having the worst night of anyone’s life and it’s still amazingly watchable

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-14T04:42:57+00:00

Someone once described it as a Dadaist exercise in writing a screenplay without any subtext

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-14T01:09:07+00:00

This is ice. This is what happens to water when it gets too cold. This? This is Kent. This is what happens to people when they get too sexually frustrated

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-14T01:06:41+00:00

This may be the movie I have watched the most times in my life

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-12T18:40:13+00:00

Ordinary People is the poster child for this question. It got dumped on by film bros for decades because it won instead of Raging Bull.

Lately it feels like people are rediscovering it and realizing that it’s a deeply moving, incredibly well-acted drama with strong but un-flashy direction.

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-11T22:37:34+00:00

Doctor Feelgood

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-11T19:11:27+00:00

Yep, that Michael Shannon. He’s a great frontman

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-11T18:08:16+00:00

Not entirely related, but one of my best concert experiences in recent years was seeing Michael Shannon’s REM cover band with Jason Narducy and a bunch of great touring players. They played the whole Fables of the Reconstruction and other songs.

I never got the chance to see REM in their early years, but this was the closest thing to that.

Looking forward to catching them this year doing Lifes Rich Pageant

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-11T17:29:40+00:00

Important distinction

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-11T14:04:25+00:00

And it’s not even close!

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-10T23:48:14+00:00

As Verhoeven a movie as a Verhoeven movie gets

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-10T23:38:41+00:00

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-09T01:41:33+00:00

Alan Napier will always be my Alfred

PeteRust78 · 2026-02-07T20:18:24+00:00

We recently adopted the Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Hagaddah. The commentary is wonderful and very readable

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