The Devil All the Time 2020 ★★½ Watched Sep 16, 2020 Has the joke been made yet that this title is Netflix's official slogan? The movie doesn't have anything to do with the devil, except that it's set in Bible-Belt Appalachia from 1948 to 1965. An ex-soldier returns home but can't…
The Plumber 1979 ★★★½ Watched Sep 12, 2020 Jill and Brian Cowper live in university housing, both intellectuals who love cultural diversity and global culture. They love it so much that there's a "cultural diversity" poster on their bathroom door, and Jill seems to enjoy listening to native chants in…
Platoon 1986 ★★★★½ Watched Sep 11, 2020 "Platoon" works best considered as a cinematic memoir about director Oliver Stone's service time in the American Vietnam War. It's misidentified as an anti-war movie, and, unlike most other Stone fare, it's not especially about abstract politics or some vast sweep of history.…