I went on a movie-watching spree on Hulu recently and wanted to catalog some of the flicks I caught on the site.
Nobody’s Fool: I saw this movie when it first came out and remembered quite liking it so I thought it was cool that it showed up on Hulu and I had a chance to revisit it. Paul Newman, unsurprisingly, gives a great low-key performance as a small town curmudgeon who tries to come to terms with the life he’s lead as he meets his grandchildren, tries to hold down a job and other everyday tasks. There’s no big emotional arc he goes on - he winds up in much the same place at the end of the movie that he started out in - but Newman is always worth watching and he never makes the one long, sustained note he’s asked to hold out boring.
The Stranger: Orsen Welles plays an on-the-run Nazi who has managed to integrate himself into a small town in the U.S. but who is eventually tracked down by Nazi-hunter Edward G. Robinson. Not the best film from either one but definitely worth watching if you can track it down.
Hoffa: I know it’s popular to trash the 1992 Danny DeVito-directed biopic of the union legend, but I like it. It’s another movie I saw around the time of its first release and, upon re-watching, I stand by my assertion that DeVito makes some interesting choices and that Jack Nicholson does a pretty good job in the title role. It’s obviously not going to be a complete story of the man’s life but it hits many of the high points and does so in an entertaining way.
OK, now I’m all caught up.
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Chris Thilk