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Film · MGM · 1934

The Thin Man

The Thin Man

40Leave it.

They like each other, which is rare, and the drinking never stops.

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The review

A retired detective and his rich wife spend Christmas teasing each other and solving a murder. William Powell and Myrna Loy. The marriage is the pleasure. The case is the excuse. They like each other, which is rarer than the mystery, and that is why a series started. A house can watch it. I liked them, which is how this one gets past you.

The drinking never stops. I need that said in the same breath as the charm. Nobody in the picture puts it down, and the holiday keeps offering another. Watch them for the marriage if you want the company. Don't leave it on as a picture of how a witty couple ought to live.

Journal

Keep The Thin Man in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 40. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 3Industry
  2. 8Household
  3. 3Piety
  4. 3Courage
  5. 4Republic
  6. 1Temperance
  7. 6Truth
  8. 4Stewardship

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Murder on the Orient Express

53 instead of 40

Murder on the Orient Express is still a mystery film, and it scores 53 instead of 40. What you gain is industry: Poirot's job is the case, and the stalled train gives him nothing but time.

The eight

  1. 3
    Industry

    He is retired, and the murder case is only the excuse.

  2. 8
    Household

    The marriage is the pleasure, and they actually like each other.

  3. 3
    Piety

    A murder is solved, and nobody is stopped from the next drink.

  4. 3
    Courage

    They tease through a Christmas murder without risking the marriage.

  5. 4
    Republic

    A Christmas killing is owed an answer, and the case is only the excuse.

  6. 1
    Temperance

    The drinking never stops, and the film never asks them to quit.

  7. 6
    Truth

    They like each other for real, and a murder still has to be solved.

  8. 4
    Stewardship

    A fond marriage remains, and so does drinking that never stops.

Live historically

Count every drink through the Christmas case and refuse to call that bar a model.

Where to watch

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Film · Warner Bros. · 2018

12 Strong

12 Strong

40Leave it.

The ride is the poster. The war after the ride is not in the film. Adults. Leave it if you want the truth of the long war.

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The review

The story of ODA 595 is worth knowing: a small team sent into Afghanistan to work with Abdul Rashid Dostum against the Taliban in the fall of 2001. Horses, mountains, a war that had already been going on for other people for years. The film takes that material and sands it until the ride is the meaning.

I would not put it on for a boy. If an adult watches it, the correction is mandatory. Those twelve came home. The war did not end when the ride looked glorious. A film that stops at the glory is asking to be used. Decline.

Journal

Keep 12 Strong in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 40. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 6Industry
  2. 3Household
  3. 2Piety
  4. 6Courage
  5. 4Republic
  6. 3Temperance
  7. 5Truth
  8. 3Stewardship

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Warhorse One

51 instead of 40

Warhorse One is still a war film, and it scores 51 instead of 40. What you gain is household: The whole stake is a child who has no one else in the valley.

The eight

  1. 6
    Industry

    Horseback coordination with an Afghan ally is a real kind of work, and the opening has it.

  2. 3
    Household

    Families are the goodbye. They are not a home the film returns to with anything hard.

  3. 2
    Piety

    Vengeance is the creed. Little else.

  4. 6
    Courage

    Riding into a war they do not know is courage. The film makes it look like destiny.

  5. 4
    Republic

    September 11 is the warrant for everything that follows, and the film does not test the warrant.

  6. 3
    Temperance

    The charge on horseback is the product. It is meant to be cheered.

  7. 5
    Truth

    The first weeks were real. The movie is the recruiting version of them.

  8. 3
    Stewardship

    What it leaves is a wish. A wish is a bad inheritance from a war that lasted twenty years.

Live historically

If you mention the horseback charge, also say the year the war ended, and how long that was.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

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The next title is the one nearest what this house keeps, then the measure where it is thin. Nothing here is a crowd. It does not leave this device.

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