{"id":1559,"date":"2026-03-09T07:40:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?page_id=1559"},"modified":"2026-09-03T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:32:00","slug":"movies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?page_id=1559","title":{"rendered":"Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>All the movies I&#8217;ve reviewed:<\/summary><ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts is-layout-flow wp-block-latest-posts-is-layout-flow\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?p=2980\">The Accountant (2016)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?p=2663\">Bullitt (1968)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?p=2662\">The Big Heat (1953)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?p=2521\">Mansfield Park (1999)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?p=2577\">The Drowning Pool (1975)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?p=2263\">Harper (1966)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?p=2125\">Marlowe (1969)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?p=2386\">The Blue Dahlia (1946)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?p=2103\">The Big Combo (1955)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?p=1838\">No Name on the Bullet (1959)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">Movies<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been years since I&#8217;ve actually watched a movie in a theater. <br>Everything listed here I saw on my TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I mostly watch &#8220;whodunits&#8221;.  <br>Although I find myself watching a lot more Westerns in my old age than I used to!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <em>whodunits<\/em>, I mark with a tag of <em><strong>noir<\/strong><\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>The <em>whodunits<\/em>, I mark with a tag of <em>noir<\/em>. Here is a list of the<strong>m<\/strong>:<\/summary>\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2662 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-movies tag-50s tag-murder tag-noir\">\n<h2 style=\"color:#8b3103\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-post-title has-text-color has-large-font-size has-ysabeau-office-font-family\">The Big Heat (1953)<\/h2>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2577 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-movies tag-70s tag-louisiana tag-noir tag-ross-macdonald\">\n<h2 style=\"color:#8b3103\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-post-title has-text-color has-large-font-size has-ysabeau-office-font-family\">The Drowning Pool (1975)<\/h2>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2263 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-movies tag-60s tag-la tag-noir tag-ross-macdonald\">\n<h2 style=\"color:#8b3103\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-post-title has-text-color has-large-font-size has-ysabeau-office-font-family\">Harper (1966)<\/h2>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2125 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-movies tag-60s tag-detective tag-la tag-mystery tag-noir tag-raymond-chandler\">\n<h2 style=\"color:#8b3103\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-4 wp-block-post-title has-text-color has-large-font-size has-ysabeau-office-font-family\">Marlowe (1969)<\/h2>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2386 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-movies tag-alan-ladd tag-la tag-noir tag-raymond-chandler tag-whodunit\">\n<h2 style=\"color:#8b3103\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-5 wp-block-post-title has-text-color has-large-font-size has-ysabeau-office-font-family\">The Blue Dahlia (1946)<\/h2>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2103 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-movies tag-50s tag-new-york tag-noir\">\n<h2 style=\"color:#8b3103\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-6 wp-block-post-title has-text-color has-large-font-size has-ysabeau-office-font-family\">The Big Combo (1955)<\/h2>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1392 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-movies tag-40s tag-mystery tag-noir\">\n<h2 style=\"color:#8b3103\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-7 wp-block-post-title has-text-color has-large-font-size has-ysabeau-office-font-family\">The Unsuspected (1947)<\/h2>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Here are the rest: Jane Austen, crime dramas, and a lone sci-fi: \ud83d\ude42<\/summary>\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2980 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-movies tag-family tag-guns tag-violence\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title has-large-font-size has-ysabeau-office-font-family\">The Accountant (2016)<\/h2>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2663 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-movies tag-60s tag-car-chase tag-murder tag-san-francisco\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title has-large-font-size has-ysabeau-office-font-family\">Bullitt (1968)<\/h2>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2521 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-movies tag-england tag-jane-austen\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title has-large-font-size has-ysabeau-office-font-family\">Mansfield Park (1999)<\/h2>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1838 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-movies tag-audie-murphy tag-gunfight tag-western\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title has-large-font-size has-ysabeau-office-font-family\">No Name on the Bullet (1959)<\/h2>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1676 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-movies tag-england tag-jane-austen\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title has-large-font-size has-ysabeau-office-font-family\">Pride and Prejudice (2005)<\/h2>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1532 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-movies tag-reacher tag-snipers\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title has-large-font-size has-ysabeau-office-font-family\">Reacher (2012)<\/h2>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-853 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-movies tag-movie tag-sci-fi\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title has-large-font-size has-ysabeau-office-font-family\">Attack of the 50-Foot Woman<\/h2>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">addendum<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I started this project, I gave each movie a short review here. <br>Because I hate to throw anything away, here are the first five \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?p=1838\">No Name on the Bullet (1959)<\/a><\/summary>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You had me at <strong>Audie Murphy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Perfect hero for a 1950s movie:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>everyone is darkly suspicious of everyone else<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>smoldering unacknowledged sex<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?p=1838\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?p=1392\">The Unsuspected (1947)<\/a><\/summary>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I&#8217;m also a sucker for Audrey Totter. \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>She was Adrienne Fromsett in Lady in the Lake. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;ve had a crush on her for years \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?p=1838\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?p=1392\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?p=853\">Attack of the 50-Foot Woman (1958)<\/a><\/summary>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I am also a bit of a sucker for that1950&#8217;s style.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The huge cars with giant fins.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Extravagant floozies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s a short movie, in the Nevada desert!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Reacher (2012)<\/summary>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I had finished reading a Reacher book and this movie was right there on the TV, so I watched it again.  It&#8217;s kinda <em>meh<\/em>.  \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I think the Reacher character is more appealing to me on the printed page than on the screen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?p=1676\">Pride and Prejudice (2005)<\/a><\/summary>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I&#8217;m a sucker for Jane Austen &#8230; and Kiera Knightly \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-text-subtitle is-style-text-subtitle--1 wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">Where I get my movies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I subscribe to <strong>Youtube TV<\/strong> so there&#8217;s no penalty to record everything that strikes my fancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every now few days I crank up the <strong>TCM<\/strong> &#8216;channel preview&#8217; feature to see what&#8217;s in store, and again press the &#8220;record button&#8221; as needed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movies It&#8217;s been years since I&#8217;ve actually watched a movie in a theater. Everything listed here I saw on my TV. I mostly watch &#8220;whodunits&#8221;. Although I find myself watching a lot more Westerns in my old age than I used to! 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