Donāt know if youāve seen them before, but Sexy Beast and The Long Good Friday would be great additions to your list.
Both are gangster movies. The former arguably put Ian McShane on the radar for the part of Al Swearengen but the entire, excellent cast are all entirely upstaged by a supremely unhinged Ben Kingsley.
The latter includes a tour de force by Bob Hoskins and some fantastically memorable lines, plus Helen Mirren taking the role of a gangsterās mol and making it her own.
ETA: Almost forgot to add one of my all-time favs: Local Hero. Spanning Houston and the Scottish highlands, itās a delightfully sharp comedy about stereotypes and busting stereotypes. Also, Burt Lancaster is brilliantly nuts.
Youāre going to Hell.
I donāt have a long list of British movies Iāve seen, as Iām not much of a movie watcher. But I enjoyed Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels very much.
Please tell me you have watched Snatch (yet another British film whose title is easily misunderstood).
I have not. I know, that makes me a bad cinema watcher. I did see Get Carter, which was also great, so thereās that.
Itās been years since Iāve seen Snatch.
I didnāt really include the movie here because it was a movie, but because itās probably the best explaination for Trumpism, except that Trump isnāt reluctant.
I had never seen it before.
You need to rectify this. Itās like Lock, Stock was pre-season training and Snatch is the playoffs.
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Yeah, me too. Eh? Oh.
It wasnāt an insult to Jesus (it was actually quite respectful of him). It was an impeachment of religious dogma and leadership resulting, naturally, in religious leadership losing its collective mind over the movie. Such leaders then challenged the Pythons to a televised debate in which they face-planted about as hard as anyone in the history of man.
The debate was delightfully spoofed by the wags at Not the Nine OāClock News:
Is there another?
God-awful Sly Stallone remake. Set in Seattle.
Itās probably much longer than you think it is, just because of David Lean. His movies tend to be really long.
Back to the titular subject of this thread, Trumpās FEC filing for the 2nd half of 2023 are out. His PAC spent $30 million, of which $20 million was on his legal bills.
Fun Fact: Over that same time period, Nikki Haleyās PAC raised $5mm more than Trumpās PAC. Itās a fun fact only, because Trumpās PAC - for now - dwarfs hers. But itās interesting because, if the vast bulk of the PACās spending is on Trumpās lawyers, that cash advantage is being wasted.
This is a joke I roll out every time you discuss the film, which is reliably every ten years or so.
I love such perennials.
Yesterday, Alina Habba sent a formal letter to Judge Kaplan accusing him of an ethics violation because that he and Carrollās lawyer - Roberta Kaplan (no relation) - worked together at the Paul, Weiss law firm, with Habba characterizing the working relationship as mentor-mentee. Habba cited news reports as the source of this bombshell revelation, and also cited the code of ethics and 5th circuit precedent as justification for her complaint.
This is clearly a problematic situation, until you realize that:
- The Kaplans worked at Paul, Weiss at the same time over 30 years ago;
- You will note that I said āat the same timeā instead of ātogetherā, because they never worked together;
- In fact, the overlap was only 2 years, in a large, multi-office law firm where Lewis Kaplan was soon to be nominated to a federal judgeship and Roberta Kaplan was new intake from law school (i.e. they werenāt hanging out together);
- The source was a single-sourced article in the New York Post (and nowhere else);
- The portion of the code of ethics cited by Habba actually reinforces that there was no ethical breach; and
- Kaplan is a judge on the 2nd circuit, not the 5th.
Roberta Kaplan fired a letter back systematically destroying Habbaās shit-flinging and Habba immediately backed down. That does not mean that Judge Kaplan canāt make a bar complaint about Habba; I hope he does.
Habba also waited until after both the liability and damages phases of trial to raise the issue (but, not object or otherwise request recusal, mind you)ā¦ waiving any purported conflict/violation.
ETA: this may have been previously mentionedā¦ but Trump and his band of (disbarred) lawyers know that Habba is completely out of her depth ā which they view as a feature and not a bug. After she gets stomped in every court appearance, Trump will just claim that he lost at every turn due to ineffectiveness of legal counsel. She probably knows that is how this will end, which is why she has billed ~$10M for her āservicesā in the past year.
Itās almost as if sheās not smart and just trying to fake it.