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What's on:

Midnight Run    (Netflix)

Greenleaf    (Netflix)

Rear Window    (Amazon Prime)

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Greenleaf was originally a TV show.  It appears that it was on Oprah Winfrey's own ("OWN") network.  Now you can watch it on Netflix.

        I had never heard of it until I came across it today when I tapped the Netflix icon on the screen with my stylus.  (A soundless "ppoh"...)  Checked it out -- I was pleasantly surprised by how good it was.  Excellent writing.

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Midnight Run is like lifting a curtain on the 1980s and taking a look, then watching the whole thing.  Robert DeNiro; Joe Pantoliano (Ralphie in The Sopranos); a very strong and interesting actor named Yaphet Kotto.  And many more--such an excellent cast.

        A lot of running, sunny skies, cross-country yadda-yadda.  It is a funny film that's got soul.

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Rear Window:  now that I think about it, Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) has plot points, scenarios, and attitudes that are similar to Hitchcock's 1954 masterpiece.  A person could watch these two movies back-to-back, and have fun with the dynamic of the later one being an homage to the earlier one.

        According to Peter Bogdanovich (Tony Soprano's shrink's shrink), the French called Rear Window Hitchcock's "testament film."

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