Into the Night (1985) ***

Michelle on the run with lots of celebrities gleefully playing the bad guys in cameos. Fun but just a tad too long.

A Quiet Place Part II (2020) **

More of the same without the panache of the original.

The Last Seduction (1994) **

Neo-noir has one of the more vicious femme-fatales, played to perfection by Ms. Fiorentino, but never seems to gel.

The Naked Kiss (1964) ***

Some pretty racy content mixed with some over the top sentiment all handled deftly within a shoestring budget.

The Trip to Greece (2020) ***

Fourth enjoyable romp this time with a bit more gravitas thrown in.

French Exit (2020) **

Enjoyable as a showcase for the singular Ms. Pfeiffer but that's about it.

The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate crisis long ago | The Guardian

When I started consulting for Exxon, I had already begun to understand that the Earth’s climate would be affected by carbon dioxide. There were only a small number of people in the world who were actively working on this problem because the global warming signal had not yet manifested itself in the data. So I was invited to join a research group at Exxon and one of my conditions to join was that we would publish our scientific research in peer-reviewed journals. It was a bunch of geeks trying to figure out how the planetary atmosphere works. We were doing very good work at Exxon. We had eight scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals, including a prediction of how much global warming from carbon dioxide buildup would be 40 years later. We made a prediction in 1980 of what the atmospheric warming would be from fossil fuel burning in 2020. We predicted that it would be about one degree celsius. And it is about one degree celsius. It never actually occurred to me that this was going to become a political problem. I thought: “We’ll do the analyses, we’ll write reports, the politicians of the world will see the reports and they’ll make the appropriate changes and transform our energy system somehow.” I’m a research scientist. In my field, if you discover something and it turns out to be valid, you’re a hero. I didn’t realize how hard it would be to convince people, even when they saw objective evidence of this happening.

Blockade (1938) **

Heavy handed pro Spanish Civil War Republican propoganda is surprisingly well made. Hank Fonda is very good here.