Kind Hearts and Coronets by Robert Hamer is on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list, it was remade recently as How To Make a Killing, but alas, the latter is quite disappointing – you have thousands of notes on films from the NYT 1,000 and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where the stars are my macaws

 

Kind Hearts and Coronets by Robert Hamer is on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list, it was remade recently as How To Make a Killing, but alas, the latter is quite disappointing – you have thousands of notes on films from the NYT 1,000 and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where the stars are my macaws

 

8 out of 10

 

I have already expressed some views on Kind Hearts and Coronets, although that was in the form of a video note, with my macaws in the background https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/04/note-on-kind-hearts-and-coronets.html now I am under the impression of the new adaptation – How to Make a Killing

 

Louis from the first, much better, version has now become Becket Redfellow, the antihero who is showing the audience How To Make a Killing, or better still, to abstain from any such temptation, seeing that he is about to die…we know this early on, no need for a spoiler alert, he is confessing to a priest before his execution

There may be some surprises, that is if the viewer has the patience to wait till the end, in my case, there is this new habit of ‘watching movies’ while doing something else, even, paradoxically, checking about other motion pictures on the Variety app on my phone, all right in cases such as this one, when the film is forgettable

 

Blue Moon https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/blue-moon-written-by-lorenz-hart-robert.html is the epitome of the wonderful work of art which deserves all the attention, and I mention it here because this is the best movie I have seen recently, and it has Margaret Qualley in it, alas, she could not lift How To Make a Killing

There are some good intentions, I used to think that ‘hell is paved with good intentions’ comes from Shakespeare, apparently, it is a proverb, notwithstanding that, the motion picture does try to convey the message that fortune hunting does not pay – or does it? – look at the horror, and comedy, of all this killing…

 

I have said what I think about the original, which is very good, and the recent adaption, which critics have mostly rejected, it has a Metascore of 49, rather unimpressive, and now I move on to what bothers me more: this war that affects the world economy- I am afraid to check at our company, to see what the situation is

We had zero profit last year, ergo it could not be a wonderful outcome now, and then there is this spending frenzy that my spouse has gotten into, well, she had had this tendency all along, feeling that I have always been a client of the whore houses (I have never been, if for no other reason, then it is because they are expensive)

 

So, what to do now? There have been quite a few bad days, what with a mate being rude, not that he is so polite generally, one needs to read Flow https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/flow-by-mihaly-csikszentmihalyi.html again, to see how to get into The Zone, get in control, with formidable concentration, stay between burnout and boredom