honestly happy death day was surprisingly enjoyable for what it was
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 17 August 2018 19:48 (seven years ago)
the gospel of the bear film has reached the troposphere
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Friday, 17 August 2018 20:25 (seven years ago)
lol
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 17 August 2018 21:23 (seven years ago)
The Raid: Redemption (Evans, 2011) 6Mission: Impossible Fallout (McQuarrie, 2018) 7Disney Christopher Robin (Marc Forster, 2018) 4Marwencol (Jeff Malmberg, 2010) 8Icarus (Bryan Fogel, 2017) 8
― adam the (abanana), Friday, 17 August 2018 21:58 (seven years ago)
read that marwencol has been adapted & now will have steve carell in it
― johnny crunch, Friday, 17 August 2018 23:27 (seven years ago)
https://www.meta-sphere.com/wp-content/uploads/welcome-to-marwen_tete-600x220.jpg
― johnny crunch, Friday, 17 August 2018 23:28 (seven years ago)
yeah I watched it because i saw the trailer for the zemeckis movie. The trailer makes it out to be an "inspirational" true story but it's not really, not exactly.
― adam the (abanana), Saturday, 18 August 2018 00:50 (seven years ago)
baby driver (2017 edgar wright) 6.5/10mollys game (2017 sorkin) 2/10suburbicon (2017 clooney) 2/10the killing of a sacred deer (2017 lanthimos) 6/10angelo my love (1983 duvall) 3/10eighth grade (2018 burnham) 8/10thoroughbreds (2018 cory finley) 4/10
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:30 (seven years ago)
thoroughbreds (2018 cory finley) 4/10
I don't do the out of 10 thing but I'd give this at least a 6. It made me laugh a lot.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:34 (seven years ago)
lil too try hard idk
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:38 (seven years ago)
*The Naked Spur : 7/10Vampire's Kiss : 6/10Dying Of the Light (Paul Schrader Edit): 7/10 -- only 7/10 because Nic Cage is in full on weirdo mode and Schrader's noodling around on Final Cut. The doctor accent is...wow...almost as great as the accent in "Vampire's Kiss"*The Young One: 7/10 - minor Buñuel for me but still great
― An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 18 August 2018 13:19 (seven years ago)
Crazy Rich Asians – kind of a riff on Philadelphia Story, but with better-looking people. Lots of film history embedded in it.
― remy bean, Saturday, 18 August 2018 20:10 (seven years ago)
What Price Jazz (Baerwitz, 1934)Felix Gets Broadcasted (Messmer, 1923)High Flyers (Cline, 1937)Inflation (Myers, 1933)Felix in Fairyland (Messmer, 1923)*Roast-Beef and Movies (Baerwitz, 1934)*Big City Fantasy (Henabery, 1934)The Magician (Bergman, 1958)BlacKkKlansman (Lee, 2018)Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman, 1955)
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Sunday, 19 August 2018 23:50 (seven years ago)
Re-watching Whit Stillman's Barcelona tonight.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 01:43 (seven years ago)
I was hoping for good things from Crazy Rich Asians, but found it fairly bland. I may have had the wrong expectations for a mainstream PG rom-com, but I felt like it needed sharper jokes.
― jmm, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:02 (seven years ago)
kind of a riff on Philadelphia Story, but with better-looking people
!!! I'm sure this cast looks fine, but you are aware that Cary Grant and Kate Hepburn were considered pretty attractive, right?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:27 (seven years ago)
in theaters July 26 - August 22
Killer’s Kiss (Stanley Kubrick, 1955) - 6/10Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman, 1951) - 9/10Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham, 2018) - 8/10Three Identical Strangers (Tim Wardle, 2018) - 6/10Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada, 2018) - 7/10Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (Peter Rida Michail, Aaron Horvath, 2018) - 3/10BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018) - 9/10
― flappy bird, Thursday, 23 August 2018 04:39 (seven years ago)
! at low rating for Three Identical StrangersI knew nothing about the backstory before seeing it at SIFF but on a str8 narrative level it’s my favourite doco of the year
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 23 August 2018 06:18 (seven years ago)
it is an incredible story. a documentary that makes itself, really. what bothered me was how much they reused the same footage from the same Donahue, NBC, + other TV appearances. the same lines. it kinda falls apart at the end, and felt padded even at ~95 minutes. that has nothing to do with the actual story being unresolved, i just thought with so much material to go through (and so many years passed over) the reuse of footage was bizarre.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 23 August 2018 06:52 (seven years ago)
and fwiw I knew not only the backstory but most of the twists before I saw it. I would've rated it higher if I had gone in completely cold, I wish I could've.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 23 August 2018 06:54 (seven years ago)
yeah fair enough! the repeated lines are very few & read in SUPER different context the second times around, but if you’re not seeing it / that footage cold, those won’t have the same kick
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 23 August 2018 08:22 (seven years ago)
a documentary that makes itself, really.this undermines the work they do in visuals and research and in editing the story though — I felt v impressed by how manipulative it was without cheats in the first half-hour, and how well the makers shift to mostly-archival telling thereafter.
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 23 August 2018 08:26 (seven years ago)
i've seen much worse evaluations of 3IS
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 August 2018 11:31 (seven years ago)
Apostasy (Dan Kokotajlo, 2017) - fairly ho hum drama around Jehovah's witnesses. The Heiresses (Marcelo Martinessi, 2017) - this is going to be top 2/3 for the year. Loved the use of (de-)focus to mirror the main character's state of mind (which could've been too on the nose), the script really nails the intricacies of class mobility across a more Latin American milieu, and then the final encounter between Chela and the much younger Angy -- all that hidden passion and desire across age and class -- really was a terrific driver for the last 1/3 of the film.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 August 2018 13:15 (seven years ago)
Missed a trick by not taglining this thread "Oh yes... There will be blood"
― koogs, Thursday, 23 August 2018 13:43 (seven years ago)
https://resizing.flixster.com/2vtSOfiWCmXUQ8Brs-b4y5qFYIY=/206x305/v1.bTsxMTE3NzU3OTtqOzE3ODU5OzEyMDA7ODAwOzEyMDA
― koogs, Thursday, 23 August 2018 13:45 (seven years ago)
Electric Bloodaloo
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 23 August 2018 15:22 (seven years ago)
Kagemusha (1980)RoboCop (2014)The Endless (2017)Deadpool 2 (2018)*The Social Network (2010)Super Troopers 2 (2018)A Ciambra (2017)Frenzy (1972)Call Me By Your Name (2017)*The Cabin In The Woods (2012)A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)*Nightcrawler (2014)First Reformed (2017)*Drugstore Cowboy (1989)Super 8 (2011)30 Days of Night (2007)One Sings, The Other Doesnt (1977)
― . (Michael B), Friday, 24 August 2018 18:05 (seven years ago)
Re-watched Miami Vice tonight (the director’s cut). It’s kind of maddening how 90% of the shots are fantastically beautiful, and then the other 10% look like they were shot on somebody’s flip phone.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 25 August 2018 03:01 (seven years ago)
I've gotta get on that, watched Heat a few weeks ago for the first time and loved it. Haven't seen Collateral since it opened in 2004 but remember loving it, too.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 25 August 2018 03:26 (seven years ago)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall, good movie
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 25 August 2018 04:20 (seven years ago)
The Heiresses (Marcelo Martinessi, 2017) - this is going to be top 2/3 for the year. Loved the use of (de-)focus to mirror the main character's state of mind (which could've been too on the nose), the script really nails the intricacies of class mobility across a more Latin American milieu, and then the final encounter between Chela and the much younger Angy -- all that hidden passion and desire across age and class -- really was a terrific driver for the last 1/3 of the film.
― xyzzzz__, 23. august 2018 15:15 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, for one reason or another Latin American cinema works a lot with de-focus these days, I find. Sergio Armstrong, most famous for shooting most films of Pablo Larrain, is masterful at it. Apart from Larrains films he does it greatly in From Afar and The Desert Bride. It's one of the most innovative little things happening in World Cinema at the moment, but I'll admit I have no idea what to make of it.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 25 August 2018 15:22 (seven years ago)
August 1st to 16th:
* The Brothers Bloom (Johnson 2008) 📺Teen Titans GO! To The Movies (Michail, Horvath, Jelenic 2018) True Confession (Ruggles, Binyon 1937) 📽️* Sneakers (Robinson 1992) 📺The Spy Who Dumped Me (Fogel, Iverson 2018) Nothing Sacred [Kino restoration] (Wellman, Hecht, Schulberg, Lardner Jr., Parker, Howard, Hart, Kaufman, Carson 1937) BlacKkKLansman (Lee, Wachtel, Rabinowitz, Willmott 2018) Madonna: Truth Or Dare (Keshishian 1991) To Be Or Not To Be (Lubitsch, Mayer 1942) 📽️
― ▫◌▫ (sic), Sunday, 26 August 2018 17:36 (seven years ago)
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, August 24, 2018 8:01 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― flappy bird, Friday, August 24, 2018 8:26 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
MV is the purest distillation of the Mann aesthetic. I actually recommend the theatrical cut over the director’s cut, though I’m not sure if one is easier to track down over the other. If you’re onboard with his “thing” it’s one of the greatest action films in recent years.
― omar little, Sunday, 26 August 2018 18:06 (seven years ago)
You can rent the theatrical cut on Amazon but the director's cut is the only one available on DVD/Blu-Ray.
Has the director's cut of Blackhat ever been released anywhere? I never saw the first version but the re-edit is supposed to be a substantially better movie, so I'm intrigued.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 26 August 2018 20:00 (seven years ago)
Apparently MV (theatrical cut, probably) will be free via Amazon Prime starting September 1.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 26 August 2018 22:16 (seven years ago)
*Out West (Arbuckle, 1918)Charley on the Farm (Sullivan, 1919)The Dippy Dentist (Goulding, 1920)Standing Pat (Montgomery, 1928)Campus Romeos (Pratt, 1927)A Broadway Romeo (Blumenstock, 1931)All the King's Horses (Tuttle, 1935)*The Black Cat (Ulmer, 1934)Re-Animator (Gordon, 1985)Good References (Neill, 1920)
― Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Sunday, 26 August 2018 23:52 (seven years ago)
Primary (6.5)A Bronx Tale (7.0)Promised Land (7.5)Shock and Awe (5.5)Nico, 1988 (6.0)Nico Icon (7.0)Singer Presents...Elvis (6.5)Twister (6.5)Class Action (7.5)Sorry to Bother You (6.0)
I was going to leave Sorry to Bother You unrated because a) I drifted a bit early on, and b) as it got weirder and weirder, I just didn't know what to make of it. So take the rating as more of a question mark than any kind of comment on how good it is.
― clemenza, Monday, 27 August 2018 04:07 (seven years ago)
lots of Hong Sang-soo, just hook it to my veins
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928) 9/10Minnie and Moskowitz (Cassavetes, 1971) 7/10Happy Hour (Hamaguchi, 2015) 9/10La Collectionneuse (Rohmer, 1967) 6/10Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong, 2015) 8/10Three Colours: Blue (Kieślowski, 1993) 7/10Three Colours: White (Kieślowski, 1994) 7/10Three Colours: Red (Kieślowski, 1994) 7/10In Another Country (Hong, 2012) 8/10On The Beach at Night Alone (Hong, 2017) 8/10Blackkklansman (Lee, 2018) 7/10The Aviators Wife (Rohmer, 1981) 9/10Woman on the Beach (Hong, 2006) 9/10The Day After (Hong, 2017) 7/10
― devvvine, Monday, 27 August 2018 16:21 (seven years ago)
Crazy Rich Asians: 7.5
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 27 August 2018 18:14 (seven years ago)
*Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971, Van Peebles) 8/10The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928, Dulac) (41m) 8/10La folie des vaillants (1926, Dulac) (46m) 6/10La Belle dame sans merci (1920, Dulac) 7/10Princesse Mandane (1928, Dulac) 6/10Freaky Friday (1976, Nelson) 7/10Surrender (1950, Dwan) 5/10Dutchman (1967, Harvey) (55m) 7/10Rendezvous in July (1949, Becker) 6/10 Nico, 1988 (2017, Nicchiarelli) 5/10 *The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961, Guest) 8/10
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 18:30 (seven years ago)
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) - 10/10A Colt is My Passport (Takashi Nomura, 1967) - 5/10Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) - 10/10Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997) - 10/10Auto Focus (Paul Schrader, 2002) - 7/10Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000) - 10/10Le Amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1955) - 6/10Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch, 1930) - 7/10
― flappy bird, Friday, 31 August 2018 05:01 (seven years ago)
A Ciambra, a story about a Romani family of low-level criminals in Italy, and a young boy's coming-of-age/becoming-a-scumbag.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 31 August 2018 12:44 (seven years ago)
Alex Strangelove (Johnson, 2018) 6/10The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Milestone, 1946) 8/10Vision Quest (Becker, 1985) 5/10*Mean Girls (Waters, 2004) 6/10*Heathers (Lehmann, 1989) 9/10A Man There Was (Sjöström, 1917) 7/10Heartaches (Shebib, 1981) 6/10The Story of Temple Drake (Roberts, 1933) 7/10
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Saturday, 1 September 2018 01:59 (seven years ago)
Nearest and Dearest (Robins, 1972) 4/10Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman, 1955) 8/10The Boys From Fengkuei (Hou, 1983) 8/10Cabaret (Fosse, 1972) 7/10The Big Combo (Lewis, 1955) 7/10The Final Programme (Fuest, 1973) 6/10The Devil's Rain (Fuest, 1975) 7/10Rawhide (Hathaway, 1951) 8/10Further up the Creek (Guest, 1958) 6/10The Women (Cukor, 1939) 8/10Ant-Man and the Wasp (Reed, 2018) 6/10
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 1 September 2018 06:53 (seven years ago)
The Finsl Programme is one of the rare movies that I watched, thoroughly entertained the whole way through, with absolutely no clue as to what was happening.
― JoeStork, Saturday, 1 September 2018 06:58 (seven years ago)
I'd read the book many years ago, so that maybe helped - I'm not sure it was intended to be entirely coherent, in the manner of New Wave SF. Moorcock-loving fans of my acquaintance (and Moorcock himself) detest it, but as you say it's pretty pleasurable to watch. The director, Robert Fuest, had come from TV and things like the (Steed-Peel) Avengers, and he was a great set dresser and stylist - this set is the standout in FP:
https://thegameofnerds.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/the-final-programme-02.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 1 September 2018 07:03 (seven years ago)
The Good Marriage (Rohmer, 1982) - early to mid-80s Rohmer is really his best period. Also have an impression he is an interesting dabbler in these electronic music soundtracks - might be an idea to see them collected.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 1 September 2018 12:11 (seven years ago)
Heavy Love (Pembroke, 1926)The Operation (Roth, 1930)*That's the Spirit (Mack, 1933)*Bubbles (Mack, 1930)The Grab-Bag Bride (Hartman, 1917)Guests Wanted (Ceder, 1932)The Balloonatic (Keaton & Cline, 1923)Take Next Car (Howe, 1922)Pie-Eyed (Pembroke & Rock, 1925)The Dummy Owner (Yarbrough, 1938)The Door Knocker (Cline, 1931)The Notorious Sophie Lang (Murphy & Menzies, 1934)The Girl Ranchers (Christie, 1913)Horseshoes (Davis & Semon, 1923)This Can't Happen Here (Bergman, 1950)
― Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Sunday, 2 September 2018 23:56 (seven years ago)
in theaters August 25 - September 3
Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski, 2018) - 3/10Never Goin’ Back (Augustine Frizzell, 2018) - 3/10Crazy Rich Asians (Jon M. Chu, 2018) - 5/10Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman, 1953) - 9/10Juliet, Naked (Jesse Peretz, 2018) - 6/102001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) - 10/10The Bookshop (Isabel Coixet, 2018) - 6/10The Last Movie (Dennis Hopper, 1971) - 2/10
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 05:17 (seven years ago)
Mom only, but 20th Century Women? The Kids Are All Right? (Saw that just once many years ago.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 22 February 2026 18:31 (one month ago)
Watched Sentimental Value last night which was fine, I guess. Some nice interiors.
Wrong.
Excellent interiors.
― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 February 2026 18:35 (one month ago)
Recently watched Ashes and Diamonds (Wajda, 1958) and We Are The Best! (Moodysson, 2013) - completely different, but both excellent.
― o. nate, Sunday, 22 February 2026 20:34 (one month ago)
Watched Sentimental Value last night which was fine, I guess. Some nice interiors. BUT it has raised a question for me - what are the best movies about aging Boomer parents who are simultaneously career-focused and have a certain joie de vivre and think their kids just need to relax? and who have evolved a sophisticated set of emotional release valves that make it difficult for them to actually connect to others?
I haven't watched Toni Erdmann yet but from what others have written, maybe that?
― WmC, Sunday, 22 February 2026 21:45 (one month ago)
February
Magnificent Obsession (Sirk, 1954) 6/10Code Unknown (Haneke, 2000) 7/10Saboteur (Hitchcock, 1942) 6/10If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (Bronstein, 2025) 7/10Pictures of Ghosts (Filho, 2023) 7/10Neighbouring Sounds (Filho, 2012) 7/10Taxi (Panahi, 2015) 7/10
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Saturday, 28 February 2026 22:37 (one month ago)
Nirvanna The Band the Show the Movie (2025) 4.5/5* The Thief of Baghdad (1940) 3/5Little Caesar (1931) 3/5Sun Ra: Do the Impossible (2025) 3/5Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014) 3.5/5La Tête d'un homme (1933) 4/5Five Star Final (1931) 3.5/5Hotel by the River (2018) 3.5/5Blue Moon (2025) 3.5/5* Best in Show (2000) 4/5The Daytrippers (1996) 3/5* Waiting for Guffman (1996) 4/5The Snow Woman (1968) 3.5/5Shanghai Blues (1984) 4/5Deadline at Dawn (1946) 4/5
― Chris L, Sunday, 1 March 2026 14:56 (one month ago)
Sun Ra: Do the Impossible (2025) 3/5
Was this a disappointment? A Joyful Noise (1980 Ra film) is my all-time favourite music doc.
― the manchildian candidate (Matt #2), Sunday, 1 March 2026 16:18 (one month ago)
Orgy of the Dead (1965)
couple get tied up in a graveyard by Criswell and forced to watch about 20 horror-themed topless dances. that's pretty much the entire plot, if it counts as a plot.
AfireThe ProducersWoman At WarNights Of CabiriaThe FabelmansAbashiri Prison I, II, IIIThe Case of Marchel Duchamp
woman at war was icelandic film about an eco warrior attacking pylons.
nights of cabiria was fellini.
fabelmans is the lightly fictionalised life of s spielberg, including michelle williams as his mum, which tied in nicely with he role in dawson's creek given that dawson was spielberg obsessed.
abashiri prison didn't have a lot of prison after the first. hard to see the appeal (and nothing like teruo ishii's later career)
Marcel Duchamp thing was interesting in that it was a documentary about him, but presented by sherlock holmes and his clunky home computer...
― koogs, Sunday, 1 March 2026 16:28 (one month ago)
Cinema:Resurrection (Bi Gan, 2025) 3.5/5 - less than meets the eyeNo Other Choice (Park Chan-wook, 2025) 3.5/5 - didn't land the satirical targets as it might haveThe Secret Agent (Mendonça Filho, 2025) 3.5/5 - flash-forward scenes should have been excisedMagellan (Diaz, 2025) 4/5 - Lav Diaz selling out to the mainstream at only 2.5 hoursSinners (Coogler, 2025) 1.5/5 - ineptly plotted CGI hellscape with the absolute worst 'bravura' scene I've ever witnessed onscreenIn the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000) 4.5/5 - more like itCure (Kurosawa, 1997) 4.5/5 - dittoStrongroom (Sewell, 1962) 4/5 - taut and tight Brit b-flick, maybe there are more like this?Ganja & Hess (Gunn, 1973) 3.5/5 - top marks for originality if not coherence
Other:The Ox-Bow Incident (Wellman, 1943) 4/5 - crowd psychology-themed western, Dana Andrews great as alwaysHeavy Metal in Baghdad (Moretti/Alvi, 2007) 4/5 - Vice documentary that goes to show metal dudes are exactly the same the world overThe Terminal Man (Hodges, 1974) 4/5 - paranoid '70s SF from Get Carter/Flash Gordon directorFlesh and the Fiends (Gilling, 1960) 4/5 - Burke & Hare story with Donald Pleasence consuming the scenery as a graverobber/murderer, look out for Melvyn "Gloria" Hayes tooBrute Force (Dassin, 1947) 4/5 - broke new ground for the depiction of onscreen violence apparently, I can believe it, the first we see of "hero" Burt Lancaster he's ordering a prison fink to be forced into a steam press with blowtorchesKansas City Confidential (Karlson, 1952) 4/5 - Neville Brand AND Lee Van Cleef as double bad guys, I felt personally menaced watching this20 Million Miles to Earth (Juran, 1957) 3.5/5 - generic Quatermass ripoff enlivened by Harryhausen effects workGreen for Danger (Gilliat, 1946) 3.5/5 - turns into run-of-the-mill whodunnit after a promising start, Alastair Sim truly was a comedy genius thoughYou Can't Take it with You (Capra, 1938) 3.5/5 - wherein the Capra folksiness descends into mawkish contrivance, some would say it was always thatSingin' in the Rain (Donen/Kelly, 1952) 4/5 - not the 11th greatest film of all time, sorryThe Jazz Singer (Crosland, 1927) 3.5/5 - can we ignore the blackface? I think we can't The Naked Gun (Schaffer, 2025) 4/5 - I'm calling it: better than the originalUnearthly Stranger (Krish, 1963) 4/5 - decent enough SF from the director of legendary railway-themed warning film The Finishing LineWeapons (Cregger, 2025) 3/5 - I'd heard this was great, it wasn'tThelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser (Zwerin, 1988) 4/5 - filmed in 1967Osama (Barmak, 2003) 4/5 - depressing-as-hell depiction of life under the TalibanSanto Versus the Vampire Women (Blake, 1962) 4/5 - lunatic horror/wrestling mash-up, better than Suburban Commando among wrestler flicksStep Across the Border (Humbert/Penzel, 1990) 4/5 - 'improv documentary' about Fred Frith, very goodMacbeth (Welles, 1948) 4/5 - filmed on leftover Western sets apparently, castle interiors appear to be set in a caveThe Brain That Wouldn't Die (Green, 1963) 4/5 - only a dullard would fail to be entertained by thisP'tang, Yang, Kipperbang (Apted, 1982) 4/5 - for fans of Gregory's GirlThe L-Shaped Room (Forbes, 1963) 4/5 - social message film that thankfully doesn't linger on the messageSeance on a Wet Afternoon (Forbes, 1964) 4.5/5 - kidnap drama focusing on the psychology of the kidnappersPlanet of the Vampires (Bava, 1965) 3.5/5 - 4.5/5 for the costumes/design, 2/5 for the story = the final scoreThe Cry Baby Killer (Addis, 1958) 3/5 - incoherent early Jack Nicholson JD vehicle, the print available on YT is so murky the action appears to be taking place during a solar eclipseAce in the Hole 5/5 (Wilder, 1951) 5/5 - Kirk Douglas as washed-up newspaperman Chuck Tatum, this might be the biggest asshole in cinema historyBlind Shaft (Li Yang, 2003) 4/5 - psychopathic goings-on in the illegal Chinese mining industry
― the manchildian candidate (Matt #2), Sunday, 1 March 2026 21:36 (one month ago)
Strongroom is a fun watch. Darren Nesbitt's eyebrows make him look like a Thunderbirds puppet come to life.
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Sunday, 1 March 2026 22:20 (one month ago)
yeah Strongroom is a great B picture
Singin' in the Rain (Donen/Kelly, 1952) 4/5 - not the 11th greatest film of all time, sorry
was this your first time? it really does rip on a big screen
Cregger’s debut Barbarian was much better than Weapons imo (but is totally an audience flick)
― uploading this content requires perseveration (sic), Monday, 2 March 2026 02:01 (one month ago)
Yeah somehow I'd never seen Singin' in the Rain before, I watched it on an in-flight entertainment system though which is about as far as you can get from a big screen. As far as musicals go it was a lot better than the last one I watched which was Grease.
― the manchildian candidate (Matt #2), Monday, 2 March 2026 02:25 (one month ago)
https://i.ibb.co/Wpg2nqKK/IMG-6513.gif
― uploading this content requires perseveration (sic), Monday, 2 March 2026 06:17 (one month ago)
Sentimental Value (Trier 2025)After the Hunt (Guadagnino 2025)*The Dead (Huston 1987)*One Battle After Another (PT Anderson 2025)*John Wick (Stahelski 2014)Trap (Shyamalan 2024)King of the Hill (Soderbergh 1993)Ritual in Transfigured Time (Deren 1946)Girl with Hyacinths (Ekman 1950)*John Wick Ch. 2 (Stahelski 2017)Sorry Baby (Victor 2025)The Illumination of Jim Woodring (Brandt 2020)The Secret Agent (Mendonca Filho 2025)To Live and Die in L.A. (Friedkin 1985)Predator: Badlands (Trachtenberg 2025)Ben-Hur (Wyler 1959)Blue Moon (Linklater 2025)Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Cheang 2024)A Tale of Two Cities (Conway 1935)The Amateur (Hawes 2025)Hamnet (Zhao 2025)Dead of Winter (Kirk 2025)Zabriskie Point (Antonioni 1970)*John Wick Ch. 3, Parabola, Barbellum, whatever (Stahelski 2019)
― WmC, Tuesday, 17 March 2026 23:23 (two weeks ago)
Tar (7.0)Bonnie and Clyde (7.0)Bird on a Wire (3.0)The Internecine Project (5.0)Norma Rae (7.5)Strangers on a Train (7.0)Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette (7.0)Black Mirror (S1-S4 - 7.0)Education (Small Axe) (8.0)No Other Choice (6.0)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 31 March 2026 04:43 (four days ago)
It Was Just an Accident (2025) 4.5/5. The best ending I've seen in a long time.The Secret Agent (2025) 4.5/5A Snake of June (2002) 2.5/5* Citizen Kane. Why should I give a rating? It's Citizen Kane, come on. Angel's Egg (1985) 4/5Nothing Sacred (1937) 3.5/5The Black and the Green (1983) 3.5/5Videoheaven (2025) 2.5/5. God I hate Troma Films.Man on the Run (2025) 3/5The Dirties (2013) 4/5
― Chris L, Tuesday, 31 March 2026 06:54 (four days ago)
March:
Crimson Gold (Panahi, 2003) 7/10Father Mother Sister Brother (Jarmusch, 2025) 4/10La Ciénaga (Martel, 2001) 8/10One Last Deal (Muldowney, 2026) 6/10The Bride! (Gyllenhaal, 2026) 6/10What Happened Was... (Noonan, 1994) 8/10*Parasite (Bong Joon Ho, 2019) 10/10Project Hail Mary (Lord/Miller, 2026) 6/10In Jackson Heights (Wiseman, 2015) 7/10A Hard Day's Night (Lester, 1964) 8/10Lurker (Russell, 2025) 6/10
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Tuesday, 31 March 2026 08:52 (four days ago)