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xp DocPlay?

hooooo boy, watched the Iranian film *Holy Spider* and it is a tough one. on Netflix. it has some disturbing scenes of violence and it might not be for everyone, but it is really something else. intense.

i was slightly burned out on the italian mafia stuff after gomorrah, suburra, zerozerozero...it all got a little too bleak for me. hardly a soul left to feel empathy for by the end of those. bastards of pizzofalcone looks like a solid palate cleanser maybe? i do love Naples location pr0n.

Bastards of Pizzofalcone has some comic relief in the form of the foppish pretty boy cop. BoP is also one of two contemporary book series I know directly inspired by Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct novels.

watched the sci-fi movie Vesper on Hulu. the first half was pretty darn cool. but then they had to make the rest of the movie! a common problem. worth watching for the plant stuff. if you enjoy sci fi plant genetics.

i have a dim memory of also watching the Liam Neeson movie Run All Night but my memory is already foggy. wait, was ed harris there? was he liam's brother? were they irish mob? what was liam's accent exactly? i don't think i could actually swear in court that i watched the whole thing. but there is no reason to believe that i didn't watch the whole thing. it's a mystery...

(Vesper also worth watching for high fashion apocalyptica outfits! very chic. and the main character looks like a runway model, so, she really sells the look.) (also the brother from ray donovan is in it. he's dreary. the one who owns the boxing gym in ray donovan. i always forget he's from the u.k. until i see him in a movie and then i say: "ah, right, i knew that about him...")

gonna watch this tonight on Mubi. maybe. things change. but i love a good cave movie. #embraceyourfears

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSESIvz2888

Run All Night is pretty good — it's on the grimier end of the Liam Neeson spectrum, like A Walk Among The Tombstones.

I'm considering Vesper. I have a ton of movies in my Hulu queue, though. She Dies Tomorrow, Benedetta, Escape From Alcatraz, Hell Hath No Fury, Dual, Swallow...

watch Prey. and Triangle of Sadness. on Hulu.

i don't have to watch Banshees of Inisherin, do I? for some reason i really don't want to watch it. i already like Local Hero and The Secret of Roan Inish, that's good enough, right? those are the first movies i thought of for some reason. i just watched a movie about a sad Welsh tollbooth worker, for heaven's sake. saints preserve us. i watched 45 minutes of EverywhereAllthetime and 45 minutes of Midsommar. the zeitgeist and i are good for now. i even watched that horrible Nomadland movie!

Run All Night is pretty good — it's on the grimier end of the Liam Neeson spectrum, like A Walk Among The Tombstones.

sold

i like that liam has his own go-to anonymous director. the guy who directed run all night has directed 4 or 5 liam movies with interchangeable titles. same director did the recently bad Black Adam.

xp DocPlay?

― nate woolls, Tuesday, July 18, 2023 4:24 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Hmm, I don't think that one although something similar. DocPlay isn't in the app store for AppleTV and that's where I saw it advertised.

I did, unfortunately, find a streaming service devoted solely to pro-life propaganda.

walk among the tombstones is based on one of my fave book series just fyi and btw.

I haaaaaated Banshees if Inisherin and give full permission to skip it

CuriosityStream?

banshees was like a feature length episode of father ted with no jokes.

Oh come on, I didn't like Banshees either but it totally had jokes!

That being said, I always support giving films a miss once they get too much discourse, can always go back to them in 7 years once there's less voices in your head arguing about it.

ok yes it did have jokes but overall a much gloomier atmosphere than father ted! also a fair bit of laughing at, rather than laughing with.

xxxp I found it, It's called Magellenan. Not great so far but I haven't really delved in too far yet.

*Magellan

Sheesh

Ovid and Mubi have AWESOME docs. tons of them. but if someone is in the states and they have a library card Kanopy would probably be a good choice. curiosity stream is really cheap. this looks cool: https://guidedoc.tv/

Nice! Thanks. I'll check them out.

(Just in case it's useful to anyone, Kanopy also available with a library card in some places in the UK, it's good!)

walk among the tombstones is based on one of my fave book series just fyi and btw.

― ian, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 20:57 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Mine too! What did you think of Neeson as Scudder, Ian? I wasn't really sold on him in the role, or the film as a whole. It was a not bad piece of adaptation - too much backstory, but understandable - just very ordinary and average, whereas the books are way above average.

Not sure who I would cast as Scudder, mind.

I will only ever know the character name "Scudder" as belonging to E.M. Forster's Maurice

I didn't know that. It seems unlikely that E.M. Forster's Maurice was the source of the detective character's name, but you never know.

oh lord, i was in love with 'Maurice' as a teen. May be time for a rewatch.

some people call me that

We finished "I'm a Virgo." It's very good.

Kanopy is also available through libraries here in New Zealand, and they also offer another free service called Beamafilm which has a load of really good stuff.

Maurice is lovely, the novel hits harder because it feels like Forster, after all those tragic characters, finally allowing himself a happy ending

(Maurice is on MUBI, just to tie it all together)

for Mpls folks - Hennepin County library has Kanopy now

Some people call me Maurice

rare good news in the middle of the Hollywood strikes - Minx season 2 has been rescued from being zaslav’d and is now airing on Starz https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/minx-starz-peak-tv-death-david-zaslav-streaming-hbo-max-netflix-1234790127/

Three episodes into I'm A Virgo and it's great so far xps

Definitely wild but also very funny and extremely dark.

I love the bits we see of Mike Epps music career

i had all these good intentions of watching cool art movies last night and then i ended up watching...Day of the Dead. on Hulu. the original. i'd had a rough day. i needed that missile silo. and i loved seeing Bub. the coolest-looking zombie of all time. haven't seen it in decades!

xpost I also lost it every time Walton Goggins' house talked to him in the Bill Cosby voice.

I won't go so far as to say I love Day of the Dead best of the original trilogy, but I do rewatch it way more than Dawn of the Dead.

the long director's cut of dawn of the dead is best. and is probably my fave. it makes it into something more emotional. as opposed to the theatrical cut. and then the argento cut is something else entirely. three great tastes though. of zombie. (i actually just got a copy of the argento version on dvd by chance. haven't seen it since the days when i knew someone who made a living taping japanese laserdiscs onto vhs tapes and selling them via mail.)

I have a DVD box set of Dawn that has at least 3 different cuts, plus a documentary. I prefer Day as a whole package, but the housing project SWAT team sequence in Dawn is some of the most incredible horror/action filmmaking ever. Totally terrifying.

My heart (?) will forever be with NOTLD for being the movie that most terrified me as a kid, specifically the matricide in the cellar sequence

<i>i knew someone who made a living taping japanese laserdiscs onto vhs tapes and selling them via mail.</i>

when you're so far behind and ahead of the curve........time is a flat circle.

I used to go to a comic book store that did that. I paid 40 dollars for a vhs dub of Akira from Japanese laserdisc with no subtitles or dubbing. A while before the first English language versions were released.

when I started college, most home internet connections sucked and one of the guys in my dorm had a side hustle of downloading anime VCDs, burning them to disc, and selling them online

i tried to watch a Marvel show called Secret Invasion last night on Hulu starring national treasures Samuel L. Jackson, Martin Freeman, Ben Mendelsohn, Cobie Smulders, and Dermot Mulroney but it sucked and was totally boring so i stopped watching it. i would like to see an older and wiser Cobie Smulders on a good t.v. show though. i'll always have a soft spot for Robin Sparkles.

watched Happy As Lazarro on Netflix. that there is some magical realism. it probably would have helped to know more about the bible watching that. maybe. i'm guessing. quite a film no matter how you slice it.

It’s been a few years but I really loved that film!