Be Excellent To Each Other

I've avoided it because I think it would be depressing. I feel like a don't really need to see a film to know that the world is fucked and hardly anyone can be arsed to try and do a thing about it.

Reckon we'll be watching this Army of the Dead thing on Netflix tonight, looks fun!

Yeah it started off well and built the intruigue fairly nicely. It kept threatening to get interesting but they apparently decided to take a bold choice to go in the opposite direction and it turned into tedious shit.

Me too! I went with 7/10.

It had some nice moments, but there were barely any funny bits. Also Graham Norton doesn't belong in films.

(no subtitles though, which is poor for a film released just last year)

I watched The Gentlemen, absolutely loved it, by far Hugh Grant's best film, absolutely stole the show,

Not sure anyone put a foot wrong to be honest, slight layer cake vibes to it, but that's no bad thing.

It’s a stone cold classic.

Are you sure those "come on" moments aren't "mother CRUSHER" censorship?

I'm sure I remember a less family-friendly cut being available...

If you’re looking for a brains-off action film then Last Blood commits the cardinal sin of being just ... boring. Last Blood has zero action until the last 10 minutes and Stallone doesn’t have the chops to sustain a drama as trite and as poorly written as this is. NuRambo had a nice balance of action and moments where you could fiddle on your phone and catch up with Facebook until the next wave of ultra violence. Last Blood doesn’t.

Plus Rambo living in a Vietcong style tunnel system under his farmhouse in the states was just vapid shit.

So yeah, if you want to wash the bad taste of You've Got Mail out of your mouth, definitely watch Shop Around the Corner. Nice people looking out for one another.

I can recommend another splendidly nightmarish addition to the Mother / Mandy / Midsommer / Colour Out of Space list of WTF movies...and that is "In Fabric". The trailer really doesn't do it justice, it is as if Thomas Ligotti wrote an extended episode of Are You Being Served and it was then co-directed by Argento and Lynch. Excellent.

Are Blumhouse Productions making all the sodding films these days? I turn on The Invisible Man and they’ve got their dirty intro all over it.

So let me eat some humble pie when I say The Invisible Man is a pretty great horror film.

1 min - 80 mins is just brilliant. I don’t want to even hint what happens because going in blind is always best but these 80 mins were pretty perfect. It’s fairly low rent of course for a Blumhouse film but it’s clearly got a decent budget and has some really interesting camera work. There’s a steady escalation of tension and terror that just worked for me. It uses static cameras for some frames that just uses the audience imagination to convey what’s happening. It’s no Ari Aster production but it’s trying hard with what it’s got. And the main antagonist is really good too. They put on a really great performance. And the makeup as the minutes pass is great to convey what they’re going through.

80 mins to finish is less good as the film goes through it’s typical action set pieces but the effects are good and the twists and turns to the epilogue is really enjoyable (but a little clichè. I mean, it’s perfectly fine, good even, but it loses the terror of the first two acts.) The ending is a bit obvious but it was probably the right conclusion to this film. Didn’t like the last shot of the film though.

Conclusion: The Invisible Man is really good. Worth your time.

Watched "Colo(u)r Out of Space". It's certainly not for everyone but I thought it was great and one of the more successful interpretations of a Lovecraft story. Lots of body horror and truly disturbing nastiness with added maximum Nick Cage and a sprinkling of Tommy Chong. It comes across like the nastier cousin of Annihilation. Recommended.

Watched "Colo(u)r Out of Space". It's certainly not for everyone but I thought it was great and one of the more successful interpretations of a Lovecraft story. Lots of body horror and truly disturbing nastiness with added maximum Nick Cage and a sprinkling of Tommy Chong. It comes across like the nastier cousin of Annihilation. Recommended.

Some movies are such singular achievements that they deserve to be seen at least once by everyone who considers himself or herself to be a lover of film. Grave of the Fireflies falls into that exclusive category. The production is so emotionally challenging, however, that one time may be all that can be endured. Despite the artistry and care invested in the film’s crafting, the result is as close to traumatic as a movie can claim to be and watching it a second time is in some ways more difficult than the first. The power of Takahata’s vision is such that the initial reaction never fades. Grave of the Fireflies doesn’t need to be revisited to leave an indelible mark on the memory.

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I watched Marriage Story.

It’s Kylo Ren vs Blackwidow in a slanging match where both are stripped of their powers and just have to yell their most cruel insults at each other all the while trying not to tell their little shit of a love child not to shut the fuck up.

It was absolutely brilliant. Heartbreaking but brilliant.

It also teaches us that lawyers are unintentionally hilarious cunts.

Just a quick heads-up for this film, sorry but I can't be arsed doing a proper review after pulling 28 hours of overtime between Fri-Sun, but I did finally get chance to sit down and watch a film yesterday evening.

What I will say is it runs to over two and a half hours and yet it had me engrossed every step of the way, and I generally run out of patience very quickly with films that are stretched out to be overly long.

Yes I know Mel Gibson is 'problematic' as a person but fuck me the man can act, Vince Vaughn gives a great performance, Don Johnson is in there, the sister from Dexter, and that woman from The Walking Dead.

RT summary - DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE follows two police detectives who find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics is leaked to the media. With little money and no options, the embittered policemen descend into the criminal underworld and find more than they wanted waiting in the shadows.

Tilda Swinton is a chameleon unafraid of any subject matter, no matter how hard-hitting or difficult. She has appeared in one of the most emotionally crushing films I have ever seen, Tim Roth's The War Zone, and her performance in We Need to Talk about Kevin is equally as bruising. A meditation on the pain suffered by a mother when her child turns out to be a monster, We Need to Talk about Kevin is the perfect tonic for holiday cheer. Want to blacken an evening and turn a smile into a frown? We Need to Talk about Kevin can do it in less than two hours. This is a depressing motion picture, yet the issues it addresses are real, especially in a world where the term "childhood innocence" is losing all meaning.