What are you watching?

[Spaghetti Monkey]

Between the Criterion set and Kino, i've upgraded most of Dietrich's 30's films from the old PAL UK DVD's to Blu. Seems like a good time to work through 'em again. Watched MOROCCO this morning. Never was a big Cooper fan, but He's definitely solid in this one, and Dietrich is pure Dietrich. 'What am I bid for my apple?' indeed. 6.5/10

[Darcy Parker]

Only Murders In The Building
Sorta cute and funny show about amateur sleuths trying to solve a murder that occurred in their apartment building.
It's decent enough but goddamn... Selena Gomez is a terrible actress. TERRIBLE.

She was so grating that I couldn't make it ten minutes into the first episode.

[Nabonga]

Only Murders In The Building
Sorta cute and funny show about amateur sleuths trying to solve a murder that occurred in their apartment building.
It's decent enough but goddamn... Selena Gomez is a terrible actress. TERRIBLE.

[Newt Cox]

Monday it was nasty outside so to keep my father entertained we did a Terminator marathon.

2-Never cared for this one. But he loves it and it was on Netflix.
3-Now this one I love. But that is mostly for the ending. Dad liked it,also this was on Netflix.
4-I somehow had never seen this one. Not bad,Dad liked it a lot. On Netflix.
5-Haven't seen this one since it hit home video. Not great but not bad. Dad was confused. This is on PlutoTV
6-We all watched this in 2020 right when the lockdown started. I enjoyed it,Dad enjoyed it. This is on Hulu.

It is suppose to be rainy and cold again on Thursday. So gonna watch the first film,off a Blu ray I own. And then start the 2 season tv show.

[Barry M]

It's also true that it wasn't very funny. Tough gig, horror comedy.

[Matt H.]

Aww, I liked them for what they are, comedy in a horror space, not too far removed from SCTV. Nobody ever complains that Count Floyd was not really very scary. Ruben's a comedian: the label practically screams made from fresh Cornish ram's bladder, emptied, steamed, flavoured with sesame seeds whipped into a fondant and garnished with lark's vomit.

Point taken. I suppose I was just not in a very neighbourly mood when I watched it.

[Barry M]

Sorry, I crossed some streams there. Ghostsbusters was not very scary, except for that librarian.

[Barry M]

Aww, I liked them for what they are, comedy in a horror space, not too far removed from SCTV. Nobody ever complains that Count Floyd was not really very scary. Ruben's a comedian: the label practically screams made from fresh Cornish ram's bladder, emptied, steamed, flavoured with sesame seeds whipped into a fondant and garnished with lark's vomit.

[Matt H.]

WEREWOLVES WITHIN - I really, really hated this movie. Basically an alt-left remake of THE BEAST MUST DIE. It's obnoxiously cute and nobody is taking it seriously, yet we're supposed to love just how eccentric the characters are. It's one of those movies where everyone is clever and indifferent to what's happening. When one character is shot with an arrow, he falls down and say; "Ouch?" Yes, it's awful and even more annoying than the director's previous film, SCARE ME.

[Randy G]

Binged on Shudder:

Boys of County Hell - Good modern Irish vampire horror with some humour and touchds of Irish folklore

Winterbeast - And to think people make fun of xxx features.

Blood of Dracula - Even better than I remember, the last scene is really intense, funny, gory and sad. Literally no one else could have made this film besides rhe very odd Morrissey.

[Dom D]

Last night put on Short Circuit for the household 5 year old. This movie was huge in my youth. We watched the damned thing relentlessly. It went over well , I think, though the scene where Number 5 gets exploded at the end may have traumatised her for life. Lots of stuff you miss when you're a kid. Like 80s kids movie dialogue: "I originally designed these robots as a marital aid". Did you now Mr Guttenberg?

What I totally failed to pick up when I was watching it as a kid though is that the actor playing the very broad, very funny, Indian sidekick/stereotype is a white dude in brownface doing an Apu accent. In 1986 that was fine and dandy. The culture moves very fast...

That aside, the movie really holds up. I enjoyed it. Possibly, big statement I know, it could be said to be the best movie of Guttenbergs career.

[Barry M]

SMALL TOWN CRIME (Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms, 2017). John Hawkes is a drunken disgrace of an unemployed ex-cop. "Most mornings, I'm about as worthless as a park bench in hell," he says, really trying to nail the interview so he can get on and drink his next UI check. One roadkill hooker, though, and he's a man doing what a man ought to do. Not sure it's really the neo-noir a lot of reviews tag it as -- a little too much fun, more like a Lansdale Hap & Leonard joint. Good use of Robert Forster, and Clifton Collins Jr's a lowridin' pimp. They brought enough bullets for everyone, so A+.

[Barry M]

TOMATO RED (Juanita Wilson, 2017). Daniel Woodrell country noir, minimally released in 2017 and seems to've vanished. Watched it on itunes; DVDs were released in regions 1 and 2. Julia Garner, Anna Friel, Jake Weary. Woodrell's regionalism is always a strength, and it's under-served by the BC locations, but the trash is destiny fatalism and trapped rage is strong and universal as store-brand whiskey and beer with sweat on it. Lonesome trains, big sky, rails so close there's no right side of the tracks, bad decisions, and a tire iron to the face of an ending that hits as true and inevitable enough. Not perfect, but fine.

Subtitled TOMATO RED: BLOOD MONEY for the US release. This made me angry. Don't do this again.

Edit: an interview with Wilson.

https://esource.dbs.ie/bitstream/han...=1&isAllowed=y

[Newt Cox]

Old Boy remake

Crap crap doo doo shit feces poo poo

[Dom D]

The Matrix Ressurections: it doesn't really feel like a real movie. For a movie like this to work the audience needs to understand the rules. The rules of the Matrix were really simple. The Matrix was a construct our heroes could jack into from the real world using telephones. If they die in the Matrix they die in real life. Because they know the world is just a program they are capable of superhuman feats but are no match for the agents who move like quicksilver and so if they come across an agent they need to run to a phone to get out. Simple setup, clearly explained. There's no rules at all in this new film. Things just happen. Now Trinity can fly. Why? Because. Now there's a guy who can move a thousand times faster than Neo. Why? Because. Agent Smith can beat the shit out of that guy. No reason for that. It's just a sequence of events with no rhyme or reason and no reason to follow it.

They really needed Hugo Weaving back for this. The new casting on Agent Smith is bizarre. That guy could be playing a real estate agent and give the same performance.