What are you watching?

[Ian Jane]

How can he be the artistic genius of the underground if he didn't watch all that mainstream stuff so he could bitch about it endlessly?

Don't be a jerk Darcy. Dom's done nothing wrong here and you're out of line. Don't do it again.

[Randy G]

Rewatched Bad Girls Go to Hell and Indecent Desires with the commentaries.

[Darcy Parker]

Why not watch something other than big budget Hollywood crap?

How can he be the artistic genius of the underground if he didn't watch all that mainstream stuff so he could bitch about it endlessly?

[Dom D]

Off Shudder

Strange Vice of Ms Wardh-Seen the better known giallos,mostly Argento and Fulci stuff. This was listed as leaving Shudder soon. Saw Edwige was in it and DAMN. What a movie. I need to watch more giallo.

If you haven't seen 'em yet All The Colours Of The Dark and The Case Of The Bloody Iris are just as good for some Fenech giallo fun.

[Newt Cox]

Off Shudder

Strange Vice of Ms Wardh-Seen the better known giallos,mostly Argento and Fulci stuff. This was listed as leaving Shudder soon. Saw Edwige was in it and DAMN. What a movie. I need to watch more giallo.

Tombs of the Blind Dead-Saw Shudder had a nice cleaned up print of this,I'm still rocking the old BU DVD coffin set version. Wish I could have chosen between subs or Dubbed in English. Was trying to multitask and can't do that well while rreading subs. LOoks amazing,which helps offset the slow pacing.

Off TUBI

Decline of Western Civ 3-I had heard rumors about this film for a long ass time. Then thanks to someone here got sent a DVD-r of the leaked print. Bought the boxed set when that came out. And really can't detect any new or different footage between the leaked print,the boxed set or this version on Tubi. Focusing on the squatters/gutter punks in late 90s LAs Penalope once again captures a moment in time.

[Dom D]

Lorna: I got to watching this quite by accident. I was wanting to watch some Franco and clicked on Lorna The Exorcist on my Plex and to my surprise a black and white American movie started playing instead. I didn't recognise the film though it was obvious from the first frame that it was a Meyer film. That's impressive isn't it? To be making low budget 4:3 black and white and still have a signature style that's so recognisable that an audience can recognise it instantly. Come to think of it, he my be the easiest director to pick of any. Once the credits started rolling all was explained, easy enough to misfile Lorna for Lorna The Exorcist.

Anyway, this wasn't familiar at all. Which is odd, cause I own it, you'd think I'd have seen it. It's been a while since ive viewed a Russ and it was a happy reminder of just how good he was. The only man to make the 4:3 ratio feel truly cinematic.

Jesus you wouldn't want to play this movie for a modern audience though. That rape scene that quickly develop into true love would go down like a brick.

[Dom D]

Why not watch something other than big budget Hollywood crap?

a) I do.
b) they're background noise while I do something else.
c) I like to stay on top of the culture.
d) these days a $60 million dollar Rick and Morty pastiche like Everything Everywhere is considered arthouse so I'm not sure there's a lot of options when you're browsing the new release section.

[Matt H.]

Well it's a full on crap-o-rama at my place as I follow up EEAAO with Moonfall, one of the biggest box office bombs of all time. $150 million budget, $60 million at the box office. Ouch! Emmerich tests his belief that the proles will pay for anything as long as stuff blows up real good with one of the dumbest stories ever committed to film. Your $150 million doesn't buy the effects it used to either. They're pretty ropey. I momentarily felt bad about an independent film losing that much money and then I recalled the absolutely shameless Tesla product placement in this and all of a sudden I wasn't feeling sorry for them at all. Hopefully Musk paid out the nose for this.

Followed it up with Uncharted. This almost looks good next to the two previous movies. Low level Iniana Jones-esque shenanigans are generally paasable. A lot better than any of the Lara Croft movies that tried the same thing. I don't get Tom Holland as a star. He gives you nothing. Here he's blown away by, of all people, Mark Wahlberg who, in my eyes, has always been lucky just to have a job. As soon as the action starts Holland gets replaced with a CGI double who flips around in gravity defying ways so I guess you're not actually watching him that much.

It's tough being a movie watcher at the moment...

Why not watch something other than big budget Hollywood crap?

[Dom D]

Well it's a full on crap-o-rama at my place as I follow up EEAAO with Moonfall, one of the biggest box office bombs of all time. $150 million budget, $60 million at the box office. Ouch! Emmerich tests his belief that the proles will pay for anything as long as stuff blows up real good with one of the dumbest stories ever committed to film. Your $150 million doesn't buy the effects it used to either. They're pretty ropey. I momentarily felt bad about an independent film losing that much money and then I recalled the absolutely shameless Tesla product placement in this and all of a sudden I wasn't feeling sorry for them at all. Hopefully Musk paid out the nose for this.

Followed it up with Uncharted. This almost looks good next to the two previous movies. Low level Iniana Jones-esque shenanigans are generally paasable. A lot better than any of the Lara Croft movies that tried the same thing. I don't get Tom Holland as a star. He gives you nothing. Here he's blown away by, of all people, Mark Wahlberg who, in my eyes, has always been lucky just to have a job. As soon as the action starts Holland gets replaced with a CGI double who flips around in gravity defying ways so I guess you're not actually watching him that much.

It's tough being a movie watcher at the moment...

[Dom D]

Everything Everywhere All At Once. This is the longest movie ever made. I didn't actually check the clock, so I can't give you a definitive runtime, but it seemed to run for about 8 or 9 hours. I damned near died watching this fucking film. The worse film since at least Batman versus Superman which puts it well in the running for the title of the worst film ever.

[Matt H.]

SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME! - This TV movie from John Carpenter is pretty standard thriller/stalker fare except for one notable exception: Lauren Hutton's performance. She plays a likeable, confident woman who realizes that she's being stalked by a psycho. The thing I found fascinating (and somewhat heartbreaking) was witnessing her become more paranoid and frightened as the harassment escalates. You really feel for her and I can't recall another film of this type with such a unique and realistic characterization.

[Randy G]

We really enjoyed it. I thought the main actress was excellent. And I don't really care about the original all that much.

She's also good in the excellent psychedelic Legion tv series.

[Alison Jane]

Prey. This is currently being hyped as maybe the best Predator movie. That's hard for me to get my head around. There's a definite feel here that the Predator is slumming it. After all we've seen him rip through a heavily armed commando unit led by Schwarzenegger, tear Aliens apart with his bare hands. Here he's hunting wolves, snakes and some dudes with nothing but hatchets and bows. Mr Predator surely you're better than this?

Because of the mismatch there's a lot of bullshit trick's played to keep our heroine alive which makes everything feel stakeless.

We really enjoyed it. I thought the main actress was excellent. And I don't really care about the original all that much.

[Dom D]

Day Shift: This is essentially, more or less, alright. Jamie Foxx and Dave Franco team up as buddie cops who aren't cops but actually vampire hunters. Foxx is the grizzled vet, who's seen it all and Franco is the by-the-book newbie. Moves fast, has a couple jokes, a couple decent action scenes, is just lacking a decent villain. Karla Souza is the villain and a deeply underwhelming one she was too. The brief is just commanding, sexy, South/Central American woman who's going to look good in a suit. That's close to the easiest brief to fill imaginable as pretty much all of the Hollywood actresses from that region fit the bill. She's has the charisma of a tire iron. Franco and Foxx are good enough though and even Snoop Dog is a bit of fun in a cameo.

Points deducted for setting up a franchise throughout the first movie. Core crew keeps talking about how much more dangerous El Jeffe is than the vamp they're hunting. El Jeffe doesn't make an experience. The final showdown with El Jeffe is, I'm guessing, booked for film 3. I'm watching a film not a tv show and when the 2 hours are up I want closure god dammit.

Anyway...

[Dom D]

Prey. This is currently being hyped as maybe the best Predator movie. That's hard for me to get my head around. There's a definite feel here that the Predator is slumming it. After all we've seen him rip through a heavily armed commando unit led by Schwarzenegger, tear Aliens apart with his bare hands. Here he's hunting wolves, snakes and some dudes with nothing but hatchets and bows. Mr Predator surely you're better than this?

Because of the mismatch there's a lot of bullshit trick's played to keep our heroine alive which makes everything feel stakeless.