What are you watching?

[Barry M]

GLADIIATOR. Worth making this just for that title card.

[Cody Layne]

The Ape: A 1940 Monogram flick starring Boris Karloff, which I learned I saw the last few minutes of on Turner Classic Movies when I was like eleven. It's fine, with Karloff, as always, giving his absolute best with less than great material, and it's only 62 minutes, so you're not going to waste much time with it, but it's not quite as entertaining as some of the Monogram movies that Bela Lugosi made around that time. Also, the print on this Blu-Ray was pretty scratched up and washed out.

[Matt H.]

This is my top 30 I watched for the first time in 2024 (in order of viewing):

01. The Wrath of Becky (2023)
02. Hellbender (2021)
03. Paint (2023)
04. Among the Living (2014)
05. What Josiah Saw (2021)
06. The Holdovers (2023)
07. Once Around (1991)
08. Infinity Baby (2017)
09. Perfect Days (2023)
10. City of Hope (1991)
11. Paths of Glory (1957)
12. Matewan (1987)
13. Cat City (1986)
14. Hot Spur (1968)
15. Fuirosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
16. In a Violent Nature (2024)
17. Pandemonium (2023)
18. Who Killed Teddy Bear (1965)
19. Employee of the Month (2006)
20. The Late Show (1977)
21. Smash Palace (1981)
22. Forty Guns (1957)
23. I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
24. Toni Erdmann (2016)
25. Poor Things (2023)
26. Monsieur Hire (1989)
27. The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
28. The American Success Company (1979)
29. The Substance (2024)
30. May December (2023)

The absolute best film I watched this year is PATHS OF GLORY. This one blew me away. It's such a brutal, angry film, yet wonderfully cynical and darkly funny. Kirk Douglas' performance is astonishing; he's quietly furious the entire film, but with a twinkle in his eye. Movies don't get much better than this. Can't believe this came out in 1957.

[Barry M]

SISU, a Finnish documentary. A+

[Cody Layne]

Hollow Man - A scientist turns himself invisible and manages to show the audience his dick two times, different ways both times, while invisible. Someone really wanted to show the invisible mans dick in this one... Regarding the story itself, it's one that sounds better than it is.

I actually really like Hollow Man. Not one of Paul Verhoeven's best, but I thought it was a fun take on the Invisible Man story.

[Cody Layne]

The Hitcher Second Sight Blu-Ray: People were waiting for years for this things to be released, and let me tell you, it was worth the wait. Not only does the movie itself, which, of course, I've seen several times before, look great, but it has basically four audio commentaries (one is scene specific, and the other is an episode of a podcast featuring Robert Harmon, the director, and Rutger Hauer that plays over the movie), interviews with Harmon and screenwriter Eric Red that are like 41 minutes each, an interview with C. Thomas Howell (man, that guy is wired) that's almost half an hour, a couple of other interviews, a featurette about Hauer's career in relation to The Hitcher, two short films by Harmon and Red, and finally, a 38-minute making of that I think was on the old Region 2 DVD release (since Hauer is no longer with us, it's nice to see him talk about the film there). In short, the wait for this movie to have a good home media release is over, and Second Sight really came through.

[f.ramses]

Hollow Man - A scientist turns himself invisible and manages to show the audience his dick two times, different ways both times, while invisible. Someone really wanted to show the invisible mans dick in this one... Regarding the story itself, it's one that sounds better than it is.

[Newt Cox]

Yea F sleep

The Crippled Masters-Blu ray

Great film and this release looks great. Worth grabbing and replacing that old vhs rip on DVD from some multipak your grannie got you 20 years ago.


Savage Streets-Code Red Blu Ray

Wish it had more extras ,still finally got a copy of this sleaze classic.

[Newt Cox]

Satan;s Cheerleaders Blu ray

Dumb fun,that remove the one nudity scene and this could be a PG rating.

[Newt Cox]

Antman and the Wasp-Blu ray

Good sequel to one of the better Marvel films. Bit too long. Heard 3rd one is doo doo butter.

[Cody Layne]

Creature from Black Lake: This is a Bigfoot horror movie that I'd heard about for a while and so, when I saw the Synapse Blu-Ray at G-Fest, I decided to pick it up for the heck of it. Didn't hate it, but didn't think it was all that great, either. I really didn't care about the two lead guys, and wished that Jack Elam and Dub Taylor had bigger roles than they did. Also, the attempts at humor weren't all that funny to me, and the Bigfoot itself, while used sparingly and not being that bad of a design when you finally do see it, still leaves a bit to be desired.

[Newt Cox]

Got this the other day cheap. Another remake of the original. This time the major change is the lead vampire is a woman.

[Newt Cox]

Spider Baby-Dark Sky DVD

Another I got in recently from Cody. Seen this many times before so this watch was with the commentary going. Not much pre-1970 horror I will watch often,this is one of them.

[Newt Cox]

Amazing Mr No Legs-Looks way better than that beat up VHS rip on Tracker 3 from 20 years ago. The gimmick is all this has really. But what a gimmick it is.

[agent999]

The Flesh and the Fiends: I'd heard the title before, but I had no idea this was a movie about Burke and Hare, nor that it starred not only Peter Cushing but Donald Pleasence as well. In any case, it was definitely an interesting watch, and what really shocked is that, in this black-and-white movie from 1960, there's a scene with full-on naked women! I just about dropped my teeth. I know England had different standards than America back then but, man, I was not expecting that. It's also pretty grisly at moments for the time as well, with a murder scene that's also a sexual assault.

That's the 'continental' version, the UK release wouldn't have had the boobs in it. A lot of UK productions shot extra nudity for Europe and Japan. I watched this with my mother once and the tits surprised her for a film of this period too.