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[Scandi Red]

Broker

South Korean film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. The film is very similar to Shoplifters which is another critically acclaimed Koreeda film, but I liked this more. It's a very touching film that will tug at your heart-strings and provide a few laughs as well. It's not a super sad film, but several grown men cried in the movie theatre which is kind of rare. I may have shed a tear or two myself...

 

[calodo2003]

Not a review, but…

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Kill, Baby, Kill

Early Mario Bava (I think..), very enjoyable. Top cinematography and he's a master of colours and atmosphere. Great location, very solid cast so despite not being shocking anymore by todays standards it's very good entertainment as a horror flic - one shouldn't mind a b-movie flair though obviously.

 

[jderbyshire]

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I didn't realize he wanted John Cusack as Lance.

What was Cusack known for at that time?

They say Kurt Cobain was offered the role, but that's probably bollocks.

 

[Dirty Schwein]

I didn't realize he wanted John Cusack as Lance.

What was Cusack known for at that time?

They say Kurt Cobain was offered the role, but that's probably bollocks.

Nic Cage as pumpkin

 

[oneniltothearsenal]

I didn't realize he wanted John Cusack as Lance.

What was Cusack known for at that time?

They say Kurt Cobain was offered the role, but that's probably bollocks.

The Grifters for one.

 

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Marlowe

Late 60s noir, who would have guessed, and a pretty decent one at that. Some alterations but still quite close to the book. I really liked the cast, never been that big on Bogart so it was nice to see someone else playing that role. Bruce Lee with a comical but brief "side-kick" role. Best thing was the score, very lush vibes! 6.5/10

 

[Sweet Square]

Starfeckers

Very cool short film on Mubi. Incredibly performances and could have easily watched more.

If your into David Lynch type of things, it’s worth checking out

8/10

 

[Mockney]

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[Tarrou]

no rappers

 

[Dirty Schwein]

The Innocents
Swedish indie film about 4 kids who discover they have supernatural abilities when they're around each other... As they play and get to know each other, the uses of their powers get more and more dangerous. A superhero film for adults. Very difficult watch as there are a few horrific moments, especially one involving a cat The film is shot and acted really well but you have to work hard to get through the first act as it's quite unsettling. Had that "end on abruptly" moment as many Indies do so plenty to dissect after the fact. Might be one for the art house crowd. My wife gave me a death stare after it. I think she preferred Ambulance . Worth a watch of you can handle animal cruelty and keep telling yourself it's not real 6/10

 

[pauldyson1uk]

Hellbender

A mother and her daughter live a life almost in seclusion in a mountainous area of the United States. The adolescent Izzy only has as a friend, her mother, a woman full of secrets with whom she shares a primitive rock band.
Not a bad low budget horror, some of the acting is not the best, but very watchable, some of it is a bit strange.

6/10

 

[UnrelatedPsuedo]

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Love shit like this. Obviously it happens all the time, but Tarantino writing a part for a specific person sounds so cool. Until you see the list for Butch and can’t imagine Willis not being top of that list.

De Niro and Pacino being afterthoughts is gold too.

 

[Wing Attack Plan R]

Watched 6 Underground recently on a night with the lad, hoo boy. What a fecking smoking turd that movie was! The worst instincts and habits of Michael Bay married to Fast n Furious editing. Nonsensical. Crass. Overlong. And makes you hate Ryan Reynolds. 1/10.

 

[Wing Attack Plan R]

Love shit like this. Obviously it happens all the time, but Tarantino writing a part for a specific person sounds so cool. Until you see the list for Butch and can’t imagine Willis not being top of that list.

De Niro and Pacino being afterthoughts is gold too.

Matt Dillon would have been so much better, I bet he’s been kicking himself ever since.

 

[Red the Bear]

Breserk golden age trilogy

re-watched it recently and to be honest it's not that bad, the bad cg parts are still as bad as it was back then and has probably aged even worse than it shouldn't have, I don’t know if it was a budgetary issue but they probably should have stuck to the tried and tested 2d animation more than they did so at the end but to be fair the cg ain't all that bad, there are parts where it kinda clicks (the fight on the castle top after the assassination being one) and it does get much better by the time the third film comes around.

The presentation is generally solid and the art style is seeking ok although I despise the rapid movement of the camera in some scenes, totally ruinous the tone and is just awfully, rarely works and i have no idea why they didn’t go with a more restrained approach especially when there are no monster fights to begin with where that kinda of kinetic energy might be useful.

The soundtrack is great is and they also bring back hirosawa for a few tracks here and there which is appreciated.

Some of the changes to the source material are a bit baffling to me and while some are understandable like cutting the donevan rape scene (child rape is hard to tackle without it looking too edgy) others are a lot more hit and miss and some outright detrimental to the story , waylad is semi understandable as it might come off as too much of a gore porn and the pacing right before the eclipse would be messed up while other exclusions like the guts , judea and corkus and the bonfire of dreams conversations only serve to damage the plot.

Where the movie shines best is in the third and final part and their adaptation of the eclipse, they did a great job there and it does make the finale to it all rather satisfactory.

In the end aside from their adaptation of eclipse i still prefer the 1997 versions which despite their budgetary limitation did a great job on capture the essence of the source material but even than it's still a solid expression.

6.5/10

 

[Red the Bear]

Matt Dillon would have been so much better, I bet he’s been kicking himself ever since.

But willis was great in that role, no?

 

[UnrelatedPsuedo]

Matt Dillon would have been so much better, I bet he’s been kicking himself ever since.

I mean…. Maybe?

But Willis is great across that whole movie. Feels impossible to say anyone would have been additive.

 

[Wing Attack Plan R]

But willis was great in that role, no?

The character is supposed to be a prizefighter who is challenging for a division title (belt). I don’t buy Willis as a boxer, and I don’t like him as an actor. He was too old and too out of shape.

 

[Tarrou]

i think Dillon would've been better too, just seems like an ideal fit for that role

Willis was awesome though, fair play. Everyone was cast brilliantly.

 

[Wing Attack Plan R]

I mean…. Maybe?

But Willis is great across that whole movie. Feels impossible to say anyone would have been additive.

To be honest, i didn’t care for that middle third of the movie: him, Madeira and her potbelly /blueberry pancakes, the gimp, Zed, all that shit. Never a Bruce Willis fan, so any of the others listed would have been an improvement.

 

[Red the Bear]

The character is supposed to be a prizefighter who is challenging for a division title (belt). I don’t buy Willis as a boxer, and I don’t like him as an actor. He was too old and too out of shape.

It kinda worked in a weird past it looking to get out archetype that was so common in the 40s and 50s so I actually think he kinda suits the role.

But each to their own obviousness.

 

[Dirty Schwein]

Moonfall
This is what happens when the wife picks the movie... What the feck was this shit It's not even on the "so bad it's good" level, it's just boring. There were a few nice shots and I always like Patrick Wilson but this was dreadful. I did laugh a lot in the final third though 3/10

 

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Plague of the Zombies

1966, I think a Hammer studio movie. Nice oldschool horror-chiller playing in the English countryside. Nothing shocking but rather enjoyable with a sympathetic cast and for once a sound reasoning for the creation of these zombies

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poor lads have to work in the abandoned tin-mine

7/10


Outpost

Nazi Zombies in a bunker somewhere in the boonies. Low budget but put together pretty clever. Somewhat of a slow burner still keeping you on your toes but one major flaw kinda ruined it in the end which ultimately renders the whole build-up worthless once the proper action starts: the director couldn't decide what kind of zombies (=threat) he wanted to portrait, aside from all looking like proper nazi-zombies: sometimes they run, sometimes they stumble, sometimes they appear and disappear out of thin air yet sometimes they have to walk a mile to get where they wanna go, sometimes they're clever, sometimes brainless, shooting them doesn't bother them at all yet that's all the protagonists do all the feckin time. Makes you not care at all at some point since everything's possible, which funnily enough isn't scary then anymore. Bit of a bummer since it had serious potential. 5/10

 

[UnrelatedPsuedo]

Black Adam 2/10
Good lord it’s bad. Really really bad. Utterly disjointed, an absolute mess of a movie. Convoluted tosh.

Its saving grace is probably the fact that its cgi is often impeccable in comparison to the shite that Marvel are kicking out right now.

 

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Black Death

Pretty hefty movie set in the gritty middle-ages during the pest featuring Sean Bean, who seems to have a knock for getting gruesomely executed. Really surprised at how good it was. Ultimately no masterpiece but pretty efficient at what it does and some unexpected twists too. Kinda Name of the Rose meets Apocalypse Now.
7/10

 

[Rooney in Paris]

Black Death

Pretty hefty movie set in the gritty middle-ages during the pest featuring Sean Bean, who seems to have a knock for getting gruesomely executed. Really surprised at how good it was. Ultimately no masterpiece but pretty efficient at what it does and some unexpected twists too. Kinda Name of the Rose meets Apocalypse Now.
7/10

Yeah it's a real little gem. Christopher Smith had a good run with Creep, Severance, Triangle then this. Didn't really follow up with anything I think.

 

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Yeah it's a real little gem. Christopher Smith had a good run with Creep, Severance, Triangle then this. Didn't really follow up with anything I think.

Haven't heard (to my knowledge) of any of those. Trying to remember them! Black Death was a nasty one - Was watching it at the beginning a little bit at the side unfortunately but alas, half way in could hardly blink anymore.

 

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Terrifier

Nasty slasher with no plot whatsoever, pretty badass bad guy. Bit too misogynic for my liking and at times it was hard to watch although it was also hard to stay awake at times because it really didn't move anywhere and got rather repetitive in the process. Not recommended. 3/10

 

[calodo2003]

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[pauldyson1uk]

They Talk to Me

Alex, a sound engineer, accidentally records mysterious voices: disturbing messages from the afterlife who warn him against an imminent and terrifying danger.
It was OK, acting was good, the story had its good points.

5/10

 

[Sweet Square]

Nice one, I've been trying to watch Baker's early stuff but it's hard to find!

Sorry missed this post. Yeah I’ve been trying to track down his old films but it’s very difficult to find anything pre Tangerine.

It’s great that this film got a proper realise, all these years later.

 

[TheReligion]

Anyone here use a Sonos soundbar?

I have a One and SL so it’s the natural choice to pair them all up so was debating getting one. That said they are expensive and from reading reviews there’s cheaper options which would suit my budget. Can imagine it being awkward/difficult to link the set up though as I know the Sonos speakers can only link to your TV via a soundbar and not independently.

 

[Dirty Schwein]

Terrifier

Nasty slasher with no plot whatsoever, pretty badass bad guy. Bit too misogynic for my liking and at times it was hard to watch although it was also hard to stay awake at times because it really didn't move anywhere and got rather repetitive in the process. Not recommended. 3/10

Yeah I didn't enjoy this and now there's a second one that is like two and a half hours long

Black Adam
Mindless Superhero film, lots of action, too much cgI, a few funny moments... Decent mid credit scene. Moves fast enough and there's enough gusto without being too long so it wasn't the worst thing I've seen 5.5/10

 

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Yeah I didn't enjoy this and now there's a second one that is like two and a half hours long

Black Adam
Mindless Superhero film, lots of action, too much cgI, a few funny moments... Decent mid credit scene. Moves fast enough and there's enough gusto without being too long so it wasn't the worst thing I've seen 5.5/10

Yep, not going to watch that second one. Gotta say I'm not crazy about supernatural slasher movies. Never that big on Halloween because of that (first two are good of course and I think 4 was decent) but the supernatural angle always makes it less frightening for me. At least if there isn't some kind of elaborate agenda behind it (say with vampires or zombies or so which gives the opportunity to flesh them out a bit) but just a women killing entity dressed as a filthy clown is too one dimensional. That's why I liked TCM (or the Hills have Eyes (OG version) so much as they pulled it off without making them basically undefeatable.

Long rant.

 

[Dirty Schwein]

Yep, not going to watch that second one. I did watch the predecessor, All Hallow's Eve, which was a bit better - just a bit though. Gotta say I'm not crazy about supernatural slasher movies. Never that big on Halloween because of that (first two are good of course and I think 4 was decent) but the supernatural angle always makes it less frightening for me. At least if there isn't some kind of elaborate agenda behind it (say with vampires or zombies or so which gives the opportunity to flesh them out a bit) but just a women killing entity dressed as a filthy clown is too one dimensional. That's why I liked TCM (or the Hills have Eyes (OG version) so much as they pulled it off without making them basically undefeatable.

Long rant.

I completely agree with all of this.

 

[BayernFan87]

Smile

A horror movie about, well, an evil smile.
What doesn't sound very interesting was in fact a really good horror movie.
The story is good, the main actress does a great job and the emotions and reactions of all the people are believable (there's no stupid "there's a murder, let's split up" or "oh here's a demon, well okay" crap)

7/10

 

[Dirty Schwein]

Halloween Ends
What the feck was this shit? It's a horror romance movie? I don't mind that but the romance storyline was so random and made no sense and ultimately leads to nothing... And they spend 3/4 of the film on it. Michael Myers barely features in this. At least they ended it in a definitive way so this specific trilogy can't continue. And the shame is, the first part of this trilogy was actually good and it descended into this shit 3/10

 

[pauldyson1uk]

Fresh.

FRESH follows Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones), who meets the alluring Steve (Sebastian Stan) at a grocery store and - given her frustration with dating apps - takes a chance and gives him her number.

It was decent enough, acting was good , story was excellent, lot of plus points.
The ending was satisfying enough.
My only problem was wanting more back story, how he got into it, who the buyers were, but overall an enjoyable film.

7/10

 

[pauldyson1uk]

Host

Six friends hire a medium to hold a seance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong.
Filmed entirely using Zoom during the COVID-19 lockdown.
This is excellent, one of the best films I have seen this year.
Clearly done on a small budget, yes there was the normal jump scares, that yeah did make me jump, OK its been done before many times, but I would say this is one of the better ones.
There is a about 15 mins at the end where the cast did a seance over zoom for real, that was also spooky.

8/10