rsmurphy wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2025 11:47 am Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story - A+

I wanna see this!

jfv wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2025 4:42 pm The Outrun - damn. Great performance of a violent alcoholic by Saoirse Ronan. Guessing she might have first- or secondhand experience.

Aye, well with a name like that, it’s likely a foregone conclusion.

kmc wrote: Since it came out, American Movie has been at the top of my list of things to watch to immediately improve my mood...genuinely inspiring and hilarious at the same time, which is no easy task.

The genial stoner reminded me a lot like the heshers I ran with in hs. Good time doc.

Watched For Your Consideration for the first time. Yeesh. Not his funniest by a sight, but there are some good chuckles here and there. The pathos of Catherine O'Hara's character was pretty affecting as she was waiting for the nominations. She'd do well in a dramatic role.

rsmurphy wrote: Sat Feb 08, 2025 11:44 am

kmc wrote: Since it came out, American Movie has been at the top of my list of things to watch to immediately improve my mood...genuinely inspiring and hilarious at the same time, which is no easy task.

The genial stoner reminded me a lot like the heshers I ran with in hs. Good time doc.

When I was a teenager I thought this movie was funny. Now all I can see is the pathos. Great doc regardless…and I hate docs. Would never turn it on for lolz.

I finally just watched The Substance.

I feel a bit sick.

My girls are watching Wicked. I assume there’s some culture war bullshit going on because the green lady is black?

Of course they didn’t even register because they’re not middle aged men

Reservoir Dogs

I saw this when it came out and loved it for obvious reasons but have never gone back, unlike all the other Tarantino films which I’ve rewatched multiple times.

With the power of the internets, the whole backstory behind it all is revealed! Amazing film in its own right - really more like a stage play (surely someone has done it on the stage?) - but knowing all the other details fleshes it all out a lot more. The fact that Tim Roths job was to just lie in pools of fake blood for hours on end to the point it would dry and they’d have to peel him off the floor makes the “grit” factor even higher…

I need to rewatch

"The Wild One" with Marlon Brando, I get the times have changed and I obviously can't see it in the same way people in 1953 did, but it still only worked as intentional comedy, Benny Hill music would would have been be a perfect fit.

I saw Companion last night, completely average experience, if I'm being generous.

Saw Evil Dead Trap the other day, have to say the misoginy bothered me too much, especially since it's such a mindless plot and the surreal factor would have to be enough on its own to make the film stand out to me. The only guy who's murdered dies offscreen, the girls we get to see raped and tortured.

Rewatched Pontypool. It's a Valentine's Day movie.

Local independent cinema was showing Charade for cheap movie night, so we went. Weird little movie. I did get a kick watching Audrey Hepburn run her finger along Cary Grant's chin cleft and asking, "how he shaved in there?" and I wonder if it was improvised.