enframed wrote: Sun Mar 16, 2025 12:49 am Black Bag is fun. Marisa Abela. God damn.

I had trouble following the story, it probably makes more sense on a rewatch. I really enjoyed the last 20 minutes.

rsmurphy wrote: Sat Mar 15, 2025 9:52 pm I am watching what is possibly the dumbest movie I've ever seen called The Electric State.

I would watch Trixie and Katya watching the entire movie, but not the movie itself.

brephophagist wrote: Sun Mar 16, 2025 4:23 pm I would watch Trixie and Katya watching the entire movie, but not the movie itself.

That would be a riot. Have Alaska and Willam make an appearance. Or Bob and Monet. I'd be down with a queens version of MST3K

rsmurphy wrote: Have Alaska and Willam make an appearance. Or Bob and Monet. I'd be down with a queens version of MST3K

100%, kind of surprised RuPaul hasn't tried this yet.

Finally got around to watching Things Will Be Different, a timeloop movie with thriller/horror aspects to it. It's good enough, has some nice creepy magical realism stuff in it. Nothing earth-shattering though.

Flux Gourmet is really good.

I also enjoyed Black Bag. Saw it late Sunday night after we watched the latest White Lotus, and I gave myself a little chuckle imagining the Marisa Abela role being played by Aimee Lou Wood, Mancunian accent and all.

Just watched Midsommer and Heretic.

Midsommer was great, but Heretic… meh. I think it probably played better in the US where people take Christianity a bit more seriously.

Isaac wrote: Sun Oct 27, 2024 8:24 am

Wood Goblin wrote: Sun Oct 27, 2024 8:20 am We watched Anora last night. Completely amazing. Just brilliant. The reviews have all been wonderful, but they also struggle to describe the movie’s tone.

Sean Baker shot it on 35mm film, and the Music Box has both film and digital projections. We went to a film projection and are glad we did.

Cannot wait to see this. Red Rocket and Tangerine are a couple of the best films I've seen in the last decade. Hope is shows up out in the hinterlands where we live.

FINALLY fucking saw this film.

Total head-scratcher for me on a few levels, yet ultimately I really liked it a lot. The very ending scene fucked me up in a wild way. Tender, but jesus. Immediately wanted to watch it again, which is a good sign.

Gramsci wrote: Sat Mar 22, 2025 5:36 pm Midsommer was great, but Heretic… meh. I think it probably played better in the US where people take Christianity a bit more seriously.

I really dug Heretic but it didn't stick the landing. Nice ride tho.

Rewatched Hellraiser 2022. Liked it better the second time, but still kinda lukewarm on it. Cool-looking cenobites doing cenobite things. Could've been more pervy.

Also rewatched The Substance. Good flick! Enjoyed it more the second time around.

Sing Sing was really great. Coleman Domingo is a great actor. Devilishly handsome.

Finally saw Eggers' Nosferatu. It was everything people had said about it: exquisite cinematography, excellent acting, great attention to detail. If there's anything I can add, it's that it becomes an A minus purely on the grounds of being a remake.

All of his films center on dread. Not a ton of plot (except maybe Northman) just a sense that things are going wrong and will continue to fall. The fact that this is a well known story takes away some of the wonder of just how wrong it will go. The Witch and The Lighthouse had a certain bang at the end. Still there was a grotesque carnality to the ending sequence even if it felt inevitable.