Film

[Pentagrimes]

It's one called The Whole Rabbit. Feel asleep before the end of it (it was about 2am) but it was an interesting and fairly entertaining listen, not as pretentious or serious as you'd expect.

The episode is called "Mandy, Galacus and the Qliphoth"

[CorkonianHunger]

It's one called The Whole Rabbit. Feel asleep before the end of it (it was about 2am) but it was an interesting and fairly entertaining listen, not as pretentious or serious as you'd expect.

The episode is called "Mandy, Galacus and the Qliphoth"

Sound, judging by the episode names it looks good.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Went for Menace II Society last night. Pretty sure I'd never seen it before. Good movie!

[open face surgery]

Savage. Love all those 90s gangsta movies.

[open face surgery]

Just watched Wake In Fright. That's a fuckin trip of a movie.

[CorkonianHunger]

Just watched Wake In Fright. That's a fuckin trip of a movie.

It's class. Donald Pleasance is a nutter.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Savage. Love all those 90s gangsta movies.

What ones do you rate highest? There's some I've never seen, and any I did see it was so long ago I can't really remember, but I'm in the mood to do a run of them.

[open face surgery]

Have no real deep cuts but Menace II Society, Boyz n the Hood, Juice, Friday, even Dangerous Minds. Nostalgic buzz. Not of the hood of Mayo, of being young.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Ballina ballers

[Mooncat]

Savage. Love all those 90s gangsta movies.

What ones do you rate highest? There's some I've never seen, and any I did see it was so long ago I can't really remember, but I'm in the mood to do a run of them.

Menace II Society and Boyz in the Hood are definitely the two best ones. The original Friday is another classic. Do the Right Thing is arguably the best of them all. Definitely a hood movie, if not quite a gangsta movie (also She's Gotta Have It and Crooklyn if you're into the Spike Lee vibe).

Some decent deeper cuts would be Colours (Sean Penn and Robert Duvall as cops who work in the hood), Juice (Tupac as a petty criminal), King of New York is a cool one (Christopher Walken running a mafia style operation in the hood), Nu Jack City is a bit more action-y but similar settings, South Central is a hood-y one; the ol' 'guy gets out of prison and wants to be better but his brother is still a gang member' trope.

Some more obvious ones with overlap you may have already seen are Training Day, White Men Can't Jump, and City of God. Maybe even Street Kings or Dragged Across Concrete?

[Carnage]

Clockers could probably slot in there too, Trespass possibly, might be a bit of a stretch.

[Hellyeah]

Watched King of new York for the first time recently,  amazing.
Street Kings is one of my all-time favourites too. Shouldn't work but it does imo.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Menace II Society and Boyz in the Hood are definitely the two best ones. The original Friday is another classic. Do the Right Thing is arguably the best of them all. Definitely a hood movie, if not quite a gangsta movie (also She's Gotta Have It and Crooklyn if you're into the Spike Lee vibe).

Some decent deeper cuts would be Colours (Sean Penn and Robert Duvall as cops who work in the hood), Juice (Tupac as a petty criminal), King of New York is a cool one (Christopher Walken running a mafia style operation in the hood), Nu Jack City is a bit more action-y but similar settings, South Central is a hood-y one; the ol' 'guy gets out of prison and wants to be better but his brother is still a gang member' trope.

Some more obvious ones with overlap you may have already seen are Training Day, White Men Can't Jump, and City of God. Maybe even Street Kings or Dragged Across Concrete?

Great list, cheers man appreciate it. Two in there I've never seen and I know I really should are Do The Right Thing and Dragged Across Concrete. Plus a couple others I've never heard of so they'll go on the list too. Def going to revisit Boyz 'n the Hood too.

[Mooncat]

Watched Crimes of Passion by Ken Russell last night. Bonkers 80s movie starring Kathleen Turner when she was hot. She's a prostitute in her spare time, and Anthony Perkins is amazing chewing the scenery as an insane degenerate preacher tying to 'save' her. Very neon and seedy vibe with lots of great dialogue. Well worth a watch. Very adult content for if you're into edgier stuff (by 80s standards, that is...). The policeman scene had me howling.

Would pair well with Cruisin' (Friedkin is truly an all timer. Pacino is an undercover cop looking for a serial killer in the underground NY gay club scene, who is increasingly 'going native'), or Edmond (William H Macy is a milquetoast who packs it all in and goes slowly crazy over the course of one night's increasingly seedy adventures. Kind of a cross between Falling Down and After Hours, with a hint of Taxi Driver. Based on a David Mamet play).

Edited: Kathleen Turner, not Kathy Bates!!

[Carnage]

Thank fuck you edited that. My instant thought was 'Kathy Bates was hot? That I have to see', and the resulting Google search yielded horrific results.

Now Kathleen Turner in her day, jaysus...

Just watched Knock At The Cabin there. Enjoyable, mostly single room-set home invasion movie with a  interesting twist - not the usual Shyalaman final reel one this time - with some great performances (Dave Bautista in particular stands out). Better than I was expecting.