Film

[open face surgery]

War Dogs. Bit of a non event but it's grand.

[Mithrandir]

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.

Fuck, I thought this one was of the worst films I've seen in a few years.

I watched from dusk til dawn for the first time this week, didn't know much about it other than it has vampires at some point but holy shit does it go off in a way I wasn't expecting once the vamps show up.

[Pentagrimes]

Watched the first two Smokey and the Bandit films yesterday. Absolute comfort viewing.

[StoutAndAle]

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.

You could stick in "Dead Presidents", "Deep Cover" and possibly even "Judgement Night" maybe. The soundtrack of the latter might be better than the film itself though. 

Edit - Spotted Mooncat's post regarding "Colors" and "New Jack City". Deleted them. 

Oh and for a newer one "Harsh Times" with Christian Bale and Freddy Rodriguez. New... it's still about 20 years old.

Watched King of new York for the first time recently,  amazing.

"King Of New York" is phenomenal. Room ser-VICE, MUTHAFUCKAS!!!!!

The Schoolly D soundtrack is deadly as well.

There's a really good episode of The Rewatchables podcast with Quentin Tarantino discussing it. A good listen while the movie is still fresh in your memory.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1BP0euiCqBi9tkIQ02xUfc

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Good shout on Wake In Fright maaates.

[The Heretic]

I watched from dusk til dawn for the first time this week, didn't know much about it other than it has vampires at some point but holy shit does it go off in a way I wasn't expecting once the vamps show up.

It's like 2 different films in one..mental stuff!!

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Still think Sing Street is a great aul flick, so we decided to give Flora and Son a go last night (same director). Half funny, half stomach-twisting cringe. And do I have an opinion on Eve Hewson playing a working class ride? Yes: she nails one dimension of it much better than the other!  Her turn in Bad Sisters was far better.

[jobrok1]

She was in The Knick a while back as well. They may as well have drawn a face on a plank of wood.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Never saw it. I thought she was good in Bad Sisters, and it's not even that she was acting badly in this new film, just not good enough to believably pull off the kind of Dub her character was supposed to be. Her acting was nowhere near the worst thing about the film in any case!  

[Cailleach]

I hae been watching a ton of old movies lately. Two that stand out the most are Angels With Dirty Faces and The Treasure of Sierra Madre.

[StoutAndAle]

Watched a few films over the weekend;

"Uncut Gems" - brilliant stuff. The tension created was something else. Had to pause it and make a cup of tea.

"The Equalizer 3" - not great. 25 minutes too long, predictable. Waste of time.

"The Taking Of Pelham 123" (2009) - passed me by on release, big fan of the 1974 original - this remake isn't bad. An OTT Travolta eats the furniture in every scene but Tony Scott's direction makes this incredibly watchable. I would have enjoyed it if they'd flipped the two lead roles around - making Denzel Washington the baddie. Could have made for a more interesting movie overall.

"JFK: Through The Looking Glass" - Oliver Stone follows up on his directorial masterpiece (even if its research/accuracy is flawed) "JFK" 30 years after the original with a solid two-hour documentary. A lot of facts are thrown at you via visuals, text and audio (sometimes all at once). Hard to take it all in. Very much worth a watch.

[Thorn]

The People Under The Stairs

Dug out this golden oldie tonight, great craic

[Maggot Colony]

The People Under The Stairs

Dug out this golden oldie tonight, great craic

One of Craven's best films, the scene with the Dad running around in a gimpsuit is both terrifying and hilarious.

On a horror binge myself for the month that's in it - watched Hellhouse LLC and Evil Dead Rise last week and watching Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives tonight.

[Thorn]

Yeah, that's a complete WTF scene alright. Just some great one liners in it too like Ving Rames
" Thirteen's a terrible age, too old for tit, too young for ass " 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Watched a kind of sci-fi horror called Cube tonight. Think it's maybe a cult classic. Great b-movie entertainment anyway.