Film

[open face surgery]

Watches The Substance last night. So mental. Loved it.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Finally got around to Sound of Metal tonight. Powerful stuff, Ahmed perfect as ever. I also now want to dig back into Einsturzende Neubaten and Rudimentary Peni.

[ldj]

Watched Woman of the Hour there last night, pretty good, maybe a bit of an anti-climactic ending but it's based on a true story so I suppose they didn't want to take too much artistic liberty.

[StoutAndAle]

mildly related digression, but I worked in a video shop in Rathmines years ago (Advance Vision, long closed) which had an "adult" section  - softcore stuff obviously but pretty borderline in some cases, and I will never, ever forget the fact that someone came to the counter one day with a dvd they'd pulled from one of those shelves with the name "Randy Financial Advisor".

There was one poor ould lad - I mean he must have been in his 70s, easily - a little short fella who walked with a cane, and he came in one of my first mornings up to the counter to return a shopping bag full of porn he'd rented from us the week before. When I went to his account one of the lads had changed his name on it to "The Porn King"

Unreal.   

There used to be a second-hand book shop in Cork, down on Douglas St - just up from the old Cruiscin Lan, and the old lad that ran it dressed like a cowboy - boots, ten-gallon hat, tassled waistcoat, bolo tie. The shop was essentially the living room of his townhouse and he sat outside on a chair, reading all day.

We used to go in there to buy cheap books and ancient "2000AD" collections, he always seemed to have last month's "Q" and "Empire" magazines too.

One day, after we'd paid for some books, he says to me and my buddy "Are you looking for any DVDs or anything lads? Second-hand stuff."

"Sure, I'd have a look."

We were led into a little back-room kitchenette where every shelf and cupboard was laden down with hardcore DVDs and VHS tapes - apart from the kitchen table which had half-eaten toast on it and a 3-foot tall Sacred Heart statue. 

Got the fuck out of there fairly sharpish.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Finally got around to Sound of Metal tonight. Powerful stuff, Ahmed perfect as ever. I also now want to dig back into Einsturzende Neubaten and Rudimentary Peni.

Turned this into a drumming movie double bill with Whiplash tonight, which I'd also never gotten around to. Think the reverse order would have been better, but two excellent films anyway. Final act of Whiplash can't be argued with!

[Necro Red]

I watched Dream Scenario the other night and loved it. Fairly surreal and funny. Nic Cage gives a steller performance too. Anyone else seen it? 

[open face surgery]

Nic Cage has been on fire for the last few years. Enjoyed Dream Scenario.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Speaking of Cage, saw him doing this amazing impersonation of David Lynch yesterday 
https://x.com/thecinesthetic/status/1855645593538068916

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Another off the Billy Wilder list with Double Indemnity tonight. Enjoyable but doesn't touch his best imo. Couldn't stop thinking of Frank Drebin through a lot of it, with that film noir voice over narration style, "Ed and I drove to where Nordberg had been found floating. Without leads, you have to start somewhere, and that was the harbour" 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Watched the Kneecap movie tonight. Deadly laugh.

Edit: Also believe it's now on Prime UK/Ireland.

[Eoin McLove]

Man I really think Nicholas Cage is one of the most overrated actors on the planet. He has been in great films and has even acted brilliantly in some of them. But I often think he is so hammy that I ends up annoyed just looking at him.

[jobrok1]

Well! You're not wrong...

[Sworntothecans]

Cage got over the "clearing the tax bill " phase of his career and is now  doing what he loves. 'tis great.

I'd love if himself and the Coens would do something together again.

[ldj]

Ah I love Nicolas Cage, but to be fair I think you have to buy in to the fact that 'Nic Cage being Nic Cage' in itself is going to be a character in any film he's in, so I could understand someone not liking him.

[Hellyeah]

Probably my favorite cage movie is Joe, followed by leaving las Vegas obviously, but I have also turned off alot of his movies too.