Film

[open face surgery]

Have a screen grab of it as a reminder but haven't seen it. Sounds wild enough.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

The weekend so far:
Wee lad wanted to watch Spiderman again, the Sam Raimi one. No prob, one of the best superhero movies there is imo, both Maguire and Defoe perfectly cast.
So Friday unintentionally turned into a Raimi night as I'd already grabbed The Quick and the Dead to watch as a Hackman movie I'd never seen. The makings of a great movie but Sharon Stone was bad casting. She doesn't have the chops that were needed for the role.
Young Sherlock Holmes, another I'd never seen and in fact barely heard of but it's a great fun family action movie.
A Complete Unknown, thought this was great. Not amazing as a film but does really well what it sets out to do.

Hopefully will get round to another of this year's Oscar nominees tonight.

[astfgyl]

Agree about The Quick And The Dead and Sharon Stone being cast. Still an enjoyable enough hour and a half all the same. Must try a rewatch with the small lads one of the days

[Carnage]

Just finished The Brutalist. I need to go for a walk or something, get some fresh air after that. It felt oppressive throughout, aptly I suppose. Dense might be the word. Brody and Pearce are fantastic, as is the lad playing Pearce's sleazy son. Pearce giving off a big Charles Foster Kane buzz throughout, Brady more obvious in his Oscar-chasing but deserving of it.

Not as profound or epic as it thinks it is, but it looks amazing and the score isn't bad either. The intermission was mostly cut out of the version I watched, which helped with the running time (3 hrs 21 mins.), tae was taken a couple of times.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

A Real Pain is fairly great.

[ldj]

Yeah really enjoyed A Real Pain but not quite convinced it was Oscar worthy for Culkin, he was good but felt very much like he was playing a variation of himself/the character from Succession.

Watched Mickey 17 the other night, new film from the director of Parasite, it's enjoyable but a bit all over the place, Pattinson is great though.

[Necro Red]

Ended up whacking on The Conversation. Great film, truly. Funny too, some of the piano parts are remarkably similar to the Severance theme music.

I was thinking the exact same after rewatching The Conversation recently. Excellent film

[Carnage]

The Conversation (plus The French Connection and a documentary about the latter) are being shown on BBC Four next week, if anyone wants to catch it. Hackman's best performance? I reckon so.

[Sworntothecans]

Another good Hackman one is Prime Cut with Lee Marvin. Gene's a right scumbag in it.

[ldj]

Watched Anora last night.

It's good, great acting to be fair, for some reason I thought it was going to be super dark but it's not really, there's a bit of comedy in there.

[open face surgery]

Watched Tiptoes yesterday after seeing the ridiculous trailer loads. It's as bad as it could be  Gary Oldman in "the role of his life" on his knees.

Followed that with Sling Blade thinking it was gonna be just as ridiculous but it was actually good.

[ldj]

I saw Tiptoes somewhere a while back can't even remember where, wasn't me who put it on I know that, fucking hell it's bad

[Sworntothecans]

I saw Tiptoes somewhere a while back can't even remember where, wasn't me who put it on I know that, fucking hell it's bad

It's pretty rough. Oldman did a lot of shite to cover his alimony payments in the 2000s.

But even when the movie's crap he'll put a shift in anyway.

[Carnage]

Borderlands. Based on a computer game apparently, comes across as a knock off of Guardians Of The Galaxy. Not very good, even Cate Blanchett couldn't save it.

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

Watched Anora last night.

It's good, great acting to be fair, for some reason I thought it was going to be super dark but it's not really, there's a bit of comedy in there.

I enjoyed it a lot, fairly simple premise but great cast, the tone reminded me somewhat of In Bruges (but obviously it's not as good as In Bruges).