Film

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

Watched a French film called Calvaire. Hilariously messed up. French horrors are pure mental.

I fucking loved that. Far from the best film I've ever seen (kind of shite on paper) but it totally stuck with me. As you said, pure mental. That fucking dance scene with the piano

[CorkonianHunger]

Watched a French film called Calvaire. Hilariously messed up. French horrors are pure mental.

Heard about that one, although I thought it was Belgian? Maybe I'm thinking of another. Supposed to be great craic.

[open face surgery]

Read The Exorcist this week so watched the movie last night and it was like watching it for the first time. Unreal.

[Slaughterday]

Been on a Sidney Lumet binge the last few weekends. Q & A, Serpico, Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, Dog Day Afternoon...all deadly. Have Night Falls on Manhattan queued up for tomorrow too.

[CorkonianHunger]

Been on a Sidney Lumet binge the last few weekends. Q & A, Serpico, Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, Dog Day Afternoon...all deadly. Have Night Falls on Manhattan queued up for tomorrow too.

Lumet is brilliant, really does the working class New York thing well. Helps that he has 70's Pacino in those 2 as well.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Picked up on the epics again with Zhivago. Dialogue a little too British in places, but, yeah, epic! Was probably 12 or so when I last saw it.

[StoutAndAle]

Lumet made some killer films over the years. I've never seen "Prince Of The City" but I must seek it out.

Watched "Palm Springs" over the weekend. Great craic - a kind of millennial "Groundhog Day". Andy Samberg steps up and proves that he can carry a 90 minute film rather than just an episode of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine". It looks great as well, the desert photography is excellent.

Also carried on my Bond initiation with "You Only Live Twice" - Heavy on the gadgets and running time. Some decent action sequences and effects.

However... I don't think that I have laughed as hard in recent memory as I did on Saturday evening when Bond underwent a "transformation" to make him Japanese to go undercover.

This entailed Sean Connery wearing a (different) wig, a straw hat and squinting a lot.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Throw Momma From The Train

Another classic 80s flick, even if it's impossible for me to hear Billy Crystal's voice in any character without automatically thinking of Miracle Max.

[StoutAndAle]

Throw Momma From The Train

Another classic 80s flick, even if it's impossible for me to hear Billy Crystal's voice in any character without automatically thinking of Miracle Max.

Haven't seen that in years - I'd say since it came out on video - definitely  not since the early 90s anyway. Does it hold up yeah? All I can remember from it is "OWWWWWWWWWWWWWEN!"


Watched "Listen Up, Phillip" last night. Wordy, Woody Allen-lite, Philip Roth-esque offering from Alex Ross Perry which I have to say I enjoyed a lot. More more so than than the last film of his that I saw - "The Colour Wheel" - which left me frustrated and annoyed.

Now that I think about it, it shares more than a smidge with Roth's "The Ghost Writer" in terms of plot.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I enjoyed the hell out of it. And it got me wondering to what extent Momma's way of speaking inspired the creation of Cartman's character haha

[blessed1]

Watched Open Water for the first time. I really liked it. It's pretty fuckin scary and was really well done for the budget they had.
I love good shark movies.
The Reef was another great one.

[Eoin McLove]

Big fan of shark movies.

[Blackout]

Read The Exorcist this week so watched the movie last night and it was like watching it for the first time. Unreal.

Favourite ever horror movie. Catch the directors cut if you can.

[Emphyrio]

Animal Farm and 1984 landed on today. Won't get to them for a while but looking forward to reading them both again.

The exorcist is a super book. As is the film, obviously.

[Carnage]

Both awesome books. All 3 you mentioned are, actually.

The Exorcist is an odd one. I saw it first in my mid teens, and I thought it was hilarious. Didn't see it again 'til the director's cut came out and I found that more effective, maybe 'cos Pazuzu's face popping up freaked me out a bit, maybe 'cos I'm more of a pussy now. Still not sure what to make of the spiderwalk scene.

Exorcist III, that's one I haven't seen since the cinema, due a rewatch of that.