Film

[open face surgery]

Watched The Big Short and Don't Look Up over the last week. Enjoyed both of them despite The Big Short being crushingly depressing.

[StoutAndAle]

Watched a Swedish movie called Festen about a dinner party that gets fucked up when one of the guests gives his speech.
Really good and tense movie.

"Festen" is absolute class. Thomas Bo Larssen is brilliant in it. Classic farce comedy with a dark edge.

The Danes have a knack for making pitch-black comedies.

[ldj]

Went to see the new horror film X last night, it's a pretty good slasher that's pretty much a homage to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Some pretty cool music by Chelsea Wolfe in the score too.

[Pentagrimes]

Absolute mess of a film.

[ldj]

Ah it wasn't that bad, nothing special but it was an entertaining popcorn movie.

[Caomhaoin]

Land and Freedom. Cool Ken Loach show from 1995, featuring anti fascists who were relatable and brave, rather than the postmodern, ultra politically correct fannies which the late 20th and 21st century has brought us.

If you've read 'Homage to Catalunya' you'll be familiar with the context.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Great film, though somewhat glossing over the deepest thread of it by treating all the "anti-fascists" as a single group.

[Caomhaoin]

The POUM ones I mean.

That scene where they are confronted by the regular government troops, absolutely incredible.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

¡No pasarán!

[Caomhaoin]

That fuckin' choon aswell. It'd have you collectivising and shooting priests it's that good. It's not going to go down well with my pals in the brown shirts but sure lookit.

https://youtu.be/3Sd9XdBWdPQ

[Makeshiftatomsmasher]

Over the last while:
Puppet master. It's  very silly.
Escape from the Bronx. Utter rubbish

Inside. A L'interieur. Part of that French extreme cinema from mid 2000's. Not for the fainthearted.
Ravenous. Cannibals, Odd characters, Great sound track, Jeffrey Jones playing a character very like A. W. Merrick. Yes.

The town that dreaded sundown.
More a thriller than horror, and with some oddly placed slapstick humour (it was the mid 70's) Not to bad bar the odd tone. In 1946, a small rural town on the Arkansas/ Texas boarder is terrorised by an unknown assailant who attacks people randomly at night.

The Untold story. The eight immortals restaurant. Again, starts of with mix of slapstick and gore, then it gets very, very dark. There is a lot of brutality in this. But the acting from Anthony Wong Chau-Sang as the demented protagonist Wong Chi Hang carries it.

[Carnage]

It only took me 36 years but I finally watched Platoon, after stumbling across it on Amazon. Mighty shtuff.

[Emphyrio]

It only took me 36 years but I finally watched Platoon, after stumbling across it on Amazon. Mighty shtuff.

Unreal movie. And though it's been overplayed since, Adagio by Strings is one of the best uses of music in a film.

Watched a couple recently.

X - didn't make much of it.

Cursed - They should have kept the original, Eight for Silver, title as it's less obvious but a really good spin on the vampire/werewolf theme. Well worth a watch.

Arracht - Really good Irish movie, set in the Famine era. A great, Christian Bale-esque turn by the lead. Bonus points for being as gaeilge, too.

[Necro Red]

Rewatched The Many Saints Of Newark the other night. Not amazing, but very enjoyable non the less. Helps if you love the Sopranos

[astfgyl]

It only took me 36 years but I finally watched Platoon, after stumbling across it on Amazon. Mighty shtuff.

Only watched it again lately it's great. Fuckin kills me every time Willem Dafoe doesn't make it