According to women, we do... need another mother.

Still undecided on which is the better/worse movie.

Which women?

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Them...

I saw someone suggest that the movie would have been more interesting if they would have wrote it from Lawrence's perspective and had the first act as a second act twist. In the movie as it was it was just a matter of waiting until the secret was revealed.

Airplane! - had seen this a bunch as a kid but not anytime recently. Really didn't care for it. A few parts are funny. A friend commented that many in the supporting cast give significantly better performances than the main actors, which is true of course.

Before you assume I'm humorless, I'll name two other comedies in this genre that I enjoyed recently.

Wacko (35mm, 1982) - Don't think this is well known now? Horror parody in the same vein as Airplane. Lol'ed quite a bit at this one, especially during one long stretch towards the beginning.

Hot Shots! Part Deux (35mm, 1993) - I didn't expect to like it, but I basically did. Rambo parody with Charlie Sheen, Iraq War era. The programmer of the theater who showed it said beforehand that when he called the studio to rent the print, they said "uhhh...sure, and the film probably still looks great because nobody's ever asked for it". (Meaning it wouldn't have worn down with age/use.)

I'd recommend either of those two over Airplane, although if you've never seen Airplane there's the historical value of that. Should go without saying that all of these are super problematic (racist, sexist, incest jokes, etc.).

It's weird how Airplane! became a classic and the blockbuster Airport that it parodied is largely forgotten.

There is a fan edit out there that is exactly like that. It definitely is much better than the original but the ending still sucks. The perfect ending would be Chris Pratt's character dying and JLaw's character struggling with loneliness with the final shot showing her contemplating waking someone else up.

The Exorcist III (35mm, 1990) - I went in without having seen part 2 (doesn't matter), and the main reason I went was because I found out there's a cameo by Patrick Ewing the NBA player. Makes sense as he went to college at Georgetown and that's where it takes place.

The main reason people here might want to see this is the performance by George C. Scott. There's this idea of an actor "chewing it up" on screen (although the definition of this that I have in my head is slightly different than what a web search is telling me it is), and I can't really think of a better example than George C. Scott in the first 30 minutes here. It's a great performance, just slightly larger than life. You know he's having fun with it, you know he knows he's killing it, you know he could do it in his sleep but he's still giving it his all. He's funny (BJ legit lol certified), and in one early scene you can see the other actor "break"; Scott knows he's broken him, and it's just fantastic to watch.

The direction is interesting as well, with a bunch of scenes that attempt to do interesting things with the camera.

It's not a great movie, but it's definitely worth watching if you're an Exorcist fan who was dismissive, if you want to see the Scott performance, or for any number of other reasons.

This might make a good subject for a draft: Crazy reasons we've watched movies. I've probably got a ton of them.

Sorry, but Airplane! is always fantastic. And the leading cast is fantastic.

I like the Hot Shot movies, too.

Panos Cosmatos, the absolutely nutty director of Beyond The Black Rainbow, has a new movie called Mandy, that is apparently only playing here in Vegas for ONE DAY. Not sure why. But I'm going to see it tonight. It starts Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, and Bill Duke. Here's the trailer:



And then my GF and me will be seeing Smokey and the Bandit on the big screen in honor of Burt, probably on Friday.

Been waiting for someone to go and recommend Mandy.... let us know.

Never thought i would read so many positive things about a nick cage performance.

He was a great actor before he started doing cheesy action flicks.

So glad you mentioned this. My first question was going to be whether there was already a fan edit.

Fan edits are one hell of an art and sometimes make for terrific alternate cuts. Sometimes they're as simple as making a complete cut that includes deleted/extended scenes, others as extensive as taking all existing footage, behind the scenes shots, blueprints, artwork, etc. and making a workprint of what Fincher originally intended for Alien 3.

Another batch of TIFF reviews

Driven - A biopic about John Delorean told through the point of view of the FBI informant (Jason Sudeikis) who befriended his way into Delorean's inner circle. As the casting suggests, it's played more as a comedy than a serious biopic. Lee Pace does a good job making Delorean into an intriguing, mysterious character. Not a great movie but a fairly enjoyable watch overall. 6/10

Assassination Nation - It's a great premise for a horror movie. When the entire population of a town gets hacked by an unknown person and has all of their private conversations, search histories, photos, and everything else, released to the public, how does that paranoia and lack of trust manifest itself when a group of teenage girls gets blamed for the hack? It has some really good and interesting moments throughout. The biggest problem is that it tries to personify all of the worst parts of the internet into different characters. There are so many threads that start to get pulled only to go nowhere or be confusingly thrown together. Don't think about the story too hard and try to just enjoy some of the craziness on screen. 5/10

Red Joan - Based on the true story of Melita Norwood, who was arrested in her 80s for being a KGB spy during WW2. It's a spy drama without any of the intrigue of a good spy drama. It's not really bad, just extremely bland. I hope someone casts Sophie Cookson in something good soon though. She did a great job with some mediocre writing boring drama. 4/10

Saw a trailer for this tonight, and it looked absolutely horrible

Mandy, Panos Cosmatos, 2018



So, this was a one-night only pre-release screening, simultaneous with a screening at the Egyptian in Hollywood. After the movie, we were treated to a live discussion moderated by Kevin Smith, with director Cosmatos, Nicholas Cage, and Linus Roache. Pretty cool.

If an actor manages to upstage a blood-covered, screeching-in-existential agony, bent-on-revenge Nicolas Cage, that's a movie I'm going to like.

Red and his wife Mandy live an idyllic life in the woods of some 1983 rural fantasy. Mandy draws intricate, Heavy Metal-esqe type art and reads fantasy fiction, works at the local country store, and waits for her man to come home from his logging job.

But something deep and dark and nasty also resides in the woods... and it destroys Red and Mandy's life, forcing Red to go on a murderous rampage of revenge.



Holy moly.

Mandy is unlike any movie I've ever seen. It's a feverish, grindhouse, LCD trip, comic book, Herzog-like, insanity that will not be for everyone. Like Cosmatos' previous film, Beyond the Black Rainbow, Mandy has a 80s' vibe and sheen to it, from it's setting to it's monochromatic color pallet to it's rock opera synth score by the late Johann Johannson (his last film). But it is night and day from the former film. Black Rainbow is all sterile and interior while Mandy is outside in nature and Dark with a capital D. Both in theme and cinematography.

The movie is like the Road Warrior by way of Polanski, with Ralph Bashki-style animation and lots and lots of smoke surrounding two warriors in a ****ing CHAINSAW battle, backlit by unnatural colored light and fire.

There are three or four leather-clad demons that ride off-road quad runners and resemble the Zenobites from Clive Barker's ouvre.

Mandy is a pastiche of 80's B-movies that we watched over and over on VHS, or late-night Cinemax - and it looks it, as it was shot on a Ari Alexa with Panavision AL series anamorphic lenses.



Andrea Riseborough is an actress I've liked for years, and she always looks different in every damn movie she's in...great presence.

Linus Roache plays the Jesus-on-acid leader of a small-time cult who takes a shine to Andrea Riseborough's Mandy. He and his band of followers kidnap her and leave Nicolas Cage's Red for dead.

Roache has been in a lot of film and TV, and he always seems to stand out. I remember liking him a lot in The Chronicles of Riddick, but holy hell, I don't know what he was channeling here, but he makes Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth in Blue Velvet look positively quaint. When you're taking your eyes off a Cage to watch this other nutcase, you know you're going to have a good time.



I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, but I don't recommend it for most people. This is a B-movie art film that will generate screams and laughter in equal measure. It's pretty damn violent, but it is also lyrical, painterly, and a sonic sledge hammer.

Grade: A (for film snobs like me)
C for a normal movie-goer. No way someone like MrBaseball would like this lol.

Darn, that is quite a passion-instilled review Dominic , looking forward to watching it

Shots fired at monsieur beisbol.

Lol no shots, I just understand what kind of movies he likes and doesn’t like!

Nah, he's is likely right on. If it is anything like than unwatchable Black Rainbow stuff I would prolly hate it. I like mostly old movie classics and this doesn't sound much like one of those.

Ha! I was amazed and impressed that you actually gave that one a shot.

Is Mandy torture porn?