Watched Us...really liked it, think Jordan Peele has the horror/comedy formula down to perfection. Not sure if the ending "works" but the movie is so fun and entertaining that I didn't mind that it didn't land at the end.

So much awesomeness packed into one post

Us was fun, but the strong reviews and Get Out led me to expect something more. Us is more of a straight-up horror film that doesn't have much of a social satire element.

Re: Alien (1979) reproduction

Right on, kids!!!

It's great to see things from 40 years ago (!!!) are still followed these days.

Oh yeah, ALIEN is turning 40 in May, for those who didn't realize!

Oh yeah... I am all over that. Day 1 pre order for me.



Since there was a new treatment of the film that was supervised by Ridley, I expect a theater release in digital theaters sometime soon.

Dragged Across Concrete

Love this guy Zahler tbh. Great, dark 70s-style crime drama, with some mostly hilarious and occasionally grating trolling/bait to stir up debate. Loved the look of this. Love that genre movies like this still get made and can get attention in this non-stop boring superhero climate. Good cast and performances. Hope this does well and that he continues to pump out stuff like this every couple of years.

Also rewatched Kathryn Bigelow’s great 90s movies Blue Steel and Strange Days. Both hold up/are better than i remembered.

Leon Morin, Priest was good, especially emanuelle riva, but tbh it does get kinda boring. Just too dull stylewise for me.

Come and see is a movie i’ve read so much raving about in the 10+ years from i first heard of it until i watched it, so inevitably it was a bit of a disappointment. Still pretty good, it just didn’t make the extreme impression on me that it seems to have done for many, maybe it would have if i went in cold with no expectations.

Alice in the cities was a lovely movie. Really great b/w photography

Green Book

1962 goombah on goombah violence: check.

Hot dog on hot dog violence: check.

How about: some quiet time.

They're actually staying at: The Schenley.

Virtuoso: Italian!

I can't do this, Tony: Eat the god damn thing!

Love letters: Stuckey's pecan logs.

I know it's: a complicated world.

Dignity: prevails!

The world is full of: Lonely people afraid to make the first move.

Juke joint redemption: BANGxBANG.

Criticisms concerning whitewashing of 1960s racial problems are misplaced. This is a good flick that makes some interesting observations. Sorry I didn't see it sooner. Check it out.

Free Solo My wife refused to watch this so I took the opportunity while she was out of town.

Riveting as everyone has mentioned.

What I found particularly interesting were the discussions he had with the other hardcore free solo climbers. They understood each other like nobody else could possibly understand.

Well, Venom sucked balls.

HOW DARE YOU DOM!!!

How dare you even watch that movie

Venom felt like no one involved even tried.

Tom hardy Tried ****ing hard to salvage it and made it watchable but it s mindboggling that sony managed to release back to back venom and into the spiderverse

What were you expecting?



On another note, sounds like Avengers: Endgame is three hours long? I'm hyped to see Antman save the universe but I might have to rent this one, good lord ain't no one got time for a three-hour superhero movie.

I have a feeling a near record amount of people will have time for that.

If you're a fan of Craig Zahler's oeuvre, and I am, you'll love Dragged Across Concrete, with Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn. Some complain about its deliberate pace and length, but I thought it was top notch....Zahler's got a surreal way with unrealistic dialog that still sounds sort of realistic.

Good stuff.

Agreed. When I saw that the runtime was over 2.5 hours, I thought it might drag a bit, but the time just flew by.

I'm in for everything Zahler puts out. And Mel Gibson is still the man.

I liked Bone Tomahawk & didn't mind Brawl in Cell Block 99 overall. He seems to be into making slow burners anyway so I'll check this one out. Speaking of Gibbo recently revisited Payback (1999) for the first time in 20 years & much preferred this time around, nicely gritty flick.

I was cracking up at the scene of Gibson and Vaughn just sitting in the car while Vaughn eats. Gibson being annoyed at the smell and sound. It goes on for, like, 3 minutes!

And Bone Tomahawk is one of the best films of the decade.

Yeah, I am not a fan of long superhero movies, I will probably watch it once and never again.

Three hour superhero film is my literal definition of hell.

The Portrait of a Lady

If ever a movie was due for a reappraisal, it's this one. That it was so poorly received, and then pretty much forgotten, is very strange (with Campion hot off The Piano, and Kidman off To Die For) and sad (considering how great TPoaL is). Must have been some case of acute costume drama and/or artsiness fatigue among critics or something.

There is a good Film Comment piece on the particulars of what's going on in this movie, so I won't go into it. Better to read about it after watching anyway, its enigmatic quality was part of its intrigue for me at least. There are some delightful surprising touches and stylistic flourishes, the direction and photography in this movie is breathtaking. Great score too.

And just look at this cast: Nicole Kidman (perfect for the role and possibly career-best here), Barbara Hershey, John Malkovich, Martin Donovan, Richard E. Grant, Mary-Louise Parker, Christian Bale, Viggo Mortensen, Shelley Winters, Shelley Duvall, John Gielgud.

Also watched a couple more Wenders movies in the Mubi retrospective, Wrong Move and The American Friend. The first had some cool parts but was a little boring, the latter was very good. Kings of the Road up next.

Haven't seen Portrait of a Lady since it first came, but remembering liking it quite a bit....will have to rewatch it again sometime soon

This sounds like a huge chore.

I'm a little surprised they didn't try to squeeze some more $ out of it by breaking it up into one more film if it's going to be this long.

If there's a movie that I would want to be 3 hours, it's either a Nolan film or the mega compilation Avengers stuff. I'm cool with it.