What movie did you watch today?

[Y@k Bollocks]

Bleeder

Early Nicolas Winding Refn, in the vein of Pusher 1. Mads Mikkelsen and Zlatko Buric are great as video store managers and film geeks. Engrossing by pretty depressing watch. One for Winding Refn completists I reckon.



Ex_Machina

Very entertaining film. I was expecting something a lot darker and to have to put in a bit more work TBH, but its all wrapped up in a very neat and tidy way and the twists are pretty obvious. I suppose this is Alex Garland though. Well worth seeing though.

[Spartan]

Shame | 2011


Fucking hilarious.

[zombie]

That was seriously your impression of shame?

[Spartan]

That was seriously your impression of shame?

It's an unintentional comedy on par with The Wicker Man remake.

Main highlights were:

• Brandon's boss David telling him his hard drive was filthy. "I'm talking like hoes, sluts, anal, double anal, penetration, inter-racial facial, man. Cream pie. I don't even know what that is. Do you think it was your intern?"

• David tries all night to score with blonde stop-out Liz at the club and after he's whisked away in a cab, his wingman, Brandon fucks her in some grimy alleyway.

• Brandon having a wank and getting caught by his sister.

• Brandon sticking his fingers in some broad's pussy and waving his fingers in her boyfriend's face and telling him to "smell it!", before getting decked by him outside the bar.

• Michael Fassbender's making crazy sex faces throughout the entire film.

• Laptop whore talking to Sissy.

• Brandon clearing out his porn stash in his crib and it's like four trash bags worth of the stuff.

• Brandon's entire date with Marianne and that comedy waiter. The talk about marriage was priceless.

• Dude not able to have sex with Marianne (a broad he has feelings for), but he's banging one-night stands and having threesomes with hookers like nobody's business.

• Brandon going to that seedy gay rave and getting blown.

• Brandon telling Sissy how much he hates her and to "stop playing the victim" and what happens? She slashes her wrists. LOL That shit is up there with Tony shooting Manny, and Ed Rooney on the phone with Ferris.

[zombie]

Oh ok

[darkwingduck]

JOE - NICK CAGE killed it with this one. The cast in this movie is insane good. I honestly think CAGE was the only ACTOR in this movie. Everyone else seemed like they just got picked up off the street.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

Not Quite Hollywood (2008) - Cool docu about Austrialian genrefilms. Full of great anecdotes and clips. It probably helps to have seen a few of the films but I guess most people who would want to watch this already have.

Point And Shoot (2014) - Docu about Matthew Vandyke who joined the Libyan revolution to fumble around and take selfies on the frontline. He comes across as a complete tool which is entertaining but ultimately annoying. The footage from Libya is fantastic though.

[Ramen]

Lucy(2014) - Started off interesting and turned to complete shit when they went to Europe, coincidentally could have used more Koreans and less Europeans.

[stupidregister]

JOE - NICK CAGE killed it with this one. The cast in this movie is insane good. I honestly think CAGE was the only ACTOR in this movie. Everyone else seemed like they just got picked up off the street.

Actually the old dude who played the kid's father literally was a homeless dude they got off the street. And he was found dead some time after the movie because he drowned while he was wasted. So yeah...really good movie.

[jazzmatazz23]

JOE - NICK CAGE killed it with this one. The cast in this movie is insane good. I honestly think CAGE was the only ACTOR in this movie. Everyone else seemed like they just got picked up off the street.

Agreed. I really enjoyed this movie

[Y@k Bollocks]

Caught this last night, with a short Q&A with David Robert Mitchell and Maika Monroe ( ). Loved it. He said he based the idea on anxiety dreams/nightmares he had as a kid and I really felt that. Such a bizarre idea but I found it extremely creepy. Genuinely scary in places.

[Spartan]

You geezer! I've been dying to see it ever since Alan Jones descended down from his ivory tower and proclaimed it a modern horror classic, or some shit like that.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

Greatful Dead (2014) - A young woman likes to watch lonely people from a distance until some missionairies ruins the loneliness of her favorite "solitarian". The film reminds me of a mid00's Sono film like Noriko's Dinner Table. I didn't love it as much as most reviewers but its a top J-film from last year.

[Y@k Bollocks]

You geezer! I've been dying to see it ever since Alan Jones descended down from his ivory tower and proclaimed it a modern horror classic, or some shit like that.

It's well good. Reminded me a bit of The Ring. I think it's out properly next Friday.

[LilLeftBrain]

holy shit this looks dope, gone watch tonight

[Comedy Quaddafi]

Inbred (2011) - This was a decent serving of backwoods horror with a lot dark humor. I thought some of the scenes were very good and tense but its also a fairly stupid and vulgar film, as you would expect.

[ian e]

Spartan (2004) - Basically a Val Kilmer one man show rescuing Veronica Mars. An entertaining action flick with a few clever twists.

[Spartan]

Bad Girls Go to Hell | 1965
Perhaps one of Doris Wishman's most celebrated slices of sexploitation, but for me at least, it was utterly underwhelming. Horny housewife goes on the run after killing her janitor in self defence. From then on, we're treated to her running into one oddball to another; including a recovering alcoholic who keeps a bottle of booze under his kitchen sink. Dude was a ticking time bomb.

Kill, Baby...Kill! | 1966
Excellent supernatural chiller by Mario Bava. A film I just want to live in; this is some beautifully gothic shit. Crazy just how blatantly Fellini ripped this movie off for his Toby Dammit segment for the film Histoires extraordinaires.

Murder Obsession | 1981
A smörgåsbord of popular horror sub-genres thrown into the melting pot and serving as another surreal offering for Riccardo Freda's final opus. Completely in the minority here, but I like this a lot, including the dream scene with the giant rubber spider.

Rear Window | 1954
Loved everything about it. Love the whole hot summer in the city vibe and how it was condensed into a small area; essentially becoming Jimmy Stewart's entire world. Definitely a fave Hitchcock movie of mine.

The A-Team | 2010
If it wasn't for the shitty looking CGI and Bradley Cooper unnecessarily taking over as the lead halfway through, I would have liked this ridiculous movie a lot more. Dumb fun, though.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

Extreme Prejudice (1987) - Is this the manliest film ever? I don't think the story or the way it was told was that good but the film is full of great characters, oneliners, explosions and bulletwounds.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

Cruising (1980) - I thought this was a really solid thriller with a controversial and interesting milleu. I'm not sure if this would get made today. Al Pacino looks a bit funny in this film.

End of Watch (2012) - It's like a policeman found footage movie about two cops from LA. Not a lot happens and what happens is entirely predictable and by the book. I understand that this is supposed to be a film that shows you what it's like to be on the beat in LA gang territory but that premise prob would have worked better on TV.

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

It Follows is the best movie of 2015 so far.

[Spartan]

Intentionally avoided the Kermode review.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

Shivers (1975) - Feels like a lowbudget debutfilm, which it is, but it's a solid one.

Fair Game (1986) - This is Australian rape-n-revenge without the rape. Instead a woman is tied to a truck and used as a hood-ornament. You've got roo shooting baddies with bad hygiene and huge cars plus some cool animal shots but other than that this is mostly for fans of this sort of thing.

[Spartan]

Sleepless | 2001 - Watch the first 20 minutes and then turn it off! I'm doing you a favor.
Adventureland | 2009 - Romance shite for nineties babies obsessed with the eighties. Fuck 'em!
Blow-Up | 1966 - London during the swinging sixties never looked so horrible.
Madness | 1980 - Fernando di Leo's The Last House on the Left for basic bitches. Lorraine de Selle is dope in this, though.
Nine Guests for a Crime | 1977 - Basically Ten Little Indians: The Sleazy Giallo. Cool movie.
Il fiore dai petali d’acciaio | 1973 - Mediocre movie.
Spasmo | 1974 - One of Lenzi's best movies, imo. Right up there with Almost Human.
The Fourth Victim | 1971 - Crazy that a murderous husband is basically the hero of this film. Pretty slow but watchable.
The Killer Wore Gloves | 1974 - London has mountains? Very slow and average thriller.
The Devil’s Wedding Night | 1973 - Shitty plot but dope nonetheless. Awesome vampire erotica.
Midnight Killer | 1986 - The Bird With The Crystal Plumage for retards.
Eye in the Labyrinth | 1972 - Horrible second act but a decent psychological thriller all the same.
The Iguana With The Tongue of Fire | 1971 - Meh! Need to see a better print of this to give it a fair go, tbh.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

I love Spasmo too. Lots of laughs and good suspense.

You must have seen most of the gialli that is available? There's also Crimes of the Black Cat which is avg but has great shots of seventies Copenhagen.

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

When's Spartan gonna see It Follows?

[Spartan]

Maybe 120-130 gialli watched so far.

Spasmo is pretty underrated. I appreciate it more with each viewing.

I've seen Crimes of the Black Cat, but found it pretty forgettable - other than the brutal shower kill. Ought to watch it again soon, I guess.

Monday hopefully for It Follows viewing, blud.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

Terror at the Mall (2014) - HBO docu about the terrorattack at the Kenyan Westgate Mall. Fairly disturbing eventhough we are spared footage of actual killings, for the most part. You have to admire the civic courage which saved hundreds and despise the cowardly authorities who just stood outside.

Montage (2013) - This was a solid kidnapthriller with some decent twists.

Rabid (1977) - We follow a lady with a strange plastic surgery malfunction as she infects parts of Canada with a zombie-like virus as per request from of a penis-like creature in her shoulder. I thought this was technically better than Shivers but maybe didn't have as much charm.

[Reason]

No whiplash thread or is it past page two wtf

The end scene is possibly my favorite single scene ever

[jazzmatazz23]

Incendies (2011) - A-. Loved this movie. You follow a brother and sister as they uncover there mothers past, with a twist ending.

Project Nim (2011) - B+. Documentary of a professor from University of Columbia teaching a chimpanzee sign language in the 70's.

No No A Dokumentary (2014) - B. Dope documentary on Dock Ellis's baseball career and how he pitched a no hitter on LSD.

There Will be Blood (2007) - A. This is a re-watch, and if I was asked what is the greatest acting performance in a movie that I have seen it would be Daniel Day Lewis in this film. As good as it gets