I just watched Tenet on a flight. Loved it but yeah the plot was either a mess or too complicated for me to really understand fully.
Last movie I saw was The Here Now Project, which is a documentary about climate disasters using video taken (and mostly posted on social media) by the survivors of those disasters. Extremely heavy and not a traditional "story," so to speak, but damn.
maybe not great Stephen King so i know what to expect but i liked the book better mainly because that brit actor butchered the American accent too hard
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#4 Date:
11/07/25 @ 5:26 AM
eXistenZ
Watched it earlier this week. I remember all this hubbub about it being a mindfrick and let me tell you it has not aged well. Pretty baffling and hilarious but with a lot of great actors and acting. The whole thing felt like a vessel for Cronenberg to showcase his disgusting lil gadgets.
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#5 Date:
11/07/25 @ 2:48 PM
Slenderman, because my kiddo wanted to. It did not hold my interest. I zoned out for most of it. I have no idea what happened. Thank you for reading my movie review.
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) - Neat. I liked this take on the story and the look of it.
Shadow in the Cloud (2021) - That's not what I thought this movie was about, was better than expected, and great production values for a bottle episode or whatever.
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) - I had been hearing for years that the Garfield Spider-Man movies were actually the best ones... surprised to not be disappointed, this was really good and he seemed to capture a much more human and realistic spider-man.
The Handmaiden (2016) - This was really damn good. Way hornier than expected... and that's caught it some flack apparently. But really well constructed and acted movie. I hadn't seen anything from Park Chan-wook since Old Boy, but will be watching Decision to Leave next now.
La Chimera (2023) - Really interesting Italian/Euro movie about... vagabond Etruscan tomb raiders. You really just gotta see it. It's mysterious, and sweet, and icky.
The Battle of Algiers (1966) - I had been hearing about this for a long time, but despite that it had somehow escaped me that it was fictional and not a documentary... Which is also sort of its claim to fame, that people often think that. That's how well it's shot and written in that style, that you just assume it's real... but it also is kinda.
Warfare (2025) - An Iraq War shooty. But, as promised by critics, a very good one. You're right there with them in realtime during the real battle, as told by the very platoon.
28 Days Later (2002) - Had to refresh on this, because although I had seen it 28 years ago I didn't remember a damn thing. It's pretty good, and yeah the low resolution digital camera is very dated and kind of annoying.
28 Weeks Later (2007) - This was alright. It's hard to judge old zombie movies now that we've been absolutely inundated with them, but this was a pretty good one I suppose. I liked Robert Carlyle's acting, thought I had seen him in more but looking at his list, apparently it's only Stargate Universe, and he was good in that too.
Licorice Pizza (2021) - Much better than expected. I'm sorry to doubt you PTA. It's crazy that that's Phillip Seymour Hoffman's son and a member of the the sister-trio band Haim who had never acted previously. wtf how
28 Years Later (2025) - Ehh, yes it was very pretty. There were goofy things happening but not really any goofier than zombies I guess. The promised big towers of skulls were cool and the story around that too.
One Battle After Another (2025) - Holy shit. PTA outdid himself. Absolutely beautiful movie, There Will Be Blood type nature shots... crazy action shots like Nolan stuff. Leo, Sean Penn, Benicio were all at the top of their shit, like skirting the side of overdoing it but also still totally necessary and natural in this world. The plot and writing was great, I'm actually kind of surprised it didn't blow up on the political side of things IRL more. This is an instant classic.
HIM (2025) - Kinda garbage. Young football star goes to aging but top football star's house for intensive training, and it's like a trippy horror movie thing with lots of colorful strobe lighting in dark rooms kinda thing. Would have been neat to see some football, I think a lot of football fans ended up at this thing expecting football lol. End was shit too... Tim Heidecker is his agent, so that's slightly redeeming.
Uncut Gems (2019) - This was an anxious as promised. I watched it in segments, not on purpose or anything, but I think it helped anyway. I instantly forgot about Sandler TBH, dude is a good actor for sure. Kevin Garnett is not a good actor.
Superman (2025) - Pretty good super hero movie.
The Witch (2015) - My last unwatched Eggers movie. Did not disappoint. Loved the setting and history. Not a fan of most horror movies but this was kind of a different thing. I want to compare it to stuff but then what I end up thinking of is others Eggers stuff like parts of Northman and parts of Nosferatu.
The Substance (2024) - Holy shit, I knew this was going to be intense body horror, but I think they really undersold this... IYKYK
Color Out of Space (2020) - Kind of a fever dream of a movie but I liked it. The uh, colored light comes from space out of a meteor, and Nicolas Cage and a plucky hydrologist, and Tommy Chong, and some kids have to deal with the Annihilation type shimmer situation.
Enemy (2014) - After seeing Prisoners and Incendies, I'm working my way through Villeneuve's earlier stuff. This one with Gyllenhaal is really good. He finds a lookalike/doppleganger type guy on random chance and uh, starts stalking him. The moody tone is really nice, and you know the cinematography is good from this director.
Black Bag (2025) - Soderbergh's newest. Super genius british agents mix their personal and professional lives. All star cast of course with Fassbender, Blanchett, Pierce Brosnan. The lighting was jarring at first to be honest, doing this thing letting the lamps and street lights overpower the shots with glare, but either it got toned down or I got used to it quick.
Weapons (2025) - Very very good. It gets weird so don't be fooled, but it's also a very good understated almost true-crime like thriller... but weirdness ensues. Really well done. Julia Garner is perfect as always.
Flow (2024) - Loved this. Cat and capybara and lemur survive during catastrophic sea rise. They're animals, they don't talk. But it's a beautiful movie both in view and emotion.
Heretic (2024) - Door-to-door Mormans go inside Hugh Grant's house and he um-actually's them to deat.. despair? It was really good... another one of those "horror" movies kick I've been on lately.
A House of Dynamite (2025) - Kathryn Bigelow's latest... in terms of technical accuracy, or at least perceived technical accuracy, she's outdone herself. It shows various operation rooms coordinating across the country responding to the big one, how it would go down if it happened today. It has three parts that all overlap being told from new sets of important stakeholders. And even though all of that may sound really dry... it's an intense and engaging thriller, that's really well acted.
Ready or Not (2019) - Not Emma Stone is caught up in a perverse game of hide-and-seek with her new in-laws... a battle royale type of thing. It's pretty good actually, lot's of fun.
Mr. Arkadin (1955) - Orson Welles directing/starring. I fell asleep multiple times and the viewing suffered for it lol ... but it's Welles' noir thriller with twists upon twists, and starts out with a Burn After Reading clumsy zero-info attempt at blackmail and then goes somewhere totally unexpected.
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009) - The second in this series. Gritty cop/crime movie about the fumbling hunt for a serial killer and a corrupt police department having to deal with a snooping outsider goody-two-shoes cop sort of deal. Really good. There's one more in this series.
Phantom Thread (2017) - Yes, another PTA that I slept on. Really good. Daniel Day Lewis as the irritable affected dress maker who cycles relationships with his models but finally meets his match... Doesn't really sound like a banger right? But great directing and great acting had me engrossed.
Thunderbolts (2025) - Another good super heroes thing. The rejects concept usually works pretty good, this one had a good start and managed to keep it going through the whole thing.
Star Trek Beyond (2016) - Was watching this for a while before realizing I had already seen it. It was action-y, and had some laughs, but ultimatly I turned it off for ... ->
The Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025) - I liked this. The style was nice, the story was good, it was heartfelt and as real as an alternate reality with retrotech and superheros can be. Definitely got a lot of The Incredibles vibes going on.
Down by Law (1986) - My first Jarmusch other than Ghost Dog, and I'm not entirely sure that counts. I wanted to start out strong, but not Stranger Than Paradise strong... so Down by Law was next. It was really really good. Beautiful crisp HD black and white, long long shots, and lots and lots of dialog. But it was really really good. The Louisiana setting, which gets its own solo at the beginning and is prominent throughout is really moody and cool. Trudging through the actual bayous and shit... ugh, must have been hell but looks great on film. Tom Waits and the other two leads that make up the trio are great.
Frankenstein (2025) - The movie Guillermo del Toro has been trying to make his whole life. Guy has his entire house decorated in Frankenstein shit and can show his notes and drawings about Frankenstein from when he was a kid... he's a nut. But that nut knows how to make a damn good movie. See this one as soon as you can, it's on Netflix already but I hear it's in theaters too. Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth are great, Christoph Waltz is always great, and I suppose the poor guy who did the monster was good too, Jacob Elordi.
Good movie overall, but would have been better as a generic sci-fi movie. The Predator and Wey-Yu elements were more window dressing and the overall feel did not mesh well. Incorporating a cutesy animal the makes jokes definitely detracted from the whole vibe.
8/10 as a generic sci-fi movie, 6/10 as a Predator movie.
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#22 Date:
11/11/25 @ 6:02 PM
I watched the first half of the new Frankenstein on Netflix last night and it's pretty good so far.
no fault of the film and ive heard very good things so gonna give that one another shot
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#27 Date:
11/17/25 @ 6:32 PM
Manodrome
idk how to feel about it. Interesting ideas and thoughts but nothing that really grounded out well.
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#28 Date:
11/17/25 @ 6:39 PM
butterknife said:
One Battle After Another
2h 50m man...
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chobbler
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#29 Date:
11/17/25 @ 6:43 PM
That was part of why I ended up watching Manodrome. It's like 90 minutes. Too many good movies out there want me to sit for dang ol' three dang hours. ENOUGH.
Argo (2012) - Ben Affleck made a good movie. Not sure why I hadn't seen this yet. It was more fun than I was expecting given the subject matter... Not that it wasn't serious too, but there were jokes that came with the "making a fake movie" plan.
The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) - Really liked this surprisingly noir courtroom drama. McConaughey was great as the newly conflicted criminal defense lawyer and the plot was slick how it had him have his cake and eat it too.
The Dead Don't Die (2019) - Another Jarmusch. I can see why people didn't like this one but I thought it was neat. Cast was stacked but I don't think any of them stood out especially. A bit of an anti-movie in a lot of ways... it doesn't happen throughout the movie, but there's a wink-wink 4th wall break right at the beginning, "[song that was over the opening credits now playing over car radio] This song sounds familiar" silent-beat "Because it's the theme."
Inside Man (2006) - Ohhh, so that's why it's called inside man. Great writing. The non-chrono intercutting of the interrogations was cool and made total sense when you realize how it would have totally killed the pacing and reveals if they had been done chronologically. I've seen GTA RP streamers pull this heist plan to the letter a few times... now I know where it came from lol. Also another surprise noir, by the end Denzel is walking around in cool af 40s style detective suit and the soundtrack is soulful horns.
The Siege of Jadotville (2016) - I did not know about this historical event of Irish soldiers on a UN mission in the Congo in the 60s fighting French mercenaries... And the ending text explains why... because they fkn buried it until like 2005. Really well made movie and the location shooting in South Africa was super nice.
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) - I liked this "biographical historical crime drama" about the Black Panthers in Chicago in the 60s and Fred Hampton and his betrayer, a mole/informant that rises up through the ranks. Daniel Kaluuya was great as Hampton, as was LaKeith Stanfield as O'Neal the snitch... Jesse Plemmons is the white guy FBI handler. I highly recommend if you don't know much about that story and the first Rainbow Coalition.
The Cotton Club (1984) - This is the director's cut version from Francis Ford Coppola using his own money in 2015, so it was really good technical quality, beautiful picture and sound. At first the acting (writing really) seemed a bit wooden and I thought I was in for a long 2.5 hours, but it got significantly better as it went along (or I got used to it). Constant musical and dance numbers at the club, it actually started to feel like Cassavettes's Killing of a Chinese Bookie in that respect... and just like that it kind of puts you in a trance... but the difference is that these acts were SUPER good and not just a rundown burlesque shitshow with 70s grit. Highly highly recommended... true shit too, the gangsters were named and based on the real ones and their maneuvers. I really appreciated the side plot of tap dance brothers, because watching Richard Gere chaperone and fall in love with Diane Lane would not have properly filled this out between the music/dance numbers. Also, I love Bob Hoskins always.
It's a repackaged mishmash of UFO clips featuring all the habitual UFO talking heads you see on YouTube or whatever cheap TV package David Zaslav shits out this week.
If, like me, military acronyms make you cum, you will reach the end of your balls.
Good Boy He certainly was. He was also the best actor in it. Other than its unique perspective, it was a so-so horror movie with good tension and atmosphere, but a little too reliant on jump scares.
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#44 Date:
11/22/25 @ 4:20 PM
This Is The End
Made it about halfway. Idk why I even went that far. Just... so dumb. Was this ever funny?
It's a repackaged mishmash of UFO clips featuring all the habitual UFO talking heads you see on YouTube or whatever cheap TV package David Zaslav shits out this week.
If, like me, military acronyms make you cum, you will reach the end of your balls.
I watched this too, nothing really new, but I still enjoyed it.
