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Saw this at a film festival. It's a weird kind of queer erotic horror sci-fi thriller comedy or something. It's pretty light on the erotic part though. Can't be blamed to lack originality and the cast is good, which is not a given with this type of very indie features. Is it a masterpiece? No...

It's good but I could not shake the Temu Malick feeling. The adaptation is also odd. It adapts a 100 pages novella and removes key elements in it that seemingly changes the story for one more abstract and meditative.

I was like "WTF! Yuen Woo-Ping???" and yeah, the guy is 80. Nicolas Tse, Tony Leung Ka-Fai (I would have preferred Chiu-Wai but still) and Jet Li! That's some old school cast also.

Unrelated to the marvelous UK comedy of 2011 also called The Trip with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in auto-fictional versions of themselves doing a gastronomy tour while bantering.

It's better than the first because it does not suffer from an hour of exposition, the plot is somewhat original for a zombie movie (while the first film was not) and the film making is solid instead of being wacky. In the end it's... ok I guess?

Tropa de Elite and its sequel also.

Fun fact: the hairy leg articles were a real thing.

To make things clear, it's one of those "high concept" movie. The trial lasts 90 minutes and we follow it in real time, so, what you get visually are Pratt tied to a chair, Fergusson on a screen, a bunch of UI renders for file management and then archive or live footage from smart phones...

Saw it! Solid film but a bit of a strange one. I guess the tropes you could expect in this type of movie are not there. It's not about the talented but lazy actor, it's not about finding you passion, it's not about reaching fame through hard work, it's not a film about the rivalry between two...

Technically, it's kind of a Troy sequel. The events take place just after the Trojan war.

That was more or less my playthrough also. It was funny to liberate towns and have heroes that otherwise would join your army tell you to fuck off. And the ending was basically "a tyrant falls, another tyrant takes his place". Sorry game! It was too tedious to play a different way for my teenage...

There is a fan remaster of Zelda 2 that is a standalone PC game. It keeps the 8 bit esthetic, but it's in a wide screen format and everything is adjusted / changed. I never played it but it's supposedly very good if you want a Zelda 2 fix : ZIIAOL by HoverBat As for the remaster thing, the game...

Watched The Secret Agent the other day. It is also a pretty serious contender. In the meta category that is the "Big political film of the year" it beats Eddington and One Battle After Another handily in my book. Probably because it goes about its themes in a different way, toning down the humor...

It's been in theaters nearby for several weeks and on the days I was motivated to go, the schedule did not fit and on days I could have gone, I was not motivated :( That's the problem with 3 hours long movies. It's tough to schedule for theaters and spectators alike. Not all hope is lost though...

Polio no necessarily will, but certainly can.

Saw that in 2023. A very good starting point, but a start does not make a whole movie and sadly the creators had no idea where to go with this one so it feels more like a missed opportunity than anything. Meh.

Does leftist scum remind you it's the justices appointed by Reagan and the two Bushes that voted for it, while those appointed by Clinton, Obama and Ford(!) voted against it?

I have not seen this Dracula, but it should be noted that Radu Jude is one of the important director of the romanian new wave that provided us with great films in the past two decades. Like Cristi Puiu's The Death of Mr. Lazarescu , Sieranevada or Malmkrog , Corneliu Porumboiu's Police...

I am going to ask, because an acquaintance of mine believed that much to my befuddlement: do you think actors in movies actually have sex during sex scenes?

For me it's darker than that, because the changing of the guard when it comes to drug dealers goes from people doing it originally to escape their condition and who are part of the community (your Avon, Stringer Bell, Prop' Joe) to a nihilistic anti-social pit of darkness in Marlo Stanfield.

Kim, Lee and Park make out 45% of the surnames in South Korea.

I don't get why people are surprised that people whose job it is to watch movies have relatively obscure things on their "bests of the year" list. Unless these surprised people work on the very flawed assumption that if something is good, then it must be widely distributed, well known and...

I jumped in the thread to mention sevral indies I played recently and ended up writting a too long review of Haven... meh. In the past month I also played: Donut Country: Comedy game in the spirit of Katamcy Damacy but less mechanically interesting. Amusing and short still. A Short Hike: A...

Beat that the other day. It's a game with a bunch of cool ideas, nice music, great art, and an amazing animated intro in watercolor, but the implementation of these ideas is a bit meh. The core concept is that you play a couple stranded on a planet and that the experience system and combat...

One is not incompatible with the other, but he does have Tourette.

Ok.... Kimengumi High School? In 2026? What's going on? I saw the '80s anime on TV back in the days. Also, odd idea to finally make an All You Need Is Kill anime movie, considering it has almost no shot at being better than Edge of Tomorrow.

My guess is that it came from the other end of the problem. They probably did some focus group polling to find out why Metroid as a franchise is not more popular and the answer was the oppressive atmosphere of loneliness and isolation. So they decided to add a chatty companion, not understanding...

You must be confusing her with someone else. Pokimane, due to personality and/or business acumen, is one of the most brand safe streamer there is.

Saw that a few months back. It is sadly bad. It is a kind of spoof of '60s/'70s spy movie, but 99% of the effort is spent on posturing and in the retro visuals, so the plot is a total mess that lost me in double quick time. I am not a specialist of the type of movies it's inspired by, but even...

Not a big fan of this season. It feels like the characters were mainly victims of the plot instead of taking matters in their own hands and in the first third of the season a lot of time is spent on the hacker character who is aggressively stupid and unlikable with zero redeeming qualities. I...

I am surprised by the lukewarm reception of this season. I guess the mix is slightly different, with almost no cloak and dagger anymore, so if it's the aspect you enjoyed the most about the show, maybe you feel let down. Personally, I love negotiations and verbal jousting and it's basically...

I have a somewhat hot take: Elementary is a lot better than Sherlock.

It was released last year in my area. The very hard thing to do with this kind of mystery based plot where a number of things you don't understand happen and you and the main character are trying to connect the dots, is to find the right balance. Too obvious and its bland, too complicated and...

Saw it a few months back. My hopes are always high for this type of south korean movies and this one was just ok. Not great, not terrible.

The internet was not a thing when Tron was released, so all data that is on imdb has been recovered from archives like old issues of Variety. I am going to guess that overseas data is harder to get and compile that US data and therefor has not / almost not been added to imdb. That seems a much...

Historically, when shooting in film you just have no idea of what you have until the film is printed. So you hope the cinematographer did a good job measuring the light, the focus puller did not mess-up and the camera operator caught any and all problems peering through the viewfinder. If not...

Yeah.... I also saw that at the NIFFF. I don't want to be mean, since it's one of those film truly made on a shoestring budget that I am sure is a labor of love, but... let's just say that back in the '90s a group of people I know spent a week-end in a cabin and for shit giggles, since they had...

I am told the Switch 2 is the fastest selling console in history, but ok (I also don't get why).

Saw this in a film festival. It is well done, but I must admit it did not move me. Looking at the faces at the end of the screening, I was more the exception than the norm it seemed.

I am not a dentist, but what you are describing are crowns which are not done on healthy teeth. Veneers requires little to no alteration of the teeth to be applied.