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Y'all seen Weapons???

I fucking loved it. Don't want to say too much, but would love to know if anyone else has seen it, and if they enjoyed it!
I had such an amazing time watching it, and will very much be looking forward to Mr Cregger's next venture.

[Bosco]

@Enjoyed 

I'll try and watch it soon, I see it's available on HBO app!

Doing my best to get back into a TV/movie watching groove for the colder months. Hoping to finally catch up and watch 'M: Son of the Century'.

[Enjoyed]

@Enjoyed

I'll try and watch it soon, I see it's available on HBO app!

Doing my best to get back into a TV/movie watching groove for the colder months. Hoping to finally catch up and watch 'M: Son of the Century'.

Yesssss!

I have a big list of spookies to watch throughout the month. Not always easy to find the time (or mood, honestly) to sit down and watch - but Weapons was a big one I was ready for! Also gonna watch Bring Her Back on Halloween night 👻

And on the TV front, I've been very unashamedly enjoying the second season of Wednesday. Something about family friendly "horror" or fantasy just hits the perfect spot for me!

[satur8]

Pluribis has my immediate attention and I cannot wait for more!

I am a huge fan of Severance, Andor, Dark, and Murderbot (to name a few varieties in the genre), and so far this fits right in with some philosophical questions about autonomy, perspective, and consent. with parallels to real world issues we are about to face with the rapid advancement of AI.

[Wolkenkrabber]

Y'all seen Weapons???

I imagined this film was going to be somewhere between Prisoners (Villeneuve) and the Michael Shannon film, Midnight Special (Underrated! - check it out). But it turned out to be a

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wicked witch

movie!! Also I felt slightly mislead by the intro voiceover kid. We're told that

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"the kids left and never come back". But they DID come back!

It's good film-making overall though, so fingers crossed that Creggar's next project goes well.

While I'm on slightly deceptive films...
Sinners. I imagined this was going to be somewhere between Goodfellas and Miller's Crossing (but less Italian/Irish obvs), but it's

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a frickin vampire movie!

Again, good film -making and performances so I'll cross my fingers for Ryan Coogler's next film (well that's Black Panther 3, but after that...)

Pluribis has my immediate attention and I cannot wait for more!
...with parallels to real world issues we are about to face with the rapid advancement of AI.

But also Invasion Of The Body Snatchers!
I didn't watch Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul until both were completely finished. I hope I don't regret jumping into the latest Vince Gilligan project too soon. It has been pretty engaging, but I just watched the latest episode - 8 - and it felt like a filler episode to me. Fingers crossed that it finishes strong. The 9th episode is the series finale, right?

Mickey 17 , in Bong Joon Ho ( Okja / Parasite ) we trust ,  i completely enjoyed the South Korean filmmaker's latest movie

He addresses issues of opression and power quite a lot doesn't he? But yeah this felt quite original nonetheless. Like Okja, it was kinda quirky and unique in it's look and feel.

Superman was joyous.

Much better than I expected from the early clips/trailers. I do however agree with Pitch Meeting guy's point about Lex Luthor: "a guy yelling orders at another guy who then enters the orders into a computer and then a clone does those moves". Good overall though.

Thunderbolts- a surprisingly fun little "Avengers" style superhero movie. Perhaps the lack of hype actually helped.

Fantastic Four- a very watcahable retro-future reboot. But isn't this basically the Rise Of Silver Surfer (2007) movie again?

One Battle After Another. Paul Thomas Anderson returns! Wasn't convinced by Sean Penn's first and last scenes TBH - the writing rather than the performance. Other than that, pretty good.

Code 3 - an ambulance action dramedy! ER meets Scrubs but with more ambulance. I liked it!

Wake Up Dead Man - Didn't think I'd like it as much as the other Knives Out films. But I did!

Venom: The Last Dance - not as good as the first one
Den of Thieves 2 - better than the first one!
The Accountant 2 - not as good as 1
The Old Guard 2 - Charleze gets a bigger budget but a bad ending. WTF!? The guy who plays Mussolini in Son Of The Century is in it. He was in the first one too. But he's very different in these films.
Another Simple Favor - not as good as the first one.
Nobody 2 - not as good as the first one
Tron Ares - not as good as the first one
Jurassic World: Rebirth- Not as good as the first one (!) but ScarJo is always watchable.
Happy Gilmore 2 -I actually enjoyed this! Good golfer cameos too! Scotty Scheffler is a natural (actor)!

Warefare: 92% on Rotten Tomatoes. Not easy viewing but gripping.
Nosferatu- pretty good if a little long. It turns out that Nepo Baby, Lily Rose Depp didn't just inherit her parents cheekbones; she can actually act!

Death Of a Unicorn. Started off good but perhaps overstayed its welcome.
Havoc : Also started off good, but by the end it somehow fell slightly short.
Music from both of these films at the end of the post.

The Gorge: Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy playing drums and playing chess cos they had done it in their previous works was silly. The whole film was silly.

Flight Risk -reasonably fun Mark Wahlberg action-thriller-comedy directed by Mel Gibson.
Play Dirty - Mark Wahlberg again. I thought it was better than its 5.9 IMDB score.

Following on from Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things (pretty good) we get the two films below. I guess the director has found his muse in Emma Stone. She seems to have become his favourite since starring with Olivia Colman in... The Favorite.
Kinds Of Kindness. This felt a little under-explained. Almost good, but odd.
Bugonia. If you were prepared to go with the ending, then this was actually pretty good. Emma Stone keeps her clothes on in this one, unlike her previous two Lanthimos films.

Eddington. Emma Stone again. I stopped after an hour. Did I miss mutch?
The Electric State - Better than I expected.
Black Bag. Famous director, good cast. A parnoid spy thriller. A couple of James Bond connections. Decent.
The Assessment - intriguing low budget sci-fi with a creepy Alicia Vikander. Worth it.
Freaky Tales - may have a similar story telling style to Pulp Fiction but not quite as good!
Ballerina - I actually wanted to watch at the cinema but it disappeared so quickly I had to stream it at home. I guess this John Wick spin-off series(?) isn't going to have the same success.
F1- Brad Pitt is a bit too old to be racing F1 cars but I enjoyed this anyway.
Honey Don't - Like Burn After Reading, this Ethan Cohen film was enjoyable to watch but the ending snuck up on me. It left a lot of loose ends unaddressed.
The Luckiest Man in America- Paul Walter Hauser is everywhere now, isn't he? Kept me watching.
Americana - Paul Walter Hauser was good in this too. I thnk the IMDB score is harsh. This theoretically came out in 2023 but didn't get a commercial release until 2025. Sydney Good Jeans was bearable too!
Caught Stealing - directed by Darren Aronofsky. It was engaging but I couldn't really accept the ending as a "win".
A House of Dynamite - really engaging from Kathryn "hurt locker" Bigelow, but the final segment was sooo frustrating.
The Smashing Machine- The Rock makes an A24 movie! I wanted to like this but I got tired of the spousal bickering.
Roofman. I wanted MORE McDonalds break-ins!


Death Of A Unicorn had a Cocteau Twins track very early in the film. From The Heaven Or Las Vegas album, which The Chems have said was a tour bus favourite when touring the US. Cherry Coloured Funk. Coinicdentally the current Essential Mix from Romy of The XX has a remix of this track.

Cocteau Twins – Cherry-Coloured Funk (Stijn's House Mix)

Original version (as featured in the film) under spoiler, but it's not a spoiler.

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Meanwhile Havoc has not one, not two, not three, not four but FIVE tracks by Gesaffelstein on it's soundtrack. Most of them appearing in a club scene with a big gunfight. One of those five tracks was also on the Old Guard 2 soundtrack. The one below:

Gesaffelstein - HATE OR GLORY

[shakermaker]

Again, good film -making and performances so I'll cross my fingers for Ryan Coogler's next film

that music scene was incredible. one of the best scenes in my recent memory of cinema.

which is quite unexpected embedded within a fucking **spoiler** movie!