What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demoncrat]

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (Adam McKay, 2013).
Not as consistently silly as first, but still made me laugh. Which is all you can ask for in a comedy really.

[Rik]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (Adam McKay, 2013).

Not as consistently silly as first, but still made me laugh. Which is all you can ask for in a comedy really.

Got this lined up to watch tonight

[Hawkmonger]

I thought Anchorman 2 was dire. But I must admit a soft spot for the first one, despite not being really 'good'.

[trebor8273]

Night of the demons 7/10

Night of the demons 2 7.5/10

Frankenstein conquers the world 5/10

Shock 6.5/10

The x from outer space 7/10

Latitude zero 8/10

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Crawlspace 9/10

[troggi]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

Night of the demons 7/10

Night of the demons 2 7.5/10

Frankenstein conquers the world 5/10

Shock 6.5/10

The x from outer space 7/10

Latitude zero 8/10

Love your taste in films, Rob! I have some good ol' "B's" waitin' to watch.

I've just been on a Tarantino binge and have ploughed through...

"Pulp Fiction" (1994) 27/10
"Reservoir Dogs" (1992) 28/10
"Kill Bill" (2003, 2004) 26, 27/10
"From Dusk 'Till Dawn" (1996) 22/10
"Jackie Brown" (1997) 28/10

AND I kept the grimy grindhouse theme going with...

"Machete Kills" (2013) 33/10

All scoring is performed by the "Troggi-meter" (patent pending).

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Watched MS.45 on Blu the other night.
It looks absolutely stunning on Blu.
Draft House have done an incredible job with the transfer and are a label to watch.
So much so,I've bought THE VISITOR and A FIELD IN ENGLAND releases.

[Paul@TheOverlook]

I watched line last week and agree, looks lovely.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

That saxophone tune's still as annoying though eh?

[Frankie Teardrop]

RABIES - Starts out like a fairly typical 'Teens-in-the woods-with-slasher' affair but quickly morphs into a black comedy of warped cause and effect as violence spreads like a contagion between its characters, who are constantly undermined by misunderstanding, rage and stupidity. Victims, persecutors and rescuers swap roles in an unstable landscape littered with references to conflict... the film is from Israel, and there is an obvious subtext about the wider political situation there. I was really impressed and quite riveted. Totally looking forward to 'Big Bad Wolves' by the same director.

HARRY BROWN - With Michael Caine as an enraged pensioner vigilante taking on a derelict London estate. Quite interesting in places because it seems to want to splice bleak social 'realism' with gung-ho action. It's actually really entertaining, but its take on Hoodie-Horror is way more Daily Mail than the relatively subversive likes of 'Eden Lake', which were more about the toothless middle class getting ruthless and showing their true barbaric colours. I guess it was never going to take the Ken Loach route, but the dehumanised portrayals of estate kids are a bit grating and the film's proposed solutions to social problems don't exactly involve sorting out the economic infrastructure. But where else can you watch Michael Caine stab a junkie through the hand in front of a TV full of porn? So, there are definite plus points.

SYNCHRONICITY - Indie horror from Brian Hirschbine. It's an odd mix of weak comedy that doesn't work and sickly surrealism that for the most part really does. I assume this clash was intended on some kind of formal level because halfway through we get Hegelian diatribes about the unity of opposites or something. Whilst I found this interesting, I was perhaps more focussed on watching the people in animal costumes f**ck and murder each other. There are plenty of good weird bits and it's quite graphic and I guess in the end these aspects justify the slightly painful stabs at humour. Hirschbine directed some other fairly extreme indie horror films like 'Black Ice' and 'Tapeworm'.

WICKED GAMES - Tim Ritter's sequel to 'Truth or Dare'. It's not as full on as 'Creep', but it's still pretty enjoyable. A detective loses the plot when his wife has an affair and takes on the mantle of The Copper Masked Killer... or does he? Who's really behind all those brutal slayings? Maybe it's all the deranged fantasy of a madman etc etc. Chances are you probably won't care as you gawp in delight at the wonders of shitty mid-nineties camcorder footage of a self-mutilating psychiatrist shagging a showroom dummy.

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

RABIES - Starts out like a fairly typical 'Teens-in-the woods-with-slasher' affair but quickly morphs into a black comedy of warped cause and effect as violence spreads like a contagion between its characters, who are constantly undermined by misunderstanding, rage and stupidity. Victims, persecutors and rescuers swap roles in an unstable landscape littered with references to conflict... the film is from Israel, and there is an obvious subtext about the wider political situation there. I was really impressed and quite riveted. Totally looking forward to 'Big Bad Wolves' by the same director.

You will be pleased to hear Big Bad wolves is even better!

I watched Assassins last night.

Richard Donner directs Stallone and Banderas with a script that was originally written by the Wachowski Brothers and then re-written extensively by Brian Hegland.

It's a very, very dull and bloated film. I remember going to the old Art deco cinema in my home town to see it way back in the 90's and not really digging it then. Now I just found myself looking at my watch and going to make cups of coffee. The whole mess could use some more interesting action scenes and a loss of about 30 minutes of fluff and then it might have been good.