What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[iank]

Terminator Genysis for the 2nd time. Nope, still great fun.

[keirarts]

The seven minutes

In a departure from his normal style of film, Russ Meyer delivers a broadside to the censors and censorious of California that's as relevant anywhere in the world as it is where it was made.
I begins with the police raiding a book shop and seizing copies of the titular book on obscenity grounds charging the clerk with distributing obscene materials, the DA seems prepared to accept a plea bargain until the son of a prominent donor is embroiled in a rape scandal. As a copy of the book was found in his car the DA and his various political cronies spy an opportunity and decide to factor the rape into the prosecution. Not only do they hope this will help with an insanity plea for the accused but an election is around the corner and the prospect of enhancing everyone's reputations with a moral crusade is too tempting to pass up. It's up to the publishers attorney to defend the book from being banned and a young man from going to jail for selling it.
It's a real shame that this one is considered one of Meyers 'lost films'. It's presented in SD as a bonus feature as it was that or nothing for Arrow as they were refused access to the materials to make a HD master. If your looking at Meyer as an 'Auteur' this is the one film that might be seen as standing outside his normal body of work. It has some of the Hallmarks of a meyer film especially in how the women are photographed and I do believe the subject matter was quite a personal one for Meyer. Personally I think this films place in his back catalogue stands somewhere similar to where the intruder does in Roger Cormans, a personal and less commercial piece intended to say something about a subject close to the directors heart. By framing it around a court trial and effectively putting the book itself on trial Meyer puts both sides of the argument out there and shows that censorship, especially when pursued by the state is often hypocritical and insidious and motivated more by opportunism than any actual desire to make the world a better place. It could even be applied to the later video nasty scare here in the UK. Personally I really like this one and it deserves to be better known, its a big thanks to Arrow for getting it out there.

[profondo rosso]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

The Boneyard (1991)





Yes, your eyes do not deceive you... that is in fact a giant zombie poodle.

55/100

I saw this in 1990 at Black Sunday in Manchester, I can not remember much about it but it was on with these other films. It was the first time I had attended a horror-fest of films over night and struggled stay awake.

The Boneyard
Black Rainbow
Basket Case 2
Halloween 5
Communion
Miracle Mile
Bride of Reanimator
Frankenhooker
Stepfather 2
Sundown

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by profondo rosso

I saw this in 1990 at Black Sunday in Manchester, I can not remember much about it but it was on with these other films. It was the first time I had attended a horror-fest of films over night and struggled stay awake.

The Boneyard
Black Rainbow
Basket Case 2
Halloween 5
Communion
Miracle Mile
Bride of Reanimator
Frankenhooker
Stepfather 2
Sundown

Er, sold methinks!

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

The Great Gatsby (2013)

Director Baz Luhrmann brings the distinctive style he used on Romeo and Juliet and Moulin Rouge! to the literary world of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The Great Gatsby might be 20 minutes too long but if anyone wants to watch a stylish take on a classic novel then this is recommended.

It is most certainly too long, that's the main thing that I brought out of seeing that film, the book it's based on a slim affair as it is.

However it is aesthetically stunning and well acted, but perhaps the frenetic editing and dizzying direction is a little distracting!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Justin101

It is most certainly too long, that's the main thing that I brought out of seeing that film, the book it's based on a slim affair as it is.

However it is aesthetically stunning and well acted, but perhaps the frenetic editing and dizzying direction is a little distracting!

Actually that was what i liked. The films energy set it apart from your typical historical melodrama.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Curse (1987)

Wesley Crusher grew up on a farm with his mum, sister, stepfather and stepbrother. Not sure where the farm was exactly but i'm guessing it must have been in Hazard County as Bo Duke turns up at the end to save the day.

Anyway that's digressing. A meteor lands on Wesley's farm and soon begins infecting the local livestock and, unfortunately for Wesley, his mum as well, so much so that she gets a giant boil on her cheek that no one seems to notice for half the film.

After an hour of farm chat and animal feeding, Wesley's mum starts to go mad and turns into an extra from Bava's Demons. Sensibly, stepdad just shuts her in the attic as that's what anyone would do as the world outside begins to mutate. Eventually Wesley flips when chickens peck his sister. Before long the house starts to crumble to the ground due to the meteor's influence until one of them Duke boys saves the day.

Not long after, Wesley, who clearly now believes in little green men from outer space signed up for Starfleet academy, met his new mum Beverley and the rest is history.

The Curse is pretty standard fayre. This sort of thing was done far better and more cohesively in the Creepshow segment The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill. So little happens once the meteor lands until the last 20 mins that a 25 min story would also have worked better here.

Watchable yet instantly forgettable.

[trebor8273]

What to watch tonight

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[trebor8273]

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A rouge star is on a collision course with earth, the scientist of the world come up with two options to save the earth, changes its course or move the earth it might be 1/3 the size of the earth but it's mass is 6000 times greater so that only leaves the second option (which would course just a much damage) is to move the earth out of its orbit. So the world teams together to save the planet, another great Toho movie with some great effects, but we also have a unneeded and silly looking monster in the form of a giant walrus. 7.8/10

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A silly but enjoyable Mexican scifi/horror about a witch/necromancer that is burnt alive but vows revenge on the Mexican inquisition that killed him, 300 hundred years later when the comet returns that saw in his death, he takes revenge as a brain eating monster on the descendants of the inquisition 6.5/10

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A scientist is sent to a secret base that is working on the building of the worlds first space station to investigate the unexplained deaths of some of his follow scientist. 6.7/10

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The third outing for Godzilla and this time his up against King Kong himself. Like most of Kaiju it's hugely enjoyable and it's fun to see these two legends go at it. 8/10

[Cinematic Shocks]

Legend (2015)

*** out of ****