What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by keirarts

Sicario

Go see it!

I intend to see it this week, along with Crimson Peak and, on Wednesday, Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

[MacBlayne]

Originally Posted by SShaw

Behaved very badly towards his wife, family and friends. Assaulted the promotor of his canyon jump with a baseball bat (for which he went to prison). Turns out the guy was a bit of an arsehole.

Amazing / upsetting as to what you could get away with before the days mass media could tarnish your image.

I remember being rather upset when I learnt how one of my heroes, Clint Eastwood, treated Sondra Locke. Revolting stuff.

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Wondered if anyone who has 88's blu of Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man has watched it yet, and what they thought of it. I put it ok and thought it was a perfectky acceptable transfer, pretty grainy throughout (and the couple of reviews I've seen like it), but as usual, the blu-rage folk aren't impressed, ranging from it being a typical Italian "gauzy" transfer, to just plain awful.

[MacBlayne]

Originally Posted by Stephen@Cult Labs

Wondered if anyone who has 88's blu of Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man has watched it yet, and what they thought of it. I put it ok and thought it was a perfectky acceptable transfer, pretty grainy throughout (and the couple of reviews I've seen like it), but as usual, the blu-rage folk aren't impressed, ranging from it being a typical Italian "gauzy" transfer, to just plain awful.

Haven't seen it but when it comes to BD transfers, as long as the aspect ratio is correct and it hasn't been DNR'd or filtered to death, I'm happy.

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by Stephen@Cult Labs

Wondered if anyone who has 88's blu of Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man has watched it yet, and what they thought of it. I put it ok and thought it was a perfectky acceptable transfer, pretty grainy throughout (and the couple of reviews I've seen like it), but as usual, the blu-rage folk aren't impressed, ranging from it being a typical Italian "gauzy" transfer, to just plain awful.

it just seems that some people just dont like 88 films no matter what, arrow fanboys, people desperate for attention or assholes, take your pick. look at the reviews on amazon, one guy really seems to have it in for them and reading the reviews they posted i can't help but think they are a few sandwiches sort of a picnic and need some sort of help. most of the films they bring us are never going to look fantastic and we should be grateful to get a lot of them

just ordered this one earlier tonight from HMV and looking forward to watching it, sounds like starsky and hutch with the violence racked up-to ten. have to give 88 films their due they are making me buy everything with them numbering stuff, if they had not i probably wouldn't of bothered with some of there releases

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

it just seems that some people just dont like 88 films no matter what, arrow fanboys, people desperate for attention or assholes, take your pick. look at the reviews on amazon, one guy really seems to have it in for them and reading the reviews they posted i can't help but think they are a few sandwiches sort of a picnic and need some sort of help. most of the films they bring us are never going to look fantastic and we should be grateful to get a lot of them

just ordered this one earlier tonight from HMV and looking forward to watching it, sounds like starsky and hutch with the violence racked up-to ten. have to give 88 films their due they are making me buy everything with them numbering stuff, if they had not i probably wouldn't of bothered with some of there releases

I was thinking the exact same thing about people just having it in for 88. Tbh, I remember Arrow's initial Tenebrae release being one of the dreaded LVR scans with the weird filtered/fake grain look to it, and I always try and compare discs of Italian films to that one, and to my eyes at least, Live Like A Cop looks nothing like it, yeah It has grain throughout, but I don't think it looks artificial.

[Paul@TheOverlook]

Not watched mine yet but I know two of my mates have seen it and said it looks way better than they expected.

[Buboven]

Originally Posted by keirarts

Sicario


I have to admit to being somewhat sceptical about this film going in. I had awful visions of later era Tony scott with stuff like Domino or even that awful Arnie film Sabotage by David Ayer. I'm actually pleased to say director Denis Villeneuve has taken a pretty decent script and really delivered a brilliant little movie that needs to be seen. It stars Emily Blunt as a federal agent working in phoneix and finding her job is involving more and more mopping up after the Mexican cartels, after a grisly raid on a safe house she is enlisted by shady Josh Brolin who is working with the silent but deadly Benicio del Toro. Blunt has reservations going in that get deeper after illigal trips across the border to detain suspects and things just keep getting darker from there.
There is non of the hyper kinetic nausea inducing editing of a lot of films of its type, instead Sicario delivers long beautifully shot takes courtesy of DP Rodger Deakins. Blunt is terrific as the agent in well over her head and Del Toro quietly steals each scene he's in leading up to a quietly horrifying climax. The film feels like the better sort of stuff that hollywood was producing back in the 70's and it has that cynical world weary attitude throughout. The soundtrack is excellent and adds a moody, rumbling tension to the whole film.
Go see it!

I was going to see it tonight but ended up rewatching Bay of Blood by checking out Kino's release for the first time.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

STARRY EYES

A 30 something actress strikes a Faustian deal to become a star.

This could have been an excellent little film if the scum factor had been cranked up a notch rather than going for the body horror and murder angle it veers off into. I wanted more from it and whilst watching it couldn't figure out what it lacks and only at the end of it when there is brief nudity did I realise, it lacked lots of grotty, seedy sex scenes to truly deliver its tale of self transgression and transformation. A bit like life in general!

[iank]

Saw Black Mass at the cinema today. Johnny Depp gives a terrific performance as a small time hood who becomes a massive crime kingpin as a result of an increasingly illicit partnership with the FBI in this based on a true story crime drama/thriller. Enjoyable.