What was the last movie you saw?

[Jeffbert]

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) As much as I hated HS, I liked this film. It did bring up memories I would have rather forgotten.

I really did enjoy the very naughty topless shots. Sad that there was no girls locker room / shower scene. I also enjoyed the way that one kid blamed wrecking the other guy's car on the other HS!

The only actor familiar to me was Ray Walston, whom I remember as MY FAVORITE MARTIAN.

 

[Toby Frost]

Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (2023): Overall, I enjoyed this a lot and laughed out loud several times. All the main cast are good. Hugh Grant does much the same as he did in Paddington 2, very well. The druid girl is, according to the lore of the thing, part-demon, but was played largely as an elf, which struck me as odd (would this bother some more pious audiences? Given that they've made three Hellboy films, I doubt it). The hero is another of those fast-talking loveable-rogue Starlord types, which I tend to find very irritating, but Chris Pine does quite a good job and isn't too annoying. Overall, a fun film. Definitely worth a look.

 

[Judderman]

The Boogeyman (2023). Decent scary creature in the dark horror, based on a Stephen King short story, but there has been a few similar ones recently. The ugly creature walking up the walls in the dark has been over done.
Where the Crawdads Sing. Excellent!

 

[CrazyKB]

I watched Mandy, hyper violent and artsy, the director captures the LSD experience, Cage et al. turn in great performances. I also watched The Platform, although not for the sqimish, it was good social commentary on Capitalism vs Communism and the perils inherent in both. I'm still waiting to watch Oppenheimer, I never knew Tommy Shelby was also a nuclear physicist. "I declare we make the bomb, on the order of the Peaky fu**ing Blinders!"

 

[AE35Unit]

The Europa Report
So so sci fi about a mission to Jupiter's moon. Had a nod to 2001 a space odyssey when the crew listened to The Blue Danube but otherwise quite a predictable, unsatisfying film.

 

[Rodders]

I thought The Europa Report was superb and i found the ending especially satisfying.

 

[AE35Unit]

I thought The Europa Report was superb and i found the ending especially satisfying.

Nothing much happened. A strange blue glowing octopus like creature beneath the ice, woo hoo

 

[alexvss]

Talk to Me (2023). Teenagers find an embalmed hand that gives the power to talk to the dead by possessing whoever is holding it, but one of the teens tries to kill himself while at it so the door to the otherworld is left open.

This is an indie movie made by Australian Youtubers. It gained a lot of attention in festivals, making the all-mighty A24 buy it and distribute it. It’s fun to see how Comedians are great at acting in Drama or in Horror movies. See Jordan Peele or Takeshi Kitano. The line between the classic genres is very thin.

Also, I don’t remember watching an Australian movie since 2018’s The Nightingale. Even the dead animal by the road trope is a dying Kangaroo.

The whole embalmed hand thing seems to be an allegory for drugs. Depression and adolescent angst are also big here.

The ending is great: unexpected and inevitable at the same time.

Recommended.

 

[Berlyn]

My wife and I most recently watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. We watched it with our 2 year old daughter and she loved it. The animation is excellent, I can definitely see some influence from the Into The Spider-verse movies.

 

[JunkMonkey]

The Europa Report
So so sci fi about a mission to Jupiter's moon. Had a nod to 2001 a space odyssey when the crew listened to The Blue Danube but otherwise quite a predictable, unsatisfying film.

I very agree. The hardware was great but the 'found footage' conceit - that the whole film was made up from onboard cameras - forced the director to do some very awkward contrived staging with lots and lots of shots with one person in the foreground, half off the screen so that everyone else could do acting behind them.

meanwhile my most recent watches have been Idiocracy (a rewatch - not as funny as I remember but I knew what to expect this time) and Rumble in the Bronx. Daughter Number Two and I could watch Jackie Chan hitting people with furniture all day and not get bored.

 

[Danny McG]

Their apartment is above the theater, which also figures in the plot later

"Scream! Scream for your lives!"
I last saw The Tingler about 55 years ago but still remember that bit haha

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

John Carpenter wrote, directed, and provided the music for this action film that feels like a horror movie. Carefully constructed (if unlikely) plotlines come together as a huge number of heavily armed gang members attack a police station that's just about to be shut down, so there's only a few folks inside. Complicating matters is the fact (explained by one of the unlikely plotlines) that there are also some prisoners present, one of them headed for death row. This tense, brutally violent film never lets up. You'll realize what you're in for thirty minutes into the film when:

Spoiler

A gang member shoots a little girl dead in cold blood.

Filmed on a modest budget and without any big name stars, this manages to be a gripping thriller, if not exactly a "fun" movie.

 

[CupofJoe]

Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

John Carpenter wrote, directed, and provided the music for this action film that feels like a horror movie. Carefully constructed (if unlikely) plotlines come together as a huge number of heavily armed gang members attack a police station that's just about to be shut down, so there's only a few folks inside. Complicating matters is the fact (explained by one of the unlikely plotlines) that there are also some prisoners present, one of them headed for death row. This tense, brutally violent film never lets up. You'll realize what you're in for thirty minutes into the film when:

Spoiler

A gang member shoots a little girl dead in cold blood.

Filmed on a modest budget and without any big name stars, this manages to be a gripping thriller, if not exactly a "fun" movie.

I really like the music as well. It is almost minimalist. probably because of cost.

 

[Toby Frost]

Yes, it's one of those Marathon Man-type thrillers that are very gripping but not exactly fun.

Also, I don’t remember watching an Australian movie since 2018’s The Nightingale.

There are some really good (and really odd) Australian films. Have you ever seen Lake Mungo? I thought it was excellent, although it does seem to divide audiences.

 

[alexvss]

Yes, it's one of those Marathon Man-type thrillers that are very gripping but not exactly fun.



There are some really good (and really odd) Australian films. Have you ever seen Lake Mungo? I thought it was excellent, although it does seem to divide audiences.

Thanks for the heads up, Toby. Yeah, I'm aware that Australia has done some disturbing Horror movies (in fact, the East in general seems to be very fond of Horror). And yes, I've seen Lake Mungo. The idea of a mockumentary dressed-up as a Horror film is very interesting.

 

[AE35Unit]

There are some really good (and really odd) Australian films. Have you ever seen Lake Mungo? I thought it was excellent, although it does seem to divide audiences.

Saw that the other week. Was not impressed at all. Boring

 

[alexvss]

Saw that the other week. Was not impressed at all. Boring

It's because Lake Mungo leans too much on the break of the fourth wall. You have to at least pretend to believe that's an actual documentary. Oh, and you also have to pay attention to the background:

 

[Jeffbert]

Crime Wave (1954) Three, count 'em, 3 criminals rob a gas station. One (1) is shot in the belly by a motorcycle cop, and staggers his way to the home of a guy he knew from prison. The guy, Steve Lacey (Gene Nelson; not well known to me, anyway) wants nothing to do with the wounded guy. His wife (Phyllis Kirk) advises him to call his parole officer, but he declines, hoping to get rid of the uninvited guest, and hope nobody ever knows he was there. But then the veterinarian Otto Hessler (Jay Novello) arrives and demands money before even examining the wounded guy. He finds about $100 on the wounded man, who promptly dies; the vet leaves, leaving the Laceys with a dead man on the couch. Detective Sims (Sterling Hayden) who had phoned Lacey about 30 minutes ago, but the wife would not let him answer the phone, arrives. Finding no money on the corpse, Sims wants to know if anyone else had been there, since the way these things go, is the wounded guy usually has money on him to pay the physician.

The story tells of the Lacey's captive unwilling involvement in the crime of the other two escapees, 'Doc' Penny (Ted de Corsia) & Ben Hastings (Charles Bronson / Buchinsky), who hold the wife as hostage, forcing Steve's cooperating in the robbery of a major bank.

Saw it before, & will likely see it again.

 

[Jeffbert]

Monterey Pop (1968) interesting look at late 1960s music. Hendrix sets his guitar ablaze which was parodied in THE SIMPSONS 16th season when school bus driver Otto did likewise.

 

[AE35Unit]

It's because Lake Mungo leans too much on the break of the fourth wall. You have to at least pretend to believe that's an actual documentary. Oh, and you also have to pay attention to the background:

Whatever, it was boring lol