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Don't Breathe

This movie by Fede Alvarez is about three young burglars that decides to rob the wrong house. Kind of a psychopathic version of Home Alone. The owner of the house is played by Stephen Lang and is sort of a twisted semi-rapy blind mixture of Kevin McCallister and the cow from Me, Myself and Irene (you know ... The one that just won't die)
If you're into horror movies, where the all the characters die one by one and it's all about hiding from a psycho, then this movie is definately worth a watch. In this genre this movie is way above average in my opinion.
The bad guy in this movie is blind, and you can't argue with the fact that it should be possible to defeat him quite easily, but they manage to get over that hurdle quite well. And there is a really cool sequence where the light is shut off and everything is seen with a b/w night vision filter.
All in all I give it a 7.5/10.

Secretary (Steven Shainberg, 2002)
Probably couldn't be made today

Bellissima - 9/10

Thanks @TokeZa - your score prioritized this movie for me, and I finally saw a movie - I was spending the last 5 days trying to decide.

Very good movie, I love Anna Magnani - she's definitely a force to be reckoned with. She always lives by her own rules, and has the full package - strong-willed, sexy, logical, funny, angry..

my type of film?

There's no sex or violence and it's in English. You may like it ok but I didn't think of you when watching it.

ah yeah when I see a film and it makes me think "Hell yes I have to tell Cricket and Swan about this!!".. I usually do!

Blade Runner 2049.

Got the blu ray, watched it last night. Different from part 1. Story is more elaborate and satisfying. Cast not as charming and world, music and fx not as groundbreaking as the first but whatever. Nothing to be done. I will say Ryan Gosling gives a heartbreaking performance as K/Joe. Damn good movie in its own right. Glad I picked it up after seeing it once Imax style.

How so?

LOL. A while back when I mentioned in the Shoutbox that I was going to watch this & that the New York Times said it was fine to watch this as a stand-alone movie, people were horrified. You may have been one of them.

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Amusing movie. Some very amusing cameos. Best scene was Ralph Fiennes & an actor I had never heard of - Alden Ehrenreich (which is not the best name for a movie star).

I wasn't horrified, I just think it'e better to watch the first film. You can do whatever you want, obviously.

I really loved Hail, Caesar! and it’s deceptive bitterness.

You sort of lost me at mentions of blowing snot in mouthwash and implicating toothbrushes the world over. Kind of makes me feel a bit delicate at this time of day.

All the films I got through while taking a break from the internet over the Christmas week and last week.


Star Wars: The Last Jedi =

All About Eve =

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte =

Jezebel =

The Letter =

The Big Sick =

The Levelling =

The Little Foxes =

Office Christmas Party =

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex =

Moka =

Battle of the Sexes =

fun lil S&M film. Actually enjoyed that one.

It’s a very good movie.

There's a quirkiness that is excellent and the two leads are ideal in their portrayal.

I already gushed my own thread about this film, but I am really hard pressed to think of another film that has made an impression on me like the original Blade Runner did. Now, with the 2007 Final Cut, there are clean-ups and inserts that have "perfected" Ridley Scott's vision, and they haven't hampered anything about the original, in fact, they've very much enhanced the experience and bridged any erroneous bits while leaving the sometimes goofy charm intact, which I appreciate.

And while I do appreciate this latest installment of the Blade Runner sage in Blade Runner 2049, I just can not compare it any more to the original. Blade Runner (1982) came at a time when Spielberg was the internet and smart phone. To see glitzy graphics and far out worlds you had to go to the movies or read a really good book. Seeing this film again has me in awe. The music is second to none. Greek composer Vangelis, a long time progressive rock refuge, had spun an incredible tale with just his choice of sounds: glass, wind, rhodes piano, Yamaha cs-80 with ribbon pitch, jupiter 8, vocalizations by his long time collaborator Demis Roussos (R.I.P), and orchestra bells, chimes and tubes. It's like nothing that ever was or that has been since.

The visuals speak for themselves, as well. Any film modern day that has an amazing technological landscape sweeping below in an elegant, poetic 24fps motion with smoke, fire, city lights and burnt orange and purple sunset owes it all to Blade Runner. Cyber Punk, steam punk, new retro, hybrids,..all the design of Syd Mead and Ridley Scott, with many more in company helping plant the flags of urban science fiction style.

The cast is incredible; William Sanderson as the genetially challenged earth bound old man in the soul of a boy with his mechanical toys, Daryl Hannah with her mischievous eyes suggesting sex in the woods in back of the bleachers, Rutger Hauer's icy menace and warm hearted humor enabling Roy Batty to be one of the best villain turns in film history.

This is one superb film.

Vanilla Sky - Saw this again the other night. 3.5/5.

Gandhi (1982)

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