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lucky me and my support worker didnt choose that movie when it came out while ago

For a movie with a budget that appears to be roughly the size of my last grocery bill, this was impressive. One take, pretty much two room film about a cafe owner who lives above his cafe and discovers that the tv/monitor in his room shows two minutes into the future and the tv/monitor in his cafe is showing two minutes from the past. As with most time travel films things start out neato for the cafe owner and his friends but go downhill the more they tinker with it. This is just a fun movie, a movie where the less you know going in the more fun your bound to have. It's kind of a One Cut of the Dead type of fun, with a bit of Primer and a touch of Being John Malkovich.

Moneyball (2011)

Not being a fan of American sports, I was a bit apprehensive watching this. Glad I did, a really intriguing story of how to cut the unsurmountable odds in your favour for a change. Brad Pitt is excellent as the cock-sure General Manager who knows the sad turn-around of the sporting dreams for many.

Uncharted: Predictably forgettable. Spider Man seems like Spider Man. Marky Mark seems like Marky Mark (Say "Hi" to your mother for me"). It's like watching an extended video game cut scene, which makes sense given the source material.

It is better than The Strangeness. It's not my fault you don't like fun.
The Defense rests.

Glad to hear it, it's been a few years for me too.
I think you'll be pretty safe with Two Brains, I still think it's fun but I don't think you're gonna feel like it's a classic or anything.

Sweet Sugar (1972) This was pretty fun and entertaining.

That is pretty funny.

Andromedia (Takashi Miike, 1998)
cannot believe this is a real movie.

It's not on the same level, but The Lonely Guy is another Reiner/Martin collab worth seeing, mostly for Charles Grodin's performance.

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Laurence Anyways (2012)

You've just sparked an ancient memory from deep within me, of Grodin's character telling Steve Martin's that "Even Hitler had a dog" and Martin asking "Adolf Hitler?" I didn't even remember this film at all when I decided to go back to all those old films Martin is in to see if they're still funny. I'll look forward to seeing that again.

Comedies really date with me, and I often see them again years later and the humour has gone stale, but with these Carl Reiner/Steve Martin films, they still give me a lot to laugh about, and I really think I'll have to include one in my voting list for the Comedy Countdown. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid has a decent rating on the IMDb and Letterboxd, and I used to love that one too, so I've got a bit of catching up to do.

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My router was hit with a computer virus, so I've been watching movies until it was fixed. I'm gonna try and be quick.


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Ready or Not - (2019)

This one is slick. Maybe a little too slick. It also has an ending that reminded me of all the bad things about the ending of the remake of Suspiria. But aside from that it's energetic and fun, giving off action, comedy and horror vibes in equal measure. A little too much CGI damn it, so those flaws really cost the film in my opinion - I can't give it a flat out 7 - but it's in that ballpark.

6.5/10


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Life, Animated - (2016)

Really cute, intelligent and involving documentary about a young man with severe autism and the battle his parents have waged to raise him. When all was nearly lost, when this guy was a boy, his autistic-aligned mind grabbed hold of all the Disney animated films, and he learned everything he knows from them. Unfortunately, life is more complex than a Disney cartoon would make out. Learning about the challenges they've faced, and watching them confront new ones as this guy moves away from home, was really interesting, and I enjoyed this doco.

7/10


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Rome, Open City - (1945)

It's a shame to brush by this one with speed, but I watched it last night and it was the last act that really surprised and moved me. Some mark this film as the beginning of Italian neo-realism, but it was still somewhat larger-than-life with resistance leaders and priests becoming martyrs to the anti-fascist cause. I need to see it again one day, then the rating might go up.

7.5/10

Foreign Language Countdown films seen : 84/100


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John Wick Chapter: 3 – Parabellum

I loved the beginning and end, which had the usual smart and daring action sequences, and the unusual new world that's being constructed - a John Wick assassin universe with complex rules and always those consequences. The movies are slowly getting longer though - I think the 100 minutes of the first film should be a maximum. I don't want to see a 130 minute John Wick movie (which is basically what I've just watched.)

7/10

Resolution (2012, Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead)

This is a prequel to Endless and was apparently shot in the same locations. It's not as good as the latter film (which I thought was a flawed but very intriguing sci-fi time-loop mind bender) but there are some good aspects to it, and I just generally tend to dig these type of indie sci-fi films because of their own quirky, weird, but unique vision and cinematic language, so even with all the flaws I can still appreciate them. There are some standout moments — the scene in the French archaeologist's trailer is definitely my favorite, very Lynch-esque.

X (2022)

This was good fun in a kind of homage to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre way. The added in angle of the porn didn't really have much to do with the story apart from going through an economic depression trying to earn a buck. Stylish (in a Tobe Hooper stylee) and witty, only some of the elements of the "slasher" parts let it down, a bit daft.

Finch (2021)

Finch is everything that is wrong with streaming films. The film has a lot of potential, Tom Hanks plays the last man on earth (apparently) who decides he needs to go on a road trip from St. Louis to San Fransisco. He creates a robot named Jeff and he grabs his dog Goodyear to go on this adventure.

Finch has a lot of really good ideas and you have a good a story here but it's a bubble movie with Hanks going it alone. It's one of those films that reminds you of better films...and when that better film is I am Legend than we have a problem. Hanks is great but the Robot is weird...it doesn't move like a Robot should move it moves like a CGI character.

The film has some really powerful scenes with potential for horror and suspense but the filmmakers chicken out. And Hanks doesn't go overboard with his 15 years of isolation...he's still Tom Hanks...and that's a problem. This could have been a masterpiece instead it's just content for Apple.

In 1969, psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross introduced the "five stages of grief" model, which states that people that are grieving experience five different stages or emotions: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Although contested and criticized by some, the model is widely referenced by fellow experts, but also in popular media.

Four is a short film that follows Ross (Eoin Macken), who seems to be going through this process, while his wife (Rachel Lyn Murray) tries to reason with him. The title is a reference to the stage he's currently in, but also a reference to the four family members, which also include their two children: Naomi and Ben.

With an 8-minute runtime, the short is fairly simple but it has a solid emotional core. Macken and Murray are not excellent, but they are competent enough. It does give the impression to romanticize certain things in the aftermath of the grieving process, but maybe that was a matter of my perception, and not the short film's intention. Still, it's a solid short film to check out.

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I absolutely agree with the "too slick" part.
I really thought this movie was winking and patting itself on the back far, far too much for what was actually on-screen.