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I hated Under The Skin, the worst movie I saw last year.
It had a very thin plot stretched out, scenes repeated over and over again, until a boring and predictable ending.
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Spy was great for a commercial Hollywood comedy. I watched it last night as well.
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Yup, finally getting around to it. Had the book sitting here for a few years.
Early Barker is fucking lush, read Books of Blood, Weaveworld and The Great and Secret Show.
I love those, but I also loved his 2001 novel Coldheart Canyon.
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I've been reading trashy Richard Laymon books, The Stake at the moment.
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I loved Gummo, I thought it was oddly funny and much better than any of Larry Clark's films.
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The Green Slime - 6/10 very cheesy but entertaining.....like a hokey 60's The Blob or The Thing.
Shatterbrain - 7/10 from the director of Return Of The Living Dead this 1991 film is his only other feature he directed (although he did write Alien, Aliens, Total Recall etc), it was quite weird, and I didn't understand it but I think I was a bit out of it.
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Anyone heard the new Variant releases?
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The new Mad Max, it was amazing considering the acting and script were pretty terrible, but the ideas/visuals, imagination and sheer fun made up for it. 8/10
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Have you seen Eagle vs Shark peace?
I live in Wellington where it was filmed so it's cool seeing all the places I regually walk around.
I watched:
7/10
Quite good 'possession' type movie from 1977 but the twist is Anthony Hopkins believes a couples daughter is actually his daughter reincarnated.
A fairly 'tame' horror from the brilliant director Robert Wise who I love! (The Body Snatchers, The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Andromeda Strain, I Want to Live!, Curse Of The Cat People, The Sound Of Music, West Side Story and my favorite The Haunting 1963.)
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Drowning By Numbers 8/10
Platime 8/10
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Ow yeah I watched like the first hour of The Falls still have to finish that. Good stuff.
Have you seen his later films?
Yes, but none of them have the humour of The Falls.
I like Drowning By Numbers, A Zed & Two Noughts, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover and Prospero's Books, but not much else.
I find the acting and dialogue quite bad in many of his work, and that's off putting.
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The Last Picture Show - I'm a sucker for b+w movies, I adore them 8.5/10
The Falls - Peter Greenaway's 3 hour surreal doco from 1980, quite funny when in the right mood. 7.5/10
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Pretty good haunted house type movie from 1980, not much gore or violence, more atmospheric.
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Bates Motel Season 3
Bojack Horseman Season 2
Steven Universe Season 2
REALLY looking forward to the 2nd season of Fargo as the first season was my favorite TV shows in years....
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A Simple Plan
Ooo'e - a forgotten gem? Perhaps! Very entertaining and engrossing story. 3 lads find 4+ mill in the middle of the woods...what do you do!? Great performances from Billy + Paxton.
Thoroughly entertaining/10
I read the book before I saw it, the book is virtually the screenplay, the movie follows the book *very* closely unlike many adaptions.
Jan Svankmajer's Alice - 10/10 now officially my favorite movie
One of my fav's (and by far the best version of Alice...) but I like his film Conspirators of Pleasure best.
His last feature Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) was cool as it was a different style of animation for him, collage technique (and as usual very funny and surreal.)
Bloody Birthday (1981) - A fairly straightforward mashup of Village of the Damned and Halloween. Clearly made to cash in on the success of Halloween with lots of setting and plot similarities but with more TnA. Would have benefited from a more minimal soundtrack. The kids were sufficiently creepy sociopaths.
Love this film, I'm a fan of 'evil children' films......cause they are!
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Expected to hate it based on terrible reviews from critics and viewers - but I found it really funny. It's flippant, dark, surreal.
Instead of tension that their plane can't land safely they all indulge in drugs, random sex and drugs.
And it is quite camp, so some won't like that.....
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if you like Paris Texas ....
Paris Texas (1984)
5/5
,,,,,,check out The American Friend (with Dennis Hopper):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075675/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_44
I've not seen that film since the late 90's and have been looking for a good copy.
We had to study it at Uni for film studies, our lecturer thought it was the best film ever!
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My cat Totoro:
My cat Otis:
My neighbours two cats who basically live with me because my neighbours are usually not home:
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Paris Texas (1984)
5/5
Beautiful film, reminded me of the Coen Brothers a little and uses more red than a Nicolas Roag film! -
BBC did a quality profile of Nick Roeg last night
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0613d0c/arena-nicolas-roeg-its-about-time
I finally watched Bad Timing, not the most likeable film, but the direction and camera work were always very stylish and interesting.
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I love the island pictures! <3
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Loving this album very much!
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Lost In Space
The Twilight Zone
Steven Universe
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Supposed to be the final Studio Ghibli film! I loved it, at first I thought it was going to be a bit lesbian, but as the story developed it got more interesting.
8.5/10
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A Blade In The Dark (1983)
Amazing soundtrack and some great death scenes and tension/atmostphere.....but the english dubbing is so so bad.....or good depending on your sense of humour.
"Is it possible you're such a vacant nerd? Your satisfaction is to sit like a frog in the sun?"