What movies have you seen recently?

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Last night we watched:

Tucker and Dale vs Evil [2010]
<=>"The perfect love story... with a high body count..."



This movie is a lot of fun and you would likely enjoy it...IF you pay attention.

If you don't pay close attention you probably will think it is an unpleasant, excessively violentgorymess.

The War of the Worlds is truly a great film!
And Night of the Lepus is fun and my bride cheers for the bunnies.

Last night we watched:

Nope [2022]
<=>"The residents of a lonely gulch in inland California
<=>"The residentsbear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery."



<=>"The residentsIt is R E C O M M E N D E DIt is

Should you want to view it? YES.

Should you want to live it?? NOPE!

The Veil.

A documentary maker, whose father had been an FBI agent who had committed suicide following a mass cult suicide, convinces the lone survivor of the tragedy, who had been a little girl at the time, to accompany her to the cult compound. The documentarian learns something far more terrible had been happening there.
Very good horror flick by Blum House studio.

I also recently rewatched Dale and Tucker v Evil. I find it a very funny movie, especially because of the twist of the generic horror movie plot.

I watched The Creator at the movies last week. Set in a dystopian future where AI/robot/androids are in a battle with humans. The west want to eradicate them, the east embrace them. Visually a very striking movie. In regards to the plot line, it’s okay. There are quite a few unanswered questions, but overall I liked it.

Last night I watched:

Being There [1979]
<=>"A story of chance"



Great! YES! S T R O N G     R E C O M M E N D YES!

A rich, old guy in Washington DC has a visiting maid and he has a live-in gardener ("Chance") for his walled-in garden. The gardener has been there—never leaving the home—since being a small child and has not gone to school, doesn't know how to read or write, has never been in a car, knows nothing about elevators, etc. He is a good gardener but in all other respects is a gentle, helpless, inexperienced fool.

When the old guy dies the gardener must leave the house with no money, no place to go, and no one to help him. He is completely clueless, helpless, and homeless on the streets of DC...walking with no destination in mind.

And then he lucks out, he is slightly injured by a limousine carrying the wife of an unbelievably rich and powerful man. While the gardener is recovering from his minor injury they have him stay in their well-staffed mansion. (They have a resident doctor because the rich man is dying. Supper for just the gardener, rich couple, and doctor—in the mansion's banquet hall—appeared to have about a dozen or so service staff in attendance!)

The gardener is polite and clueless and says and does very little. Which leaves ample space for the rich couple to make assumptions about (not really there) deep and profound meanings in what he is saying.

With enough money and connections you can get a fool on the path to the White House!

From Wikipedia's entry for the movie:

Don't Fear.

A group of friends stay over at an isolated lodge, which they later learn had been the site of centuries old witchcraft. Hearing news reports of a new airborne virus, they believe they can't leave the place, when they begin having paranoid delusions and hallucinations of their greatest fears, and then begin turning on each other.
First rate horror film, and highly recommended.

Shriek Of The Mutilated.

Okay, there are very few good Bigfoot movies. That said, this one sets the bar about as low as it can get! The Yeti (or is it?) in question looks more like a were-sheepdog.

Godzilla (2014)

Last night we watched:

Rockabilly Vampire [1996]



He's not Elvis, he just looks like Elvis.

And the movie was slightly better than I expected, based upon the title. But my expectations were low.


Also on the disk was a 44 minute short: Blond Fury.

It embraced being a low budget crummy film and enjoyed it. And so did we.

Exegesis Lovecraft.

First rate documentary on the father of modern horror fiction, H.P. Lovecraft. Examined is his fiction and the bleak philosophy behind it. Also considered - of course - is Lovecraft's indefensible racism, especially as the filmmaker and documentarian is an Indian American who has had his dark night of the soul struggles with that issue, as have other Lovecraft fans of color (and there are more than I would have guessed!). In the end, the narrator concludes that Lovecraft was flawed, as is anyone, but that his fiction is worth preserving.

The Equalizer 3
Those Who Wish Me Dead.
57 Seconds
No One Will Save You
Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose
Blue Beetle
Barbie
Talk To Me



Wes Anderson / Roald Dahl shorts

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Poison
Rat Catcher
The Swan

ocean started a brief exchange on 9. It persuaded me to get a copy which we watched last night.

We liked it!

My bride had never heard of the film and I sprung it on her last night.
About five minutes into the film my bride asked whether Tim Burton had anything to do with it.