What movies have you seen recently?

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What did you think?

The Beast Within.

A girl growing up on an isolated farm with her parents and grandfather learns her father is a werewolf. Not the same as the eighties movie of the same name.
Just okay.

Eraserhead (1977)
streamed on Max

I originally saw this in the spring of 1979 at the school's theater. I thought it was surreal, and I was very much in to surrealism in 1979.
I think I enjoy it more today, although I'm not sure it is a film to be enjoyed. It is very much dark nightmare.
So, I guess it is still surreal.

I watched A Complete Unknown. It's a Bob Dylan biopic that's getting a lot of awards nominations.

I thought it was okay. Just okay.

I was wondering. I was thinking about seeing it.
I've seen No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, directed by Martin Scorsese. I thought that was very good. It covers 1961 to 1966. It is made up of interviews and archival footage.
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Weresquito: Nazi Hunter (2016)
I love that title.

I enjoyed the movie too. One thing I enjoyed about the opening moments was it looks like it was filmed with something like a Tri-X film stock (lowlight fast film resulting in a grainy image), but I know Christopher R. Mihm shoots his movies in digital, so it must have been an effect that was added.

I use to use Tri-X ISO 1000 film for still photography. Warning: I'm getting nostalgic.

Poor Things.

A mad (but well meaning) scientist puts the brain of a suicide victim's unborn child into her body, and attempts to raise her into adulthood as Bella Baxter. He convinces his assistant into marrying Bella, when a neerdowell lawyer sweeps her off her feet and takes her away on a trip to the Mediterranean. There, Bella grows pretty much into an autistic adult, trying her hand at giving away all their money so they are stranded in poverty, when she experiments in prostitution. When she returns home, she is found by her body's former husband, and finds out why she had attempted suicide.
Truly quirky and funny reimagining of a Frankenstein tale. Highly recommended.

Ah, Tri-X.
*joins in with nostalgia*

Demon with the Atomic Brain ((2017)

Another film by Richard Mihm.
I admire how he is building on the techniques and tricks, both new and previously used.
I didn't mention it, but he use had some very decent model animation in one (maybe two??) of the previous films. It shows up again in this film.

Halo Legends: The Babysitter, The Package.

The Monster of Phantom Lake: The Musical!

This is a recording of a play/musical based on the movie The Monster of Phantom Lake.
It was inventive, and very enjoyable.
It was directed by Michael Cook, who has been in several of the Mihmiverse films so far.

Despite its flaws, it had good performances and it was a bloody film as expected.
In fact, I had to look away at some parts where it got "too bloody."

Thank you. Something to think about.

Night b***h.

An artist feels trapped in a depressive, downward spiral when she chooses to give up her career to become a stay-at-home-mother, when her anxiety and despair somehow causes her to transform into a dog at night, when she runs free. Separating from her husband, she rediscovers the artist she had been.
While I wanted to like this movie, I felt like I was being hammered over the head with... dare I say it, liberal that I am... feminist dogma.

I saw The Substance. I thought it was a pile of poo and I have no idea why it's got so many Oscar nods.

I haven't seen The Substance, but I had to say I laughed out loud at you description!

On to what brought me here... I am counting this as a documentary, although it was on television and could be considered a long episode. No. It is a documentary.

Ladies and Gentlemen: 50 Years of SNL Music (2025)
watched the two hour documentary, that was on television last night (Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025) on Peacock+

It was really well edited, starting with a huge mix of various performances that flowed together like the the best musical mashup. It was very good, and for me, educational, because I have not regularly watched Saturday Night Live since the 1970s and early '80s. I know the legendary performances, but there was so much more.
Funny thing about Captain Beefheart, when I originally saw him on the show way back when, I thought it was a skit. In the documentary, they talk about how the show booked cutting edge groups, and how after the Captain's performance, no one applauded. There was just silence, except for one person in the balcony that hollered, and to bring us full circle back to DuckHairback's comment, "Poo." Only they did not yell "poo." They talked about it, and they showed.
I cannot believe I missed so many performances. Philip Glass performed on the show! Argh!

The show was very good. It was full of performance clips, and interviews with the cast, crew, and musical artists. Although I'm sure there will be people that did not enjoy the documentary.