What movies have you seen recently?

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I've rewatched some of Ben-Hur from 1959. Very powerful movie. Kind of wish they would rerelease it in theatres.

For the time being I am nuts about Friedrich Wilhelm Murnaus "Nosferatu" from 1922 - the best silent in the history. Very good actors, beautiful sceneries. I can only recommend it.
It is to be found on the net. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydxl9Gi2jIM

The text is in english - probably because more viewers - internationally - would be more "at home" in english, than in german language.
The composer is Hans Erdmann - and he did it well! Symphonic music. "Symphonie des Grauens" Symphony of horror.
It is SO well done in every aspect.

I do hope, that someone in here finds it and enjoys it as highly as I do - every time, I watch it.

The Wad [2024]
<=>"The True Story Behind the Phantom Lake County Chewing Gum Disaster"



More Mihmverse...um...nonsense?

<=>FUN!

The Commitments. It's about a family that starts a band.

William - about a lab-created neo-neanderthal man. very sad, almost like a movie proxy about autism.

YellowBrickRoad.

A group of documentary movie makers set out into the woods to examine how a whole town decades before had marched out into the forest, only to be found having been murdered, or died of exposure, while others simply vanished. As they hike for days, it's become abundantly clear they have no idea where they are, while old time music in the distance grows louder and louder, till it's painful to listen to. And then they start turning on one another, as it becomes painfully clear they are experiencing the same horror the lost towns people had.
Enjoyable slow burn horror movie. While the movie contains references to the Wizard of Oz, the film has more to do with Lovecraft than Baum.

[urlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(2024_film)]Flow[/url] (2024)
Streamed it on Max

Wonderful film.

Thor: Love and Thunder

Yesterday
Man in the Attic (1953)
streamed from Tubi

Then this morning.
Horror Hotel
Season 7, episode 25 (2020) - Man in the Attic

Horror Hotel's horror host, Lamia, Queen of the Night, had enjoyable facts and information about the movie, and it's lineage. I now want to watch Alfred Hitchcock's film The Lodger (1927). There was a remake in 1944, and then this film in 1953, and another remake in 2009. There was also a book, The Lodger by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes in 1913, which the Man in the Attic lists in the credits.

Possessor.

In the near future, an assassin is able to be placed in the head of somebody who then kills an unsuspecting target. But she finds herself troubled with remorse, as well as alienation from her loved ones. And then, something goes wrong when the host begins resisting her and her mission.
Very good sci-fi film, made by David Cronenberg's son, Brandon.

The Wolf of Wall Street. I find people being debaucherous and making terrible decisions funny af. I get wanting to let go of all control and inhibition to engage in pure hedonism, but I like how the movie shows the consequences of such a lifestyle. They all turn into disasters and ruin their lives. It's funny tho.

Cat Ballou (1965)
watched on Grit, an over the air channel dedicated to westerns

I don't watch Grit very much. I'm not a big fan of westerns. I have my reasons.

This was an enjoyable film. It was Nat King Cole's last film. Lee Marvin played a dual role as two gun slingers. One a prosthetic silver nosed killer. The other a drunk, who can barely stand up when he is not actively drinking. When he is drinking, he is a deadeye shot. Jane Fonda plays a school teacher, Cat Ballou, who becomes an outlaw when her father is killed in a land grab assassination. She wants justice, if not revenge, and there are a group of fellows who will help. She's pretty, and everyone loves her.

There were a couple things that made me wince a bit, but it was sixty years ago, and social points of view have changed a bit. It is still a good, entertaining film. Lee Marvin won the 1966 Oscar for best actor. I learned that in the early 1970s when I checked out a book on the Academy Awards. Fredric March winning best actor for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was the main reason I checked it out. The pictures of Lee Marvin offered no context. "What is on his nose? What kind of movie is this? Is is a comedy?" Now, sixty years later, I know. I suppose I should watch Paint Your Wagon. I bet it is nothing like The Simpsons. I also found the answer of what does the film have to do with cats? Seriously. I never imagined it was short for Catherine.

I would have passed over the film (again) if TitanTV's description did not say...