What movies have you seen recently?

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I watched Birdbox Barcelona. I liked the original Birdbox movie but i thought this was crap. Made the mistake of explaining/showing too much. The not knowing was what made the first one good.

Octopus 2 (2001)

Technically a sequel to the original Octopus movie, but really doesn't connect with it. Just as bad though, in all honesty. Set in New York, but seems to have been made in Bulgaria, to judge from the names of most of the actors and production staff.

A Boy And His Dog.

A kid and his telepathic dog try surviving on a post apocalyptic wasteland, searching for women.
Very good dark comedy.

Poor Things

My wife and I are really interested in seeing this. What's your verdict?

A very well-made film worthy of all the acclaim!

Very satirical, dream-like, and raunchy with Emma Stone giving a brave performance!

Wilem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo were brave too in their performances!

IMO, I can see this taking on Oppenheimer for lots of Oscar nominations!

Well worth 2 1/2 hours of time!

Saltburn. It was good, I liked it.

Justice League: War World.

Animated DC movie, in which Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman find themselves in alternate realities without their memories, where they find themselves fighting evil. But who has done this to them?
Enjoyable animated superhero flick.

Downsizing (2017)

I remember seeing the trailer for his film about six to seven years ago, and wanted to see it. Kristen Wiig and Matt Damon decide to have their bodies shrunk down to about six inches to start a new life in a to-scale environment with an economy that is also to scale. $1000 equates to about $1. I'm wondering if it could be categorized as social/domestic science fiction? The process is developed so humans have a small environmental footprint and to deal with over population. It was seen as an effort to save the Earth, its living organisms, and the human species. Four years of human waste and garbage reduced to one Hefty garbage bag. In the US, it is marketed as a way to live an extravagant life as millionaires, living in mansions.

It wasn't what I expected, but I enjoyed this film. It was a film about humans being humans (normal sized or downsized) and finding one's purpose.

And what happens in the end?

Side note. You get to see Matt Damon get his head and eyebrows shaved before he is miniaturized. Then his whole body is shaved. His teeth, with fillings, are removed as well. As we learn later, if the filling is not removed, the substance that fills the filling does not shrink. So one non shrinking filling, inside a shrinking head ... They don't actually show the head exploding.

And another, you see it in the trailer -



As I said, I enjoyed it. Although I wondered is it possible to miniaturized electronics down to make a tiny smartphone?

Thank you. I saw the preview at the theater, and I am interested in seeing it as well.

I watched Amsterdam. It was a bit messy and longer than it needed to be in my opinion, but entertaining enough.

I concur. Also, a great lesson for a forgotten chapter of history, though, which was in this case fictionalized.

Ready or Not

Last night I watched:

Alien Species [1996]



Despite having the words "Alien" and "Species" in its title it is not in either of those franchises...and I'm sure those franchises are glad of that.

I won't say it was horrible. And I certainly won't say it was good.

I'd probably say it was pointless.

Disney's wish
Very much a musical rather than a story

Not to say it wasn't enjoyable, some of the music scores were really well done.

I recommend this as a family movie, but it does contain some scary scenes.

Topper Returns (1941) on Horror Hotel

Sequel to Topper (1937) This is a fun mystery, as Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) is blessed with the visitation from a new spirit, the ghost of a young woman (Joan Blondell).

Enjoyable black and white film.

Topper is a enjoyable film too, with Roland Young, Cary Grant, and Constance Bennett. Cary and Constance are killed in a car accident


Topper ghosts are by nature "fun-loving."

The real feat for me was I watched it on Horror Hotel, an independent television production featuring Lamia, Queen of the Dark. She is a vampire that runs a hotel with mischievous and sometimes inept assistances.

I use to watch Horror Hotel on it's website, being unable to get The Monster Channel, Action: The Action Channel, or Retro TV. But I found out that Retro TV is feature on the Roku app It's Real Good TV. I've had the app for a couple months but could not find what time it is on. The Retro TV schedule I find does not list the program Horror Hotel, but only the movie title. So I didn't know what time it played until last night, when I was up late, and happened to tune in to the very end of Off Beat Cinema. It ended, and there was the opening title sequence for Horror Hotel. Goosebumps. The upside I finally know when it shows. Saturday nights at 11pm central time. The downside is Lamia recently announced after ten years, she was ceasing production of the show. However, she has over 200 episodes to cycle through on the various channels. Like other hosts, she talks about the history of the film and the actors in the film. She is a host/vampire that really loves films, old and new. Her show is mostly older and independent films. She also use to run a annual Horror Hotel film festival.

The Horror Hotel website has been in "disrepair" for about a month, maybe a bit less as of 1/14/2023. So, I was happy to find the show in the environment it was designed for, a television channel, complete with commercials.
The schedule can be found at Schedules and Affiliates - Horror Hotel

Also, earlier in the evening -

The Old Dark House (1932) on MeTV's Svengoolie

Boris Karloff and director James Whale horror follow up to Frankenstein.

The night was dark and stormy when the road washes out and a series of traveler take refuge in an old dark house will with a family of "interesting" individuals, and on scared and mute butler (Boris Karloff).

Great character cast with Charles Laughton, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Stuart, Lilian Bond, and Raymond Massey are the travellers. The Femm family are played by Ernest Thesiger (Bride of Frankenstein), Eva Moore, and Elspeth Dugdeon (billed as John Dugdeon) as the unforgettable Sir Roderick Femm, a 100+ year old bed ridden old man. Stage actor Brember Wills plays the insane Saul Femm. He is kept locked in a room until near the end of the film when the drunken butler lets him out. The main point he makes is he is not insane. Then he tried to burn down the house.