What movies have you seen recently?

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Antibirth.

Body horror film, in which a thirty something drug addict finds she's become pregnant after an incident at a party. Soon, she comes closer to term as her health deteriorates in horrific ways, all the while as she's looking for answers. Then there's the matter of who had impregnated her, and to what terrifying purpose.

Thank You For Smoking

Spiders 2: Breeding Ground (2001)


Technically the follow up to the original 'Spiders' B Movie from Hollywood-Nu Image films, but in fact with little connection to it. Set on board a decaying ship, this is actually the best of the four Octopus/Spider films on my 'Creature Features' dvd. Stars an actress called Stephanie Niznik in the lead role - I was sorry to learn that she died a few years ago in her early 50s, apparently as a result of alcoholic liver disease.

Oppenheimer. Finally got around to it. It was good.

I watched The Pidgeon Tunnel, which along with reading some of Adam Sisman's The Secret Life of John LeCarre, was pretty head-turning. What a headcase!

I know it looks kind of fluffy, but also kind of fun, so I'm looking forward to seeing Argylle when it's out on 2/2/24.
What do you think??

^^I’m looking forward to it! Am told it’s going to be huge!

Past Lives
Synopsis: Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Decades later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront destiny, love and the choices that make a life.



It was very good! Captivating. Romantic. Deep.

Buffalo Rider https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4170514

A great Thai movie. I highly recommend it.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfWn8Pwo95M

The Hold Overs.

Taking place in the Vietnam era, a dislikable history teacher at a prestigious boy's boarding school finds himself stuck watching the kids who are unable to go home for the Christmas holiday. Eventually, all the boys, save one (who is very troubled), get free to enjoy Christmas, leaving teacher, student, and the grieving cafeteria manager who had just lost her son, to spend the holiday together. Three very different people learn something about one another and themselves in this heartfelt comedy.
Highly recommended.

Having recently finished watching my way through the three Universal Horror Gill-Man movies:
□ Creature from the Black Lagoon [1954]
□ Revenge of the Creature [1955]
□ The Creature Walks Among Us [1956]

I chose to watch something with a somewhat similar monster:

It! The Terror from Beyond Space [1958]
<=>"It Breathes. It Hunts. It Kills!"



Um...this is a 1958 Sci-Fi B-movie set well into the future...1973.

According to IMDb it was filmed in six days. That probably explains the acting......but not the writing.

It is flawed in a number of ways. Possibly the best reason to watch the movie is to revel in its flaws. For instance:

□ They're going to presumably-uninhabited Mars to rescue any survivors from a previous mission.
<=>So they've got lots of firearms and ammunition.
<=>Which they fire inside the spaceship, in space!
<=>And a bazooka!
<=>Which they fire inside the spaceship, in space!
<=>And a lot of grenades.
<=>Which they use in booby traps inside the spaceship, in space!

□ Suppllies, chairs, etc., are just set around loose, not secured for weightlessness.
<=>Like the supply cabinet full of cigarette cartons.
<=>Which they need because they smoke a lot in the spaceship, in space!

□ The crew includes two women, a scientist and a doctor.
<=>But, they're women so they get to serve supper to the men.

The Holdovers. Excellent movie.

RedDeathFlower13 made me curious so last night we watched:

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? [1964]
<=>"SEE: the dancing girls of the carnival murdered by the incredible night creatures of the midway!
<=+=+=>"SEE: the hunchback of the midway fight a duel of death with the mixed up zombies!
<=+=+=+=+=>"SEE: the world's first monster musical!"



If you don't go in with your expectations set low then you should probably never talk to anyone selling anything.

Not Recommended Though, I did enjoy the musical numbers.

Room 237.

Various writers and critics talk about their opinions and insights into Stanley Kubrick's adaption of Stephen King's novel The Shining. I was left with the impression these people have way too much time on their hands, especially the guy who argued that there were secret hints left by Kubrick in the film about how he faked the moon landing video.
All in all, not particularly recommended, unless you enjoy scoffing at idiocy.

Freaks

All I can say is it was interesting

I watched Leave The World Behind

That was interesting too

And later on I'm gonna watch The Kitchen and that'll probably be interesting as well

The Kitchen

So it's like an up-to-date version of 1984 except told from the perspective of "The Proles".

I'd rate it as being Interesting