What movies have you seen recently?

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Plane (2023)

Twins
Fun little film. I really like Danny Devito

I don't want many movies. The last one I watched was Don't Look Up a few weeks ago. It was mostly good, just very awkward to watch.

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, which I think is the peak of human cinema

The Void

The Court Jester (a period comedy starring Angela Lansbury and Danny Kaye)

Knock at the Cabin (2023)

Went to the theater to see this. I enjoyed it very much. You're kept guessing throughout the movie about what is really going on. Four people arrive at a cabin and tell the two men and their adopted daughter that one of them (of the three) must volunteer to be sacrificed to save the world from the apocalypse. Four predictions are made. They will be asked four times if one of them will volunteer to be sacrificed? When they say no, one of the predictions come true. The last prediction is darkness will cover the sky.

I enjoyed the story and the movie. I've said it before. I like the way M. Night Shyamalan tells a story.

Dave Bautista is excellent. The rest of the cast is good too.

Dead Space: Aftermath.

Last night I watched:

The Invisible Man Returns [1940]
<=>"They hear him! They feel him! But they can't stop him!"



One of Vincent Price's first films—released when he was 28.

The film is OK. Not great but not unpleasant to watch.

A Man Called Otto (2023)

I enjoyed the film very much. It was very good.

The last movie I watched was "Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation."

Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1958)

A ridiculous tale of revolution, dynastic intrigue and diplomatic bungling centring on developments in the former British colony of Gaillardia, which appears to be somewhere in the South Atlantic, but then again it is supposed to be a comedy.

Stars Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas and Ian Bannen. The 'FO' (Foreign Office) is the British equivalent of the American State Department.

Violent Night.

Very fun black comedy where a world weary, cynical Santa Claus regains his faith in Christmas when he has to save a little girl from robbers and mercenaries out to kill her rich family.

Supersize Me (2004)

Don't get me wrong, this is a film that's well worth watching, but as a 20-year-long McDonald's fan and a dyed in the wool cynic as well, I have to view Morgan Spurlock's thesis in a, er,...cynical light. Here is a guy whose girlfriend is a vegan chef, and who clearly has a point to prove, and virtually the whole film runs on rails towards that end.

Spurlock devotes himself to eating fast food three times a day for a whole month, then invites us to be surprised by the fact that his physical condition shows some decline over that period. Really, lol? The bit that sticks in my mind, and probably in many other viewers' minds, is when he throws up out of his car window on camera after eating his first 'supersized' Big Mac. Almost as if it had been scripted. Hmmmm......