Tocky on 26/10/2024 at 02:15
Love and monsters. I almost didn't watch it because, you know, Luuuuuuurrrrve. But I really luuuuuuurrrrved it. It's not some treacly love story. It's like what would happen to humanity after The Mist. The monsters have driven man into isolated colonies and Joel manages to reach his high school girlfriend on a ham radio. Since he feels useless to his current colony he sets out to meet up with her over eighty miles away, which is far when you have to do it through monsters and on foot. Joel is a good guy and he turns out to be better at things than he thinks. He meets interesting people who teach him things and it's obvious he cares in his haphazard newbie way.
I don't want to give too much away but it leaves you feeling good about our chances against all sorts of monsters. And there is all kinds of love, all of them worth making the trip.
Harvester on 31/10/2024 at 22:10
My Halloween horror movie that I rented tonight: Late Night With The Devil. A movie to watch if you think they don't make horror movies with original premises anymore.
Kamlorn on 22/12/2024 at 20:08
A Woman Under the Influence. I can't understand what's happening there but I can't tear myself away from the screen. Some kind of wizardry.
Harvester on 29/12/2024 at 21:58
Naomi Scott’s stellar performance in Smile 2 goes beyond mere scream queen territory and should be winning major awards if the horror genre were taken more seriously than it is. The movie itself is not a cookie-cutter sequel, it finds a new, fresh angle. It’s a solid horror flick but also about the perils and pitfalls of being famous. Ending was a bit rushed though. 8/10.
Other contenders for major awards are Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley in The Substance, also its director and the prosthetic effects team, this is some excellent Cronenberg style body horror stuff while also being about beauty standards imposed upon women. 9/10
And now I want to see Nosferatu.
taffernicus on 29/12/2024 at 23:14
I recently watched wings of desire (1987) featuring bruno ganz, I didn't think I would like a movie like that, full of poetry.
demagogue on 30/12/2024 at 19:38
Bobby Fingers versus the drummer
[video=youtube;NF4VJJKTjy8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF4VJJKTjy8[/video]
Nicker on 6/1/2025 at 06:22
Stumbled over this and had to share. Scale 1/50 car and roadway.
[video=youtube;riehhgKlRwo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riehhgKlRwo[/video]
Tocky on 17/1/2025 at 03:12
I've taken some suggestions and watched Late Night With the Devil and Smile 2 (despite the teeth grindingly terrible music) and found them watchable and interesting but lacking something and it's not really in the movies but in me. I feel like I've seen everything before and the only thing getting through is the shock value and that's just... okay. The thing lacking is a newness of seeing something for the first time. So I've been watching old stuff. One of those is the Quantum Leap series and damned if I didn't just watch season 1 episode 7 and see Driving Miss Daisy. Same premise and half the same plot, it's obviously the genesis of that movie.
Anyway that isn't what I came to talk about. You won't give a damn about this show if you haven't busted a knuckle under and old car before but Roadworthy Rescues is hilarious. Nothing goes right for this guy just as it never does when fixing an old car but he keeps at it with a dogged determination as one must if you are to bring one back from the grave. They are absolutely NOT roadworthy when he starts on them. But I love the guy for bringing back these old rides that do not deserve to rust into the ground. An old 68 Grand Torino? A 60 El Camino? A 70 Charger? You don't let those die.
And, as I say, he is after my own heart. I've spent many evenings and weekends getting rust in my eyes and chewing spider webs myself so Derek is a hero to me. And he comes up with the funniest crap in the middle of stuff that would keep me out of the garage for weeks in heartbreak. He calls the smell of an old car sitting for decades a cross between a baby changing table and antique dust. He calls a battery a sparky box. He calls a fuel pump a gas-make- it- goer. The guy knows his shit though. I would never attempt to update a distributer, for instance, but he shows you exactly how he does it and why and by the end of the show he has a car to drive across country in. Some things he won't do like gasket roping in an old back glass I've done so it's a tradeoff.
He shortcuts some stuff like with body fill foam and wipe on clear and he admits he is doing it but you gotta forgive the guy because his mechanics are sound as fuck. I just can't do the shit any more or maybe I just don't want to but I admire the hell out of him for spilling the shit out of some trans fluid and finding what still works and doesn't on these old beauties. He explains every thing he does with deadpan humor and insight and he delights in getting them back on the road where they belong. If it didn't hurt so much getting off of my knees I wouldn't mind being beside him working too.
