What is the best recent movie you’ve seen.
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I just saw it tonight. Kind of reminded me of "Nobody", but better. Jack Quaid is always great in these comedic roles. Action's pretty decent too.
If you want another great Jack Quaid movie with a good gimmick, I'd recommend "Companion". It's even better than Novacaine, imho.
The Sex bot movie? I have it in my backlog but it does not seem much of an action movie no? More like a horror thriller?
There's some action, but it's definitely not a horror (imho). More like a thriller/comedy maybe.
I saw this movie with 2 of my friends a couple weeks ago (we followed it with Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette.. completely different vibe! I hadn't seen it in a while)
It was adorable
All 3 of us shed a few tears.Recently a movie that really caught my attention was ''Babygirl'' with Nicole Kidman. I've watched a lot of movies in the past few weeks (in between episodes of The White Lotus) and I will say that one was a masterpiece in my opinion. I love erotic thrillers.
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Top Gun Maverick had me actually show up at the movie theater to see it and didn't mind paying $22 either.
"Oh, wait ... I can have this?"
Professor Pam, geeking-out in the Criterion Closet, so sweet & unaffected, sharing an infectious love of movie history.
She clearly knows her stuff ... would love to see her in that desired remake of Summertime, I can totally see it, especially as dressed here, complete with librarian glasses.
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She's so cute!! Yes her tastes in movies are great!!!
"How dark do you want to go?"
A line near the beginning of David Cronenberg's bleakly witty, uniquely unsettling & very personal (one senses) new film The Shrouds.
The main actor, Vincent Cassel, looks remarkably like Cronenberg himself. And the autobiographical elements are strong, as the main character (like Cronenberg) has recently lost his wife of many decades, so it's very much a work about grief, and maybe for that reason a film not for everyone.
I recently saw again The Fly, which holds up remarkably well, and I'm hoping to see again, this week, Scanners for the first time since its original release. And like those films, 'body horror' is very much to the fore in The Shrouds.
Looking back on his career its been remarkably strong and consistently so throughout. And The Shrouds features many familiar themes and character dynamics.
A line near the beginning of David Cronenberg's bleakly witty, uniquely unsettling & very personal (one senses) new film The Shrouds.
The main actor, Vincent Cassel, looks remarkably like Cronenberg himself. And the autobiographical elements are strong, as the main character (like Cronenberg) has recently lost his wife of many decades, so it's very much a work about grief, and maybe for that reason a film not for everyone.
I recently saw again The Fly, which holds up remarkably well, and I'm hoping to see again, this week, Scanners for the first time since its original release. And like those films, 'body horror' is very much to the fore in The Shrouds.
Looking back on his career its been remarkably strong and consistently so throughout. And The Shrouds features many familiar themes and character dynamics.
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I would agree with the John Woo style comparison. To say this movie was action packed would be an accurate description. But I would go further and say that in addition to the very high, John Wick-like body count, I believe this move sets the record for most shots fired on screen during a motion picture. It had to be in the thousands of rounds, although to keep count would be impossible. Virtually all of the characters in this film are armed with assault rifles, and the ones who die don't get shot 2 or 3 or even 10 times, they die in a hail of 30 or more gunshots. It's something of a masterpiece of gun violence, this film. Don't get me wrong, I am not praising the film for it. It was entertaining, on one level, but on another level it was either vastly excessive or an outrageous orgy of gun violence, depending on how you want to view it.
The Fly traumatized me as a kid so of course I became obsessed with body horror as an adult hehe. I wasn't too impressed with "Crimes of the future" and I didn't even know Cronenberg had a new film coming out.. very curious now
I'm a fan of Cronenberg. I recently saw Videodrome, and found it to be quite the trip (strange things going on, with plenty of gore near the end). I'm planning on seeing Scanners soon.
I've seen The Fly before back when it came out in the 80s (probably the best I've seen from him so far), and then I saw Dead Ringers a few years ago.
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