What is the best recent movie you’ve seen.

[philonius]

One old, one new:

Just rewatched 12 Angry Men. So flipping good.

And Sinners. Maybe the best mainstream movie this year.

 

[Meta not Meta]

Seeing it again a few years really surprised me. It's not some Hollywood fantasy. The thing that really stands out today about Saturday Night Fever is its fairly gritty, working-class aesthetic and raw depiction of Brooklyn life in the 1970s. And to that extent it has a lot more in common with Taxi Driver than an unsuspecting viewer only familiar with the soundtrack might expect. I mean, there's crumbling infrastructure everywhere, economic stagnation, and dead-end jobs, contrasting with the disco’s escapist glamour [which itself is small and not exactly that glamorous]. But the disco is all the Travolta character has, and provides his life with meaning, identity, transcendence, etc. Gotta be better than his job in a paint store, right!

 

[Doc Holliday]

But the disco is all the Travolta character has, and provides his life with meaning, identity, transcendence, etc. Gotta be better than his job in a paint store, right!

I agree. The Travolta character is one of society’s losers but inside a discotheque he’s king of the world! He’s like one of those great rock lead singer who can mesmerize & take over an audience! He’s like Freddie Mercury, Roger Daltrey, Bono or Mick Jagger when he’s on the dance floor! Back when i first watched it 15 years ago i compared his character to legendary porn stars like John Holmes, Rocco Siffredi & Tom Byron in that before they became famous in porn they were pretty much losers & nobodies in their personal lives but similar to Tony Manero & dancing they were kings of fucking! Manero’s profiency at dancing was how they depend on their penis & what they can do with it!

 

[Doc Holliday]

Clown in a Cornfield (2025)
Recent slasher that i hadn’t really planned on watching and that i’m so glad i did! I really loved that movie and found it entertaining as hell! I’d describe it as an horror/mystery/comedy thriller which doesn’t fail in the gore department & the unexpected humorous moments! This is one of the best movies of its genre that i’ve seen in recent time & it was filmed in Canada with mostly Canadian actors. I dont want to spoil it for you so i won’t say more. I’m about to go watch it again! Lol