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Hell yes, Feb 5&6 in the US, 4K remaster

https://www.fathomevents.com/events/hellraiser-remastered/

Se7en in IMAX last night was a revelation, immersed in John Doe's world like never before ... only one screening per cinema here so gotta catch it while you can

Robin and Marian (1976)

Star-studded cast featuring Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Richard Harris, Ian Holm, Ronnie Barker; with the most most likeable being Nicol Williamson as Little John, and the standout character being Kenneth Haigh playing the Sheriff of Nottingham as not the usually dementedly evil character, but instead a cool-headed and near-lackadaisical fellow. Some nice cinematography at points, decent action and good humour makes this a solidly watchable film.

  On 1/15/2025 at 1:22 PM, Schlitze said:

Se7en in IMAX last night was a revelation, immersed in John Doe's world like never before ... only one screening per cinema here so gotta catch it while you can

one of the greatest-looking movies of all time, before you even start talking about its other strengths.

this was on sum xtrab-gradetype weirdtiem-travelvapor vhsshii :

nosferatu -

Anora was fantastic. I love Sean Baker and this might be his best film yet.

  On 12/31/2024 at 1:28 PM, Caged Element said:

Wallace & Grommit: Vengeance Most Fowl.

Never watched any of this series before. I loved it.

  On 1/23/2025 at 10:17 AM, Hail Sagan said:

Never watched any of this series before. I loved it.

You'll love Curse of the Were-Rabbit then.

saw Nosferatu in the theater today. i was the only one there. 3pm showing. nice. worth seeing in the theater. nosferatu's voice and breathing is intense. really amazing job on the voice. i had to look up who played him when i got home and surprised it was bill skarsgard. no idea how he got his voice that low. 

anyway, solid/convincing performances all around and a nice take on the tale. nosferatu character definitely has a more ruinous vibe than previous incarnations that i've seen. 

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo. Highly recommended.If you are not French do not watch a dubbed version. This one needs to be watched in French as it was intended to. For extra enjoyment drink a red wine while watching. 

  On 1/24/2025 at 5:15 AM, ignatius said:

saw Nosferatu in the theater today. i was the only one there. 3pm showing. nice. worth seeing in the theater. nosferatu's voice and breathing is intense. really amazing job on the voice. i had to look up who played him when i got home and surprised it was bill skarsgard. no idea how he got his voice that low. 

anyway, solid/convincing performances all around and a nice take on the tale. nosferatu character definitely has a more ruinous vibe than previous incarnations that i've seen. 

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Robert Eggers’ next film is “Werwulf”

 https://variety.com/2025/film/news/robert-eggers-werwulf-christmas-2026-release-focus-features-1236282154/

Kept reading that Nosferatu was the horniest vampire film ever.

Have people gotten so afraid of sex and nudity that literally ONE sex scene and a vampire penis is enough for people to label a movie as horny as fuck?

Anyway, besides the movie not being horny and erotic, it sure as shit wasn't very good either.

Nosferatu was pretty good, but I always like Eggers, Bill and Dafoe. 

Longlegs turned out excruciatingly dull and disappointing. What a fumble. 

The Substance was a little fun towards the end but also insanely stupid, there was no reality anywhere to anchor the plot. I think Triangle of Sadness was way more fun in its satire and ick-factor. Maybe I missed something not seeing it in a packed cinema of Karens. 

I too, watched Nosferatu. Very pretty pictures, but I was mostly super bored.

  On 1/15/2025 at 1:22 PM, Schlitze said:

Se7en in IMAX last night was a revelation, immersed in John Doe's world like never before ... only one screening per cinema here so gotta catch it while you can

Was that the best you ever got in a cinema?

  On 1/27/2025 at 2:03 AM, Mattthegoone said:

Was that the best you ever got in a cinema?

Well I ruined that Dennis Pennis joke

the brutalist - most of the thought required during this is actually in pondering how and why it's been so lauded as great, rather than as familiar, uninspired and ordinary. bar one or two key cast, the acting is nigh on awful. the story is empty of original ideas, but successfully recycles points similar to those made elsewhere. this might just be a case of wanting to promote a particular film, director or lead that it feels as though it's the right time for ... but other films have done this kind of content better. i've not personally seen any film cover the creative process or architecture directly, but this doesn't really do that very much at all either.

Gladiator 2 - I feel disgusted and violated. Denzel being Denzel was a tiny respite in this coliseum-sized sack of shitty excuse for a film. The flashbacks are like when that ship in the third Matrix rises for a second above the clouds and right after it's back into the hellhole that is modern big budget filmmaking... Which makes them even more offensive, it's just Scott trying to invoke old merits with zero substance. Nobody in the film has any gravitas except for Denzel, the CGI is ridiculously ugly in some parts. The whole visual look is desaturated and lifeless. The story is needlessly complicated and nonsensical. This sequel makes about as much sense as a Titanic 2 where Rose and her son take a new cruise that's three times the size, sinks, and it's peppered with flashbacks and random ham fisted quotes from the first film. 

Wolfs - kinetic action flick with two over the hill narcissistic actors playing two over the hill narcissistic hitmen 8/10

Back in Action - really tired "mom & dad are spies?" tropes, but collapses about an hour in, we gave up on it 5/10

Den of Thieves - this was surprisingly good & it's a franchise now, some of the personal life drama went nowhere though, red pill culture 8.5/10

Straight Outta Compton - very "best of" scenes from NWA's history, lots got left out (like domestic abuse), and I wanted to see Suge Knight dangle Vanilla Ice out of a window 8/10

The Brutalist

is it pretty? Certainly. Watched in 70mm and enjoyed the style.

is it also very much heaving under its own heavy handed gravitas? Oh boy yes.

edit it’s also very long.

in the intermission, we left to go get snacks. I had a whole tube of Pringles and a bag of gummy bears for dinner.

Someone dropped a bag of M&Ms on the floor & half the cinema laughed at the individual chocolate nut balls rolling downhill towards the screen, for comical relief.

  On 1/26/2025 at 12:06 AM, Squee said:

Kept reading that Nosferatu was the horniest vampire film ever.

i haven't read the original story in book form but a friend has and said it's super rapey. shrug. i do think that there's a general vibe to vampire stories of all kinds that permeates the culture and lore that vampires are super fuckable or something. 

  On 1/28/2025 at 7:25 PM, ignatius said:

i haven't read the original story in book form but a friend has and said it's super rapey. shrug. i do think that there's a general vibe to vampire stories of all kinds that permeates the culture and lore that vampires are super fuckable or something. 

Yeah, that's true, but I also think people's view of nudity and sex has gone completely off the rails. Remember how people went completely nuts over the nudity in Oppenheimer. It was a pair of breasts and there were headlines that said that there was FULL FRONTAL NUDITY in Oppenheimer.
When did people turn into such prudes? I mean, Americans have always been afraid of nudity, but this seems crazy even for them.

'A different man'

I guess I went in with very high expectations, didn't hate it -okay i did kinda hate it a lil- but also didn't care much for it. Made me think A24 has grown beyond their capacity to find good projects, but that's just me being an asshole.

'Flow'

It's cute.

'Covenant'

I enjoyed this one.