Rented both of these yesterday from my local video store.

Once Upon a Time in Shanghai was a mediocre period martial arts flick. Some decent fight scenes, but I've seen this type of story before about a poor guy who comes to the big city and then trouble starts.

Really enjoyed The Maze Runner. Decent young adult cast and some good action and special FX. Glad it did really well at the box office and there will be a sequel.

I liked maze runner as well. Will admit to being confused about the twist at the end.

Watched last night:

The Drop
Lucy

No! The movie that cost Goodfellas the best picture Oscar.

Close encounter of the third kind..I haven't seen it in ages.

Got see a 35mm print last year. Wonder if there's a sequel where Teri Garr has to raise her children by herself because her husband aribrarily decided to blast off into space .

Sin City. Now hopefully I'll get around to Sin City 2 tonight.

You can never go wrong with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. The CinemaScope transfer is okay, though Fox didn't give it a lavish restoration.

http://www.doblu.com/2013/12/19/desk...lu-ray-review/

Last night was "what the f#%! is going on in your head" theme night



Nifty, modestly mounted dark fantasy/thriller yarn anchored by a great performance by Lino Ventura alongside solid (but one note) Richard Burton and Lee Remick. Enjoyed it quite a bit with only some unfortunately dodgy practical effects at the end breaking the spell.
A more solid release than I was expecting from Hen's Tooth. Competent encoding and compression from an fully adequate transfer for this 1978 film.


Trippy, Euro comic book sci-fi/fantasy ala Besson. A blind buy that I enjoyed even more than I'd hoped to. Sublime eye/head candy with another thoughtful performance from SJ and Freeman exceeding his similar exposition depositing supporting turns in the Nolan Batman movies.
The A/V is simply among the best I've ever seen on my system- maybe THE best. And Besson presents it as a fully saturated, FULL color film. No Teal & Orange or Synder-esque desaturation/over cranking of the contrast. It's a gorgeous looking disc.

I remember that quote from earlier in this thread.

White Bird In a Blizzard from the same guy who did Mysterious Skin.

Executive Decision

Bought it during my WBshop buying binge in 2014 and now regret it.

Pleasant Woody Allen rom-com. The only thing I found strange was the 28 year difference between Colin Firth and Emma Stone. Of course that's not much for Woody, but for the rest of us it seems strange

Star Trek The Next Generation Season 7.

This Is Where I Leave You...

Tusk

Funny and freaky

Noah (Darren Aronofsky, 2014)

Captain America 2: Winter Soldier

Apologies then.

Kind of a sucker for sexual awakening dramas, may check this out.

I would give it 2 1/2, We thought it had some laughs. Not great but fun enough.

If you want to see more of Shailene Woodley unclothed then White Bird is for you and Christopher Meloni is not the typical tough guy in that movie.

The Good Lie

Throne of Blood Criterion

Star Trek Insurrection
Star Trek Nemesis

I still don't get the dislike for Insurrection and the downright hate that Nemesis get. Love both and watch them along with the other two TNG films often.