Just watched this earlier tonight.

Mortdecai. Mortdecrap.

A lot better film than I remember it being.

That's a weird-ass looking cover.

Taken 3

Isn't Maggie Grace too old to play a high schooler or college kid?

Constantine

She was in the first one so its no better now. For as much as I enjoyed the first one as the mindless rollercoaster ride it was, her playing a kid took me right out of the movie. If it was a male character it would be like having a 25 year old guy with a full beard playing a 10 year old.

Watched The Golden Compass (from the New Line 2-Disc Platinum Series) this evening...

Same here plus she is not really a good actress.

Son of a Gun

Note to self avoid all future movies with Brenton Thwaites.

Watched End of Days this evening...

Still Alice...still good even 2nd time around.
The Gambler...just laughable and yet i couldn't look away.

This was supposed to be a trilogy until The Golden Compass didn't do well at the box office.

Pitch Perfect

Would love to have seen the original cut of that movie, with the darker ending and Nonso Anozie as the voice of Iorek Byrnison.

Cake

Not as moving as I thought it would be

What you didn't like his 2012 redux of Blue Lagoon ?

Finished the Hobbit 3D trilogy. To me they got better with each movie, found the first one long and a bit silly at times. Third one was good length. Not sure if I'll invest in the extended editions as the first two were a bit of a struggle to view but maybe some day.

He was in that?

All I know is I saw him in The Giver and The Signal and both movies sucked.

This weekend I got through True Blood, Season 6

Reynolds effortless charm seems to wear out about midway through and everything about this movie becomes forced and awkward- including some inane tonal shifts from brutal, gritty crime drama to cutesy comedic hi-jinks and back. Despite enjoying Reynolds back in the day, I knew there was a good reason I never sought out these pre Smokey films. Image quality looked good, but this goes down as one blind buy I really regret.



Not only was the 3D as great as the aficionados have been saying, but the actual movie and songbook were much more enjoyable and breezy than I was expecting.
As far as the former goes, this probably is the best use of 3D in a golden age film I've seen yet. The meta aspect of the play within a play is heightened dramatically with the shifts between the audiences POV ( from far deep in the balcony) and performers stage POV looking out onto the full house. In addition there is a riot of color with the purposefully garish theatrical costumes and makeup, and great choreography. I don't know if I would have appreciated it's numerous virtues without the novelty of the 3D. But with it in the mix, this turned out to be one of my favorite 'classic' blind buys.



Beautiful film/ character study concerning a low life, ne'er do wells pull towards vengeance after his girlfriend is killed during a robbery. The slow, dispassionate style (almost Kubrickian in that sense) combined with the extraordinary quiet (there is no score that I can remember, only ambient sound) really pulled me in and kept me riveted as did the various moral quandaries. Took me a few years to finally get around to watching it, but it didn't disappoint.



Slashers and giallo movies both leave me pretty cold. But I am a fan of Bava and because of that, and the films highly praised sense of color and atmospherics, I've been wanting to see it for many years now. Given Tim Lucas's involvement I assume this is more correct a presentation that not. Either way it's a stunning looking film. The story itself wasn't bad either. The 'stalk and kill' slasher aspect isn't just for arbitrary gore or jump scares but fully rooted in a mystery plot, complete with a brief MacGuffin and a roster of likely suspects. Everything comes together nicely, and in the realms of this genre, more or less logically, at the end making this a satisfying thriller that lived up mostly to it hype over the years. In fact, it even seems better the more I reflect on it.
The image on this region free import (the US release is delayed) is ravishing.



Kinski, in full sex kitten mode, is eye candy- but the movie itself concerning a May December fling complicated by the uncertainty that Kinski may actually be his daughter by an old lover, is just weak. It's also hard to muster up much enthusiasm or sympathy for the leads plight when the object of his infatuation is a typical 19 year old impulsive flake. Pretty dire stuff made all the more infuriating by the quality of the Cult Epics Bd which is absolutely the worst BD I've ever seen. In fact, this upscaled from SD abomination has more standard def artifacts than most MODs I've seen.
This clearly should never have been offered as a Bd and I really feel ripped off by CE. BTW, the various screenshot floating around in reviews don't do this justice. It looks FAR worse in motion.

Sunshine (2007)

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)