The Batman vs Dracula animated film was a huge surprise. I knew I had to see it cause it sounds like the weirdest combo, and Peter Stomare voices Dracula which I could totally see working. This struck a nice balance with it trying to Batman's usual dark and edgy aesthetic that borders on being a neo...

Unranked At the Horizon - Takashi Makino / Manuel Knapp Cocote [Neck] - Nelson Carlo Los Santos Arias Good Time - Ben Safdie / Joshua Safdie Phantom Thread - Paul Thomas Anderson On the Beach at Night Alone - Hong Sang-soo Estiu 1993 [Summer 1993] - Carla Simón Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc [...

In no order but separated by tiers: 5/5 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001) Southland Tales (2006) Dark and Stormy Night (2009) Take Out (2004) Dream Journal 2016-2019 (2019) 4.5/5 Hard Hunted (1992) The Return of Bruno (1987) Leeches! (2003) The Dallas Connection...

Figured now's a good time to post this, as well as anyone else wanting to post highlights from this year. Here's my top 10 with links of some tracks in the spoilers (although #10 is a dj mix) 10. 40ozLuv - Hard Dance 183 (Hard Dance) 9. Bibiza - Wiener Schickeria (Falco for zoomers) 8. Jungstötter -...

Hard to Die AKA Sorority House Massacre 3 would either be the best or the most frustrating experience depending on your style of humour. It beats jokes to death to such an extreme degree... literally over a third of the film is dedicated to doing that for one joke. It's also so male gaze-y that it s...

Caught Between Worlds was quite well done, but not nearly good enough to make my list. I do love early CGI, but the vibe of this kind of felt wrong. It was more of a fever dream, which I prefer something more chill in the first place, and it lacked the top tier surrealism that you would see in somet...

I don't like Hamas. But they're a liberation party. And to ignore the colonial context of Israel is intellectual malpractice. Hamas exists to liberate Palestine from Israel. And all liberation parties are terrorists to those currently in power. I think Hamas has made great tactical and moral errors...

I've had former friends agree with me on how evil Israel is, until Hamas did that attack. Then celebs starting posting and those same friends would read them then tell me "Palestine has to lose because of Hamas". It's good riddance at this point tbh. And I thought people lacked intelligenc...

Yea I am huge into Palestine for years now, and this obviously made things a lot more serious. However, I've lost a lot of friends over it already (I'm pro-Palestine, and although Hamas did a terrible thing I saw it as inevitable pushback), so it's best not to post about it elsewhere.

AI has a good shot at becoming my #1 of the year tbh. So much dread in that film, but in a great way. What a performance by Haley Joel Osment too. Southern Comfort was also definitely worth watching. A documentary about a trans man dying of ovarian cancer, and is basically a slice of life depiction ...

I'll definitely check out what are on some lists here (tonight I'll see AI), but I have these on my watchlist: Caught Between Worlds Me Without You Sugar & Spice The Last Minute Staying on Top Perfect Lover Last Run Hornblower: Mutiny Xchange Brotherhood of the Wolf EDIT: A few more after lookin...

EDIT: Turned into final, UNRANKED ballot A.I. Artificial Intelligence The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra Josie and the Pussycats Domestic Violence Freddy Got Fingered The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Il mestiere delle armi [The Profession of Arms] Mulholland Dr. The Pricemaster Late Marri...

Purgatory is a straight to tv western that gave away its twist in an unfortunate way, but in terms of being fun it's definitely successful in doing that. It feels a lot like a very cheesy episode of Twilight Zone. I'd definitely recommend it to fans of weird westerns.

My all time favourite album

It reached #100 of all time on the RYM charts, but when that happened there was the brigade and it already fell down to #116.

Knock at the Cabin was definitely worth watching for Bautista's subdued performance. I did enjoy the set up of it too. However, they literally spent minutes explaining the meaning of it, which was a bit much to me, especially when I'm sure a lot of folks will know what it represents just by reading ...

greennui wrote: ↑Wed Jul 05, 2023 11:48 am New Zelda game is a masterpiece, played it every day for a month now.

It's kind of stressing me out after 50 hours or so. It feels like there's TOO much to do and it's starting to overwhelm me. Still, it's fantastic. It's not the best zelda, but it's certainly close.

Already posted this on ICM, just want the members here to see it too just in case A Labor of Love (1976) Corruption (1983) Beyond Dream's Door (1989) Curdled (1996) Clockwatchers (1997) The Yards (2000) The PriceMaster (2001) At the Horizon (2017) The Exigency (2019) Dream Journal 2016-2019 (2019) L...

love crimes is amazing, even in its compromised form. but i say this as someone who doesn't really like her earlier movies. should say i have no idea why working girls is less famous than born in flames. ooh good to hear! i'll start with that. agree re: working girls. to me it's a feminist / americ...

The Devil Conspiracy. The most fucked up film ever made, and I've seen some things https://twitter.com/PretentiousHip1/status/1633816866022907905 If I said the context of this scene... you would not believe me. It's from the director of a creationist doc that said the holocaust and communism was cau...

Back when it came out I REALLY loved Possessor. It was by Cronenberg's son, and it made him a director I really wanna look out for, and honestly thought he might eventually be in the same league as his dad. I was really hyped to see Infinity Pool. The first bit was fantastic. Showing the contrast be...

Finally a classic I've postponed for very long... Kurosawa's Ikiru . Liked it a lot, particularly everything surrounding and about Takashi Shimura's performance. Such a grey and belittled man trying to find his worth, he is so convincing that his character ends up even a bit exasperating and I feel...

The Exigency - The outsider art version of a blockbuster. It's better than most blockbusters thanks to its action sequences, and its subversion of tropes. It looks cheap, but the self-aware, absurdist humour was perfect. You can see the trailer here, but most of the humour is not there... it was a h...

Making all kinds of reasonable claims? i don't disagree with most stuff he says but he fails to say certain things or fails to make them more clear (in my view). (if me being him) would make it more clear that the paranoid Kremlin gangsters' demands for a buffer zone in CEE is not any sort of a rig...

Making all kinds of reasonable claims? I guess my opinion still stands that this is easily the best video made by a younger political youtuber LOL

This easily won the title for best album of the year, and is my favourite of the decade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du8HPKqHZcI

It's a longish video, but it seems to be a well-done video at least, with tons of sources. Anyone here can support these claims? If you just want a summary, apparently Zelenskyy was the catalyst that caused the war. The presidents before were pro-Russia, but he was the most populist president that w...

I am pro-Ukraine, but there's this one idiot on YouTube who is so dumb that I unsubscribed from people I like just so I won't hear about his takes secondhand. He was right about the war starting, and thinks he's better than everyone else because the more politically aware thought a war wasn't gonna ...

The Wolf of Snow Hollow was the perfect parody of those square face, huge jaw, alpha male lead type of films. A comedic horror with a cop that's incredibly oblivious and inept. It goes for that "quirky indie" tone but it suited the film very well.

Found this fantastic goth album. Feels a lot like Pearl Jam with Johnny Marr's guitar style. Turns out the band is quite huge in Spain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3trbXHMyxEY

Yea Canadian election is tomorrow. I heard my "leftist" roommate say that she wants to vote for the People's Party of Canada because "a party with a name like that must be good in representing the poor" and it was awkward to explain to her that that party is literally worse than ...