Recent Viewings, Part 2

[indianasmith]

WILD-EYED AND WICKED (2023) A young woman named Lilly is haunted by the memory of her mother's suicide, but when she returns to her Dad's rural horse farm where her mother killed herself twenty years earlier, she discovers her mother was driven to despair by an evil spirit that has haunted the family for generations - and decides to rid the family of its curse with some old-fashioned cold steel.
  Very slow at first, picked up the pace a little before the end.  Moderately entertaining. 2.5- 3 /5

[Rev. Powell]

GHOSTLIGHT (2024): A construction worker who's suffered a family tragedy finds participating in a community theater production of "Romeo and Juliet" therapeutic. Many people will find this deeply moving, although sometimes the script can be a bit clumsily in advancing us towards the characters' big acting moments. 3/5.

[lester1/2jr]

The Only Way Out (2021) - Serbian crime drama that was easy to watch but ultimately pretty disposable. A lady gradually recovers her memory regarding a horrible night. As one reviewer asked: Why would she lose her memory? My answer: because it let them slowly move the plot around piece by piece!

It's basically about as a good as an episode of Dateline or something. workmanlike

4/5

[pacman000]

Tom Sawyer

Early 70's musical version put out by Readers Digest. Songs by the Sherman Brothers; score by John Williams, so you know the music is good.

Moves some of the plot points around, but is overall a worthwhile adaptation.

[indianasmith]

Thanksgiving Double Feature:

TIME CUT (2024)  A high school senior from our time finds herself transported back to 2003, one week before her older sister is killed by an unknown slasher.  Will she try to save her sister, and in so doing change our timeline forever - and possibly erase her own existence?   Of course she will!  This was a pretty fun Netflix original. 3.5/5

PRIMAL RAGE (2018)  One of the better "Angry Bigfoot" movies I have seen in a while. A former convict, just released from prison, is picked up by his wife and then gets involved in a car accident. As they wander through the woods, they find themselves stalked by an angry, bow-wielding sasquatch and threatened by a hunting party of local rednecks.  This one was a repeat viewing but I enjoyed it just as much on the second outing!  4/5

[Trevor]

GHOSTLIGHT (2024): A construction worker who's suffered a family tragedy finds participating in a community theater production of "Romeo and Juliet" therapeutic. Many people will find this deeply moving, although sometimes the script can be a bit clumsily in advancing us towards the characters' big acting moments. 3/5.

That is one I will keep a eye out for, Rev 😊🐢

[Rev. Powell]

GHOSTLIGHT (2024): A construction worker who's suffered a family tragedy finds participating in a community theater production of "Romeo and Juliet" therapeutic. Many people will find this deeply moving, although sometimes the script can be a bit clumsily in advancing us towards the characters' big acting moments. 3/5.

That is one I will keep a eye out for, Rev 😊🐢

Let me know what you think if you do, I do think most people will like it more than me and not care about the script issues as much as I did.

[Trevor]

GHOSTLIGHT (2024): A construction worker who's suffered a family tragedy finds participating in a community theater production of "Romeo and Juliet" therapeutic. Many people will find this deeply moving, although sometimes the script can be a bit clumsily in advancing us towards the characters' big acting moments. 3/5.

That is one I will keep a eye out for, Rev 😊🐢

Let me know what you think if you do, I do think most people will like it more than me and not care about the script issues as much as I did.

Will do.

Regarding scripts, most of the films I assisted on seemed to have their scripts written on the back of a pack of cigarettes 😳😉😉

[Dr. Whom]

Eraserhead

I have put off watching this ever since my student days. I'm not a big fan of David Lynch, I find his gratuitous weirdness annoying. This one didn't change my mind, but I was pleasantly surprised that it is largely a silent move with a soundscape.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Moonraker" (1979)
In Roger Moore's biggest James Bond adventure yet, 007 travels to Italy, Brazil, and finally into outer space, where supervillain Hugo Drax plans to wipe out humanity from his own Death Star space station.
This obvious attempt to ride the coat tails of the late 70s  "Star Wars" craze is utterly ridiculous, but it's also a ton of silly, action packed fun. This one's always been a sentimental fave for me, as it was the first Bond movie I saw as a kid.

[Rev. Powell]

Eraserhead

Arguably my favorite film of all time. 

DAHOMEY: This documentary tracks the return of 26 stolen artifacts to Benin from France. Oddly structured, it's important and reverent, but even at just over an hour it has long dull patches; the best parts are a lively debate about the event's significance by college students, and the fanciful poetic dialogue the writer (Mati Diop) puts into the wooden mouth of one of the statues ("number 26"). 3/5

[indianasmith]

MALEVOLENT (2018) - I had watched this one before a few years back, but I had forgotten enough about it to be entertained a second time around.  A team of phony "ghost hunters" make good money by exorcising restless spirits (using some clever electronic effects to do so), but when they get called to a remote country orphanage where five girls were murdered by the son of the stern headmistress, they discover the haunting is very real - and the killer is still lurking about.   Pretty well done, some good jump scares, and an interesting conclusion.  4/5

[RCMerchant]

Eraserhead

I have put off watching this ever since my student days. I'm not a big fan of David Lynch, I find his gratuitous weirdness annoying. This one didn't change my mind, but I was pleasantly surprised that it is largely a silent move with a soundscape.

Blasphemer!

[M.10rda]

Eraserhead

Arguably my favorite film of all time. 

It's close to my Top 5... what do we know, though?
Actually I was going to include it in the Top 25 Horror Movie list, too... then balked. I mean, it's not really a Horror movie. But then again, if ERASERHEAD isn't a terrifying nightmare, what is?

[FatFreddysCat]

"Cannonball!" (1976)
A $100,000 prize awaits the first driver to make it from Southern California to New York City in an underground, unsanctioned cross-country road rally that leads to lots of cars getting chased, crashed, and blown up real good.
Director Paul Bartel also made "Death Race 2000," and he re-unites some of that movie's cast (David Carradine, Mary Woronov, and even an uncredited cameo by Stallone) with a bunch of newcomers in an action flick with virtually no plot but lots of mayhem. 
A silly, but watchable B-movie that's allegedly based on a real, secret auto race that also inspired Burt Reynolds' "Cannonball Run" films.