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This so looks like a certain videogame franchise.
The film is ok but more war than horror.
This so looks like a certain videogame franchise.
It appears that the new Hellboy is as bad as the trailers looked:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hellboy_2019
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottm...-spider-man-hulk-fantastic-four/#113a6d463ccd
I'm seeing it on Sunday, I'll report back.
If you give it more than 5/10 I shall never speak to you again.
It obviously deserves 8/10!
'Dinner for One'
Whilst not sure this qualifies, will chance it as I thought this was a fascinating story.
https://www-telegraph-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/23/dinner-one-british-comedy-beloved-germans-finally-gets-home/amp/?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQCCAE=#referrer=https://www.google.com&_tf=From %1$s&share=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/23/dinner-one-british-comedy-beloved-germans-finally-gets-home/
Thanks for mentioning this, just gives the extraordinary story some real meaning!My (German) grandparents *always* watched this on New Year's Eve. Absolute tradition, not to be messed with.
Anyone seen Under the Silver Lake? Recipient of a Kermodian Rant, but I thought it was really captivating, and nowhere near as flattering to its main character as he did. If anything, the film was ripping the piss out of the Andrew Garfield character at every turn, and believed he deserved it, too.
It's sort of an indictment of lazy internet conspiracy theorising through accumulation of trivia and subjects you don't know enough about. If that sounds dry, it's not, it uses the weirdness to its advantage. Pity it's been so badly distributed, really, but a definite cult movie in the making. From the same director as It Follows - I preferred this one, not by much, but I do prefer it, it weaves a spell.
I missed it, only got a limited release here and some bad reviews. I'll catch it online.
Operation Avalanche
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0004pcc/operation-avalancheTwo young CIA agents are sent to NASA, under the false pretence of making a documentary, to investigate reports of a mole. But once there, they become entangled in a much bigger conspiracy involving the Apollo 11 mission and the filming techniques of director Stanley Kubrick.
Anyone seen Under Silver Lake? Not certain, but I think I love it. Will watch again tonight to be sure. Very different.
Birds of Passage: Co-directed By Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, this a tale of love, war and vengeance set in an isolated society which encounters unmediated modernity. Guerra's previous film, Embrace of the Serpent told the tale of journeys up the Amazon in search of a sacred plant, on this occasion the holy herb is marijuana. A story of the tight bonds between families linked into clans set in Colombia, showing the traditional dances performed when a young woman comes of age, dressed like a colourful bird in robes of red as she swoops on her male partner. How the male must raise a dowry, moving from smuggling whiskey and trading in coffee to supplying americans with marijuana.
Entering the drug trade leads to changes, instead of living in huts, an Art Deco house is built in the desert scrub and a hillside hacienda becomes an LA mansion complete with swimming pool. The Matriarch of the family s a seer, keeper of the Talisman which protects the household from harm. She divines dreams and from an early stage sees doom approach. Though Matriarch she may be, it is the men who have the final say when it comes to trade and violence which puts everything at risk. Beautifully filmed and based on a true story story Birds of Passage tells of the downfall of a way of life as a region is torn by internecine strife between 1960 and 1980. 9/10.
Great film. Embrace of the Serpent was terrific too. Both involve indigenous beliefs, customs etc in isolated communities clashing with encroaching/invasive modernity.
I think most of the cast are not actually 'actors' but indigenous people - Embrace of the Serpent certainly - which gives the films a strong basis. Cinematography in both is excellent.
What?? The Banana Splits allowed themselves to be turned into a horror film?The Banana Splits are back... in some sort of horror movie...
Well whilst searching for the dvd of this I have discovered there is a porn version of the Banana Splits!What?? The Banana Splits allowed themselves to be turned into a horror film?
Whatever next.
LOL sorry about my earlier pre-empt. I must have dreamed it. Nice review - a multiverse thing by the sounds.
Don't waste your time on Starfish. Convoluted, dense, but despite those qualities it is very boring. I confess at the halfway point or very shortly before, I started jump skipping the file to see if there was anything going to occur. Not that I could see or hear. I don't do that more than in 1 of 10 films I view. It was disappointing. 2/5
The reason I looked at it was because the RT rating was critics 97%. Should have applied a bit of evaluation at that point, because the audience score was less than 50% and many of the red tomato critic reviews were all "despite some acting bravery and visual excitement, it was adequate". How so many said basically exactly the same thing is striking. And that's what boosted the tomatometer I spose. Seems the raters are not able to figure this one out and preferred to err on the side of safety. Emperor's new clothes.
Glance at a still of Taxandria, and you’re likely to think you’ve found a vault of long lost Surrealist paintings – which wouldn’t be completely inaccurate. Servais was heavily inspired by the Belgian surrealists, including Magritte, Ensor and Paul Delvaux and brought their paintings to life in Taxandria. The film perfected his technique of “Servaisgraphy”, a mixing of his own animation, as well as live images and actors.
“I created [the Servaisgraphy] system [for the whole film],” Servais said in an interview, “though, for various reasons, it was only used for the sets. The compositing itself was done using computers. Unless I am mistaken, until Toy Story, Taxandria used more digital images than any other feature film.” The movie was filmed in Budapest in 1989, but took five years in post-production until it was ready for release.
Raoul Servais, animator of Taxandria
The plot of the film is rather dizzying: an eccentric lighthouse keeper shows a curious young prince the way to the kingdom of “Taxandria”, where everyone lives in a state of the “eternal present”, wherein no technological progress can be made as per the local dictator’s decree. They have no past or present, women are kept away from men and everything is stifled by a bloated absurd, Kafkaesque bureaucracy. The Prince meets an inventor named Aimé who dreams of flying away, making new inventions and yearns to learn about his country’s past. Love, time, the black humour of endless bureaucracy – they’re all fodder to be picked apart through Servais’ gaze…
The whole thing is a mood board of dystopian Art Nouveau, bendy buildings reminiscent of Christopher Nolan’s 2010 Inception, and steampunk fantasy. You may also notice a similarity to the work of fellow Belgian artist François Schuiten’s Obscure Cities (Les Cités Obscures). As it turns out, François was the film’s production manager. In fact, throughout Schuiten’s cult graphic-novel series, characters refer to the vanished city-state of “Taxandria” which was accidentally removed from the planet during a failed scientific experiment.