Kinds of Kindness. I’m not sure what I think. Totally fucking out there!
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Was set to see Kinds of Kindness but then decided I couldn’t face the deadpan dream-logic horror, so opted for A Quiet Place: Day One.
Way better than the second instalment but not as good as the first. A slightly uneasy marriage of large scale apocalyptic world-building and something more woozy and intimate. Held together for me by the brilliant Lupita Nyong’o.
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Longlegs. Of course, nowhere near as good as the hype or clever marketing campaign would suggest. Still a great deal of freaky fun.
The third act is a bit of a letdown but I’d still recommend seeing it in the cinema.
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Saw Longlegs as well. Won’t divulge any plot points (in line with the excellent marketing surrounding this film). Sound design was on point and some genuinely creepy moments that got through even my deadened, desensitised soul. It’s also funny in parts - if being shocked is funny to you. My mate and I exchanged a few big grins at the bonkers affectations and direction of Nic Cage. Definitely a big screen watch, the look of it is fantastic.
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Deadpool & Wolverine was a lot of fun. Complete pisstake out of Marvel and Superhero films in general. Extremely meta and 4th wall breaking. Dick jokes every other minute. Cameos galore
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Longlegs was a bit of a stinker. A24 hype machine? The dialogue was abysmal, we laughed out loud in a couple of places. Was like an episode of Scooby Doo 
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The trailer for Alien: Romulus looks good.
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It looks good - pitched somewhere between the styles of Alien and Aliens - but having watched the trailer, I feel like I’ve pretty much seen the film now. It gives way too much away.
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Totally agree, the new trailer showed way too much.
Some things we will avoid but then finally surrender to and watch as they are a “cultural touchstone” lol - this was one. Finally got around to it last week when my wife unceremoniously announced we were going to give it a go as it was being referenced everywhere. Something was a bit off–the settings & time period markers were present & correct if not quite believable. It felt as if Brideshead, Ripley, and–not least–Kind Hearts & Coronets were fed into ChatGPT with a request for mid-00s setting & markers. It hung in there for around two thirds of the running time, but completely jumped the shark with the graveside business. Some nice bits of performance (and a terrific final scene) but otherwise utter trash through and through. Too bad, as we loved her Promising Young Woman.
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Went to see Deadpool and Wolverine last night. Even though I didn’t quite get all the in jokes relating to X-men it was really enjoyable lots of really funny stuff and totally taking the piss out of Marvel and superhero films in general. If you don’t like Ryan Reynolds then you’ll struggle obviously but I thought it was great fun. I heard that Madonna was sneaked in to the NY premiere after lights out and wondered why. Turns out there’s good use of one of her better tunes during the finale.
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Alien Romulus. Starts okayish, I suppose, but the things wrong with it rapidly start to pile up. I actually left the cinema quite angry.
To compare it to another franchise, it’s what Ghostbusters Afterlife is to Ghostbusters. Stay home and watch the original.
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The age of the neverending reboot is getting so dull. Is it too much to ask Hollywood to come up with some fresh ideas?
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I learned my lesson with Prometheus
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Saved me a trip on Wednesday 
Yeah the franchise has been well and truly rinsed. Still managed to enjoy it though. Nice to see less CGI and more practical effects.
I enjoyed the new Alien too. Lots of call backs to the early films and it goes out of its way to look and feel like those, which is no bad thing. It does suffers from sequel / prequel-ism though, there is some awful CGI on a cameo character and it totally fumbles a famous line. Some original ideas stylistically, it just about justifies its existence
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That “joke” was unforgivable IMO
The Intruder Within (1981) - A Made For TV Alien Derivative Set On A Oil Rig - It SUCKS!
Just got back from watching Starve Acre at the local cinema. Really great folk horror which perfectly captures the classic 70’s feel of the genre.
The soundtrack/score/sound design is brilliantly done by Matthew Herbert which adds a lot to the film.
There was a q&a with the director Daniel Kokotajlo afterwards which was interesting and he seems like a lovely man.
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