Recently Watched Films

Excellent silent. The inspiration for DC's Joker. And also worthy of an RYM Satire:

Fuck the critics once again. Loved this! Kathy Bates is great as Willie's foul mouthed mother. Actually, everyone is quite filthy except for Thurman Merman, reprised by Brett Kelly from the first movie.

Weirder than expected.

I might be tempted to say this was Lumet's best movie, but 12 Angry Men exists. 

'Don't threaten me with a dead fish' - Withnail. 

Clip movies can be a bit hit-and-miss. This is no Monty Python's Meaning of Life, but it's better than other clip movies, like Kentucky Fried Movie and The Onion Movie. This also has an absolutely stellar cast. Some highlights: Hugh Jackman with balls hanging off his neck, Gerard Butler as a vicious leprechaun fighting Johnny Knoxville and Seann William Scott, and Elizabeth Banks being terrorized by a masturbating cartoon cat.

Not as good as Your Name, with which this shares a universe (or possibly multiverse), but a very solid anime film. 

And there goes another movie mentioned in Science Fiction Double Feature from the Rocky Horror Show! Love Lee Tracy as the comedic newspaper man Lee Taylor, making this a horror/comedy. Fay Wray is also very good. And the synthetic flesh scene is a great example of 1930s special effects at their best.

B tier Brian de Palma, so still pretty good. Really heavily channelling the Hitchcock here though, most of all Vertigo. 

This is supposed to be a comedy, but even for a black comedy I don't really see it most of the time. I enjoyed the movie, though with some mixed feelings on the ending, I just didn't find it funny. It's some real dark and serious shit. And as a straight male (one who has never done anything remotely like the shit the men in this film get up to), I can't help put feel a bit attacked by this. There's not one man in this film, except perhaps her father who only appears in a few scenes and we don't really ever get to know too much about, that's portrayed completely positively. Spoiler alert; Even the 'nice guy' boyfriend turns out to not be all he appears. Don't get me wrong I was rooting for Cassie the entire time but this movie takes a very narrow view of men. I get its point, agree that it needed to be made even, but it also wouldn't have killed them for just one the men in the film Cassie does her 'not really drunk' act on to actually act like a decent human being. And let's be honest, there's also at least two female characters as well whose behaviour in the movie is also problematic. 

Low budget but reasonably good attempt at bringing a D&D quest to life. It rings reasonably true to anyone who's played D&D (well, me anyway...), in that it has a fairly basic story, black and white goodies and baddies, and a bit of dungeon crawling and puzzle solving.