enframed wrote: Sat Nov 29, 2025 6:27 pmAlso, Peter Watkins's The War Game. Essentially a documentary about what would happen in the UK if nuclear war happened. Won an Academy Award but was banned in the UK, or something.

Saw this a long time ago, on VHS, but am anxious to revisit. It got banned for a while but eventually I think it got overshadowed by the movie Threads in the UK.

Along similar lines, I've started watching his much longer, world spanning documentary epic of sorts The Journey, about nuclear war, peace efforts, the military industrial complex, and the media. The DVD release, which I picked up a while back, might be harder to locate now, but it's on YouTube and worth it if you have hours of time to spare:



Am taking it in about one episode every few days. It's worth it!!

Yes I'll be watching all of Watkins's films over the next couple weeks.

Blue Moon. Loved it to bits.

Upgrade, entertaining little sci-fi B-movie the kind you don't see many of anymore.

The Discovery. A scientist, played by Robert Redford, discovers overwhelming proof of an afterlife, many suicides follow. Neat premise, disaster of a film.

Anyone here have a Mubi sub? They’ve got a £60 for a year deal going on. Worth it?

In a Lonely Place, incredible.

The Boys from Brazil (1978). Joseph Mengele (Gregory Peck) clones 94 little hitlers and sends them to adoptive parents around the world. A Nazi hunter (Laurence Olivier) gets wind of this and is on the case. Not a good movie.

enframed wrote: Sat Dec 06, 2025 9:21 am The Boys from Brazil (1978). Joseph Mengele (Gregory Peck) clones 94 little hitlers and sends them to adoptive parents around the world. A Nazi hunter (Laurence Olivier) gets wind of this and is on the case. Not a good movie.

Not a good movie, but Steve Guttenberg getting eviscerated at the beginning and the guy they killed by tossing him off a dam messed up my 12-year-old psyche pretty good.

Jay Kelly. Awful, sappy, heavy-handed. Adam Sandler is proving to be a good, versatile actor though.