Saw, 'Bugonia' yesterday, I thought it sucked rather hard, and I liked 'Poor Things' and really liked 'Kind of Kindness'. At times it felt like the film had nothing (or not enough) going for so someone decided to put DRAMATIC BOMBASTIC MUSIC in about every scene, the social/psychological /social 'message' was high school level and unlike like in PT or KoK there was not enough of absurdity/comedy/outoftheleftfieldness to cover what it was lacking. One of the short stories in 'KoK' did it all way better and I was mostly thinking how much this film is going to have in common with it. Acting was superb though, even though I feltl like the directorwas just looking for an excuse to put close-ups of Emma Stones's face on screen, but hey, it's Emma Stone.

Caught Stealing

Boring and unoriginal AF
Do not be tempted by the trailer (as I was)
Why Aronovsky made this film I have no idea…

Iancee wrote: Wed Dec 17, 2025 5:01 am Caught Stealing

Boring and unoriginal AF
Do not be tempted by the trailer (as I was)
Why Aronovsky made this film I have no idea…

I thought it was pretty good, though I lot darker than I expected.

Rose Byrne is fantastic in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You - the best film about motherhood since The Babadook, and Mother!.

Re-watched Lake Mungo with the family last night. Man, that is such a great movie. Kind of profound, actually.

I’ve been thinking about how the family’s last name is Palmer, as you could argue that the movie echoes Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks as a documentary, in which you don’t necessarily get any insight into or explanation of Alice Palmer’s secret life.

Wood Goblin wrote: Mon Dec 22, 2025 9:27 am Re-watched Lake Mungo with the family last night. Man, that is such a great movie. Kind of profound, actually.

I’ve been thinking about how the family’s last name is Palmer, as you could argue that the movie echoes Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks as a documentary, in which you don’t necessarily get any insight into or explanation of Alice Palmer’s secret life.

One question I have that Randall might be able to answer:

(Note: contains spoilers.)




During the closing credits, you see a number of photos in which Alice appears in the background—the doctored photo from the backyard, the paused frame from the video at the lake. But there’s one photo/video clip of (I think?) the mom sitting on a chair with a pillow on her lap. I’ve watched this five-second clip several times and can’t figure out what I’m supposed to see in the photo. What am I missing?

Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague, about the making of Godard's Breathless. As another critic pointed out, this is basically the French Ed Wood. Enjoyed it much more than I was expecting.

Hundreds of Beavers. Was ridiculously inventive and fun.

Nuremberg

Fucking hated it. Having read some of the main historical books on this, watched various documentaries including the Soviet Judgment of the People’s (trivia, that’s the film sampled on the Manic Street Preachers’ Holy Bible)… I went through a bit of phase obsessed with it…

The plot was leaden, riddled with historical inaccuracies and plot embellishments. Just clunky scripting to shoehorn in elements that most people might recognise. There were points I literally knew the next line because they had to make everything as dumb as possible.

Even just basic stuff like Göring’s weight. By the trial he’s lot a ton, and gone cold turkey on the opiates. The focus on him was understandable but then to have Streicher as the next focus when Speer was sitting literally behind him… I assume that was because he was a pathetic counterpoint to Göring.

The clumsy way the they introduced Kelly’s struggles with alcohol by having him down a bottle of hard liquor during a radio interview was ridiculous.

Hallmark, Disease of the Week version of the trial.

Wood Goblin wrote: Mon Dec 22, 2025 10:03 am What am I missing?

I'm missing it as well. It doesn't even look like her mother. Such a bizarre pic in a sea of chilling and depressing photography. The only other movie that genuinely unsettled me from its photography is Savageland. Sequel, please!

The title cards to Lake Mungo are also super spooky. What a great film.