rsmurphy wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 9:29 am

Watched a flick called Swallow wherein a newly-pregnant housewife discovers she has pica. Great performances all around. Recommended!

Sounds brutal, and good.

enframed wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 1:47 pm
Sounds brutal, and good.

It's a little bloody as she's defecating what she consumes and retrieving the items, but it could've been brutaller. More sad, then hopeful. Is good.

Train Dreams is surpisingly good, if stylisticly not very unique.

andyman wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 5:03 pm Bone Temple is another home run. Also has the most horrific torture scene I've ever witnessed. Deeply upsetting.

Hey, does one need to be familiar with the 28 Days Later universe to fully enjoy the latest installment? Admittedly it's been a long time since I've watched the first one, I barely recall it, and I've never watched the sequel all the way through. Haven't seen 28 Years Later.

andyman wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 6:28 pm Definitely watch 28 Years (it's pretty good) - this is a direct continuation.
You only need to know where Cillian Murphy ends up at the end of the first film (just wiki it).

Solid. I'm looking forward to Bone Temple after not having a relationship with the franchise.

andyman wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 6:28 pm

rsmurphy wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 6:11 pm

andyman wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 5:03 pm Bone Temple is another home run. Also has the most horrific torture scene I've ever witnessed. Deeply upsetting.

Hey, does one need to be familiar with the 28 Days Later universe to fully enjoy the latest installment? Admittedly it's been a long time since I've watched the first one, I barely recall it, and I've never watched the sequel all the way through. Haven't seen 28 Years Later.

Definitely watch 28 Years (it's pretty good) - this is a direct continuation.
You only need to know where Cillian Murphy ends up at the end of the first film (just wiki it).

28 Weeks can be ignored.

Can any film with Imogen Poots in it truly be ignored?

andyman wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 5:03 pm Bone Temple is another home run. Also has the most horrific torture scene I've ever witnessed. Deeply upsetting.

Yes, please heed that warning (the very first scene is also nasty). The UK film classification is '18', and you have to really try to get that these days so I was forewarned.

Having said that it also has very quiet, tender moments. It's reflective, with flashes of humour and one astonishing musical moment. Ralph Fiennes and Jack O'Connell are amazing, and the whole thing is well under 2 hours. That A24 'elevated horror' stuff should take note.

Mickey 17 - it was so unfocused and chaotic (in a bad way) I was really dissinterested midway through, but also naive and silly enough to keep me watching. Lots and lots dead ends and underdeveloped or seemingly pointless character and themes (I felt like maybe it was meant to be a tv series) but quite charming at times after I got used to how hamfisted everything si. Solid defnitely should have been shorter out of 10 overall.

If you are into Sorrentino “La Grazia” is well worth a watch. It covers all the bases and you don’t feel duped leaving the theatre with a sense of hope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyyzUH9v_8M#ddg-play

Also really enjoyed the new Jarmusch for not dissimilar reasons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhPFuZrUSvk#ddg-play

Dust Bunny starring Mads Mikkelsen, Sophie Sloan, Sigourney Weaver, & David Dastmalchian. Sorta a fairy tale/fantasy deal about a girl who hires a hitman to kill a monster under her bed. Light on horror, good action sequences, but kinda slow when nothing's happening. Really dug Sigourney Weaver's role.

https://youtu.be/lQqmOjPDlWg?si=4s-W7F8D_nPfE7o3

The City of Lost Children. I liked it! Weird relationship between Ron Pearlman and Judith Vittet's characters tho.

The Life of Chuck was nice. Touching. Really got into the sci-fi aspect of the first (third?) half.

12 Monkeys. Fell asleep before the ending - just sleepy not an indictment on the movie. Brad Pitt was fun. Gotta wrap up that ending soon.