Rewatched Peeping Tom tonight, for the first time in many, many years. Still one of the very best.

Went for a double-header of Play for Today this weekend. Started with Robin Redbreast, followed by the original (Kitchen) Brimstone and Treacle. Both great, but the latter is an absolute classic.

Been a while since I updated our lockdown movie board, so here it is as of this morning.

Dr. Strangelove
Peeping Tom
The Empire Strikes Back
Apostasy
Brimstone and Treacle (1976)
Hunger
Sorcerer
The Parallax View
Network
Marathon Man
Mikey and Nicky
Capricorn One
Orphans (1998)
Stray
The Sparks Brothers
Three Days of the Condor
The Selfish Giant

(about 135 movies in the bin)

Shock Waves (1977)
Breach (2020)
The Saint (2017)


Pretty sure that version of The Saint killed Roger Moore - it was his last screen appearance, and really that bad.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Wed Aug 25, 2021 2:28 am
Shock Waves (1977)

Oh man. The original Nazi Zombie masterpiece. I watched that as a kid and it scared the bejeezuz out of me.

Am more often at wit's end these days than I'd like to be, and since attention to current events and the internet sometimes make things worse, once in a while I'll unwind with the kind of movie I maybe would've balked at in my twenties or thereabouts. To that end, if you're looking for a fun B-movie, you might wanna check out the new Fun City blu-ray of Walking the Edge.

To reiterate, this is NOT the kind of movie to be spoken of in the same breath as Andrei Rublev or Port of Shadows or whatever. You may have already seen it if you haunted video stores in the VHS days. It's a kind of sleazy/at times nasty/but ultimately enjoyable L.A. genre movie starring Robert Forster, Nancy Kwan, and a rather dad bod-ish Joe Spinell, as well one of the guys who played a biker in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, who gets killed off early on. The new transfer looks great but overall the movie has similar production values to an episode of Columbo or a pre-video/seventies porn film, or maybe an Eighties TV movie. It's got some witty moments though. Some say it was an influence on Tarantino as it features an ear severing scene, as well as Forster. It's also been cited as a proto-Collateral, since Forster plays a cabbie who drives Kwan around town while she kills people (avenging her husband's death). I dunno...Walking the Edge is no masterpiece, but if you're in a goofy mood, it might do the trick.

White Noise (2005). Michael Keaton and whomever else. Seriously one of the worst films ever made.

Had a double-header of 70/80s noir over the weekend - Rolling Thunder, followed by Nighthawks. The former is the better, but it's hard not to go all in for the latter, with Stallone and Billy Dee Williams teaming up to take on Rutger Hauer.

As of last night, Hulu still had The Blood on Satan’s Claw. Great period horror film, sometimes Hammer-schlocky, sometimes Wicker Man-artsy. Set in the Restoration era as far as I could tell, which is something you don’t see often. Apparently its license is expiring soon, so see it while you can if you like this sort of thing.

Booksmart (2019). Christ, I can't stand movies being this self-conscious.

Why do you want do bang a chick that was just mean to you? On the other hand most of the people here I'd rather not spend time with.

The teacher was hot.

I really need to stop watch these coming-of-age movies. They trigger me so hard. I get wistful and depressed even with the stupid and superficial ones. But there are so many of them!

Russian Ark and L’Inferno double up on Sunday night. They made for and excellent pairing!