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[SaitoRyo]

42 minutes ago, Cousin Jim Bob said:

I've never heard of the latter. So I was just having a mooch at it's Wiki and then watched the ending on YouTube. Holy shit, what the hell was Emilio Estevez thinking. It's like someone challenged him to try and pull of the worst possible way to end a film.

Sounds like it was absolutely savaged by the critics at the time, which did a bit of a number on Emilio mentally for awhile.

It was really quite an unbelievable thing to witness after sitting through an hour and forty minutes. 

And yeah, he did get ripped apart for the film at the time, but he did alright for himself in the end! It's not even a terrible film and there's some stuff about it I quite liked, but it was clearly a vanity project and the ending is unforgiveable.

[DavidB6937]

On 9/1/2026 at 6:19 AM, BigJag said:

Coyote vs Acme

Cinema 

Great fun. Go watch it. Wil E is the star. The humans are along for the ride. Which is how it should be. The soundtrack could have been louder, but that may have just been me. £4 a ticket this coming weekend too. 

Just saw this. Such a fun film. Genuinely so glad it got a release. Definitely deserves to be seen. The whole screen loved it.

[Gus Mears]

End of Oak Street was good stuff. Least annoying I've found McGregor in anything for a while. Anne Hathaway is excellent at looking scared. I think my partner is a psychopath, she was laughing like a drain when 

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People kept walking out their house/crossing the road and getting merked by dinosaurs

I don't have much hope in my survival when we inevitably end up in a similar situation.

[Devon Malcolm]

47 minutes ago, Gus Mears said:

End of Oak Street was good stuff. Least annoying I've found McGregor in anything for a while. Anne Hathaway is excellent at looking scared. I think my partner is a psychopath, she was laughing like a drain when 

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People kept walking out their house/crossing the road and getting merked by dinosaurs

I don't have much hope in my survival when we inevitably end up in a similar situation.

In fairness to her, I was also laughing at that - but was the only one in the screening who was.

[LaGoosh]

5 hours ago, Gus Mears said:

Least annoying I've found McGregor in anything for a while

I thought he was bloody awful. His American accent was so bad it distracted me constantly. Film was loads of fun though - Hathaway put in a great performance. What was with that weird period years back where everyone seemed to hate her for some reason? She's an excellent actress.

[BomberPat]

Shelter

The new Jason Statham. It's dogshit. All the absurdity of The Beekeeper, with none of the charm or self-awareness, and all of the massive leaps of logic and efforts towards an overarching story arc that never add up. It's set in Scotland, with maybe one Scottish accent in the whole film. 

[Devon Malcolm]

14 minutes ago, BomberPat said:

Shelter

The new Jason Statham. It's dogshit. 

1) That was his previous one. His new one is Mutiny (out in cinemas near you now).

2) How dare you.

[DavidB6937]

I liked Shelter! It has Jason Statham in it!

And Bodhi is pretty decent for a kid. She also did Hamnet and the upcoming Sense and Sensibility so she's doing alright for herself. Don't think Statham's in that though unfortunately.

[Frankie Crisp]

Hungry (2026)

An absolute unit of a hippo terrorises a boatload of tourists in the swamps of Louisiana. Very by-the-numbers but a great laugh and nowhere as naff as I was expecting. Added bonus of Joaquim de Almeida and his fantastic voice in it.

[Chris B]

Leviticus

Queer horror romance film - very It Follows, with the central conceit being an entity that takes the form of the person you're into that will try to get close to you and brutally murder you. Except it's set in motion by the two teen leads' fundamentalist Christian parents. It's not subtle, but it is really good. If you're going to do something that's similar to It Follows, making it more emotional and intimate is a smart way to go.

 

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Queer horror sort-of romance film. I loved I Saw the TV Glow, so this was already high on my list. I'm also a big fan of Friday the 13th, which it's referencing  - and this felt like Easter Eggs done right. Fun little details that don't break the film for someone that doesn't recognise them (unlike Marvel, claiming that you'll need to see the extra footage in the rerelease of The Avengers so you understand a fucking superhero film). And the idea of

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Gillian Anderson getting you off with her hands

while you discuss the meaning of horror films means that it feels like this film was specifically made for me, even though it was very clearly not specifically made for me.

 

Coyote vs Acme

Queer horror romance... no, wait. My bad. Yeah, this was great fun. It's not Roger Rabbit, but then what else could be? It's rock-solid, doesn't get over-complicated or pleased with itself, and gets the slapstick right throughout. Absolutely weird bullshit that Phil's mate David Zaslav was happy to destroy it rather than release it.

[Mr_Danger]

5 hours ago, Frankie Crisp said:

Hungry (2026)

An absolute unit of a hippo terrorises a boatload of tourists in the swamps of Louisiana. Very by-the-numbers but a great laugh and nowhere as naff as I was expecting. Added bonus of Joaquim de Almeida and his fantastic voice in it.

I watched that last night. I knew what it would be when I saw the trailer a while ago and it didn’t disappoint. Hippo’s have always been one of my irrational fears like quicksand and lava so it definitely hit a sweet spot of shit but enjoyable film.

[FLips]

The Harder They Fall

It was so-so. The twist at the end humanises Idris Elba’s bad guy to the point the revenge plot that’s fuelled the film means nothing. There’s nothing wrong with a straight up revenge plot, especially in a Western. Just commit to it.

Edge of Tomorrow

Thought this was really good but yet again had a deflating ending that tried to wrap things up a bit too nicely. Tom Cruise just never ages does he? I didn’t even realise there was an age gap between him and Emily Blunt.

Field of Dreams

Just a great film isn’t it? Had a nice happy cry at it. He played catch with his Dad!

The Godfather 1-3

First two are nearly flawless and this time I watched the Coda edited version of 3 which felt less of a slog but omits Michael’s actual death which I think was better in there than the ending they do here.

It’s uncanny how the story beats of this match The Sopranos (or probably not that coincidental I imagine), especially in how the first film starts with this huge ensemble of characters, everyone riding high and they by the end all of the main characters family hates him, his closest friends are all dead and he’s just a misery guts remembering the good old days. 

[SaitoRyo]

11 hours ago, FLips said:

Field of Dreams

Just a great film isn’t it? Had a nice happy cry at it. He played catch with his Dad!

Fucking love me some Field of Dreams. It's also a great hangover film when you have the beer fear. 

Anwyway, last night I watched...

Jacknife

Not a Kevin Nash biopic, sadly, but a 'what happens to them after the horrors of Vietnam?' film starring Robert De Niro and Ed Harris, who are both excellent. It's basically two old war buddies reconnecting as they try to deal with their war trauma, with one of them falling for the other one's sister in the process. Nice blue collar milieu. You can sort of tell it was adapted from a play in parts by some of the dialogue and the way certain scenes are set up, but that's not a major criticism or anything. Something of an underrated gem.

[Jazzy G]

I spotted that there was a new Knives Out on Netflix called Rise Up, Dead Man. I saw the twist coming from a mile away, but it didn't take anything away from the movie. Daniel Craig is, as usual, an absolute joy as Benoit Blanc. The rest of the cast is a collection of the usual "oh yeah, it's that one from that thing" and some big names. 

If you're a fan of Rían Johnson's work and the Knives Out movies I'm sure you'll know what to expect from it. A few twists and turns. Fun way to kill a couple of hours. 

[Chris B]

4 hours ago, Jazzy G said:

I spotted that there was a new Knives Out on Netflix called Rise Up, Dead Man. I saw the twist coming from a mile away, but it didn't take anything away from the movie. Daniel Craig is, as usual, an absolute joy as Benoit Blanc. The rest of the cast is a collection of the usual "oh yeah, it's that one from that thing" and some big names. 

If you're a fan of Rían Johnson's work and the Knives Out movies I'm sure you'll know what to expect from it. A few twists and turns. Fun way to kill a couple of hours. 

Loved this one. If you like this kind of film (and Glass Onion in particular), I went to see a talk by Rian Johnson last year, and he talked a bunch about how influenced it was by The Last of Sheila, which is a whodunnit written by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins (!!!) back when they were a couple (which I didn't know about until learning about this film). It stars James Mason, James Coburn, Raquel Welch and young, hot Ian McShane - it's set on a murder-mystery party game on a yacht, and very twisty-turny. Should be far better known than it is.