I watched a hideously campy old horror movie on Svengoolie: The Abominable Dr. Phibes, starring Vincent Price. What a weird sickly piece of dreck! And VP seemed to enthusiastically embrace the campiness. I can’t decide if I like him or pity him for that.
I see there’s a sequel, too. ::shudder::
One of my favorites; but you have to embrace the campiness to enjoy it.
I’m too used to him in movies like Laura to pivot to the campy horror genre. But I’ll try.
I caught the last ten minutes and I’ve been kicking myself ever since for missing it. I’ll take Mr. Price any old way he’s available. 
Red 2010 with Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary Louise Parker,Helen Mirren, and Morgan Freeman.
I watched a interview with Earnest Borgnine. He mentioned that Red was a very good movie. He had a small role.
I was curious and watched. Red is entertaining. The plot is interesting and kept me guessing. I’ll watch it again.
The cast is very good. Bruce has a knack for getting big names to play parts in his action movies.
The volume is an issue. Have to crank it up to understand the dialogue. Then the action scenes are much too loud. I had to constantly adjust volume.
There is a sequel that was made just before Borgnine died. He had planned on being in it.
I love this movie, and the sequel, Dr. Phibes Rises Again. Saw them both at a drive-in, perhaps the most appropriate venue. The dark humor in both is a joy to behold.
Dr. Phibes had a great tag line on the posters. Around this time, people were flocking to see “Love Story,” (yecch!) that had as it’s poster tag line “Love Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry.'”
As Phibes embraces a ravishing young woman on the poster, the line reads “Love Means Never Having to Say You’re Ugly.”
Delightful. American-International at its best.
I was surprised that the romance between Bruce Willis and Mary Louise Parker works in Red.
I checked and they’re only nine years apart (Bruce 3/1955, Parker 8/1964).
Going to see the new Downton Abbey movie today. The last DA movie was a 2nd-rate, longer, version of the TV show, and I don’t expect anything different here. But it’s a nice fictional world to revisit and I expect my time spent to be pleasant, at least, and sometimes that’s all I want.
Just saw The Lost City. Nothing remarkable, but funny and fast-moving — exactly what I ask for in a comedy/action flick.
I also saw it and liked it. Certainly better than Doctor Strange 2.
Watched The Sea Wolves (1980).
World War 2 action adventure film set in what was then British India. Roger Moore, Gregory Peck, David Niven, Trevor Howard, Patrick Macnee. All star cast of actors who with the exception of Moore may have been seen as yesterday’s men in 1980 for this kind of movie but it is precisely because of their suave characteristics and wisdom of old age that makes this story very fun.
Men
Starring Jessie Buckley & Rory Kinnear. Buckley plays a woman who after witnessing the death of her husband goes to spend time by herself at a country house to help recover and process her grief. While walking through the woods she begins to be followed by a strange naked figure and then weird things start to happen. The film is full of mythological and Biblical imagery. Kinnear plays the innkeeper Buckley is renting the house from, as well as every other male character in the film. The climax of this film is just so bizarre and almost indescribable, it really has to be seen to be believed. It’s a horror film, but it’s not a typical jumpy slashery scary horror, it’s very abstract and dreamlike, full of an overwhelming sense of dread and general what-the-fuckery (and some incredibly impressive nasty looking body horror.) This is not a film that gives easy answers either. The reasons for why every man has the same face can be read several different ways depending on one’s interpretation (is the director saying that all men are basically the same? Does the character see all the townspeople with the same face because she believes all men to be the same due to what she’s suffered? It’s never commented on or noticed by anyone.) and the director is purposefully vague on explanations.
It’s certainly a unique film.
I’m curious if anyone else has seen it and what your thoughts may be.
Finally got around to seeing the Elton John biopic, Rocketman.
Has to be the only movie in history that told a man’s life using words that another man wrote about his own life.
Nice pfp/review match. 
The medieval Hamlet-version The Northman is an absolutely riveting film, and I’m usually not crazy about gory violent movies. Fantastic production values as well as a fascinating story.
Text exchange with a fellow textile-enthusiast friend after the movie:
Me: Still thinking about it, that was SUCH a good movie. TW lotta gorily murdered horses though, also people.
However, WARP WEIGHTED VERTICAL LOOM WITH PARTIALLY COMPLETED BROCADE ON IT IN BEDROOM LIKE NORMAL that bedroom intruder can hide behind, the only part I’m not sure about bc I think the weaver would glance at her brocade whenever she enters the room and would notice his feet behind there
She: PLEASE tell me no one stabbed anyone through it. I don’t care about murder, IS THE BROCADE OK???
Me: Yes thank goodness, not even any blood splashes.
The fineweave white shawls that the chieftains wear while acting as sacrificial priests do get pretty messed up, though. So do you only wear these things once for sacrificing which even for major clan ritual stuff seems pretty wasteful and extravagant, or are your laundry thralls just really good at getting sacrifice bloodstains out of wool? […]
They do have specialist laundry thralls tho, like when the itinerant thrall peddler comes by with a chainful of inventory they purchase one specifically for the laundry
“Uncanny” might be the word for it, at least as a genre.
I also just saw Men and thought it was pretty good. Certainly not the disjointed snooze-fest Lamb was. Which isn’t to say it wasn’t disjointed, only that it was generally gripping enough to keep me engaged and the disjointedness of it was used to deliberate effect in service of an overall theme/mood/whatever (I’m not a critic) rather than just not wanting to put in the work to lay out a coherent story and using the disconnects as a crutch. Like, in Lamb I can imagine a screenwriter being like “hmmm, I’m not sure how to connect these two things, so what if I don’t even try, and then maybe the audience will be fooled into thinking it’s an artistic choice, like a puzzle for them to solve, rather than just bad writing?”
The Hunt. Slammed by some as the right’s answer to Ready or Not, quite frankly I thought it was delightful.
An old horror movie: The Changeling. Pretty spooky and I can see how it inspired others down the line.
Dual
Karen Gillan is in the very odd comedy(?) about a woman who is terminally ill and creates a clone of herself to live on past her death. This was a really disappointing movie and I do not recommend it. It was an intentional choice of the director to have all the dialogue spoken in a very detached and robotic way and this gag…does not work.
I had this on my future-viewing queue for quite awhile and it was only OK at best. Skip it.
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