Great movie, great performance from Crispin Glover. I wouldn’t call it scary, but it is pretty creepy and this movie is worth it just for how odd it and Glover’s performance is. Check it out.
Lifeforce
Recommended.
What a mess. I recommend it, but the movie is a mess. I watched the longer cut(nearly two hours). The original title was Space Vampires and that really should have just been the title. A lot of talking in this movie for a movie about vampires sucking the lifeforce(?) from Earth.
Visually great, good premise.
I think this movie really needs a remake. A good movie with a lot of flaws that could benefit from a full-budget re-do.
Still, pretty entertaining, especially the opening and closing sections. Very talky and kind of dull middle.
(Pro tip: when your date wants to go see Father of the Bride, don’t suggest a Coen Bros movie instead unless you are really more into the film than the girl.)
Absolutely ridiculous. But if you ignore the bogus science and just go with the premise, it’s… still absolutely ridiculous.
I was expecting a thriller with a sci-fi twist - and it is that, I suppose. But it tries and fails to be more. It would have been a lot more fun if it didn’t take itself so damn seriously.
Luc Besson, who gave us The Fifth Element and La Femme Nikita, thinks he’s making some grand, profound statement about the human condition or something. Spoiler alert: he’s not.
Scarlett Johannsen does the best she can with the material, and of course she’s always nice to look at. But, nah.
This was written by Dan O’Bannon, who I like to think will take an idea and do it over and over until he gets it right, then continue until he gets it wrong again. This film isn’t a very faithful adaptation of Colin Wilsoin’s The Space Vampires, but it does let O’Bannon continue the arc of “scary dead people” movies he started clumsily with Dead and Buried, then got pretty good with in Return of the Living Dead (in which he started the meme that zombies needed to eat brains to keep going), and here gives us dead people that look like dessicated puppets. But it gave us some glitzy pre-CGI special effects and the inexpensive special efect of Mathilda May walking around naked.
I’ve seen Weapons mentioned a few times in this thread so I watched it over the weekend. I’ve seen people complain about the fragmented timeline, but I like stories like that where you only start piecing it together after seeing events from multiple perspectives. I might have to watch this again!
Oh, and we watched Poltergeist on Friday night after trick or treating was over. Spielberg produced but did not direct, but his fingerprints are all over this movie. It’s almost like he gave Tobe Hooper notes on exactly how he wanted some scenes shot.
Then, make sure you don’t miss House of Dynamite. It didn’t occur to me until now that two of my favorite films of 2025 use a similar storytelling device.
We just rewatched it last night and picked up on some things that I don’t think would have been evident the first time around. It’s definitely worth revisiting!
The wife identified a movie she wanted to see called “Triumph of the Heart”, supposedly about an Auschwitz survivor. Instead, we ended up watching a movie of the same name about a football player named Ricky Bell who died young. As we started watching, I thought WTH is this obviously cheesy 1970s production? Turns out it was a made for TV movie from 1991! Really badly made, with poor production values. A true story, however. The movie she was looking for was made this year, so wouldn’t likely be on streaming services yet.
I just did a search using Google and it tells me that it’s available for premium streaming on its official website triumphoftheheart.com. It’s also available on YouTube. It may also be available on Amazon or Netflix. I saw it earlier this year at a movie theater. It’s good but kind of depressing.
This is a filmed play adaptation of the famous Corrie Ten Boom story. She and her family hid 800(uh, not at once) Jewish people in their home by making a fake wall and hiding them inside. She survived the Holocaust, her father and sister did not.
There is a movie from the 1970s and it is great, but this is a nice play adaptation. There is no audience and multiple cameras were used to film the performance.
If you do not know the Ten Boom story, you should check either this or the 1970s movie out. Or simply read Corrie’s book, also called The Hiding Place.
Captain Blood 1935 Error Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone
The cast returned in 1938’s Adventures of Robin Hood. Flynn and de Havilland costarred in 8 films. I have always wanted to see the films and compare the performances.
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Captain Blood holds up well with lots of swashbuckling action.
I tried to watch the new The Naked Gun film. Oh, I tried. But I just couldn’t take the sheer brutality of it and had to turn it off. All those poor jokes, who were all so sickly to begin with, dragged out and beaten to death and then beaten more until only a puddle of mucilage remained…
The prisoners in the 2025 movie Triumph of the Heart died in Auschwitz. They weren’t survivors. Ask your wife if she was talking about the 2025 Triumph of the Heart.
Yeah, that’s the one she was talking about. But when she looked to see if it was playing online, she erroneously picked the 1991 movie of the same name, which was on Netflix, without making sure it was the same film. A merry mixup.