Recent content by Szlia

How come Virgin Punk and the Lupin the 3rd movie (Immortal Bloodline) are supposed to have been released in June and yet I can't seem to find them on the high seas?

Is there a date in that trailer I am not going to watch?

Aaaaaaaah! It makes sense. Glad to know I am not totally insane just yet.

I thought I already commented on this thread? Or is it a duplicate? Anyway, it's a pretty good film. Tsangari has been a pillar of the Greek new wave, by writing, directing and also producing a bunch of key movies (most notably several of the Yorgos Lanthimos film). Her previous film is an...

A few months back I plod through the recent season. It has its moments here and there, but 99% of it is non-sense or bad jokes that should last 10 min stretched over 10 episodes (EDIT: I rechecked my notes, the bad joke lasts 15 out of the 18 episodes). A big disappointment.

I am getting close to 100 films seen in 2025 (but a bunch are not new releases), but my Top 10 would pale in comparison to my 2012 one posted earlier in the thread. Let's pick 5 for the fun of it: Way above the rest : Afternoons of Solitude (Tardes de soledad) : a kind of anti-documentary...

Saw this at a film festival the other day. Never played the game. The film is surprisingly entertaining and a kind of tour de force as 90% of the film is spent in that minimalistic set.

Saw it today at a film festival. The pace of the plot keeps us engaged through the 2h30 duration, but the satire suffers from what I would call the GTA effect : everyone is dumb, corrupt, hypocritical or a mix of the above (with the exception of one secondary character). That does not make for...

American sign language was developed at a time schools in the South were segregated. Apparently there are a lot of local dialects of American Sign Language because there are not that many schools and not a lot of interactions between people that learned and taught in different schools, add...

It's still far from his bests, but at least the pace is good, the plot somewhat streamlined and the comedy hits from time to time. A tad better than Asteroid City in my book which was already a slight step up from earlier works. For me the drop in quality comes with Grand Budapest Hotel and I...

There are (at least) two The Dig novels : one is from 2007 and is the basis for the film in this thread, the other is from the mid-90s and is a novelization of the video game. Never read those and never played the game. I seem to remember there was a lot of hype around it back then and that it...

Not to be confused with : The Dig (video game) - Wikipedia

Were you doomscrolling tik-tok at the same time or what was going on there? It's true that there is a slightly confusing element which is people chatting about past events that for a while are not shown in flash-backs, so you have four or five names of people and places you can't immediately put...

Solid show. A lot of somewhat cliché "gritty cop drama" stuff, but it's done well enough for it to not be an issue. After seeing the season, there was a slight sense of familiarity to me, but it's because the same novels this show is based on have been turned into a bunch of danish films and I...

David Mamet has written and also directed some classics, so for that alone it's worth checking out. Also his last film as a director, Red Belt, was a while ago, but pretty good.