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Now I did! The review posted above is probably by someone who did not see the film. You have a frame story, which is a film director at a table facing the camera that has a tablet on which he runs an AI. The idea is that he made a movie about Dracula that did not screen test well, so he is...

Saw this at a film festival. It's a weird kind of queer erotic horror sci-fi thriller comedy or something. It's pretty light on the erotic part though. Can't be blamed to lack originality and the cast is good, which is not a given with this type of very indie features. Is it a masterpiece? No...

It's good but I could not shake the Temu Malick feeling. The adaptation is also odd. It adapts a 100 pages novella and removes key elements in it that seemingly changes the story for one more abstract and meditative.

I was like "WTF! Yuen Woo-Ping???" and yeah, the guy is 80. Nicolas Tse, Tony Leung Ka-Fai (I would have preferred Chiu-Wai but still) and Jet Li! That's some old school cast also.

Unrelated to the marvelous UK comedy of 2011 also called The Trip with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in auto-fictional versions of themselves doing a gastronomy tour while bantering.

It's better than the first because it does not suffer from an hour of exposition, the plot is somewhat original for a zombie movie (while the first film was not) and the film making is solid instead of being wacky. In the end it's... ok I guess?

Tropa de Elite and its sequel also.

Fun fact: the hairy leg articles were a real thing.

To make things clear, it's one of those "high concept" movie. The trial lasts 90 minutes and we follow it in real time, so, what you get visually are Pratt tied to a chair, Fergusson on a screen, a bunch of UI renders for file management and then archive or live footage from smart phones...

Saw it! Solid film but a bit of a strange one. I guess the tropes you could expect in this type of movie are not there. It's not about the talented but lazy actor, it's not about finding you passion, it's not about reaching fame through hard work, it's not a film about the rivalry between two...

Technically, it's kind of a Troy sequel. The events take place just after the Trojan war.

That was more or less my playthrough also. It was funny to liberate towns and have heroes that otherwise would join your army tell you to fuck off. And the ending was basically "a tyrant falls, another tyrant takes his place". Sorry game! It was too tedious to play a different way for my teenage...

There is a fan remaster of Zelda 2 that is a standalone PC game. It keeps the 8 bit esthetic, but it's in a wide screen format and everything is adjusted / changed. I never played it but it's supposedly very good if you want a Zelda 2 fix : ZIIAOL by HoverBat As for the remaster thing, the game...

Watched The Secret Agent the other day. It is also a pretty serious contender. In the meta category that is the "Big political film of the year" it beats Eddington and One Battle After Another handily in my book. Probably because it goes about its themes in a different way, toning down the humor...

It's been in theaters nearby for several weeks and on the days I was motivated to go, the schedule did not fit and on days I could have gone, I was not motivated :( That's the problem with 3 hours long movies. It's tough to schedule for theaters and spectators alike. Not all hope is lost though...