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Saw that a few months back. It is sadly bad. It is a kind of spoof of '60s/'70s spy movie, but 99% of the effort is spent on posturing and in the retro visuals, so the plot is a total mess that lost me in double quick time. I am not a specialist of the type of movies it's inspired by, but even...

Not a big fan of this season. It feels like the characters were mainly victims of the plot instead of taking matters in their own hands and in the first third of the season a lot of time is spent on the hacker character who is aggressively stupid and unlikable with zero redeeming qualities. I...

I am surprised by the lukewarm reception of this season. I guess the mix is slightly different, with almost no cloak and dagger anymore, so if it's the aspect you enjoyed the most about the show, maybe you feel let down. Personally, I love negotiations and verbal jousting and it's basically...

I have a somewhat hot take: Elementary is a lot better than Sherlock.

It was released last year in my area. The very hard thing to do with this kind of mystery based plot where a number of things you don't understand happen and you and the main character are trying to connect the dots, is to find the right balance. Too obvious and its bland, too complicated and...

Saw it a few months back. My hopes are always high for this type of south korean movies and this one was just ok. Not great, not terrible.

The internet was not a thing when Tron was released, so all data that is on imdb has been recovered from archives like old issues of Variety. I am going to guess that overseas data is harder to get and compile that US data and therefor has not / almost not been added to imdb. That seems a much...

Historically, when shooting in film you just have no idea of what you have until the film is printed. So you hope the cinematographer did a good job measuring the light, the focus puller did not mess-up and the camera operator caught any and all problems peering through the viewfinder. If not...

Yeah.... I also saw that at the NIFFF. I don't want to be mean, since it's one of those film truly made on a shoestring budget that I am sure is a labor of love, but... let's just say that back in the '90s a group of people I know spent a week-end in a cabin and for shit giggles, since they had...

I am told the Switch 2 is the fastest selling console in history, but ok (I also don't get why).

Saw this in a film festival. It is well done, but I must admit it did not move me. Looking at the faces at the end of the screening, I was more the exception than the norm it seemed.

I am not a dentist, but what you are describing are crowns which are not done on healthy teeth. Veneers requires little to no alteration of the teeth to be applied.

Saw this in theater back then. It falls in the "almost great" category. There are some issues with the logic of the world, but the main problem I had with it was the dub. It's a french film and I saw it in french and the dub is some weird distanciated delivery throughout. It's probably a choice...

Based on a recent novel. Unrelated to very famous (and for my money, not very good) 1960 korean thriller of the same name, nor its 2010 remake.

I assume this is one of those compilation movie that is the last 3 episodes of a season and the first of the next, all with minor touch ups here and there and voilà?

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.

There is only one answer : Space Funeral. https://thecatamites.itch.io/space-funeral

Bump! This show got canceled after one 8 episode season. Does it reach some sort of conclusion in these 8 episodes or did it all become de facto unwatchable because it stops in the middle of the story?

I think @Valderen has a good point : It is extremely difficult to write a story which is about a mystery being understood little by little by the protagonists and to have it layered enough for each answer to lead to new questions all the while keeping the readers/viewers engaged AND not giving...

On first viewing, the film left me a little cold, possibly because it's not what I expected of the movie, but I caught it again on TV a couple years after release and got glued to it as it's good scene after good scene after good scene. A great and important movie.

You maybe missed the best one : The Outlaws from 2017. I say maybe because I only saw this one (Crime City in korean) and The Roundup (Crime City 2 in korean) and the first movie was better. No idea about the two sequels though. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7468056/ About Holy Night: it feels...

Layman question as the news I saw were not very clear about what Crowdstrike does exactly: is it fair to put that in the big "digital protection being more damaging than what it is supposed to protect you against" pile?

I understand this is the TV House and people focus on the TV series in this thread, but since the schedule also includes anime movies, I guess it makes sense to address them here also. I checked the other days these two oddities that are Kurayukaba and Kuramerukagari, two 1 hour long films...

Manhunt (2017) was very very bad... I mean the editor going "How the fuck are we supposed to make a film out of this garbage" bad. Silent Night (2023) was not good, but at least watchable. Not very optimistic about this one, but, who knows?

This is pretty good, but don't expect wall to wall action. There is a solid dose of it (mainly split in two long sequences that bookend the film), but the core of the movie is a love letter to a time and place: Kowloon Walled City in the '80s. Depicted as a kind of social utopia where everyone...

Maybe I expected too much, but this good looking, decently acted film is marred by a shockingly weak script. It still kinda works, because even a terribly written investigation plays on our curiosity, our fundamental thirst for truth in the face of mystery.