I watched Teen Wolf many moons ago when I was a teenager and to be honest I was pretty disappointed in it. I think if you don't have nostalgia for it there's not a lot to recommend it. It's pretty basic stuff. Could've been a lot better than it was, too, like others have said.
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Luther: Never Too Much (Dawn Porter, 2024)
Watched this at the Cinema earlier tonight.
- I went into watching this knowing that Luther Vandross was obviously a legend, having grown up hearing a lot of his music like most other people of a certain age. But I had no idea just how talented he actually was....arranging, backup vocals, songwriting, producing, composing....he literally did it all and at a consistently elite level that was truly a sight to behold, and that's not even mentioning the résumé of world-class artists past and present that he worked with (Read: Franklin, Warwick, Flack, Midler, Bowie, Carey...the list goes on).
- This is pretty much as straightforward a tribute/love letter as you're likely to see in a subject documentary, and it was done really well for the most part, managing to be genuine without the schmaltz. Maybe you can argue that it didn't touch more on his personal life but, really, that is rendered pretty much irrelevant in the context of the sheer scope and depth of his musical talents and, perhaps even moreso, the measure of him as a man as attested to by those who knew, worked with and truly loved him.
- I think that the sight of Dionne Warwick in awe to the point of tears in her eyes while being in the live audience for Luther's 1988 NAACP Awards performance of his cover of her song A House Is Not a Home will always sit with me.
- He was truly 1 of 1. We'll not see his like ever again.Last edited by Nu-Eclipse; 01-02-2025, 22:34.Comment
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Kraven the Hunter
Generic forgettable actioner, nothing to really recommend but as usual with Sony MCU films also not the celluloid on fire travesty online fever boys would have it be either.Comment
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Nosferatu (2024). Looks and sounds great, but if you are familiar with the previous iterations it doesn't add anything to the pantheon of Dracula stories. Dragged a bit when the plague lands. Well made though and worth a squirt.Comment
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I genuinely thought this was another spinoff movie for the Idris Elba detective series!Originally posted by Nu-Eclipse View Post
I'd have been really confused in the cinema!
Baseley09, I think you've nailed it.
Nosferatu is absolutely gorgeous to watch and your eyes will thank you, but it's not as phenomenal as some reviewers are suggesting.Comment
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Ha! I did think that it could be construed that way but I figured that people would read the review and figure otherwise!Originally posted by QualityChimp View Post
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Blink Twice (Prime) - Party on billionaire's private island feels a bit off. Didn't rate this one at all. It's been done better imo.Comment
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I watched F/X2 last night and it was a bit poor, if I'm honest.
It was a bit all over the shop with various plot strands just picked up and dropped at will.
That Animatronic clown did a lot of heavy lifting of the story too.
It started off as a bit of fun and an inventive way for a prop/toy maker to block an attacker, but by the end, it was flying a helicopter.
They upped the MacGuyver element too, with a whole section in a supermarket using household items to outfox a pursuer.
I mean, it was alright and fun to see the further adventures of the guys from the first film, but it didn't look like they'd made use of the millions of mob money they stole in the first film.Comment
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I don't think I've ever watched F/X2 (unless my memory is that bad), but it sounds like they tried to expand on the on-screen chemistry/banter between Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy from the first film, or is that wrong?Originally posted by QualityChimp View PostComment
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Rewatched Safe (1995) last night, which is presently on Prime. I've seen this at least once before. Maybe twice. It's always stuck with me. I originally watched it in a class I took on American film back at uni.
I actually fell asleep watching it in bed last night (not the fault of the movie, it was extremely late), so I need to return to it and finish it off, but I love the whole atmosphere of this film. It's about a woman, a stay at home mum in a wealthy LA enclave, who begins to experience an illness her doctors can't identify. She becomes involved with a group that believes they are 'allergic to the twentieth century', that they're being made sick by the offgassing of modern life - from car fumes to the material used to make furniture.
It's a very eerie film with some beautiful visuals and production design that are redolent with the film's themes of alienation, isolation and ennui. Much of the first half is set in the fashionably luxurious homes of well-off Angelenos. Airless, gorgeously appointed padded cells...
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Isn't that a Jason Statham bank robber movie?
Is this something else?
Nu-Eclipse they definitely tried to rekindle that chemistry, but Dennehey wasn't in it for ages or we didn't see his face, then after the initial meet-up, they then spent big chunks apart again. That's why I said it felt disjointed.Comment
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Very much not a Jason Statham movie man, yeah. This is Safe by Todd Haynes from 1995.Comment
bingo!
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