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His House (2020)
Ghosts aren't scary when you've known real horror.
This was a good story very well acted with characters you genuinely rooted for.
It was a bit of a slow film, but even so, there seemed to be something a little off about the pacing. It was a ninty minute film (the correct length for a movie!) but it did feel longer, which I think was due to a bit of repetitiveness in the horror scenes, and maybe a handful too many fantasy/flash back sequences.
The horror was done really well though, as was the unfolding of the characters backstories, (and the reveal!) By and large, I think the characters reacted to the supernatural events in a realistic way, which can't always be said for horror films.
I'm not sure how I felt about the ending.
The Menu (2022)
This may be Ralph Fiennes greatest role
Bwhahahah that was great! I really enjoyed this. I...am not in any way shape or form a foodie, so I deeply enjoyed the mockery of those who are. There have been a number of times in my life that I have found myself in fancy restaurants where the waiter tries to make something like chicken breast rolled in ashes sound appealling, and that after my expensive meal where I was served one french fry, a pea, and half a rabbit thigh, I've gone to McDonalds.
It was so well acted. Everyone was fantastic in their roles. John Leguizamo was a delight, Anya Taylor-Joy is perfectly cast, and Ralph Fiennes just nails his part.
My Animal (2023)
Serious pacing issues
This film was only an hour and forty-three minutes but it felt like three hours. As someone who has been a youth in rural Canada I deeply resonated with the depiction of the bleakness and dullness of life in small northern town. It was hopeless and boring as a youth, and it didn't make for a very entertaining film.
The acting was great, but too many long drawn out fantasy sequences that didn't really add to the film. It looked good. I liked the lighting and the setting, but...nothing happens. It needed more story and fewer music videos.
It was tagged as horror and romance, but it did not have enough of either. It had barely any of either really.
Finally, why is Canada only allowed to make werewolf movies now?
Jigoku de naze warui (2013)
Never give up on your dreams!
Met my expectations then did me one better!
I had a very clear idea of what I would be getting into when I decided to watch a film with the description 'A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud.' on Tubi.
I thought I'd be in for some ridiculous fun that I would enjoy immensely, but, you know, A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud on Tubi! Any way, this went above and beyond. I loved the way the parts of the story jump back and forth as if you're doing the substories in a Yakuza game. Speaking of which, I was looking up to see what films I'd seen Shin'ichi Tsutsumi in and had a good chuckle when I realized it's Joe Shibisawa from Like A Dragon 7 and 8!
Anyway, the ridiculousness is on full throttle, as is the fake blood. The moral about the importance of not giving up on your dreams is very inspiring.
The Battery (2012)
I held out for 20 minutes.
This has a real 'made for my film class' feel to it. My husband usually makes me watch the first 30 minutes of a film before bailing, but after the 5 minute tooth brushing sequence I convinced him to shut it off early.
Then I googled 'Why do hipsters like boring s*%t?
And google gave me nothing, so my husband suggested asking their AI, so I asked google's AI the same question and it lectured me on people liking different things.
Anyway, on reading the other 1 star reviews, I am very relieved that I turned it off when I did. And omg the music. This was obviously partly a vehicle to get the filmaker's friend's bands songs in the movies.
Happy Death Day (2017)
Fun!
This lives up to it's billing!
And gore free, so even though it references classic slasher flicks, you can watch it with your friends who aren't so into horror.
The characters are fun, the story is fun, the twists and turns are fun, this movie is fun.
Here is where i expound as verbosely as I possibly am able my ongoing distain for the Internet Movie Database's insistance that I express my thoughts and feelings on any given film in no less than six hundred characters. I have said all I feel the need to say. This was a fun little horror flick. I enjoyed having it as part of this years halloween film lineup.
Justified (2010)
Yes. This was good. This was very good.
A friend of mine recommended this because I said I like main characters who are very competent assholes. This show is full of assholes. Many of them competent, but none so much as the main character.
I loved all the characters in this. I loved the story lines. Everyone played their roles to perfection. The dialogue was hilarious. Even Walton Goggins' character who speaks in a way that no one speaks in real life does so with such conviction that it comes off very natural. And the facial expressions! Everyone's body language is just so well done. The side-eyes in this are perfect.
After watching the series I did indeed go and read all the Elmore Leonard and son books about the Raylan character, and I've jumped on the Timothy Olyphant bandwagon.
Bron/Broen (2011)
Solid all the way through.
This kept my attention for all 4 seasons. I will say season one is the best by far, but I continued to enjoy the characters and stories and relationships introduced throughout the whole series.
I loved the way the stories were told. They continuously introduce characters that seemingly have nothing to do with anything, but over the course of the season, the pieces fall in place.
The acting and writing is just so good, and the interactions between the two leads, and in fact between all the regular characters is very well done. (On the otherhand, I may have liked it so much because I identified with Saga's character quite a bit. I watched this with my husband and there were a number of times where he gave me the side-eye to say, yeah, you would do/say that.)
It's also very binge inducing. There were a couple weekends spent on the couch plowing through this series. If it was a book it would be a real page turner.
I understand that every nation that borders on a country with a different official language has done a version of this story and I would like to begin watching all of them.
The Nun II (2023)
Solid follow up!
I really didn't remember anything from The Nun (even though I just watched it last year) other than the fact that I enjoyed it.
The setting was good. The dialogue flowed freely. I found myself yelling 'Don't investigate!' with some frequency. The length and pacing seemed about right. The premise was a little bit goofy. Overall, if it's horror movie night, you won't go wrong with this one.
Meanwhile, I was very surprised to learn that this is part of the conjuring universe. I'm not sure how it all fits in, so I would say you definitely don't need to have seen any of the other films to enjoy this one on it's own merit.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
Oh that was well done!
First of all, big kudos for setting the film in a clinically well lit medical examination room! So refreshing to actually be able to see the action on screen and not have to squint uncomfortably trying to make out what's happening in the dark.
The acting was really top notch, and because the film is mostly two people and a corpse in an autopsy room, I could see this working well on stage.
The unravelling of the mystery was enjoyable, the revealing of the details of the relationship between the father and son characters was engaging. The tension and relief once the horror kicks in are really well handled.
And that Jane Doe! What a role!
Ostatnia wieczerza (2022)
Very satisfying all the way through!
I enjoyed this film quite a bit. It's got a good slow moving but engaging pace which helps keep the spooky sinister atmosphere alive while progressing the plot.
The comic relief was especially well done, and anyone who's watched alot of horror in this particular subgenre will appreciate it.
The ending was especially satisfying. I think any other ending would have been a dissapointment.
Special shoutout for the realistic portrayal of the actual plain chant singing abilities of the average monk!
Plus extra special shoutout for the backwards credit roll! It was surprisingly disturbing and a great touch!
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)
Looking forward to reading some books about this!
I didn't know anything about this part of WWII history, and am glad to have been introduced to it. I will certainly be reading some books on the subject. That anyone in this film is based on a real person is quite something!
As for the film...it was surprisingly lighthearted for a war movie involving espionage and a very high body count. It was entertaining, but there was a lot less tension than I would have expected, and at no point did I really think the characters were in any danger. When The Pitch Meeting guy gets around to reviewing this he'll have many opportunities to say "Super easy, barely an inconvenience."
Music and Lyrics (2007)
Some good laughs
I did enjoy this. The dialogue was good and there were some clever laughs. I'm not sure I believe those two people actually fell in love, so I guess that's a failure in a rom-com, but I still enjoyed it quite a bit.
I get that romance films are required by law to have the couple have some sort of misunderstanding that causes them to split up, but I wish the writers had found a way to do that that was a little less contrived.
Apart from that, It was well acted, the music was really fun and the characters were engaging. The whole bit about Hugh Grant's character being an 80s has been was handled nicely. I think that's an aspect that could have gone off the rails but didn't.
In a World... (2013)
Nobody talks like this
This was on my to watch list for years. What a disappointment.
The dialogue is really painful. Every scene is too long. The pacing is really off. Every decision anybody makes in this movie, and every action they take is incredibly contrived. I think some people like really uncomfortable and awkward people tripping over each other in film, and they might find this enjoyable. I found it unbelievably cringy. There are a lot of jokes made at other people's expense that I don't think would have even passed muster in 2013.
The film itself obliterated whatever feminist statement it was trying to make.
The fnal scene was particularly offensive. Oh my god. Yuck.
The Cutting Edge (1992)
This was quite fun! So many training montages!!!
I can't remember how we stumbled upon this film. We were trying to find romantic comedies to watch in February, we also do love a sports movie around here, so maybe that's how, but I was surprised by the high rating and had to check it out.
Really enjoyed this. It was fun to remember that weird year where we had two winter olympics with only two years apart, and the two leads had a really nice chemistry between them.
There were multiple training montages in this film. Every thing you hear about the athletes village at the Olympics suggests its a bit of a sex den, and I enjoyed seeing that portrayed here. There's no way that move would fly in competition, so I think it was wise of the filmakers to end it where they did.
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Just as good as I remember!
I loved this movie in my early 20s. I owned it on VHS and watched it over and over. I was a really big Heath Ledger fan, but there are only a handful of films he starred in that I watched so many times I remember what happened it them, and this was one of those.
I don't think I've ever actually read The Taming of the Shrew, but I did enjoy that run of basing teen comedies on Shakespeare and other classics, and I think this is one of the best films to come out of that practice.
The jokes are funny, the actors all have great chemistry between them. The bad guy is slimy in a delightful way. Bonus points to Alison Janey as the guidance councilor.
Very pleased to say that this film stands the test of time.
Benny & Joon (1993)
Just as good as I remembered it!
I remember loving this film as a teenager. I must have watched it four hundred times.
We've been on a romantic comedy kick of late and as always, when deciding to watch a beloved film from one's youth in one's fourties, there was some concern it wouldn't hold up, but it does.
The story is simple but strong, the characters are interesting and sympathetic, the jokes are funny, the premise is delightful, the acting is fantastic.
The imdb trivia section is full of other actors that were lined up to play the 4 mains and I can't imagine this film with anyone else in the starring roles.
It's a sweet little film full of whimsey, and I'm up for 400 more viewings.
The Beekeeper (2024)
John Wick with bees.
This...this was rediculous.
I want to know how the actors managed to keep their faces straight while delivering all the lines about beekeeping.
I want to know how Jeremy Irons' agent sold Jeremy Irons on taking this role. I want to know how he managed to give that beekeeping monologue while keeping a straight face.
The action was great, and you really can't go wrong with Jason Statham. I did enjoy the movie, but I laughed at nearly every line of dialogue. I'm pretty sure the writers expected that. We think they watched John Wick and it's rediculous premise and were like, we can do that.
It got a little too silly towards the end, but it was silly all the way through.
I should have tried harder to make bee puns in this review. I apologize.
The Nun (2018)
Solid creepy horror.
This was really well done. I genuinely liked the three main characters. The story was intriguing, the dialogue flowed naturally. The setting couldn't have been better.
With no power in an old abbey the characters had an excuse for investigating the creepy sounds at night in the dark, though I did still find myself saying: Why are you going there! Why don't you leave and call the Vatican and tell them to send in the Jesus Strike Force!
The character whose job it was to lighten the mood with some laughs did so in a very natural way. In fact yeah, they got the balance between tension and relief just right.
I haven't seen any of the other movies where the nun character shows up so maybe there's some pre-conception that some viewers have that isn't being met? That's the only thing I can think of to explain the low rating here on IMDB.
This was a solid creepy horror movie.
Don't Kill It (2016)
OMG Dolph Lundgren is dreamy!
That was good fun! Had some real Troma-esque sicing and dicing in places, and I think they used most of the fake blood budget in the opening scenes, so there wasn't much left for the end, which gave it an extra quirkly feel there. Probably the most light hearted film I've seen with such a high body count.
The story was simple and straightforward. The goofy small town small mindedness was over the top and fit well with the Troma feel. There were no long drawn out encounters, all the action was nice and fast.
The onscreen chemistry between Dolph Lundgren and Kristina Klebe was delightful.
But mainly, holy smokes! Dolph Lundgren is hot!
Sinister (2012)
It was indeed sinister, but I can't handle bad decision making.
The sinister spooky parts of this film were really well done, and i think were spooky mostly because they really captured what its like to creep around your house at night to investigate a suspicious sound.
But.
You know what I do when I go to investigate a suspicious sound in my house at night? I turn the lights on.
And do you know what I woud do if I found a box full of evidence for multiple murders in my house? I would turn them over to the police.
I also wouldn't have spent the royalties of my first book deal on a mansion that will run me into debt, and I wouldn't buy a second house while I can't afford to live in the first house.
As a result, i found the ending very satisfying.
Special shoutout to Detective So and So. He was the best part. Voice of reason.
Jennifer's Body (2009)
It _is_ hard to be an indie band!
This was great! I don't understand the low ratings. The two stars were great in their roles, the premise was fun, the execution really well done. The story and dialogue were engaging. The jokes were funny.
A bunch of the reviews seem to think it couldn't tell if it was a comedy or a horror, but...it was a comedy horror. I thought everything was very well balanced. It also looks like all those people were expecting something like the writer's previous movie which looks to be a thoughtful drama rather than a comedy horror, so maybe that's part of the problem. If you want a fun well made comedy horror you can't go wrong with Jennifer's Body.
Maybe I found this particularly funny because I'm an independent musician.
Nightbreed (1990)
A Romance for the ages!!
There was so much kissing!!!!! I enjoyed the romance in this story. <3 <3 <3
It's a fine film about the power of love and the dangers of small town mentality. I thought the costumes and sets were really well done. A couple of the muppet style monsters didn't age so well, but for the most part it looks great. Lots of sets that really looked like Dark Souls imagery and a lot of the monsters were really cool looking.
WTF this was set in Calgary?! I had assumed it was set in Calgary for the Canadian Film Tax Credits, but the novella was based in Calgary too. Was Clive Barker on a ski trip or something when he wrote it? I want answers to this question.
Also: David Cronenberg was really creepy!!
The Order (2003)
A good story with a satisfying ending.
I saw this in theatre when it came out as I am a big fan of Brian Helgeland's writing, and I love Heath Ledger. I deeply enjoyed it at the time and have watched it a number of times since. Maybe I like it so much cause of all those religious studies classes I took focusing on weird medieval Catholicism, but I really enjoyed the whole premise of this film and it's execution.
Every so often i check to see what Brian Helgeland has been up to and am dissapointed that there haven't been many films. By the looks of all the reviews, people really hated this movie and that is why he hasn't gotten to helm many others. I'm really not sure why.
A slow broody film about a weird old catholic quirk with some intrigue and some supernatural stuff. I don't remember it being billed as a horror movie, but I notice that's what it's listed as so maybe that's part of the problem. It's a solid drama more than a horror.
Talk to Me (2022)
Solid spoooky horror.
I thought this was rather well done. Everything looked really good, the suspense was well done. The story was well told. Some characters made some bad decisions. I thought the ending was particularly good.
I'm not big on gore, and this film had very little (though there were a couple scenes that I did look away for.)
Most of the characters had a good mix of likable and unlikable qualities, most of them seemed realistic, though there were a couple moments here and there where I don't think a real person would talk or act that way.
I also thought that the existance of social media and ubiquity of cell phones was used well in this film.