June 2025.
Ordinarily i’d back it in this trailer’s better than movie itself, but it’s Garland, could be great.
the main thing i remember about True Romance was that scene with the confrontation in the hotel. Good twisted fun!
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Some great exchanges in True Romance. Oldman & Slater, Walken & Hopper. Also Brad Pitt in one of his best ever roles.
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He also wrote but did not direct True Romance. It was directed by Tony Scott.
I remember Denis Hopper’s Sicilians story.
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The end of OUATIH has a nice little throwback to Pitt in True Romance.
Or maybe it’s just me, but it made me smile.
Elvira now in 4k 
Finally got around to seeing this today (to escape the 40 degree heat).
Generally enjoyed it but felt that a few things happened a bit too quickly for me.
But well worth seeing.
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Blood for Dracula (1974)
Director: Paul Morrissey
Cast: Udo Keir, Joe Dallesandro, Maxime McKendry, Dominique Darel, Stefania Casini
The moribund Count Dracula leaves his ancestral castle in Romania to find a virgin bride in Italy. While stopped for rest at a rural village he becomes acquainted with the di Fiores, a fallen aristocrat family, and pursues the idea that one of the four daughters could become the bride he seeks.
An unusually bright horror film, it features a lot of vivid natural colours and brightly-lit interiors, and the overwhelming majority of its runtime is set in daylight hours, often in brilliant sunshine. The acting has a strange wooden quality, which may have been deliberate, or may have been because most of the cast were not speaking in their mother tongue. This is not a good film, but it’s so odd I found it somehow compelling.
5.5/10.
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Watched Imitation Games last night, was really good. 7.9/10
Watched The Substance lots of nudity and a pretty weird ending 7/10
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Fargo
Further up thread we discussed this. I know it’s highly regarded, but I think I missed something. It’s good in parts, but great? Not sure.
Worth a look tho. Great cast. Great acting. But at times it felt like a dark comedy, but not funny enough.
Somewhere about 7-7.5 / 10
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Red One (Amazon Prime)
Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, J. K. Simmons
Red One (Santa - J.K.Simmons) gets kidnapped and it’s up to Dwayne Johnson (Chief of Security for Santa) and Chris Evans (a secretive but well known hacker) to save him in time for Santa to do his Christmas night deliveries.
A different spin on the usual Christmas tales with a witch, evil snowmen and Krampus as key characters.
Quite an enjoyable movie without getting all syrupy like so many Christmas movies…(it’s still generally quite wholesome).
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Rambo: First blood part 2
(Rambo 2)
So, he’s breaking rocks after the killings in Rambo 1. The met him out of jail to go and take pictures of suspected POW camp in Vietnam.
Things go pear shaped.
As usual I don’t think he misses a shot when firing his gun, or bow with explosive tip.
Wouldn’t really bother watching unless you’re on a Mission to watch all 5(!) of them.
5.5/10
Saw War of the Rohirrim on opening night, almost empty cinema, so if you want to see it in big screen I’d advise you to hurry, it ain’t gonna be around long.
Just a … disappointment, all in all. It wasn’t absolutely terrible or anything, but it didn’t miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. If you try to do Tolkien without the gravity or dignity or emotion, you don’t have a lot left. Too many useless action scenes, a main character who scrupulously avoids any hint of character growth, and dialog that’s so hackneyed and cliched that a minor character in the movie itself actually calls it out. It wasn’t even animated to a standout level of quality.
Maybe it was intended for younger audiences, but jeez, Frozen had more emotional and thematic depth than this thing.
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It’s actually a disgrace what they did to First Blood.
I mean…starting with that sequel.
I saw the first one as a young teen and it felt like your typical badass guy against the odds kinda flick.
Went nuts over his gruesome trap. Watching it in the same way as I watched Turkey Shoot.
Wasn’t until I watched it decades later and saw it was actually a serious movie.
A good movie.
Not a perfect movie. It’s not Deer Hunter, but it’s a lot closer to that than…Universal Soldier.
And the sequel completely…bastardises it.
I’m not talking about the stupid effects that are absent in the original, although they’re bad enough.
But the way it goes from how badly the US treated its Vets and small town corruption, and…Denehey’s…weird but relatable…fear of the other (which every good film needs)…
To the America, Fark Yeah, gook smashing, superhero, revenge ■■■■ of the sequel.
It makes Highlander 2 look like the best sequel ever.
Edit: in First Blood, John Rambo kills one guy, kinda in self-defence.
In the next three films his tally is 254.
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This is a better review.
You missed the bit where the lead woman with the fake broken English. She’s beautiful. But her lines are terrible.
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‘Rambo… you not expendable’
Oscar worthy!
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Nek Minnit
She gets expended
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