Last movie watched...

[Mattofthespurs]

Logan Lucky. Enjoyed it. Was a 6/10 but the final 10 minutes elevate it to a solid 7/10.

[Satanist]

The Hitman's Bodyguard.

Very.
Very.
Bad.

2/10

Yup, absolute fucking toss!

[Tjm86]

Red Tails.  On the one level a poor rehash of Tuskegee Airmen but with more action and higher quality special effects.  On another level an interesting dissertation on discrimination and resilience.  Need to dig out the Dreaming Eagles and reread as a comparison.  Still an enjoyable evening's viewing and far better than some of the alternatives I've noted of late.

[Mardroid]

Looper

Now that's a really good film that does some really interesting stuff with time travel. And the child actor was actually pretty good too.

[Arkwright99]

Detroit. Difficult to express what I thought about this. It's very well made (as you'd expect from Kathryn Bigelow) and yet it's quite frustrating. The historical context is kind of hazy; it's a real life series of events but Bigelow doesn't nail down exactly when the events are taking place until quite late in the film when someone mentions what year it is. There's no real narrative for the first hour(?), just kind of random vignettes about the characters we'll be focussing on during the core of the film's event. Then when the actual event in question take place no-one does the obvious thing and tells the truth about what occurred, which is presumably historically accurate so it's how the people behaved in real life but I'm watching it thinking [spoiler]just tell the cops that it was the guy they've already killed who fired a starting pistol out the window[/spoiler]. When the film wraps up in the final 20 mins I didn't even realise that John Boyega's security guard was [spoiler]actually on trial alongside the white police officers[/spoiler]. I thought he was going to be [spoiler]a witness[/spoiler] not [spoiler]a defendant[/spoiler] so that point was entirely lost on me.

All I can think is that Bigelow and Mark Boal assume the audience is already familiar with the events depicted so don't need to actually explain what it's all about but when your movie's tagline is "It's time we knew" and "Based on the true story of one of the most terrifying secrets in American history"^[1] that's a very strange assumption to make.

^{[1]Apparently white American police officers and/or juries in the '60s were racist. Who'd have thunk it?}

[Mattofthespurs]

Death Wish 2 - Netflix. After re-reading some old copies of Cinema Sewer I found myself hankering for some old fashioned sleaze and DW 2 fit the bill nicely. After seeing his housekeeper and traumatised daughter (from the first film) raped (and in the case of the housekeeper, multiple times) and then killed Bronson seems rather put out, if not terribly upset,  and goes after the gang that committed the crimes. This is pretty poor fair and Michael Winner, the director, is pretty salacious in filming the multiple rape of the housekeeper, and far more restrained with the rape of the daughter. Still, the characters are all one dimension and this sequel holds none of the power that the original film had. 5/10 novelty value only.
 
Green Room - Netflix. Finally caught up with this movie starring Patrick Stewart about a punk band playing their last gig on a low rent tour in a rural setting to a club full of neo Nazis. When the band witness the murder of a young woman they are kept at the club as the club owner, Stewart, decides how to 'solve' this problem. Well made, well acted with quite a bit of gore and plenty of suspense. 6.5/10

[Mattofthespurs]

It Follows - Netflix.
Another film I had been meaning to watch since I was sent the screener DVD a couple of years ago for Frightfest.
 
Decent horror film and because of it's musical score and surburbian setting (Detroit, in this instance) it has a definite 'John Carpenter' feel to it.
The story itself is more 'Ring' but it's pretty well done. 6.5/10.

[Eamonn Clarke]

Scary movie weekend:

Life. More dumb astronauts, not as daft as the crew of the Alien: Covenant but would still struggle in a pub quiz against the Muppets' Pigs and Space. Gravity was much scarier without a beastie.

Get Out. Good but so many daft moments and plot holes, and the plot is too obvious, too early on.

The Autopsy of Jane Doe. This was proper creepy with great work from Brian Cox (the good one), Emile Hirsch, and Trollhunter director André Øvredal. The conclusion might not be as satisfying as the slow build up, and there were a couple of overused horror tropes, but still great fun.

[von Boom]

Atomic Blonde. A so-so film overall. Not enough of either action or intrigue to stand out as either one or the other. Shame really.

[Mattofthespurs]

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
Gosh, this is pretty to look at but so incredibly empty. A disappointment. Stick with the comic series 5/10

[Colin YNWA]

The Warriors last night. Not seen that film in an age, I mean a real long time and... well ... I don't know I remember thinking it was so hard and cool and scary back in the day... its not aged well has it. Yet I still found it completely compelling and engaging.

Me I'd just get a taxi next time if I was them!

[Goaty]

Rewatch Captain America First Avenger, just awesome it get so much better sequels.

[Dandontdare]

The Warriors last night. Not seen that film in an age, I mean a real long time and... well ... I don't know I remember thinking it was so hard and cool and scary back in the day... its not aged well has it. Yet I still found it completely compelling and engaging.

Me I'd just get a taxi next time if I was them!

Classic. To this day I can't see two empty coke bottles without doing the clink-clink "Warr-iors, come out to pla-a-y" line. But you're right - nowadays those gangsters look more like Jets & Sharks than Bloods & Crips

[Mattofthespurs]

The Warriors last night. Not seen that film in an age, I mean a real long time and... well ... I don't know I remember thinking it was so hard and cool and scary back in the day... its not aged well has it. Yet I still found it completely compelling and engaging.

Me I'd just get a taxi next time if I was them!

Classic. To this day I can't see two empty coke bottles without doing the clink-clink "Warr-iors, come out to pla-a-y" line. But you're right - nowadays those gangsters look more like Jets & Sharks than Bloods & Crips

Spot on.
One of my 'go to' movies.
Absolutely love it. Saw it first in 1983 on VHS. Dislike the 'new' version with the comic panels though.

[JamesC]

The Nice Guys.

Absolutely loved it. I didn't think they made quality buddy films like this anymore.
It was quite reminiscent of The Last Boy Scout.