2 hours ago, TheLastWolf said:

John Hillcoat who directed The Road (middling adaptation of a great McCarthy book) is set to direct I hear. 

This is Blood Meridian we're talking about and who is this guy exactly?

And Chris Pratt as The Judge, please let this adaptation not make it.

Would be cool if someone like Robert Eggers read it and convinced himself (that there was enough horror for him) to attempt. 

I remember really liking the western he did (The Proposition - 2005). Very bleak. Very brutal. 

I don’t see anything about Pratt still being attached in the above article, so hopefully that’s not the case anymore. I saw a fan casting for The Judge of Anthony Carrigan from Barry, and now I can’t unsee it. 

John Logan Tapped to Write Film Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Blood Meridian’

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/blood-meridian-movie-john-logan-writer-1235980122/

On 4/5/2024 at 7:42 AM, Ramsay B. said:

I went and saw Late Night with the Devil yesterday. It was solid and fun but I was kind of expecting more, especially with all of the rave reviews it’s getting. I wish there was more horror madness or something. 

Dastmalchian did really nail the corny 70’s talk show host bit and glad to see him in a lead role. 

I watched this last night. I really dug it. It was actually even darker than I expected with the whole 

44 minutes ago, DMC said:

That’s not what the article above suggested.

Tarantino had been honing The Movie Criticfor months. Set in 1977 California, it initially drew inspiration from a cynical movie critic that the filmmaker grew up reading. But sources say it morphed along the way into a film that would feature Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth, the stuntman he portrayed in an Oscar-winning performance in Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It is unclear if this film was going to be a prequel or a 1970s-set sequel to Hollywood. But in recent weeks, Tarantino had a change of heart again and moved away from the film entirely.

 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/quentin-tarantino-no-longer-making-the-movie-critic-1235876453/

41 minutes ago, DMC said:

Yeah Brad Pitt as a movie critic for a 70s porn mag wasn’t really doing it for me either.

Supposedly Brad Pitt was going to reprise his role as Cliff Booth from OUATIH, not play the movie critic himself. 

1 hour ago, Ramsay B. said:

Spaeny was good in Devs, a show which I enjoyed but seemed to be kinda divisive iirc. She was also apparently in Mare of Easttown but I don’t recall her role.

Gonna see Civil War this week.

Apparently I have seen her in a few other things then. I watched both those shows. 

Civil War was really good. The two biggest things that stood out to me were the sound design (it’s intense!), and Cailee Spaeny. I think the only thing I’ve ever seen her in before this was Bad Times at the El Royale. 

Rewatching the old HBO series Tales from the Crypt for the first time since I was a kid. It’s crazy how many fairly big stars they had on this. 

Watched Red Eye (2005) for the first time tonight. Not sure how I never saw this before, but it’s a pretty fun thriller. Rachel McAdams, Cillan Murphy, and a much younger looking Brian Cox. I would have never guessed it was directed by Wes Craven. 

Speak No Evil looks like a straight up shot for shot remake. And this one feels particularly unnecessary considering they spoke English most of the original. Not to mention it literally just came out two years ago. The director of Eden Lake should certainly be able to do something this bleak very well, but still. I don’t get this one at all. 

Finally a MaXXXine trailer! 

What a night for Elly De La Cruz. Per OptaSTATS:

• HR from both sides of the plate
• over-the-fence HR & inside-the-park HR
• 4+ runs scored
• stolen base

He's the first player in MLB history to do all of that in the same game.

I had a big smile on my face for much of the Curb Your Enthusiasm finale. 

I’m going to miss the hell out of this show. 

Been watching some of the indie movies on Netflix this weekend, and so far my favorite has definitely been: I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore. It’s kind of a dark comedy/crime thriller directed by Macon Blair (Blue Ruin, Green Room), with Melanie Lynskey and Elijah Wood as the leads. Wood’s character in particular had me cracking up. 

It was also cool to see Robert Longstreet pop up in this. I actually just recently met him at a horror convention, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen him in anything outside of the stuff he’s done with Mike Flanagan. 

No wonder Ye Wenjie called them back.

On 3/29/2024 at 9:46 AM, Scott_N said:

From the main cast only Jess Hong and Rosalind Chao are good. The rest of the Oxford Five - I can't even be bothered to look up their names - range from forgettable (Saul) to poor (Will, Auggie) to joke (Rooney). Then again, these are all cardboard characters, and this clearly isn't a character-driven show, so maybe it shouldn't matter that much.

I thought Cunningham and Wong were both good. 

5 hours ago, Spockydog said:

But the most disturbing individual scene of any movie is THAT scene in Bone Tomahawk.. 

 

If we’re going individual scenes Fire in the Sky has one that’s way up there. 

Probably either Come and See or Threads.

1 hour ago, Ran said:

Written, directed by, and starring Viggo Mortensen, with Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) as co-lead:

Seems pretty interesting.

Bold statement that Unforgiven quote. 

You’ll Never Find Me is pretty great. Australian horror rarely misses for me. 

20 minutes ago, Ser Rodrigo Belmonte II said:

Glad Nolan won but Oppenheimer is far from his best film….

And The Departed is far from Scorsese’s best, but that’s not really how these things work.

Anyway, I loved Poor Things (and Emma), but I’m bummed for Lily Gladstone. Such an understated performance, with only about an hour of screen time was always going to be tough for her though. 

9 hours ago, Arakasi said:

I don’t mind the basic choreography. Kinda getting tired of all the marvel shows and the like where everyone is some martial arts badass and is doing crazy movements. Even when we had Buntaro killing guys here it’s all basic stuff and more grounded in realism.

Great scene. Kind of gave me Boromir vibes. 

Did a rewatch of Midnight Mass. Loved it even more the second time through. Hamish Linklater was just fantastic in this. Wish he was in more stuff.

Probably going to do The Haunting of Hill House again next. 

14 hours ago, Ran said:

Watched Winter's Bone again recently, what a breakthrough performance by Jennifer Lawrence. Have to say, John Hawkes almost stole the movie from her in every scene he was in.

Winter’s Bone is great. 

Leave No Trace is another really good one from the same director (Debra Granik) if you haven’t seen it.