Recently Watched Films

Disc 2: The Undercover Man. A much stronger film than Escape in the Fog, not least because it doesn't rely on the far fetched but also because it has the excellent Glenn Ford in the lead role. While Ford has better known movies (and rightly so), this one's a solid lesser gem. 

Three Stooges short:

Tackling a similar theme to the feature, this is another fun short bit of slapstick featuring a slightly different incarnation of the Three Stooges than on the You Nazty Spy! short.

dude's house is haunted by Sunn O))) 

There's also What We Do In Shadows and Wellington Paranormal (spin-off TV series) if you like a bit of a laugh with your horror.

More graboid goodness! This wasn't particularly well received when it came out, but I love it because it doesn't take itself too seriously. And Michael Gross' gun nut Burt Gummer is a brilliant character.

Basically Hitchcock with the sleaze amped up. Quite a mindfuck of a movie beneath that though. Not de Palma's best but solid. 

Very good quite unknown neo-noir movie. It's based on the first novel in a fairly long novel series, but this is the only one that ever made it to film and serves as an origin story for a black PI working in 1940s LA. The atmosphere to original noir movies is pretty much spot on, while also treading the kind of ground original noir would never have touched. A hidden gem.

Re-watches:

One of Fritz Lang's most famous English language movies and remains one of the few movies I know of from the time period to still carry higher than a PG age restriction. Infamous for the scene where Lee Marvin disfigures Gloria Grahame by throwing hot coffee in her face, The Big Heat certainly pushed boundaries in the 1950s even if its violent scenes seem tame by modern standards, though I still jump like hell during the scene where Glenn Ford's car is blown up with dynamite. 

A less well known noir but one I'm really quite fond of. It twists the genre a bit by having a female lead and using James Mason's character in the usual femme fatale role. 

sign language guy was absolutely terrible, but other than that I liked this one

Black Widow (2021):

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3480822/

Not what I had hoped for, but it´s Marvel, so of course there are some pretty great fight scenes and incredible SGI.