Recently Watched Films

The cover of Queen's News of the World comes to life! Very loosely based on Ted Hughes' "The Iron Man" (there's a giant robot from outer space that eats metal, and that's it!). It was just the sort of lightweight "park you brain and enjoy" movie I needed last night.

Talkies didn't kill off Charlie Chaplin like a number of other silent movie stars. There's still plenty of physical humour and slapstick, and the parody is razor sharp. Hitler hated it and it was banned in Nazi Germany, so mission accomplished.

Preferred Late Spring. Still pretty solid, but retreads a lot of the same plot points as the first film.

Great atmosphere. A few wacky things. Plot pretty much absent. 

Brilliantly disturbing look at Romania under Communist rule. Not an easy watch. 

Darkly comic crime film. It won't take much of your time, and doesn't have any pretensions over what it is. Very solid fun with the ever underrated Michael Smiley playing the lead. 

More like Suckage the Hedgehog. 

As a long time Sonic fan, whose video games defined my childhood, I felt compelling to give this a watch, even though I had zero expectations.

However I didn't expect it to be quite this bad. 

Don't fuck with Gurkhas.

Mixed feelings here. On one hand its a compelling watch with great cinematography, but on the other it presents a mystery that not only is never solved (the protagonist's first husband's apparent suicide), she doesn't actually make any real effort to solve it, instead steadily building toward a breakdown. Not exactly what the film was billed as on Prime, which implied that there might be foul play involved and that she'd search for the truth. I dunno, it kinda feels like half a movie to me. I did still enjoy what it actually was though.