Recently Watched Films

Yep, still easily the best of the MCU movies I've seen. I remember watching it at the same time as Agents of Shield back in the day, which made it extra effective, but now even with my memories of that series behind me (I gave it up around the end of Season 3, if I remember right) this was still as great as ever, especially after having seen the first Captain America movie, so it makes a lot more sense now, lol As far as action goes, this is honestly going to be hard to top, as there's more of it here than any other MCU movie I've seen (even the first Avengers) and there's plenty of tension throughout, so it all feels urgent and intense. 

Something of a companion of Ceylan's first film Kasaba in that it fictionalises the making of it. 

Ceylan's third film. A psych drama dealing with loneliness. It ought to be depressing, but somehow its not. Some amazing visually stunning shots here. That's true of all his work, but this feels like the point his game was stepped up. 

Other than these two, I've been mainly re-watches the last few days:

Pretty sure I've written about this one before on here and don't have much to add about it. As always, though, darker and more messed up than you'd expect from the poster. 

This one is such a gem and I always feel like hardly anyone watched it. 

I just got the Alien collection on blu-ray, so I'm watching the whole series in chronological order. I've seen this one a couple of times before, but the sequel will only be the second viewing. 

Somehow only the second time watching this. 

Potentially my favourite slasher on account of it pisstaking other slashers. 

If Sharknado wasn't shit enough for you, there's this! People getting attacked by great white sharks in a cornfield because of a shark cult led by a serial killer who's waiting for a shark god to remanifest, and draws it's energy from Stonehenge. Zero budget, awful but hilarious special effects, acting which is worse than the non-sexy parts in 80s porn...

a lot slower than I expected

This might just have one of the best designed ghosts of any film. 

Somehow knowing the twist doesn't harm this in any way. 

Both 4K restored versions. 

My friend's mother would tell us off for swearing (not very seriously) and say "I hope you aren't using any of those Foley words". Because yeah, this is a bit sweary.

Strong shades of Double Indemnity here, not just from its casting of the same male lead. But the best one of set 4 so far.

Three Stooges:

One of the few where the lads don't play themselves and structured a bit differently than all other Stooges shorts I've watched. Solid but not one of their best. It was the last to feature Shemp before his death.

I don't normally go in for boxing pictures but this was good. Directed by John Huston who made quite a few all time favourites of mine and on whose strength I decided to check it out. Glad I did. 

Really solid spy noir based around fact (actually from writings of J Edgar Hoover). 

Three Stooges:

This is actually just a near total rehash of footage from the short Dunked in the Deep, which unideally was the short on Columbia Noir 4 disc 1. It only exists because of contractual obligations that Columbia said stood in spite of the death of Shemp. 

It's not as complex as it might look.

The only series you will need to have seen to keep up with the movies at this point is WandaVision, since that ties directly into the new Doctor Strange. A while ago they said you would need to see Loki season 1 as well, but that doesn't look like its actually the case. You can watch all other Phase 4 movies without worrying about the shows.

Obviously when they eventually do Captain America 4, you will need to have seen The Falcon and the Winter Soldier first.

Those two plus Loki and Hawkeye all follow on from characters established in Phases 1-3. But so far WandaVision is the only one that's essential for watching a movie. Moon Knight can be enjoyed at any time, even with no prior MCU knowledge, though he is supposed to at some point make the jump to the movies, at which time you will need to have seen it. You will also need to have seen Ms. Marvel, the next show coming out, prior to the release of The Marvels, but on the current slate that's still five movies away.