I know Im in a minority here, but I don’t get the continued affection people have for this guy’s work outside of his Shadowsverse that he has now been living off for over a decade
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I liked JoJo Rabbit but it is starting to feel like a case of diminishing returns…
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‘Boy’ was truly brilliant and ‘Reservation Dogs’ is fantastic, but I don’t know how involved he was with that.
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I’ve rather enjoyed his films, but I wonder what he will make of Klara and the Sun. I’m guessing that it is worth reading the book first. I saw the film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go without knowing what it was really about (my son was studying it for his Highers) and I just found it devastating. Brilliant film, but the subject matter, and how it was handled, was really disturbing.
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Not sure if you’re in the minority. What We Do in the Shadows (film) was a master-piece and Jojo Rabbit was good, in my opinion, making his filmography in the last ten years mostly puzzling for me in terms of quality.
It seems like we’re living in times where moving from independent to big budget production seems to spell disaster for the artistic and/or overall quality of film. When I get the time, I start my Internet search at the releases from the likes of A24 and Neon, as well as films that gained recognition at the likes of SXSW, Sundance and Cannes, and then take it from there.
It’s a bit depressing to see so many wonderful films buried beneath the ad campaigns for the latest prequel, sequel, reboot or re-imagining but I convinced myself ages ago that searching is a crucial part of the journey. 
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I’m currently waiting to leave the Middle East, was supposed to fly yesterday but got cancelled. Now all I can do is sit in my room watching movies and waiting for the call to come in.
Just watched The Mummy with Tom Cruise. Fell asleep twice, it was so dark I had no clue what was going on.
Also watched Road House with Jake Gylenhall. Pretty good, very dumb of course but that’s expected. Nowhere near as good as the original.
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The film version of 2000AD’s Rogue Trooper has been premiered in France:
https://2000ad.com/news/the-rogue-trooper-reviews-are-in/
It’s an interesting sounding project. It is directed by Duncan Jones, who directed Moon and Source Code, and is a relatively low-budget project that uses a combination of animation and motion capture, but using animation software that is usually associated with gaming rather than cinema.
There is currently no distributor but there does seem to be a fair bit of interest, it has been getting very good reviews at the Annecy Animation Festival.
Awesome. I didn’t realise it had been made. I think the project with Duncan Jones had been talked about for the last 15 or 20 years but never seemed to go anywhere. I’m so glad he has stuck with it. I wasn’t a great fan of Source code but as a film it was fine, I thought Moon was great, although much of that may be because of sam rockwell!
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Mel Brooks is 100 years old:
He’s still going strong… well still going, as he has a sequel to Spaceballs coming out in the next year.
I was quite surprised to see in the article that he was a producer on The Elephant Man (the David Lynch film with John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins.) I checked his filmography, and he was also an uncredited producer on David Cronenberg’s version of The Fly. I never knew that.
It’s difficult to say which film is my favourite, but anyone that could do something as near to the knuckle as The Producers in 1967 has to be admired.
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I hope BBC 1 show Blazing saddles again in honour of Mel turning 100
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Producers, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles are my favourite MB films, High Anxiety and Spaceballs just missing out on the podium spots.
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Echo,valley, a Julianne Moore and Sidney Sweeney “thriller” on apple, shit. Just a pointless exercise.
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Oh yes…
i watched this over the last 2 nights,
i thought it was all a bit silly, and I’m not sure who it was aimed at,
kids would probably enjoy, adults might not,
but there was some adult humour in it,
which adults would like, but wasnt fit for kids almost like Deadpool humour
music in it was ok though
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I’m on a bit of a stream of consciousness watch at the moment. I noticed that Sunshine (Danny Boyle Sci Fi from 2007) was on German telly later. Unfortunately, it was the same time as the football.
I managed to find it on streaming, much enjoyed it again, and at the end it recommended Breakfast On Pluto (Cillian Murphy connection). I had heard about this because it was filmed in by brother-in-law’s home town of Callan in County Kilkenny.
He said that at the local premier that the audience was politely nonplussed. I suppose a rather conservative Irish audience probably didn’t know what to make of the story of a transgender woman discovering herself, but I thought it was nicely made. I’m not sure what the book is like, but the film plays as vignettes from a diary.
It was directed by Neil Jordan, who I have always rather liked, and the next suggestion is The Company Of Wolves, which I don’t think I have seen since it was originally shown on Channel 4. That should rather nicely take me up to the footie.
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Company of Wolves is a classic 
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We watched Marty Supreme last night and it left me thinking about the point of film.
I enjoyed it. I laughed repeatedly and Chalamet is the sort of actor who demands your attention when he’s on screen, but I left wondering what the point of it was. I enjoyed it and it was a reasonable way to spend 2 hours. But other than this post I don’t think I’ll spend a second of my life ever thinking about it again. And for some films the 2 hours it gives you is enough…but for an A24 Oscar vehicle for Timmy? Shouldn’t it be more than that? Did I miss something? Am I being too precious?
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I just noticed on the RIP Thread that Sam Neill’s last film part was in this (voice of the magpie):
I saw the trailer at the weekend and it looks weird enough to appeal to me. It says it is due for release in October. I’m not sure whether that is just Australia or globally.
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Watched ‘The Fan’ last night, recently uploaded to Netflix. De Niro, Del Toro, Snipes, Barkin, Leguizamo…difficult to fathom how a cast like that can result in such a steaming pile of shite, the ending is bordering on the ludicrous.
Doesn’t even make the list of De Niro’s 11 worst films, he must have made some fucking howlers if that’s the case.
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