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**Wendigo** · July 3rd, 2018, 07:37 PM

A Quiet Place (2018)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6644200/

Excellent post apocalyptic horror with a very small cast, a family are doing their best to survive in a world that has been savaged by aliens, unnervingly quiet as the aliens are blind and hunt by the slightest sound, there is very little taking but some of the background story you can pick up from briefly glimpsed newspaper headlines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR7cc5t7tv8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9wE8dyzEJE

**Sir Honkers** · July 3rd, 2018, 11:26 PM

Kingsman The Secret Service. I forgotten how spiffing that movie is. Well tailored British chaps at their urbanest...well except for Michael Caine. I'm going to watch The Golden Circle tonight. I've never seen that.

**movieman88** · July 4th, 2018, 02:48 AM

Cobra (1986)

**Sir Honkers** · July 4th, 2018, 11:54 AM

Kingsman. The Golden Circle. I don't know why it got mixed reviews. Yeah it's twenty minutes too long, but apart from the that, it's the same rollicking good time as the first film.

**Sir Honkers** · July 7th, 2018, 08:17 AM

Oldboy. A 2003 South Korea film about an obnoxious drunk who is abducted off the street and held captive for the next fifteen years; with only a television for company. Then he's abruptly released with a limited amount a time to find his mysterious captor.
Oldboy, Snowpiercer, The Train from Busan, Psychokinesis. I'm really starting to appreciate just how good South Korea's film industry is.

**Devius** · July 8th, 2018, 04:16 PM

Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Stars: Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhal, Queen Latifah
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420223/

Quote:

Everybody knows that your life is a story. But what if a story was your life? Harold Crick (Ferrell) is your average IRS agent: monotonous, boring, and repetitive. But one day this all changes when Harold begins to hear an author inside his head narrating his life. The narrator it is extraordinarily accurate, and Harold recognizes the voice as an esteemed author he saw on TV (Emma Thompson). But when the narration reveals that he is going to die, Harold must find the author of the story, and ultimately his life, to convince her to change the ending of the story before it is too late.

It's not a bad film - but oddly enough I'm so accustomed seeing Will Ferrell portray anarchic characters like Ricky Bobby or Ron Bergundy, watching him as humdrum Harold Crick was a bit jarring.

**Reclaimedwg** · July 9th, 2018, 08:22 AM

Incident In A Ghostland (2018) (On Screen Title) aka Ghostland

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6195094/

TRAILER:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy3UbDuFeY4

A mother and her two daughters, ages approximate 12-15, are traveling on the road on their way to their new home in the country.

Along the way, a truck passes them by and one of the girls flips her finger at its occupants.

That night while they were still moving into their new home, the occupants of the truck shows up at their home and attack them.

Both girls and their mother survive the brutal and violent attack.

Years pass and one of the daughter, the youngest one, has moved to Chicago where she has become a national best selling author of horror books.

Her mother and oldest sister are still living in their country home.

She returns home to reunite with them and strange happenings begin as soon as she arrives.

Are these occurrences supernatural or is there something else at play here?

The first part of the movie, the brutal attack scene had me on the edge of my seat and I jumped a few times.

The second part of the movie when the youngest sister returns home to find strange things are happening in the house around her, there was an eerie sense of terror and tension which had my attention.

Then the screenwriters and director decide to ruin the mood by revealing the whole cause of the story just a few minutes after the sister has returned home, with the movie not even halfway played through.

Once the truth was revealed, the movie turned into a standard mechanical horror movie.

Loud noises, things jumping out at you, lots of screaming and sobbing from the two sisters, lots of running in the house trying to escape unseen attackers, up the stairs, down the stairs, in one room, out of another room, doors to rooms slamming, locked doors not opening and the sisters banging on the doors while screaming help help please, open the door, etc etc.

If the screenwriters and director had let the movie played through all the way to the end and waited until then for the big twist reveal, this horror film would had been great and it would had worked better.

But nope! Too eager to let the cat out of the bag thus ruining what was an otherwise promising good start.

By the way, this is the same movie where actress Taylor Hickson, one of the young actress who played one of the sisters at age 15, was hurt in an on set accident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostland#Accident

I don't know the outcome of the lawsuit but I hope she wins. It looks like they used real glass and not sugar glass. Really what were they thinking? The director and the stunt coordinator and the set builders were all at fault!

Finally, this is one of half a dozen films I've seen in recent years where characters in them flipped their fingers at someone and the result is bringing violence and mayhem to themselves.

This is not confined to fictional movies. This has also happened in real life.

Don't go flipping your fingers at people even if they do something to piss you off!! You may think it's cool and funny and it gives you a sense of superiority and satisfaction when you do it but you don't know who it is you are being rude to.

There are a lot of crazy people out there and it doesn't take much to set them off and turn them into violent murderous animals.

Every action has consequences and sometimes those consequences can result in harm and death toward you or someone you love.

3/5

**neo2008** · July 9th, 2018, 12:57 PM

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Picking up a couple of years after the events of Civil War ,Scott Lang/Ant Man (Paul Rudd) re teams with Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Hope Pym (Evangeline Lilly) to search for her mother in the Quantum Realm and take on a mysterious character named Ghost.

After the dread and doom of Infinity War i knew going in to Ant-Man and the Wasp that their would be a much lighter touch to with humor throughout the film.
Rudd and Lilly have great chemistry,and Douglas doles out plenty of fun and intense crankiness.
The action sequences are fun and inventive,the blend of CGI and SFX was visually stunning.
There are charming moments between Rudd and Abby Ryder Fortson as Cassie Lang's daughter.
I know some people hated Randall Park as Jimmy Woo: An FBI agent and Lang's parole officer ,and if he had been on a continuous loop then that would have been a problem for me but i thought he was funny plus he was just basically here and there.

Some characters dont get that much to do,i thought more would be done with Laurence Fishburne as Bill Foster,the other side characters are just basically around for visual and grating jokes.
The villains werent intimidating at all.
I liked Ava/Ghost's (Hannah John-Kamen) story arc and what was done with her visually though.
Walter Goggins is a great and versatile actor but lately the films he's been in are watering down his talents.
My main problem is,though i was amused by some of the comedy the writers forgot to balance it out with a little drama and peril.
I would say 80% of what happens in this film has a joke tied to it.

Stick around for the mid credits stinger,but not for the end credits stinger because basically....it's a joke !!

Scale of 1-10 a 7

**Brecht** · July 9th, 2018, 08:55 PM

Vengeance Is Mine (1979)

Trailer

The story is told in flashbacks. Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata), a prisoner of the police, is hauled into an interrogation room but refuses to answer the cops' questions. We learn that he's been on the run for a while, committing a series of murders and scamming some gullible people. Enokizu comes from a Catholic family from the islands. His father lost his fishing boats to the Japanese navy in the 1930s and Iwao has been a violent and rebellious boy ever since. Back in the present, he's evading capture by posing as a university professor or lawyer.

The film is based on the real-life killer Akira Nishiguchi. Iwao Enokizu, the character based on him, is the stark opposite of Japanese culture. His killings serve no purpose as he's not a serial killer as usually perceived. The urge to murder is not explained. Enokizu is basically a career criminal, a fraudster who happens to kill a few people along the way. Ken Ogata's portrayal of Iwao Enokizu is as riveting as Shohei Imamura's directing. While most of the film is set in the 1950s and 1960s, the film has a very 70s "vibe" to it and is as grey and realistic as the 1970s' best crime flicks. Vengeance Is Mine is a late 70s masterpiece, beaming with powerful performances.

**Wendigo** · July 9th, 2018, 09:10 PM

Red Sparrow (2018)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2873282/

Sexpionage thriller about female Russian agents "sparrows" who trained to seduce targets, lots of twists and turns and not as good as I hoped but still it has Jennifer Lawrence stripping off

So much better than those horrible leaked photos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmUL6wMpMWw

July 3rd, 2018, 07:37 PM	#11101
Wendigo Former Staff Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Blighty Posts: 113,760 Thanks: 259,865 Thanked 1,139,138 Times in 113,882 Posts	A Quiet Place (2018) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6644200/ Excellent post apocalyptic horror with a very small cast, a family are doing their best to survive in a world that has been savaged by aliens, unnervingly quiet as the aliens are blind and hunt by the slightest sound, there is very little taking but some of the background story you can pick up from briefly glimpsed newspaper headlines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR7cc5t7tv8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9wE8dyzEJE __________________ RIP Doctor Who To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 23 November 1963 to 25 December 2017, sacrificed on the altar of identity politics. The show is dead to me, but my DVD's live on If you can re-up dead links please consider adding this to your signature. It helps when looking at reports of dead posts. Please PM me re any dead images although it is likely if it is outside Celebs I may no longer have the content

July 3rd, 2018, 11:26 PM	#11102
Sir Honkers Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Land Of Glorious Leader Posts: 30,341 Thanks: 286,789 Thanked 386,124 Times in 30,296 Posts	Kingsman The Secret Service. I forgotten how spiffing that movie is. Well tailored British chaps at their urbanest...well except for Michael Caine. I'm going to watch The Golden Circle tonight. I've never seen that. Last edited by Sir Honkers; July 3rd, 2018 at 11:32 PM..

July 9th, 2018, 08:22 AM	#11107
Reclaimedwg Vintage Member Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 3,414 Thanks: 7,709 Thanked 26,946 Times in 3,089 Posts	Incident In A Ghostland (2018) (On Screen Title) aka Ghostland https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6195094/ TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy3UbDuFeY4 A mother and her two daughters, ages approximate 12-15, are traveling on the road on their way to their new home in the country. Along the way, a truck passes them by and one of the girls flips her finger at its occupants. That night while they were still moving into their new home, the occupants of the truck shows up at their home and attack them. Both girls and their mother survive the brutal and violent attack. Years pass and one of the daughter, the youngest one, has moved to Chicago where she has become a national best selling author of horror books. Her mother and oldest sister are still living in their country home. She returns home to reunite with them and strange happenings begin as soon as she arrives. Are these occurrences supernatural or is there something else at play here? The first part of the movie, the brutal attack scene had me on the edge of my seat and I jumped a few times. The second part of the movie when the youngest sister returns home to find strange things are happening in the house around her, there was an eerie sense of terror and tension which had my attention. Then the screenwriters and director decide to ruin the mood by revealing the whole cause of the story just a few minutes after the sister has returned home, with the movie not even halfway played through. Once the truth was revealed, the movie turned into a standard mechanical horror movie. Loud noises, things jumping out at you, lots of screaming and sobbing from the two sisters, lots of running in the house trying to escape unseen attackers, up the stairs, down the stairs, in one room, out of another room, doors to rooms slamming, locked doors not opening and the sisters banging on the doors while screaming help help please, open the door, etc etc. If the screenwriters and director had let the movie played through all the way to the end and waited until then for the big twist reveal, this horror film would had been great and it would had worked better. But nope! Too eager to let the cat out of the bag thus ruining what was an otherwise promising good start. By the way, this is the same movie where actress Taylor Hickson, one of the young actress who played one of the sisters at age 15, was hurt in an on set accident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostland#Accident I don't know the outcome of the lawsuit but I hope she wins. It looks like they used real glass and not sugar glass. Really what were they thinking? The director and the stunt coordinator and the set builders were all at fault! Finally, this is one of half a dozen films I've seen in recent years where characters in them flipped their fingers at someone and the result is bringing violence and mayhem to themselves. This is not confined to fictional movies. This has also happened in real life. Don't go flipping your fingers at people even if they do something to piss you off!! You may think it's cool and funny and it gives you a sense of superiority and satisfaction when you do it but you don't know who it is you are being rude to. There are a lot of crazy people out there and it doesn't take much to set them off and turn them into violent murderous animals. Every action has consequences and sometimes those consequences can result in harm and death toward you or someone you love. 3/5 Last edited by Reclaimedwg; July 9th, 2018 at 08:38 AM..

July 9th, 2018, 09:10 PM	#11110
Wendigo Former Staff Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Blighty Posts: 113,760 Thanks: 259,865 Thanked 1,139,138 Times in 113,882 Posts	Red Sparrow (2018) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2873282/ Sexpionage thriller about female Russian agents "sparrows" who trained to seduce targets, lots of twists and turns and not as good as I hoped but still it has Jennifer Lawrence stripping off So much better than those horrible leaked photos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmUL6wMpMWw __________________ RIP Doctor Who To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 23 November 1963 to 25 December 2017, sacrificed on the altar of identity politics. The show is dead to me, but my DVD's live on If you can re-up dead links please consider adding this to your signature. It helps when looking at reports of dead posts. Please PM me re any dead images although it is likely if it is outside Celebs I may no longer have the content

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July 4th, 2018, 02:48 AM	#11103
movieman88 Vintage Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 7,358 Thanks: 8,193 Thanked 98,079 Times in 7,353 Posts	*Cobra (1986)*

July 4th, 2018, 11:54 AM	#11104
Sir Honkers Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Land Of Glorious Leader Posts: 30,341 Thanks: 286,789 Thanked 386,124 Times in 30,296 Posts	Kingsman. The Golden Circle. I don't know why it got mixed reviews. Yeah it's twenty minutes too long, but apart from the that, it's the same rollicking good time as the first film.

July 7th, 2018, 08:17 AM	#11105
Sir Honkers Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Land Of Glorious Leader Posts: 30,341 Thanks: 286,789 Thanked 386,124 Times in 30,296 Posts	Oldboy. A 2003 South Korea film about an obnoxious drunk who is abducted off the street and held captive for the next fifteen years; with only a television for company. Then he's abruptly released with a limited amount a time to find his mysterious captor. Oldboy, Snowpiercer, The Train from Busan, Psychokinesis. I'm really starting to appreciate just how good South Korea's film industry is.

July 9th, 2018, 12:57 PM	#11108
neo2008 Vintage Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 4,096 Thanks: 50,479 Thanked 151,240 Times in 4,385 Posts	Ant-Man and the Wasp Picking up a couple of years after the events of Civil War ,Scott Lang/Ant Man (Paul Rudd) re teams with Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Hope Pym (Evangeline Lilly) to search for her mother in the Quantum Realm and take on a mysterious character named Ghost. After the dread and doom of Infinity War i knew going in to Ant-Man and the Wasp that their would be a much lighter touch to with humor throughout the film. Rudd and Lilly have great chemistry,and Douglas doles out plenty of fun and intense crankiness. The action sequences are fun and inventive,the blend of CGI and SFX was visually stunning. There are charming moments between Rudd and Abby Ryder Fortson as Cassie Lang's daughter. I know some people hated Randall Park as Jimmy Woo: An FBI agent and Lang's parole officer ,and if he had been on a continuous loop then that would have been a problem for me but i thought he was funny plus he was just basically here and there. Some characters dont get that much to do,i thought more would be done with Laurence Fishburne as Bill Foster,the other side characters are just basically around for visual and grating jokes. The villains werent intimidating at all. I liked Ava/Ghost's (Hannah John-Kamen) story arc and what was done with her visually though. Walter Goggins is a great and versatile actor but lately the films he's been in are watering down his talents. My main problem is,though i was amused by some of the comedy the writers forgot to balance it out with a little drama and peril. I would say 80% of what happens in this film has a joke tied to it. Stick around for the mid credits stinger,but not for the end credits stinger because basically....it's a joke !! Scale of 1-10 a 7

July 9th, 2018, 08:55 PM	#11109
Brecht Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 10,657 Thanks: 180,485 Thanked 188,138 Times in 10,453 Posts	Vengeance Is Mine (1979) Trailer The story is told in flashbacks. Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata), a prisoner of the police, is hauled into an interrogation room but refuses to answer the cops' questions. We learn that he's been on the run for a while, committing a series of murders and scamming some gullible people. Enokizu comes from a Catholic family from the islands. His father lost his fishing boats to the Japanese navy in the 1930s and Iwao has been a violent and rebellious boy ever since. Back in the present, he's evading capture by posing as a university professor or lawyer. The film is based on the real-life killer Akira Nishiguchi. Iwao Enokizu, the character based on him, is the stark opposite of Japanese culture. His killings serve no purpose as he's not a serial killer as usually perceived. The urge to murder is not explained. Enokizu is basically a career criminal, a fraudster who happens to kill a few people along the way. Ken Ogata's portrayal of Iwao Enokizu is as riveting as Shohei Imamura's directing. While most of the film is set in the 1950s and 1960s, the film has a very 70s "vibe" to it and is as grey and realistic as the 1970s' best crime flicks. Vengeance Is Mine is a late 70s masterpiece, beaming with powerful performances.