Last movie you watched 2025

[Westy]

Tonight I watched Companion - an excellent Horror/Thriller/Sci-Fi/Comedy! Best going in knowing nothing about it (like I did) - it's quite well done.

 

[ArtNJ]

Watched The Wild Robot on a plane, and its a perfectly enjoyable disney-esq flick. Slightly heavy handed in the emotional theme, but still brought a little tear to my eye in the end. More logically watched with kids since it doesn't have the cross-over appeal of the best Pixar films, but perfectly enjoyable for a plane or treadmill situation.

 

[AtramentousFlux]

Good cast 'n all, but imo this one hasn't aged well.

 

[Raf]

RotK will need to wait...TTT was nearly 4.5 hours (264 minutes), lol.

Finally got around the the Extended version of "Return of the King". Another 4.5 hour Saturday afternoon binge. Bur a big thunderstorm knocked out our power halfway through though. Got power / heat back around 3 hours later and finished it.

Good movie. Very enjoyable and it did do some justice to the Faramir and Eowyn sub story. Which got cut out in the original film version.

 

[ArtNJ]

The Gorge on apple TV is not bad! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13654226/ The official teaser description is:

Two highly-trained operatives become close after being sent to protect opposite sides of a mysterious gorge. When an evil emerges, they must work together to survive what lies within.

Ok, lets be clear. What is in the gorge is standard, unsurprising and dumb as you'd expect. But before we get there, we have a completely believable romance that develops organically from this highly strange situation. Its just surprisingly well done, and the surprising setting gives it some charm. The first half the move is perhaps good, and at the very least better than you'd expect. The second half isn't much different or better than a standard horror flick . . . but because of the first half, your really rooting for the characters. It makes a difference. Overall, this is a very good flick to watch if you have nothing better to do.

 

[Ubergeek]

LOVE LIES BLEEDING ( Rose Glass ) Prime UK

This rated highly in a few critics end of 2024 lists , so was interested .

After the success of her debut breakout feature ST MAUD Rose makes the move to Hollywood !

A gritty neo - noir western full of colour , thrills, spills and violence and nods to Hitchcock and Lynch . Excellent photography and set pieces .


FINAL DESTINATION 5 PRIME UK

Utter trash . Chuckled my way through the death scenes . Don't quite know why I enjoy this series !

 

[AtramentousFlux]

El Robo del Siglo . Based on a true story.

 

[Hobbit]

Here I watched Nikita in 4K - in French with English subtitles.


Been a while since I've seen this one. A little uneven, and not really an ending of sorts, but still startling and energetic. Though I've seen it before, I remembered very little of it, which made it all the more interesting. Think I actually remember the TV series with Peta Wilson in more....

 

[blailock]

I watched A Complete Unknown. I'm a Bob Dylan fan, but not a huge fan. I enjoyed this and thought it was well done.

 

[pogopossum]

Watched Flow about three days ago. To my amazement for such a simple lyrical film, it went on to win the academy award for best animated film. No dialogue , just images of gradual development by the lead (cat) character and his growing attachment to four other animals. The other four main characters also gradually develop but in a seemingly natural way. No real point, just a journey. As a dog lover I particularly liked the presentation of the dog. He doesn't develop much but is the doggiest character that I have ever seen on film.
I would welcome others' comments.

 

[Hobbit]

I've mentioned it already, pogo, but in short I really liked it. As an animal fosterer, I found it quite emotional. Amazing on the budget they had.

Having said that, as much as I loved it, my vote would have gone to Wallace & Gromit.

 

[pogopossum]

Some years ago I recommended the (then) three medium length Wallace--- films to the 30 hour Science fiction Marathon that I attend, to use as interludes. To my happy surprise they showed the Wallace and Gromits. I was rooting for the new W & G never as yet having been able to see it. Two of my four favorite animated creations. Along with Shaun the Sheep and Bitzer.

 

[Prairie_Dog]

I just watched the latest version of Nosferatu on the Peacock Streaming Service. It is a period appropriate version of the story of Count Orlock and his bloodthirsty rampage in Europe. The sets and costumes are amazing, it really seems as if they great pains to insure everything was historically accurate.

It‘s a pretty horrible piece, and is not short on gore or sexuality. Where other vampire films hint at sexual themes, in this one it is front and center. I also liked that the undead vampire looked dead. It also provided a bit of backstory on how he came to be. William Dafoe had a stand out role as an alchemist.

One really good effect that they used throughout the movie was the concept of the vampire‘s shadow. This usually took the form of his hand, and showed where he was exerting his supernatural powers. This is an interesting film, and vampire and horror fans should make a point of seeing it.

 

[Ubergeek]

Binged on a few giallos which were all Arrow UK blus .

The Case of the Scorpion's Tail
Suspicious Death of a Minor
Death Walks on High Heels
The Night Evelyn Came out off The Grave

Didn't enjoy Death of a Minor , in fact didn't finish it . Found the combination of humour in a film about murdering under age prostitutes distasteful . Pity , as I'm a big fan of Martino and can't fault the direction .

The other 3 were enjoyable , particularly Scorpion . Based on real events surrounding fraudulent life insurance claims .

 

[pogopossum]

Tampopo.
Japanese film that is justly credited as the ultimate foodie flic.
In addition to the main story, the gradual development of the ultimate noodle chef, it includes numerous (a dozen?) vignettes that poke fun at the pretentions of supposed experts on eating and food preparation, A few are simply funny, In parts sexy (although I did not like the egg yolk bit, You'll see what I mean) and in parts dramatic,
Quoting Roger Ebert, ""Like the French comedies of Jacques Tati, it's a bemused meditation on human nature in which one humorous situation flows into another offhandedly, as if life were a series of smiles." It's on the Criterion Collection.

 

[Ubergeek]

The Mutations aka The Freakmaker ( d. Jack Cardiff )

Watched a multi region dvd import English print . Slightly confusing as the case calls the film Das Labor Des Grauens !

A bizarre sleazy exploitationer which I would have put down as a Pete Walker film if I hadn't known better . Interesting to see Tom Baker pre - Dr Who . Donald Pleasance is the mad scientist and does his usual Donald Pleasance stuff . Always found him to be a one - dimensional actor .

( Earlier this week I'd bought the newly released soundtrack LP record by Basil Kirchin and was prompted to re-watch the movie )

 

[Randy M.]

The Mutations aka The Freakmaker ( d. Jack Cardiff )

Watched a multi region dvd import English print . Slightly confusing as the case calls the film Das Labor Des Grauens !

A bizarre sleazy exploitationer which I would have put down as a Pete Walker film if I hadn't known better . Interesting to see Tom Baker pre - Dr Who . Donald Pleasance is the mad scientist and does his usual Donald Pleasance stuff . Always found him to be a one - dimensional actor .

( Earlier this week I'd bought the newly released soundtrack LP record by Basil Kirchin and was prompted to re-watch the movie )

I had some criticisms when I watched this a few years ago. First, I normally like Pleasence, but I felt he was sleep-walking through this one. Second, the young hero, scholarship student wasn't young and looked more like a mid-30s body builder/bouncer -- not a bad actor for an action role, but the script maybe needed to justify that actor. And last, there's a scene late where the heroine calls the hero for help, as though she's nervous about being watched, then while waiting for him takes a bath. Wait -- what? Oh, yeah, it's Julie Ege, she's beautiful, and we need a totally unnecessary topless scene.

Did like seeing Michael Dunn in a sympathetic role, though.

 

[Ubergeek]

I had some criticisms when I watched this a few years ago. First, I normally like Pleasence, but I felt he was sleep-walking through this one. Second, the young hero, scholarship student wasn't young and looked more like a mid-30s body builder/bouncer -- not a bad actor for an action role, but the script maybe needed to justify that actor. And last, there's a scene late where the heroine calls the hero for help, as though she's nervous about being watched, then while waiting for him takes a bath. Wait -- what? Oh, yeah, it's Julie Ege, she's beautiful, and we need a totally unnecessary topless scene.

Did like seeing Michael Dunn in a sympathetic role, though.

@randy . Nice appraisal . Yeah , the bath scene was just completely gratuitous .

And thinking more about the film , it's clearly influenced by Tod Browning's FREAKS .

 

[oberon55]

I watched Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made (2018) on Shudder.

The movie is in two parts. An opening and closing mockumentary and the actual supposedly "cursed" movie. The documentary part tells about Antrum, a movie released in 1979 that caused most of the people that watched it to die. It resurfaced in 1993 in a theater in California where a pregnant woman is killed during a riot. Since then it disappeared until 2018 when purportedly the last copy in existence is found.

I enjoyed the mockumentary parts before & after the movie but the film itself about 2 kids trying to dig a hole to hell was pretty bad.

 

[Ubergeek]

NIGHT OF THE EAGLE ( d. Sydney Hayers ) on UK dvd .

CARNIVAL OF SOULS ( d. Henk Harvey ) on Criterion UK blu .

A classic b & w double bill for my Saturday evening .

Night of the Eagle , tightly paced and wonderfully shot . A professor begins to suspect his wife is dabbling in black magic as both their lives begin to unravel .


Carnival of Souls on a beautiful print by Criterion . Shot for around 33,000 US dollars with a great performance from lead Candace Hilligoss .

Candace has survived a car crash and finds herself lost in a beach resort , but all is not quite what it seems !

Some great shots , unconventional editing , pervading sense of " weirdness " and very effective sound design .

Curious to know if David Lynch ever cited this as an influence or inspiration .