MMotM was Courtney Grace’s unbelievable performance as the news reader in Disclosure Day
I can recommend Set it Up if you fancy a fun little Netflix romcom with her and Glenn Powell. Does a job and she’s lovely.
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Some of those films have an evilness to them (lustmord, fruits of passion)
I really liked Times Square but it feels sort of broken from meddling
Miracle Mile (1988, dir. Steve De Jarnatt). The first proper movie I’ve seen in about 2 weeks. What a picture. I like how it’s more quiet character moments than big action pieces.
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Another sparse month for me, film-wise: an all time classic, three Pinter TV plays, and what seems to me to be an underrated Hitchcock.
Best: The Apartment was as good as everyone says it is
Worst: A Night Out seemed to be exactly what could be expected from a Pinter thing, unpleasant and plenty of ‘menace’, but the set up was the least interesting of the three I saw this month.
MMOTM: The cast of Dad’s Army (well, Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier) turning up in sequential Pinter plays.
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Is Effi o Blaenau worth a punt? I feel like I should watch it…
Yeah I thought it was decent enough, maybe some slightly male gazey camera work in parts but seen worse. It’s also basically a tight 90.
We were split on expectations, half of us expected it to be bleaker and found it funnier than expected, half of us read it described as a dramedy so were pretty shocked that it was quite bleak. If that gives you any idea of the tone 
Chose to see the new Jackass over The Long Goodbye today, that was certainly a choice I made.
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Blue Heron is a very special film, y’all
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Smashed through it in June.
Films of the month: Psycho, Romper Stomper, Rear Window, The One, Harold and Maude, Midnight Cowboy, Hidden Agenda, Eastern Promises, Blue Velvet, Rosemary’s Baby…so many good films!
Worst: Devil’s Rejects, Hereditary, Black Hawk Down.
MMOTM: ending scene to The One.
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didn’t watch much
Faces Places is still so lovely, previously watched it when Agnes was still alive so was more bittersweet this time.
MMotM: organised the Goodbye Julia screening as a Sudan fundraiser, couple of my friends helped out and we made some food, was dead nice. a big Sudanese family from the asylum seeker centre were there and i was worried they wouldn’t enjoy it or they’d find it triggering, the grandma was sobbing most of the way through and it was stressing me out a bit but she told me afterwards she loved it 
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Tuner might be the most bang average film ever made.
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I was actually responsible for sending that particular film out to Bologna as it’s a BFI archive print. Glad you liked it.
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Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In (2024)
A 2024 movie that’s set in 1980s Hong Kong, and it takes all of its cues from the classic cinema of that era. There are the classic themes of loyalty, brotherhood, the passing of power and legacy to a new generation, there are some excellent stunts, and absolutely oodles of heroic bloodshed, with some of the most exciting fight sequences this side of The Raid. And it’s even got Sammo Hung in it! Leslie Koo is insanely charismatic and the scene where he throws his lit cigarette in the air, kicks some main character ass, and then catches it before it lands and takes a drag is the new Chow Yun Fat lighting his own cigarette with a burning fake $100 bill in A Better Tomorrow. The plot feels like a Shakespearean tragedy, and the setting in Kowloon Walled City is so well realised. Absolutely loved this, and I think @lokomotiv and @Lo-Pan will as well.
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Will definitely be checking this out 
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Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie is 100 minutes of goofy fun. I’m torn between really wanting to know how they did loads of it or not wanting to spoil the madness.
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I went to see it at a 9:45 (!!) screening this morning. I had such a good time!
Re production, I’d say it’s worth giving the wikipedia page a read - I’d guessed most of the bystander interactions were real but some of the other stuff is truly wild and not really possible to gather just from watching it.
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Sisu - Jalmari Helander
Silly, over the top violence, which at times made no sense, but hey, who doesn’t love watching a load of nazis getting slaughted.
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