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Kate (2021)

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Pajama Party (1964) A Martian comes to Earth and meets a cute girl in this entertaining musical comedy. This is silly fun and recommended if you like Martians and dancing girls in bikinis.

What about people who like Martian dancing girls in bikinis?

I assume they would also enjoy it. You should watch it and report back what you think.

Martians are OK but I'm weird enough to like dancing girls in bikinis. I seen Pajama Party a few weeks ago, I liked it. I'm watching in order all of the AIP Beach movies.

Which is your favourite of the beach movies?

I haven't seen all of them yet, I'm working on it. Of the AIP beach movies I've seen, the first one Beach Party was a favorite as it was rawer like someone went to a CA beach and filmed teens hanging out. I liked Pajama Party and Ski Party too.

Three terrific movies.

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Moneyball was spectacular...here's my review:

https://www.movieforums.com/reviews/...moneyball.html


Loved Demolition too...here's my review:

https://www.movieforums.com/reviews/...emolition.html


Haven't seen the other one.

2bd Rewatch...One of the stronger entries from the Ferrelly Brothers that grows on me with each viewing. Woody Harrelson is a former pro bowler who coaches an Amish guy (Randy Quaid) who has bowling talent, but his Amish heritage is in direct conflict with everything that Harrelson is trying to teach him. The first time I watched this, I thought Harrelson and Quaid should have switched roles, but I now like them in the roles they play here now. Of course, Bill Murray steals every scene he is in as the smarmy Ernie McCracken. I also love that this film is lighter on the bathroom humor that we're accustomed to from the Ferrelly brothers.

1st Rewatch...This movie is a lot better than I remembered, second only to Ferris Bueller as my favorite John Hughes film. Hughes took a break from the teen comedy route to bring us this rich comedy about a marketing executive named Neal Page (Steve Martin) whose flight home for Thanksgiving is cancelled and through some very bizarre circumstances, finds himself linked to a traveling salesman named Del Griffith (the late John Candy) in his efforts to get home. At first glance this film comes off as something Martin and Lewis might have done back in the day, but Hughes' very clever screenplay has a lot more meat than expected. Steve Martin provides a seamless combination of straight man and comic in his performance and this just might be my favorite John Candy performance where he proves to be more than just a movie clown. Watch that scene where Martin is yelling at him in the hotel room and the camera keeps going back to Candy, who beautifully conveys that Neal is hurting his feelings...Candy nails that scene, like nothing I have ever seen. Of course, the slapstick that we expect from Martin and Candy is here, but we get flawed, three-dimensional characters from the stars that raise the bar on this comedy, with a strong assist from Hughes. Upping my original rating.

Boy Kills World - (2023)

Fun ride, even if it was a bit predictable. 7/10

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Late Night with the Devil


Despite some pacing issues, this was quite interesting and enjoyable. A lot of the 'possession' movies have become extremely similar, and although at first I thought it was going that way, it managed to surprise me with quite a few unique moments, and a very interesting ending. There were a lot of great performances too, especially by David Dastmalchian. Very solid and unique movie. There are a few hiccups here and there, with parts that are too slow, and a Climax that feels a little rushed, but overall it's still quite positive.


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Oh! Uomo (2004) ‐

I've met a handful of war veterans throughout my life and, though none of them (to my knowledge) sustained permanent injuries in combat, I've heard about plenty of other soldiers they fought with who weren't as fortunate. Even after a war ends, its impact on those who survived it will still be felt for years to come. And for the soldiers depicted in this film, throughout the remainder of their lives. Throughout the film, we see numerous soldiers with missing limbs, missing eyeballs, and deformed facial features. Though it's not an easy watch, my main takeaway was how it found poetry amidst the grotesqueness. While the footage of the soldiers and children is obviously far from uplifting, Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi illustrate the ways those people can go through surgery to either reconstruct or replace what they lost and make the best with what body parts they have left, even if they can't be made whole again. One particularly powerful sequence was a montage of close‐ups of various soldier's deformed faces. This sequence really tested my endurance as, not only were the deformities quite graphic to look at, but each face was focused on for an uncomfortably long time. The film followed up on this though with various close‐ups of soldiers who presumably went through facial reconstruction surgery as they hold up a plaster of what they originally looked like. Their scars are still visible if you look closely, but given the prior montage, this one comes as a relief. Other powerful sequences included characters performing everyday tasks, like a farmer tending to his crops with a robotic arm, while another powerful sequence showed a close‐up of a man having a fake eye put in place of a disfigured eye. After his procedure, I honestly couldn't tell the difference between his real and fake eye at all. I finished the film over an hour ago, yet I'm still trying to make sense of the emotions it made me feel. In spite of the constant barrage of graphic injuries onscreen, it strangely felt hopeful. The people onscreen lost so much in the war, yet the worst is over for them and things will start to look up. If I had to nitpick something, this might've been better had Stan Brakhage directed it as some of the music choices were jarring and unnecessary. This is the kind of film where the emotional resonance of the imagery speaks for itself, so the soundtrack felt like dead weight. Aside from this, however, I quite enjoyed this film and may return to it sometime in the future.

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The Cosmic Man - 1959 formulaic scifi directed in a nondescript way by Herbert S. Greene who only did this and one other film. It quite openly poaches from the far superior The Day the Earth Stood Still, even going so far as to lift an entire scene where the benevolent alien solves a physics problem that has stumped the local boys. Bruce Bennett gets second billing as astrophysicist Dr. Karl Sorenson even though he's in most of the scenes. John Carradine is listed as lead playing the titular character. I'm assuming because of name recognition.

An unidentified flying object is picked up on Air Force radar traveling at nearly the speed of light. It sets down in Stone Canyon outside of Oak Ridge, California. Sorenson and Air Force Col. Matthews (Paul Langton) are both called to the scene where they proceed to immediately butt heads. War widow Kathy Grant (Angela Greene) and her terminally ill son Ken (Scotty Morrow) show up. She runs a tourist lodge near the canyon and their characters are mostly there to advance the paper thin plot.

It's distressingly slow moving and talky with the only detail worth remembering being the alien's ship, a sphere that floats a few feet above the ground and cannot be moved. Carradine's portrayal of the otherworldly visitor is also passable when measured by the meager yardstick of it's surroundings. I have to confess that I have access to a youtube account and I've been watching whatever cheesy looking scifi or horror that pops up on my feed. The problem being that the last few have been colorized. And not a good kind of colorized. The kind where colors bleed into one another and things like the alien's white spherical ship is instead a bright yellow that makes it look like a giant golf ball. I doubt if the original B&W is any better though.

I can't think of any legit reason as to why I would recommend it. A nice thunderstorm moved though my area near the end of this so I paused it and went in my garage and watched the rain fall. I did eventually come in and finish it. Thumbs up to the weather. This gets a ...

25/100

Karagoez catalogo 9,5 is their best, so watch it if you haven't.

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The Polka King (2017)

Fight Club - 8/10 (9 if we're being kind)


Rewatched it for the first time in years, and yeah, it holds up very well. The angst that the movie is known for is very well-handled. The plot gives you time to marinate in it and avoids barking therapy-talk at you, it's brought over by the set design and the music as much as everything else, and provides enough humour and energy to complement it. I appreciate it that someone tried to make a film of this sort fun, and did it tastefully. The actors did a great job at it, and the choice of them is spot-on. Everyone's face seems tailor-made for the character.


The visual directing deserves special praise. Every take informs you of something about thr given scene, including a sense of space and multiple characters' points of view. There are instances where it cuts every two seconds, but none of them are disorienting because it sticks to what it wants to tell you, and only moves on when the point has been made.