Apparently it was a Jim Carrey kinda night.

Hard to believe this movie is 24 years old. Very well done all around!! And the names in it?!?! Truly a live action classic and a MUST for the season.

This is probably the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. I watched this with my boyfriend last week and it was just sad.

I heard it was supposed to be some wonderful fairy tale and it starts out with the Wonder Years kid and Columbo in a room reading a book like he's the narrator, then it's Robin Hood getting pitchers of water. It doesn't know whether it's a movie or a book because this movie is fucking stupid.

Overall would not reccomend this because I couldn't tell what the hell they were even saying half the time, esspecially from the giant who was just gross looking. Then the Spanish guy never shuts up and I can't tell what he is saying either half the time. I wanted to turn on the subtitles but my remote is out of batteries and there is no way I'm going to spend a penny on this waste of time.

It goes on forever and the plot barely moves, the princess can't tell its her boyfriend because he's wearing a mask because shes also and idiot and pretty much nothing in this 'film' made any sense. The OST is terrible with annoying fake horns the whole time and mostly just made me want to turn it off and listen to something good like the Beastie Boys instead.

It thinks it's so funny but all the jokes are corny as hell and go nowhere. Anybody want a peanut? Omg that rhymes so clever. They do this like 1000 times where they say something stupid then the scene changes, that got old afte rthe first time and it just never stops with the bullshit. I'd like to see that fat fuck giant in a real rap battle he would probably be in tears by the end of it because he sucks so bad.

The ending was too violent with all the blood and when they were in disguise to storm the castle no one got burned by the fire even though they were completely engulfed in it? That's not how those fireproof cloths work, but no one on the set probably even realized that. They probably had to pour water all over the actors in between shots but in the reality of the movie they just walk away not even singed which was more bullshit.

I hated the dumb king and the only character worth a damn was the Prince who was supposed to be the bad guy and the big ugly rat which still looked better than the princess who was supposed to be so beautiful but looked like a dull foot in need of a nose job. Then the idiot floats in the air like she has wizard powers and it just made me want to throw my TV out the window because it was so lame.

Just when I thought it couldnt get worse Billy Crystal shows up with his bloated face and was annoying as hell for the icing on the cake. He looked like a knock off version of the Grinch with all the fake prosthetics he was wearing and instead of being funny he was just a dipshit with all his stupid voices.

Dont waste your time with this trashy movie just because people have nostalgia goggles, basically if anyone tries to say this movie is actually good you know right away they are probably 50+ and think that tubby bitch Rob Reiner is best director ever because they probably like Meathead are just excited because he made a live action Shrek but worse if that's possible D-

This movie is a bit of a garbage fire, but is apparently based on an experience that Dan Aykroyd actually had getting pulled over for speeding in a rural town in the Northeastern United States. Also the first on screen appearance of 2Pac Shakur as a member of the digital underground.

As the title implies, this movie is kinda fun.

Always been a fan of Jim. And always had a low key crush on Téa. But… I’m wondering where their repercussions are from the hold ups and grand theft auto?

Fun movie though.

I watched this decades ago and remembered it being underwhelming, but I liked it a lot more this time. There are some shockingly good bits of dialogue. Some real pearls! My only complaint would be that the last 30-45 minutes are the weakest part of the movie IMO. It doesn’t culminate into a very notable ending, but it’s a good thriller overall.

A slightly dark, romantic comedy that certainly goofy at times. Wonderful cast. Seeing Burt in his prime is always a treat.

A group of investigators set out to find the truth behind the mysterious internet poster John Titor, a self-proclaimed time travel from the future.

Aside from how much effort it took for me to find a copy of this film (it seems to have been scrubbed from the internet), this was a rather interesting piece of found footage cinema.

I have been fascinated by the myth of John Titor ever since I first learnt about him through Steins;Gate. The actual story has for the most part been debunked through investigation and the majority of his predictions simply not coming true. Although given the way the world’s heading, there’s still a chance for his prophecies to take place a couple of decades behind schedule.

This docudrama follows an internet sleuth from his active posting period as she attempts to verify his claims and make direct contact with him. The early segments drag on a bit with a bunch of testimonials claiming the government is hiding time machines, but if that were the case *waves vaguely at the state of the world* then they’re obviously not very good at them.

It gets a bit more interesting when the shadowy government figures start showing up to confiscate their footage, even if John Titor appears to be some random guy wearing a mask and running a commune when he finally does show up.

Still for as low budget as it was, I found it engaging enough. I think time has been the enemy of this piece because the rather pressing concerns they end the movie on all happened decades ago and have gotten much worse since with no sign of Titor returning to correct things.

Christmas time in London brings an interconnected series of vignettes about the many forms of love. There’s aging rock star Billy Mack (Bill Nighy) struggling to stay relevant with the help of his longtime friend and manager Joe (Gregor Fisher). Meanwhile, Mark (Andrew Lincoln) pines for the beautiful Juliet (Keira Knightley)…who just married his best friend Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor). Jilted writer Jamie (Colin Firth) escapes to his cottage in France and finds himself connecting with his housekeeper Aurélia (Lúcia Moniz). Harry (Alan Rickman) is married to Karen (Emma Thompson) but finds himself tempted by his secretary Mia (Heike Makatsch). David (Hugh Grant) has just been elected Prime Minister and finds himself bonding with household staffer Natalie (Martine McCutcheon), a bond that is tested when the President of the United States (Billy Bob Thornton) makes a pass at her. Daniel (Liam Neeson) is a lonely widower who tries to connect with his stepson (Thomas Sangster) by helping him impress his crush Joanna (Olivia Olson) and even makes a new spark of his own with a fellow single parent (Claudia Schiffer). Lonely heart Sarah (Laura Linney) longs for her coworker Karl (Rodrigo Santoro) but their relationship is constantly interrupted by her mentally ill brother Michael. John (Martin Freeman) and Judy (Joanna Page) are professional stand-ins and meet on a film shoot, instantly connecting while Colin (Kris Marshall), unsuccessful in wooing women in his home country, decides to travel abroad to America to woo women there and soon draws the attention of some lovely ladies (Ivana Miličević, January Jones, Elisha Cuthbert and Shannon Elizabeth).

Got turned on to this movie by an ex-girlfriend of mine back in my early twenties. Our relationship eventually fizzled out but I retained my fondness of this film. I love the interconnected nature of the stories and seeing these tales overlap with one another. Each role was well cast and the actors played the stories well. It’s particularly worth noting the wonderful role from Rowan “Mr. Bean” Atkinson, who couldn’t help but bring his charming brand of humor to his character Rufus. Fun fact, the original script called for Rufus to be revealed as a Christmas angel but this subplot was eventually dropped. While Christmas is just a framing device for the web of tales woven by writer/director Richard Curtis, the film has gone on to be a Christmas staple and a cult classic. It has such a devoted audience that, in 2017, Curtis wrote a short sequel film for Red Nose Day that catches us up on the characters and what has happened to them in the intervening years since the original film.

This movie rules. This is the perfect example of classy Hollywood filmmaking. Sorkins script is a masterclass in dialogue, some of which has become iconic ("YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH") due to an amazing ensemble cast of Hollywood big shots under the solid and precise direction of Rob Reiner. Reiner has fallen out of favor recently but he's had one of the best directorial runs in film history starting from Spinal Tap and finishing up with A Few Good Men. Tom Cruise is charismatic as hell. Kevin Pollak in a supporting role is a real breath of humor. RIP to JT Walsh, who always gave a heartfelt performance. Jack Nicholson is absolutely iconic. He's Jack for sure but he's also perfect for the role and adds complexity to the characters performance.

It’s everything Hitchcock. An ordinary man thrown into extraordinary circumstances, mistaken identity, intrigue, suspense, and a love story. Nominated for a Best Picture in 1941. Highly recommended!

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This one is amazing. Jimmy Cagney might be my new favorite actor — he’s electric in this movie. Great shots and snappy dialogue. Cmon, where else can you hear a gangster call a young lady a “swell dish”?

Georg, Anna and their son, also Georg, head to their vacation home where they’re taken captive by two young men, Paul and Peter. Over the course of an evening the family must survive the games Paul and Peter want to play.

Opening on the family happily playing ‘guess the composer’ in the car journey at the start immediately creates a bit of a disconnect. Here there’s a presumption of class; the music they enjoy, the home they vacation at and the boat they own. Then the titles and metallic punk music plays over the scenic car journey the family take. This is for us, they’re listening to their own music, they aren’t aware of what we, the audience, are listening to. Immediately we’re made aware we’re outside looking in.

When Paul, an impressively sociopathic Arno Frisch, and Peter, and outwardly guileless Frank Giering, appear, they are dressed in white tops and gloves. It makes them appear innocent, almost virginal. They’re hiding in plain site.

They quickly force themselves into the family, practicing a golf swing… borrowing eggs. But director Michael Haneke slowly builds the unease of the egg borrowing scene, the tension escalating expertly. You know where it’s going, you sense the violence and you are on edge awaiting its arrival. Also, Paul and Peter mask their menace in friendly tones, and disbelief at not being accommodated.

“Why are you doing this?” “Why not.”

As things ramp up we’re treated to the first of several fourth wall breaks as Paul turns to us, the audience. He is our guide into this nightmare and wants our opinions. Be it a wink to the camera or asking us if we want to take a bet, we’re involved. It’s as though Haneke is asking us, why don’t we turn it off? Be it morbid curiosity or an affinity with tragedy, we don’t. We can’t.

Michael Haneke has said the film is a viewpoint on the media’s effects on people. Not for nothing do the two men refer to each other playfully as cartoon characters Beavis and Butthead, apathetic teenagers, and Tom and Jerry, character’s synonymous with outlandish cartoonish violence. Here we’re directly involved, why don’t we find this situation as amusing as they do? We’re supposed to be shocked and disgusted. I certainly was. However, it should be noted the majority of the violence is implied. We either see the aftermath, or we’re with others as the acts are carried out. In one prolonged uncomfortable take we sit with characters after one horrific scene has peaked. If we’re going to enjoy the violence, we must suffer the fallout.

Whilst Paul and Peter do this purely as an excuse to escape boredom and entertain themselves, the family are horrified and don’t understand why it happens to them. Some of the horror is in its realism, this could happen to us.

Susanne Lothar as Anna is the standout. Her switch to terror, to hope and desperation is etched on her reddening tear drenched face. We watch as she is slowly drained of the will to fight.

Ulrich Műhe also gives a great performance, most notably in the prolonged take mentioned earlier. For a character who spends most of their time sitting down, he portrays the panic at the situation very well.

Towards the end, in one clever inventive scene, Haneke’s commentary on the media climaxes by showing our expectations being subverted. We have no control, but Paul and Peter do, events play out how they want them to. We’re along for the ride, you’ll find no hope here.

This movie was awesome, I've been wanting to get round to watching it for ages. I love body horror so it worked for me perfectly, and Jeff Goldblum's performance is terrific.

My parents always told me as a kid how disgusting this movie was when they were younger so I've wanted to watch it for a while. It might just be it's age, but I didn't find it as sickening as maybe they suggested, but the body horror is great and it is an absolutely horrific fate for any character.

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Lately, I’ve made a hobby of rewatching movies from the ‘90s and ‘00s that I didn’t see the first time around. Especially the B-movies, lower budget, straight to DVD or small theater run films. Watched But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) the other day and thought it was very campy, enjoyable, and realistic portrayal of what LGBT youth were going through back in that time. It made me explore more Queer cinema from that time period and a distant memory came back of Another Gay Movie (2006). I remember seeing the trailer for this online when it came out and thinking it was going to be ridiculous fun but for some reason, never watched it… until last night.

This film is worth a watch if you are into over-the-top raunchy comedies. The plot is similar to that of American Pie complete with several references (see cover art!), except this time it is four gay men trying to have sex . Explicit scenes of student/teacher sex in a classroom (in front of other students!), a BDSM dungeon, failed sexual encounters between multiple men, scenes meant to parody the gay men/gerbil urban legend, MANY full frontal male nudity shots, and more! I loved the character of Muffler who is a stereotypical butch lesbian as well.

Great film to watch with your boys or fun late night film. Found out there is a sequel I never heard about! The director’s cut is on Tubi.

A military courtroom drama starring Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones exploring the morality of a decision made by a US Marine (Jackson) in a high pressure situation. This film is straight out of the A Few Good Men playbook, and while Stephen Gaghan's script doesn't quite have the sizzling dialogue and pacing that you'd get from Sorkin at his best, director William Friedkin makes the most of what he has.

Tommy Lee Jones as the defending attorney does a remarkable job as always, with a sensitivity he usually brings to the hard faced characters he is born to play. Jackson however is a little out of his depth in moments for a role that required a little more nuance, clearly enjoying the action sequences at the outset of the film than anything else that was asked of him. Guy Pearce's turn as prosecutor is rather clunky, with accent work and some body movements in the final courtroom scenes that are particularly unhinged. I used to hold Pearce in high regard, the inconsistency of his performances are something I am noticing more and more.

Existing in that weird time between the first Gulf War and 9/11 when the effects of western introspection of it's last major conflict in Vietnam were starting to wear off, this film has a jarring approach to military and the middle east, and will likely be seen as problematic (or possibly aspirational) for some audiences. Putting that aside, it's a well constructed movie and a generally enjoyable watch from some of the best to ever do it.

I can't believe it took me this long to watch this! I was discussing it with a friend and he said he misses this version of Ford and couldn't think of an equivalent star today. He eventually landed on Michael B Jordan but I digress.

While ford was excellent Tommy stole every scene he was in. Was fun seeing Jane Lynch and a wild Janitor from Scrubs appear! Also I can't not mention Julianne Moore!

I love how the movie wasted no time didn't drag out the trial and sent straight into the action.

My final rating is a 4.5/5

Saw it for the first time and was entertained from start to finish. Everybody did a solid job with their respective roles.

Well it's Thanksgiving time and you know what that means time to start watching some Christmas movies. First up on the list this year is Ernest Saves Christmas which I've seen a bunch of times including at the theater when I was a kid. I remember we went to see this and there was like nobody in the theater for whatever reason and my parents asked if we could stay and watch it again and the kid cleaning the theater said sure so we watched twice in a row. Can you believe that who even has that kind of time anymore.

Well you know I guess most people either love Ernest or think these movies are stupid and dumb. Well I'm one of the people who loves them and I usually watch an Ernest movie a couple times a year. This one is kind of weird because it sort of feels like Ernest is barely in it. It's more about Santa Claus and Ernest pops in here and there to help him out.

Also they show Santa's replacement performing his kids act at the science center and uh sorry about it he sucks. No wonder he got cancelled. But hey I'm sure he'll make a good Santa.

I feel like mostly this movie is just waiting for Ernest to get into Santa's sleigh then this movie kicks it up a notch and they end up in outer space and there's a bunch of screaming and it gets pretty fun.

But hey if you love Ernest well you've probably already seen this and love it and it's about time to get a viewing in. And it's on Disney Plus right now so you don't even have to pull your DVD copy off the shelf!

So this movie is generally viewed as a so-bad-it’s-funny bit of 1970s b-movie detritus if you read online reviews. And yeah Richard Burton’s accent and karate are a bit different ridiculous. And OJ Simpson has role.

ON THE OTHER HAND. There is some serious violence in this film that reflects the reality of the pre-Civilr Rights South in a way more refined films such as Mississippi Burning don’t come close to.

And credit to Lee Marvin and the rest of this cast — they take their roles seriously and deliver some strong performances.

You sometimes watch an old film that deals with race relations and just know that if this is what they put in a movie (in this case via a novel), the truth must have been much worse or at least as bad.

So as over-the-top grind house as this film is, it gives a window into a dark chapter of history and brings much more to the table than you’d except from a cheap genre film of the era.

I watch this every year. Sometimes to be thankful my family isn't quite this bad (although some holidays they are pretty close), sometimes to remember how family dynamics explode during the holidays. Good for a laugh and a couple of drinks.

I never heard of this movie but I saw it was coming out on Criterion Collection so I went on YouTube to check out the trailer. Well it turns out somebody uploaded the whole movie on there and it's pretty good quality so I decided to just watch the whole thing.

This is is one of those movies where I just feel like I'm hanging out somewhere on a nice day and it doesn't really matter what actually happens in the movie I just kind of like watching it.

It's about this lady who works at a bookstore and hangs out with a lot of intellectual windbags then she also meets a guy who owns a pickle business and she thinks she's too good for him but also kind of likes him and she has to choose between him and some author.

Some of the side characters are fun like the grandma and the matchmaker but you know what they say New York is it's own character or whatever. I mostly just liked everybody walking around New York. I've been to New York a bunch of times and every time I see it in a movie I see some places that I have no idea where they are. Like that big fish market in Splash I have no idea where that is.

The Roches do most of the soundtrack and the Roches are awesome so that also adds to the vibe. Also there's an English Beat song I never heard before and that's always exciting.

This is also the second movie I've watched this year that features a close up of a child urinating the other one was Heroic Trio which is also on Criterion Collection but a way different movie.

Well if you're into 80s vibes and New York and romantic comedies well you could do a lot worse. Check it out on YouTube or just blind buy the criterion blu ray I'm always happy to support them! I think there's a 50 percent off sale going right now

A Monty Python-esque anthology featuring 7 segments, each focusing on 1 of the 7 deadly sins. They're all really funny, but each has a different writer(s), so they vary quite a bit.

By far the funniest one is the ‘Gluttony’ segment, written by the one and only Graham Chapman!