When I don’t want to pay attention, rewatching is like white noise.
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I’m sorry they misclassified it. I would be disappointed as well if I was primed for horror and got what Love Lies Bleeding has to offer.
Re: Bone Tomahawk it’s always difficult talking about movie that are structured that way. If one even MENTIONS that there’s something to mention, it robs the moment that of at least part of its effect.
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Golden Globe winners list:
Shogun (the miniseries) did very well, as did the film The Brutalist.
I’m also pretty thrilled that Demi Moore got Best Actress in a ‘Musical or Comedy Feature’ (I know, I know. The Substance is neither of those.)
Jeremy Allen White got Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy TV series (again, same criticisms about the categorization should be taken as read.)
One movie that won some stuff is Emilia Pérez, about which I know nothing. Gonna have to look that up.
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I’m surprised this got by you - it got a lot of press (at least the press I read). I thought it was interesting, if not exactly good.
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A Complete Unknown, aka a lot of good things that happened to Bob Dylan, plus one thing that seemed bad at first but also turned out to be good.
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The NYT had yet another list of “horror” movies (when will I learn? 
), so we started off with some Canadian garbage called The Mouse Trap — perhaps the abysmal ratings everywhere should’ve tipped us off, but we had to stop about 15 min in. Yikes.
On to Nowhere Land, allegedly a “suspenseful, horror action thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat.” Yeah, no.
It had its moments, but scary it was not. It was mostly really, really weird in a way that makes me think @Lectroid would greatly enjoy 
Maybe we should’ve watched The Coffee Table instead.
A couple epis of The Big Door Prize for brain cleanse.
Oh, and I watched the parade of festive toothpicks aka the GG red carpet with some fun and fugly gowns, but recorded the actual show. Hopeful for Nikki Glaser’s monologue to not suck 
Mrs H has determined tonight’s movie will be Django Unchained about which I know nothing really. I do know it’s a Tarantino film so am hopeful of lots of gratuitous violence.
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You won’t be disappointed. Next, watch The Hateful Eight, which is a much better film IMNHO.
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And racist language!
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Gratuitous racist language aka they speak Tarantino.
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Django Unchained has one of the most enjoyable scenes in recent memory: The hoods scene.
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Fatman (2020) - dir. Eshom Nellms, Ian Nellms
Things are not looking great for Chris Cringle (Mel Gibson!). Kids are naughtier than ever, tossing bowling balls off overpasses and such. As a result, he is delivery far fewer toys this year, thus his govt payments are decreasing to the point he can’t meet expenses. He’s forced to enter into a contract with the US military to make fight jet parts. As if that’s not enough, a rich, spoiled, obnoxious 12 year old is upset he received coal this year (after threatening to kill another 12 year old for daring to beat him at the science fair), so he hires a psychotic hitman (Walter Goggins) to kill Santa.
The whole ‘grumpy modern Santa’ thing is a holiday staple. And there have been a number of silly little treats like Violent Night with David Harbour (Die Hard with Santa as Bruce Willis) where Santa becomes an ass kicking action hero.
This one falls kinda flat. The premise is amusing enough, the performances are fine, but the whole affair seems… held at a distance. On paper, it seems like this should work. But mostly it just kinda lies there. It’s a film that isn’t bad, but neither is it very good. It exists, filling a space with some vague activity that passes for amusing ‘edgy’ holiday fare as long as you don’t concentrate on it too hard.
I admit I was predisposed against this simply for the presence of Gibson, who I have largely avoided since, well, all that. But he’s fine here. Rather, the problem seems to be that everyone who made this movie feels
like they’re TRYING to have fun. They WANT it to work. And it’s just… not.
2.5/5 dead elves.
UGH. I may finally join the ranks of disgruntled folks here when it comes to NYT recommendations. Another “horror” flick that wasn’t one, despite its rather horrifying premise.
The Coffee Table (La Mesita del Comedor) is billed as a black comedy, and while there are very few funny moments — the term cringe may be more appropriate — it also is misleading in suggesting that the coffee table itself is responsible for what happened/happens, when there is absolutely no indication of it. Meh.
To ‘make up for it’ we watched another one on my PIC’s list, Good Time, a Robert Pattinson thriller that was mildly entertaining.
I then watched one of the lamest Golden Globes by myself. What a disappointment Nikki Glaser was. Meh.
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When we first signed up for Netflix in March 2020, after we finished Homeland and Shetland, we watched every Marky Mark movie that was available through Netflix.
A few months later, after watching Broadchurch, we watched every David Tennant movie or show available through Netflix.
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Broadchurch was largely filmed in the Dorset village of West Bay . We visited in 2022. Had OK fish & chips at the harbour. Great fish but only so-so chips.
By the by, we dropped Django Unchained last night as it was longer than we wanted to watch for. Instead The Big Sleep (1946) - really excellent Bogart & Bacall movie. Good plot and a sharp script for its time with the two of them playing off each other really well.
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I haven’t been to Dorset for fish and chips yet. Some day, I hope. I did have good fish and chips at small towns in Devon and Cornwall.
The newest upscale British Resto in Toronto happens to be called The Dorset. Unfortunately, The Dorset is owned by a corporation that I don’t go out of my way to visit lately. Also, the Dorset in Toronto’s fish and chips are a smaller bang for the buck than typical, although the chips look promising online.
I’ve had really good fish & chips at places in Brixham, Devon.
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See, I was pretty amused by The Coffee Table. I will grant you its appeal is… niche, at best. And I always admire any film that can make me go “OMG, they DID that!” and The Coffee Table certainly did THAT, at least twice.
But don’t know that I’d recommend it to anyone who I didn’t know well enough to know FOR SURE that it’s in their wheelhouse.
I was recommended it by another member at my theater, so we have strongly overlapping tastes and are similarly interested in some of the outer edges of the film world. She ALSO loved Love Lies Bleeding.
Currently watching Nowhere Land as per your suggestion. Will report back.
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The other night we watched an indie titled, ‘You’ve Been Tr–ped!’*
Fascinating! All the bad stuff plus…
*I’m not putting the whole name here, obviously.
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