Musings on film, tv, books, games, music, writing, food, drink and life in general.
While Altered Carbon is an adaptation of the 2002 cyberpunk novel by Richard K. Morgan it visually seems to owe a hell of a lot to Ridley Scott’s neo-noire interpretation of Philip K Dick’s work in Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049…
Spirits in the Forest | Horse Girl | Night is Short, Walk on Girl | The Hustle | Dolemite Is My Name | Shaft | Knives Out | Christopher Robin | Ralph Breaks the Internet | Wild | Incredibles 2 | Aladdin
Fighting With My Family – Mile 22 – Seoul Station – Train to Busan – Death Wish – The Laundromat – The Handmaiden – Long Shot – Terminator Dark Fate – My Cousin Rachel
The last Takashi Miike film I saw was his 2015 slice of bizarre comedy violence Yakuza Apocalypse and having enjoyed that a lot it was great to get a chance to go and see one of his films on the big screen. First Love is a humorous and uninhibitedly violent Yakuza tale…
“Kevin who?”
“Kevin Smith, the American comedy film director. He had a heart attack.”
‘He did? Never heard of him.” If you haven’t either, then please move along quietly, nothing to see here…
Here’s a roundup of a bunch more movies I’ve seen this month. There’s no real duds this time around…
It surprised me to read somewhere recently that Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder have only been in four films together. Here’s a post dedicated to those movies which includes spoilers.
