Dr Ben Sayle (100/100)

"Age and becoming an institution killed it," is too short to get clicks out of.

Before I'd say it was just age, but American Dad's still going strong long after Simpsons dipped.

I knew Psycho's big plot twists before watching and it struck me how the first half sets up a seemingly completely different movie.

From thriller to slasher.

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Love that it continues the bit in The Witches series where a Mean Girl is introduced & the book almost immediately points out that she has similar vibes to Granny Weatherwax.

Tiffany Aching is such an upgrade from the Johnny Maxwell series writing-wise. The Mrs Snapperly story is some of his most brutal stuff.

One of Terry Pratchett's most consistent series up to the end. The Shepherd's Crown works really well as the Discworld's epilogue.

I overcame cringe and did it.

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The Last of Sheila is a fun time, but Sleuth (1972) absolutely clears.

Makes 140 minutes feel like an hour.

YouTube video by Yum Yam The Adventure of Kohsuke Kindaichi (1977) Soundtrack - The Mystery Kindaichi Band ミステリー金田一バンド

Fun fact about "She Walks At Night", the upcoming eighth Kosuke Kindaichi translation.

It's the first Kindaichi title to get a translation that isn't in the 1977 'imaginary soundtrack'.

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The franchise's turn towards Apocalyptic Mythos makes the first Mad Max basically being a vigilante cop movie very funny.

There's even a scene where they've caught the villain only for the smarmy defence lawyer to show up and get him released like it's Dirty Harry.

Bronco Billy I'd say counts too if you like Westerns about people coming together and hanging in there the best they can.

Howard Harks' Rio Bravo's a great time with the gang and Red River is his gesture at Dark John Wayne.

High Plains Drifter is fun evil (though I think more muddled than others do) & Outlaw Josey Wales starts as Lost Cause then sheds it. Also The Big Country & Rancho Notorious.

Unforgiven is peak.

Liberty Valance is John Ford's best, but Fort Apache and The Searchers are good picks. You might like Stagecoach too.

Duck You Sucker is an underrated Leone. Very much a spiritual sequel to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Another 'spaghetti Western' is the wonderfully grim The Great Silence.

Takemaru was too busy being a load-bearing pillar to get his own route.

Black Dynamite (2009). Black Dynamite: "I'm declaring war on anyone who sells drugs to the community." Chocolate Giddy Up: "But Black Dynamite, I sell drugs to the community!"

Thinking back to Cult of Takumi and it is so funny that Takemaru and Yugamu basically had this conversation.

Might continue my evil movie streak by rewatching The Last of Sheila and Sleuth back to back.

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YouTube video by Alexander Bergman DEMONS (1971) AKA SHURA - Toshio Matsumoto 4k exclusive full movie

Watched Demons (Shura) by Toshio Matsumoto a few days ago. Right now available on Youtube with subtitles.

Probably one of the most evil films I've seen in a while. Utterly rancid vibes from beginning to end (complimentary).

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Saruman before his mind became metal and wheels.

you: AI-upscaled and colorized Truman isn't real, he can't hurt you

me:

While Stalker's a different story from Roadside Picnic, it makes sense the Strugatskys still loved it when it reflects a lot of the same territory they explored with the book.

Meanwhile Stanislaw Lem probably saw Solaris and wondered what were all these Mother Issues doing there.

The scene where they reach the border of the actual Zone itself is my favourite of the whole film.

The idea that attaining your deepest desires would be horrible less because there's a cruel twist or being grandiosely morbid, but because you realise how banal they (and so you) really are.

"In this house, we only accept 90s Simpsons. The show started with Bart The Genius and ended on Grift of the Magi and that's final."

Zero evidence but firmly believe Tolkien's early idea of the Blue Wizards' Fall being starting cults that last after Sauron was background for the dropped LOTR sequel.

Later on he changes it so that they came earlier than Gandalf & did sabotage Sauron's Second Age recruitment plans out East.

Worst thing in the world when it happens.

Can't get the cash or the time back.

Rewatched a bit of Barry.

Very funny that Bill Hader said Barry wouldn't stand a chance against Walter White and once lied at a Q&A that Sally was based on him after a fan said she hated her.

It is pretty funny that JG Ballard wrote a story involving a notebook whose owner can write the deaths of others more than forty years before Death Note.

My favourite Taxi Driver story remains a critic friend of Scorsese's saying he hated the movie because of how much Travis sounded like his own darkest thoughts and Scorsese going "Fair, but that's the movie's whole point."

Welcome To Dongmakgol is a great film to watch next to Joint Security Area. Unhesitatingly sentimental.

The Throne's a lot of fun too.

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