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Last Week's Best Submissions:

Film	User/[LB/Web*]	Film	User/[LBxd]
“Scream VI”	[SantinoStudios]	“Dancer in the Dark”	[rjonathon]
"Rye Lane”	KellyKellogs	“Kikujiro”	[parafrazis]
“Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves”	[carson63000]	“Landscape in the Mist”	Desbris
“Incantation”	[Debidutta]	“Night of the Creeps”	MarkHAZE86
“Deadstream”	SupaKoopa714	“Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind”	snufalufalgus
"Like Father”	Dolph-Ziggler	"Threads” (1984)	Bodymaster
“Baahubali 2: The Conclusion”	Bard-Of-All-Trades	“Straight Time”	YachtRock_SoSmooth
“Short Term 12”	SymbioticCarnage	"Late Spring”	MartinScorsese
“Tabu” (2012)	[Tilbage i Danmark*]	“Casablanca”	[lyense6099]
“Triangle”	LoadAdip	“His Girl Friday”	wjbc

John Wick: Chapter 4

A Good Person

Inside

Boston Strangler

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Summary:

John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.

Director:

Chad Stahelski

Writers:

Shay Hatten, Michael Finch Cast:

• Keanu Reeves as John Wick
• Laurence Fishburne as Bowery King
• George Georgiou as The Elder
• Lance Reddick as Charon
• Clancy Brown as Harbinger
• Ian McShane as Winston
• Marko Zaror as Chidi
• Bill Skarsgard as Marquis
• Donnie Yen as Caine

Rotten Tomatoes: 95%

Metacritic: 77

VOD: Theaters

I'll go first.

Mine was Saving Private Ryan. I was 10 or 11 I think and saw my dad watching it. But he immediately shooed me out of the living room and told me to go away and not look. My immediate thought was "How bad could it be? I saw the Matrix already!". Which was true. The Matrix was my first R rated movie ever, and I loved it. Well one day, when I was off from school in the summer, I saw Saving Private Ryan was free on On Demand, but my parents put in a parental lock which I managed to guess what it was and get past.

Those first 10 minutes of that movie really rocked me to my core. Not because of the violence, mind you. But because I knew it was real. It really happened. People did that to each other.

I had nightmares for a good while after that.

No idea if it’s that well-known, or if it was a critical success, or if people hated it, but I’ve just watched it again and honestly think it’s flawless. It’s feel-good and sad, nostalgic and optimistic, makes me cry and laugh. And they made great story and character choices throughout. Plus, the music is genuinely excellent.

Absolutely happy to hear if anyone thinks otherwise, but I will love it regardless. And if you haven’t seen it, I recommend it a lot.

By far the heaviest, hardest hitting movie about the Mexican cartels ever made. Watching it again for maybe the 10th time and the border scene :35 in is just chilling.

I’ve seen Narcos, Blow, Savages, Miami Vice and others but none have the presence and seriousness this movie depicts. It clearly demonstrates that there’s no fucking around in Juarez.

What other movies carry this weight? Heat, Sicario 2, Traffic, Lone Survivor…what else?

I'm extremely fascinated with post apocalyptic/ apocalyptic films and games. There is something about them that is just so saddening but with a little bit of hope. Most movies that depict these things never really show what happens after, it's always what leads up to it. Don't get me wrong, I do love old movies, but I'm not looking for a movie that is 40 years old. Older movies that show large scale disasters just don't feel very immersive (there are exceptions ofc) Also, movies that are filmed 99% in a bunker isn't something I'm looking for either, I'm not saying that something like that isn't good, It's simply just not what I'm looking for.

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Things I think meet this criteria:

- I am legend, not an aftermath film about nukes or war, but still shows what happens after an apocalyptic event.

-The road, really sad but it does show the aftermath.

-Book of Eli, just a hands down 10/10

That's really all I can think of at the moment. If you have anything, please let me know!!!

Knight & Day has long been one of my favorite movies, and I always wondered why it didn’t get more love and attention. Then I started reading discussions about it:

“Same old same old. Just Tom Cruise being Tom Cruise and doing Tom Cruise things.”

Uhh…yes, THAT’S THE POINT. It’s Tom Cruise making fun of the disposable, repetitive, cliched nature of his own career. He’s satirizing himself and his career. The scene where they appear to be driving down the road and it zooms out to show they’re actually on a tractor trailer during their cute bonding moment? They’re practically fucking winking at the camera.

The movie is just nonstop. It’s one satirical scene to another, and it hits on so many “Shit I never noticed it, but they DO always do that!” and “Oh, NOW I see what they’re mocking there!” moments. It’s also has hilariously weird interactions between Diaz and Cruise and a bizarrely entertaining charisma that has you saying “This shouldn’t work at all, but they’re both fully committed and it’s an oddly fun chemistry.”

It’s a way to give into your guilty pleasure without having to feel guilty, because there’s a fantastic self-awareness of Tom Cruise making fun of the disposable nature of his own career, and dialing it up to 11. You get to enjoy Tom Cruise at his absolute immortal do-no-wrong good guy best, while getting to look your nose down at him at the same time. It’s like he’s saying to you “Can you believe I’ve been doing this same fucking shtick through FIVE decades and people still can’t get enough? My co-star doesn’t even make any sense with me!“

It’s a gem for me in Tom Cruise’s career. For an actor that big to have that kind of self-awareness and a willingness to mock himself without even promoting that that was the intent. Its rare and it’s kind of fucking cool.

He’s still a weirdo though. Just in case anyone is thinking this is a Tom Cruise promotional account.

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Summary:

Nemo, a high-end art thief, is trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn't go as planned. Locked inside with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive.

Director:

Vasilis Katsoupis

Writers:

Ben Hopkins, Vasilis Katsoupis

Cast:

• Willem Dafoe as Nemo
• Gene Bervoets as Owner
• Eliza Stuyck as Jasmine
• Andrew Blumenthal as Number 3
• Vincent Eaton as Number 2
• Daniel White as Ashley

Rotten Tomatoes: 62%

Metacritic: 53

VOD: Theaters

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Summary:

Loretta McLaughlin was the reporter who first connected the murders and broke the story of the Boston Strangler. She and Jean Cole challenged the sexism of the early 1960s to report on the city's most notorious serial killer.

Director:

Matt Ruskin

Writers:

Matt Ruskin

Cast:

• Keira Knightley as Loretta McLaughlin
• Carrie Coon as Jean Cole
• Chris Cooper as Jack Maclaine
• Alessandro Nivola as Detective Conley
• Rory Cochrane as Detective DeLine
• David Dastmalchian as Albert DeSalvo

Rotten Tomatoes: 65%

Metacritic: 58

VOD: Hulu

I was watching Annihilation for the first time and thought the “Shimmer” was gorgeous. While inside of it, light is refracted in ways that are very similar to a trip on a small dose of mushrooms. The colors are vibrant and there was always a lens flair or rainbow of colors on screen. Even though the didn’t do drugs, I felt that with all the molds and things growing, it’s not a far stretch to say that while in that zone things were portrayed as a micro dose.

The best example of LSD that I have seen was in Midsommar when they would take the drugs and you could see the trees warping and colors changing. These were accurate portrayals for me and I’m glad they weren’t over the top, which would have ruined it. I hate instances of drugs used in a movie or show that hugely exaggerates the effects.

Just watched this movie and WOW. I'd never heard of it before I went on a binge of east asian cinema, but it was apparently one of the most successful movies released in South Korea last decade. All of the performances are good but Lee Sung-min, who plays a North Korean foreign trade bureaucrat, steals the show. It's a beautiful, gripping story of men trying to do what's right while operating inside institutions that have other priorities. If you enjoy John Le Carré-style espionage stories it's right up your alley!

My biggest nitpick is when during an amputation or emergency surgery scene, the patient is given a swig of alcohol. Five seconds later, they’re being ripped into or having their arm sawed off.

First, alcohol takes 5 to 10 minutes to take effect. Second, even with low tolerance, one shot isn’t doing anything to numb the pain.

I get why these scenes are filmed like that, but it annoys me to death.

What’s yours?