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The Menu (2022) is a clever send up of our current "foodie" culture, the idea of the celebrity chef, and the kind of "elite" clientele that surround them.
Great performances from Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy.
I think I'm liking season two of Mayor of Kingstown more than I liked season one, and I loved season one. Episode 2: Staring at the Devil continues the bloody and grim path that the story has taken since last season's ending prison riot. Incredibly dark stuff as all control has been lost.
One hell of a devil's bargain to try to put a lid on it, a surprising decision from Iris, and a shock with Kyle.
Still absolutely loving the scenic shots, juxtaposing nature and industry.
The first episode of The Last of Us (2023), "When You're Lost in the Darkness", is good. Really damn good.
I have NOT played the game, so I'm going into it largely oblivious to the story beats, and thereby don't have anything to compare it to, but it works on its own. Wonderful tension, heartbreak, and horror.
Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, and Anna Torv hold everything down nicely.
Can't wait for next week.
Episode 10: Heat is kind of fucked up. Actually, really fucked up.
Amber is expectedly a mess from the kidnapping. And the Colombian government and military would sooner turn on the Americans, shoot up a civilian market, and kill everyone, than do ANYTHING else earlier in the series.
This is fucked up.
Hellraiser (2022) finally made it to a streaming service in Canada. Paramount+ of all places.
It was...good. Or rather, I liked it.
It is NOT an adaptation of The Hellbound Heart (or in such a remake of the original in any way), but it is an interesting reinterpretation of the lore and a decent horror story in its own right.
The designs for the new Cenobites are quite good, the creepy atmosphere is nicely achieved, and Goran Visnjic nails horrible rich dude.
Vesper (2022) is really quite good. It's the kind of dystopian sci-fi that makes you think of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and David Cronenberg collaborating on a Phillip K. Dick-inspired eco-horror with some designs from Hayao Miyazaki.
It's a beautiful and weird looking film that goes hard into a bleak existence for its somewhat naïve titular character, played wonderfully by Raffiella Chapman. Very interesting world created here.
The Italian teen zombie romance/thriller, Non Mi Uccidere (2022), made a number of worst horror of 2022 lists. It's easy to see why. It's not very good.
There's a kernel of a good horror movie in here, with an interesting take on zombies and some really good practical effects when they don't feed, but it's mired in a horrible "love" story between a shrinking violet and a complete asshole. And zombie hunters, fusing two movies together.
Alice Pagani is actually pretty good in her role, though.
The Last Crusade (1989) is probably the sequel most like Raiders of the Lost Ark. Going back to biblical/extra-biblical source material, tossing in Nazis, and having large set pieces in the Middle East. It's also a pretty decent film in its own right.
There are some interesting Hitchcock homages that I surprisingly don't think I noticed before now.
And the family aspect of Indy and Henry are a nice touch. As are the puzzles. These movies need more puzzles.
Existential and moral question:
Would you sleep with a hot Nazi? A hotzi, if you will.
And how would you feel if you found out after the fact that they were a Nazi?
