Was it Ray Liotta´s last film? I kind of want to watch it now
Regarding Nick Cage … ‘Drive Angry’ was surprisingly entertaining - great fun! 
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I always liked Raising Arizona 
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Me too … great early Cohen Brothers flick 
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A rollicking fun evening last night with the 2011 action pic, ‘The Mechanic’.
Great entertainment from Jason Statham, and the much under-rated Ben Foster.
I didn’t expect much from it, but it delivered in spades…
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I saw Jean-Pierre Melville´s short “24 hours in the life of a clown” and really liked it. The humor mixed with the somewhat sad atmosphere felt very well done. Then I saw Truffaul´s “The 400 Blows”, and WOW, that was one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen. Highly reccomend everybody to check it out. Then I saw the classic “Bonnie and Clyde” and, although not a masterpiece as the previous one, it was still great and famous for being one of the film to help abolish the Hays Code. Finally, yesterday i saw Se7en by David Fincher and was blown away. It was riveting through and through and, in my opinion, far better that Fight Club (which is still a great movie).
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The entire Antoine Doinel series by Truffaut and Leaud is awesome.
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THE LAST VICTIM (2019, Naveen A. Chathapuram)
A neo noir/neo western/thriller, or whatever it’s supposed to be. Basically it’s three good actors making the best of so so story material. Ralph Ineson is the rogue who commits a series of murders, Ron Perlman the sheriff on his trail and Ali Larter the woman who accidently watches Ineson burying the corpses. A Cat and Mouse game ensues, but it’s not always clear who is the Cat and who is the Mouse.
It’s clear that the director and his screenwriters have watched a lot of Coen Brothers’ movies (both BLOOD SIMPLE and FARGO come to mind), but the recent HELL OR HIGH WATER must have been a source of inspiration as well. But this movie definitely plays in a lower division. The acting and the cinematography are very fine but the script was in desperate need of a good script doctor. One plot twist near the end will come as a complete surprise, but unfortunately it doesn’t make any sense at all.
**½ out of 5
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So the sequels aren´t bad? Now I want to check them out.
SCREAM VI (2023, Bettinelli-Olpin & Gillett)
The sixth entry in the franchise (the second directed by Bettinelli-Olpin & Gillett, who took over from Wes Craven, who died in 2015). The last survivors of the Woodsboro killings, the Carpenter Sisters Sam and Tara and their friends, the twins Mindy and Chad travel to New York to escape from their bad memories, but their peace is short-lived. There’s a Ghostface in the Big Apple and he means business.
After the fifth entry, which mainly tried to revive the post-modern playfulness of Wes Craven’s originals, the two directors announced that they would opt for a more aggressive Ghostface story, with a higher body count and a more graphic approach of the stabbings. There are several good set pieces and it’s a definite step up compared to the rather disappointing SCREAM V, but the more visceral nature of the material mixes uneasily with the meta jokes and the merrymaking of the plot (which is – as always – totally bonkers).
Melissa Barrera – who plays the older of the two Carpenter sisters – is good-looking but not a great actress (to put it mildly) and I would advise the film makers to focus more on Jenna Ortega (who plays the younger sister) in case of a seventh Scream movie.
**½ out of 5
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Amongst the crop of young acting talent out there, I think Jenna Ortega is a stand out.
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I was really surprised by how much I loved Scream 6, I thought 5 was mostly crap but thoroughly enjoyed 6.
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That was my point as well. She’s an excellent actress, and of course good-looking as well.
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Recently I saw and LOVED Bob le Flambeur by Jean Pierre Melville. One of the best heist films and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Then I saw Blade Runner Final Cut. This was my first viewing of the film and it was a true masterpiece and a must watch for everybody. Yesterday I saw The Evil Dead. It was a very well made horror classic, but I couldn’t hemp but feel that the evil clown laughter mixed with fore over atmosphere drug down the film a little bit. Still Worth watching though
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I have been revisiting a lot of the films to which I had given 10-star ratings at some point, a large proportion of those do call for a re-watch. So far, the biggest surprises have been Welles’s The Trial and Malick’s The Thin Red Line. On the re-watch, the former seemed a lot more crude and unsophisticated than I had remembered, all the additional alterations appear to divest the source material of all its resonance and do a serious disservice to Kafka’s original vision. Makes me want to revisit the novel more than anything else.
With regard to The Thin Red LIne, the more I cherish Bresson, the more I seem to take umbrage at Malick’s conspicuously self-indulgent style; the pretentious, artsy voice-over totally lays waste to this film and the narrative grows somewhat muddled in the second half. Given that I had remembered it having been Malick’s most balanced and superior outing, I dread to see The Tree of Life now, not to mention some of the others.
It may take a while before I am done with this, but at any rate, once I am through with this, I hope to take a plunge into the pile of Eurospy crap, looking forward to it.
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I just watched Ford’s “Wagon Master” (1950). For quite a while the movie is a rather light-hearted affair full of that typical, slightly corny Fordian humour (for which I have a soft spot when I’m in the right mood). This light breeziness, however, generates so much more of an impact when the trouble eventually starts… a stunning moment when the Cleggs arrive.
The sheer delirious lunacy of the bad guys was also kinda surprising for a 1950 film. These guys are really a bunch of ugly, mentally challenged sadists. 
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For me Wagonmaster is Ford’s best western.
For the deranged Cleggs, I think the Clanton clan in My Darling Clementine is not so far away from them. In looks and in behaviour.
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Been continuing with my list of famous, popular and well-known movies that I somehow haven’t seen yet.
Needless to say, I’m now a gigantic Billy Wilder fan and he’s easily one of my favourite directors of all time now. Since my last Wilder watches, I’ve seen Some Like It Hot which was terrific, One Two Three, Stalag 17, Irma La Douce and just now Ace in the Hole. They’ve all been fantastic but for me, Ace in the Hole was on a hole (get it ) other level. Kirk Douglas just knocked his performance out of the ball park.
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Apart from the most famous films, ‘Some Like It Hot’ and ‘Stalag 17’ etc … I didn’t see a lot of his other greats until I was in my mid/late 20s … (had to rely on TV broadcasts ) But it’s always great fun discovering someone new to you at any stage in life - glad that you’re enjoying them and someone from a younger generation than me finds them relevant and entertaining
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Yesterday I saw Fritz Lang´s “M” and thought it was a fantastic film that I can highly reccomend to eveyone. Today I decided to see “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” and it was total crap. Despite its flaws, I have always somewhat enjoyed Crystal Skulls, but that movie is a masterpiece compared to this dogwaste. To any Indy fans, STAY AWAY FROM THIS ONE!
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