The Last Movie You Saw?

[KoV]

^wait that cheap-looking 'remake' from...last year? 2022? was a musical?

They turned the 2004 movie into a Broadway show several years ago, and the 2023 movie was an adaptation of the Broadway musical.

 

[Drusilla_]

Kingdom (2019 Japanese movie set in the Warring States era). Mainly watched it because it was on Netflix and didn't look like their usual slop but very distinctly like a Japanese theatrical-release movie, which it was. But yeah, it was...not good and I don't get the point of having the lone female character in the entire movie be dressed like a life sized ancient-era plushie I was high as a kite and the costume just made me laugh (not even joking she's dressed as an owl all the way through)

 

[Phuel]

I typically hate (or just generally avoid) horror movies, but everything I've heard about the new Nosferatu makes it sound like a must-see.

Robert Eggers is to filmmaking what Alexander McQueen was to high fashion. Such a masterclass of substance brimming, seething beneath all the brilliant imagery.

Like his The VVitch, hIs versions of Nosferatu instantly gives gothic fairy tale. But I get the horror vibes most are feeling. (BTW, couldn’t keep my eyes off Ralph Ineson; his stature, his voice, his body. YSL-era Stefano Pilati reminds me a lot of him.)

 

[Drusilla_]

honestly there's been such a dearth of film that isn't either CGI-filled bloat or Oscar bait, sometimes you just want to watch a film that feels like it was shot with some kind of vision/perspective in mind without being up itself about it
I just rewatched Mustang, and now I find the director is doing that film on Paris Fashion Week with Angelina Jolie! Honestly excited about that one, and Angelina as Maria Callas too.