Official last movie you saw thread

Leave the World Behind (2023)

American apocalyptic psychological thriller film. It's about two families as they try to make sense of a rapid breakdown in phones, television, and other common technology which points to a potential cataclysm. Very tense movie, great acting, very good cast (Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Mahershala Ali, Kevin Bacon and more). It is a 140 minute movie, but it doesn't really feel that long. Overall I can recommend it, but you do have to be a little thinking for yourself, it doesn't spoonfeed you everything.

Finally watched Nimona
I can see why Disney shut down Blue Sky to bury it. Good on Annapurna and Netflix for saving this one.
I guess the fact they got a well earned Oscar nomination and Disney didn't manage to get one that year should teach Disney some lessons but it probably won't happen.

The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)

British-American supernatural horror film. It's about a team of father and son coroners who experience supernatural phenomena while examining the body of an unidentified woman. First of all, it's pretty much a single-location movie and some of you might already know how much I like those. The performances by the two leads (Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch) are very good and the overall atmosphere is tense as well. So those are some good things it has going for it. But about halfway through the movie, when one of them lists all the things that have apparently been done to her body, it clicked for me and I just knew that she had to be some kind of witch, which is also why she looks spotless from the outside. And the rest of the movie was a bit too on the nose in my opinion. It's definitely not my favourite André Øvredal movie (that's probably always gonna be the fantastic Norwegian fantasy mockumentary drama Trollhunter (2010)), but it's good. I did unintentionally compare it to another better autopsy horror the whole time, though, and that was the "The Autopsy" episode from Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, which was based on a short story by Michael Shea. So overall it's not bad at all but also not great. Still, can recommend.

Olympus Has Fallen 👍🏻

Hit Man (2023)

American romantic comedy crime film. It's about an undercover New Orleans police contractor who poses as a reliable hitman as he tries to save a woman in need. The best thing about this is that it's based on a real guy. And that Glen Powell could show off his acting chops a bit, playing a few different characters. I would've just preferred if he did it more. The story is not that engaging beyond having Powell play a few different guys. It's kind of predictable, especially when he meets that women. Of course they're gonna fall in love. Overall this could've been better but if you want to watch something where you can turn off your brain a bit, I can recommend this.

Harry and Tonto (1974)

American road comedy drama film. It's about a retired teacher who decides to travel cross-country with his pet cat after his apartment building got torn down. Art Carney's performance is great and it seems very authentic. The movie definitely relies on that but the script is also really strong. Overall just a great slice-of-live movie that I can definitely recommend.

But... Art Carney won the Best Actor Oscar for this movie in the same year when the other nominees were Albert Finney in Murder on the Orient Express, Dustin Hoffman in Lenny, Jack Nicholson in Chinatown and Al Pacino in The Godfather Part II. (I'm also surprised Gene Hackman wasn't even nominated for The Conversation.) I'm not saying he didn't deserve his Oscar win, but the competition was ridiculously strong. And now, half a century later, I think I can say that maybe the Academy was wrong. Maybe Al Pacino should've won that year.

The Double (2013)

British black comedy thriller film. It's about a man driven to breakdown when he is usurped by a doppelgänger. It starts of kinda weird and surreal, but as soon as the doppelgänger appears that is toned down a bit. It's actually based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1846 novel The Double, which I haven't read yet but this movie definitely makes me want to check it out. The cast is good (Jesse Eisenberg, Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Sally Hawkins, Wallace Shawn and more). Overall I can't really recommend it to everyone, because I feel like it might be a bit too surrealist and unusual for the general public. But if you don't mind that, you should give it a watch.

The Snowman (2017). Great thriller with Fassbender, Ferguson and Gainsborough plus some relatively unknown swedish actors. I rate it 10/10 currently, but, since it had around 5,2/10 on imdb i was kinda surprised. It was quite underrated in my opinion.

50 first dates. It was a quite fun movie.

Alien Romulus (2024)
Very worthy spin-off from the Alien saga. I put Alien and Aliens as best movies, followed by Prometheus (tho I know some people don't think this is even an Alien movie). And now I place Romulus as the fourth best Alien movie. The movie is well directed, actors give good performances, The protagonist and his "brother" are very likeable, some surprises well placed and exposed cleanly, some dialogues are a bit cheesy but overall I think it's way above my expectations. My only complaint is too many references in the face from previous movies, specially Alien and Aliens, but overall from pretty much all the movies. It's good both as a homage and a link to the previous movies, but there's a limit where you get tired, as if they're out of ideas and make a version of a similar scene from another movie. I think it's still fresh, different from the other movies; which I consider it an advantage this saga has over other sagas. Each movie is different, it has a different tone. Well, this one mixes them (almost) all pretty well.

To be honest when it was announced I was pretty disappointed. Many people complained about Prometheus not having a direct link with the saga, and it's sequel Covenant being hastily done to make it more Alien-like, without even continuing the Shaw saga. We Prometheus fans thought it would be a Shaw saga, just as the originals were a Ripley saga. But we were wrong. It's a David saga. If you rewatch Prometheus and Covenant thinking it's David the character driving the story, it all makes sense. And each time I watched Covenant, I liked it more and understood more why it is underrated and despised, despite being a good continuation from Prometheus. Hence, what I was expecting was a third and last David movie where it links his protomorph designs with the derelict (the engineer militar ships in Prometheus which is found in LV-426 in the first movie) full of eggs laid in a strange manner without any queen to be seen. Since these two movies are prequels, there must be at least one to link them directly to Alien, the end of Covenant was not enough for me, there's a lot of space there (no pun intended) to make another movie; +2000 colonists, embryos, going back to the militar moon in Prometheus, more black goo, maybe another engineer (needed for the space jockey!) and... Enough elements to make some mayhem and making a worthy sequel+prequel union.

Instead we got a spin-off which brings back the spirit of the two first movies. It does! And of course, in a different way. Another derelict, an unexpected presence, a great last act, I think this movie will give me more when I rewatch it (twice already). The last, in 4K. Harder to distinguish 2K with 4K in a movie than in a game/application; but nonetheless a pleasant experience.

TL;DR: very worth watching for Alien saga fans, and for newcomers... Wait and see the six first movies before.

Sweet Like Lemons (2023)

British-Finnish animated drama short film. It's about getting out of a harmful relationship and moving on. The artstyle is great, the artist is telling her own experiences through jarring imagery with bold watercolours, which again makes me think about how creative people can be with these animated short films. I don't know on what scale she painted each frame but even at just over 5 minutes this must've taken a lot of time and work. I feel like it could've been a bit longer but overall I think this was very well made. Can recommend.

Edit: Apparently she doesn't directly depict herself in this. Here's an interesting interview from her about her short film and more.

Heretic (2024)

American psychological horror film. It's about two Mormon missionaries who attempt to convert a reclusive man but realize he is more dangerous than he seems. This atmosphere in the movie is really tense, mostly thanks to Hugh Grant's amazing performance. Sadly I have to say that it doesn't quite finish as strong as it started off but I still think it's very good and I can definitely recommend it.

Elevation 🤙🏻

Friday the 13th (1980) 🤙🏻

Tulsa King (S02) 🤙🏻

Dahomey
Worst film that have ever won major film festival

The Lair of the White Worm (1988)

British-American supernatural comedy horror film. It's about the residents in and around a rural English manor that are tormented by an ancient priestess after the skull of a serpent that she worships is unearthed by an archaeologist. Good cast who might not deliver the best performances but seeing a young Hugh Grant and a young Peter Capaldi play off of each other is just really entertaining. The movie is actually loosely based on a Bram Stoker novel (surprise, he wrote more than just Dracula) which in turn was based on the English folktale of the Lambton Worm. Overall I think it's well worth the watch and I can very much recommend it.

Fun fact: This movie and Heretic (2024) are Hugh Grant's only horror movies, with his role in this one being much more akin to this charming and vulnerable romantic lead character that he usually plays*, and his role in Heretic (2024) being something you'd expect to be much further out of his range (which, luckily, it isn't).

*And here's someone's funny remarks about Hugh Grant's typecast around that time: "Before Hugh Grant hit the big-time playing floppy-haired fops in rom-coms, he mostly played floppy haired-fops in costume period dramas; an exception to this was Ken Russell's The Lair of The White Worm (1988), in which Hugh went against type by playing a modern-day floppy-haired fop."

Wind River 👍🏻

The Way Way Back (2013)

American coming-of-age comedy-drama film. It's about an introverted 14-year-old who goes on summer vacation with his mother and her overbearing boyfriend. Very good cast (Liam James, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, Sam Rockwell, Maya Rudolph, Jim Rash, AnnaSophia Robb, Amanda Peet, Rob Corddry, Nat Faxon and more) with very good performances all around for this kind of movie. Overall I enjoyed this one a lot and for that reason I can recommend it.

Very Bad Things (1998)

American black comedy film. It's about a group of men visiting Las Vegas for a bachelor party, but after one of them accidentally kills a prostiture they turn on each other as the wedding approaches. Good cast (Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz, Jon Favreau, Jeremy Piven, Daniel Stern, Leland Orser and more). I like how the story goes from some guys partying in Las Vegas to... well, I'm not gonna spoil anything. Let's just say I didn't the story would go where it would go. Overall I think this is a very good movie and I can recommend it.

Bad Girls (1994) 🤙🏻

Ted K https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8128276/

Really if it didn't have Sharlto Copley https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1663205/ in it I would not have watched it. One of my favorite actors ever since I saw District 9 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136608/ . I sometimes watch movies just because of the casting.

Incident (2023)

American documentary short film. It's about a man who is killed by police on the street. This documentary is shown through a composite montage of images from surveillance and security footage as well as police body-cams, so you basically see the whole thing how it happens. What is really infuriating about this is that, as soon as they kill him they remove his gun (that was still holstered) and among themselves they immediately talk shit like "Why did he have to pull his gun on us? Why would he do that?" and "He shot at us. He had a fucking gun, I thought I was gonna die." when he clearly didn't even do that. Fuck these cops. These incidents happen way too often already but clearly seeing that this guy was literally just walking past these cops and them already turning the narrative around seconds after they murdered him is borderline unfathomable. This documentary short just makes me angry. Watch it, it's on Youtube (but might not be for long, because it has just been announced to be on the Oscars shortlist and those short films are often taken down after that, for different reasons.)

Timestalker (2024)

British historical science fiction romantic comedy film. It's about a woman in the 1680s who falls in love with the wrong man and then gets reincarnated and falls in love with him over and over again. Quite a cool concept and well executed and although I thought it didn't hit its full potential I definitely enjoyed it and can recommend it.

The Whale, a beautiful film. Very emotional.

An Orange from Jaffa (2024)

Palestinian-French-Polish thriller drama short film. It's about a young Palestinian who is desperately looking for a taxi to take him through an Israeli checkpoint but when the taxi driver that picks him up discovers that he has already failed to cross the checkpoint, trouble begins. Most of these 27 minutes are spent inside the taxi with the two main characters talking but it works. So yeah, I thought it was very good and I can recommend it.