Big fan of Jeremy Renner.

Among my all time favorites: subtle, complex, disturbing, with pains taking execution, as you’d expect from Haneke.

One of the best told stories I’ve been reeled in by for a while.

Expected to hate this from all the negative comments. Surprised how much I like this and would binge if I could. So waiting for next episode with bated breath.

The film is a cult classic for a reason. It’s like Night of the Living Dead, in that it was made on a small budget with very basic equipment in one location. It’s bare-bones filmmaking at its best: Sam Raimi and a small cohort of friends (like Bruce Campbell, a personal friend of Raimi’s since high school). It’s maybe less obvious today when anyone can make a “movie” on their iPhone, but making a decent low-budget film outside the studio system in 1983 took some real guts and commitment to the craft for an aspiring young filmmaker like Raimi.
It’s also very famous due to the timing. The film received an X rating, which would have been a cinematic death sentence for a purely theatrical release, but thanks to the explosion in popularity of videotapes in the 80’s, the film spawned a huge following outside of the traditional cinema. It got a lot of attention for being so unabashedly gory and was banned in Britain as a “video nasty,” in addition to being censored in several other countries.
What might seem tame or cliche now was incredibly risky and even groundbreaking, thanks to Sam Raimi’s commitment to make a full-on gory horror flick with no f*cks given about the studio or ratings systems.
I think if one just watches this (or indeed, most older films) in a vacuum without the historical context, it is easy to get stuck on how “primitive” or “slow” a lot of them are. The value as art lies not in how it stacks up to our modern concept of film making, but in how films like this broke new ground to create a space for the other films to follow. But then again, we live in a time where everything is being remade or rebooted to fit our current sensibilities/attention spans, so it is rather difficult to maintain any sense of historical context for the value of these early innovations. A film like “Halloween” can be remade twice but the new versions will never match the ingenuity and simple charms of the original.

Glimpses of Hungary I had only heard of. The last scene is 1953. You can just feel 1956, the revolution, erupt,like an unstoppable force, from this kind of misrule.

Martin Short kills me, fobl, what a character, nothing like him.

So glad I found this after reading about the series in the news, and when I realized the “topic”, a few episodes in, I like it even more. :)

Some of those images are unsettling. “What IS that?” Excellent production.

I could easily take a season two of this. Solid.

This plays as the credits run, and some of the lyrics were in the subs somewhere earlier in one episode.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGLyBv35QrU So haunting. Reminds me of hot nights in the ocean breeze in Kas. Love the traditional music in this series.

I love the two detectives, and the music when the credits roll.

Was so waiting for episode 3. This is so good.

Another surprise of a gem that grabs you by the seat of the pants, glues you to your screen, when you should be out and about already. ;)

Yay! Version 2 voe.sx is dubbed. The subs were so bad, like computer generated gibberish.

Another gem I just accidentally came across. Can’t stop binging, and it only gets better as the story rolls out. Just starting on season3

This Man Must Die (French: Que la bête meure), also an excellent French/Italian movie (1969)directed by Claude Chabrol… Hope this series is as good of the movie !

No Worries.

Streep, Wiest, Bergen, what a treat. Crossed the Atlantic on a ship once, not quite the Queen Elizabeth, more like a freighter, but watching this makes me want to sail across again.

Dark little thriller, fantastic pay off, if you stick with it. A Hollywood homage to Polanski’s https://www.primewire.ag/movie/121161-watch-knife-in-the-water, though less enigmatic, more nasty. Norman Reedus, Alan Rickman rock.

One of the best adaptations of this favorite Charles Dickens’s novel . Charles Dance is deliciously icy and malevolent. James D’Arcy and Sophia Myles are gorgeous to behold, and bring Dickens’s characters to life. Besides the social injustices we expect to see Dickens explore, there are also the ribald, bigger than life characters you can’t help but laugh at while you decry them.

Pretty heavy duty. Makes you see Dubrovnik in a different light.

Think Henry Lee Lucas, seedy and intense: this unsettling, brilliant film is done maintaining a documentary style distance, yet delivering in stark reality the full impact punch of brutality and gore, for those who have the stomach for it, as it is not a glamorized Hollywood slasher film. That calm, collected coolness of Sheriff Gaines is remarkable, considering what he is hearing. Glad this is the original X rated version.

Hooray! A new film to add to that long list of movies with titles that sound like something evil that Lovecraft might have come up with.

Loved this, and Viggo Mortensen. Wanted more.

OMG nobody can be happy on this show for more than 5 seconds. I love it! Can’t get enough and can’t wait for season 3!

Another dark Bunuel story that leaps at you like a nightmare, a weird surrealist and metaphoric film that criticizes the behavior of the bourgeois class in delicious satire, in the vein of “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie”, a long time favorite.

We’ve known for years that Stalin taught Hitler all the tricks of mass terror and concentration camps, and that the Soviets slaughtered millions more humans in the Gulag camps than Hitler could ever dream of.

I checked them over and it looks to me like those are all bad. I think we’ll leave them until a better copy gets dropped. Hopefully a better copy will be released soon.

“Ripley’s Game” is the best of the Ripley franchise, and as a psychopath killer and thief, John Malkovich is precisely the Tom Ripley imaginable.

i’m sure you’ve already reported the bad links but if you turn off the subtitles you may end up with just the one hardcoded subs…

Didn’t realize season 2 links had been put up, so psyched. Some fun to binge on.

Didn’t realize season 2 links had been put up, so psyched. Some fun to binge on.

Man, what a comedy! I don’t think Nick said one word. Loved the last scene. Nick the man. lol

If a creep, like the character played by Robert Walker, sat down next to me in a train, I would move to the next compartment.

Rewatched this after many years and would still need subs to clearly understand that Cockney dialect. Had to read reviews afterward to “get it”, like, no spoiler, that the Americans were mobsters. lol The last few minutes of watching Hoskings face, what nuanced acting, is super, and I did get what was going down, though not exactly why, till I read several reviews. Mirren looks, and acts, absolutely fabulous!!

Finally decided to watch Sexy Beast after hearing good things about it for years. No lie, so good. Love Ray Winstone’s talented work, and been looking up his oeuvre, like The War Zone https://www.primewire.ag/movie/338430-watch-the-war-zone

Couldn’t agree more @NoelCoyotebleu! :) Just jumping in for second go round myself. Saw this on TV ages ago. Duvall in his prime. One of best westerns ever. Based on best selling, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Larry McMurty’s novel.