Saturday, August 3, 2019
The Bad Batch (2016)
In a desert dystopia, a young woman is kidnapped by cannibals.
Title very well matches the tone of this above-average dystopian drama; extremely violent and unsavory, but worth the watch.
Ultraviolet (2006)
A beautiful hæmophage infected with a virus that gives her superhuman powers has to protect a boy in a futuristic world, who is thought to be carrying antigens that would destroy all hæmophages.
OK run-of-the-mill sci-fi actioner, mildly entertaining, but absolutely predictable.
First Lines: Philip Reeve - Mortal Engines
It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.
Friday, August 2, 2019
Violette Nozière (1978)
In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.
Excellent true-case period murder drama is a bit unusual work by this director, but it manages to recreate the enigma of the crime, and Isabelle Huppert is extraordinary in the title role.
Halliwell*: "Oddly erratic but interesting recapitulation of a famous French murder case, not quite typical of its director."
Maltin**: "Slow-moving...Huppert sleepwalks through the role, and Chabrol lacks his usual directorial flair."
The Movies I Watched in July
Aknyeo (2017) 7
Allied (2016) 6
Ant-Man (2015) 6
Ballet Shoes (2007) 6
Le départ (1967) 6
L'écume des jours (2013) 6
Elizabeth Harvest (2018) 6
Das finstere Tal (2014) 8
Frasier, Season 3 (1995) 8
Fury (2014) 6
The Great Buck Howard (2008) 6
Greenfingers (2000) 6
Hidden Figures (2016) 6
The Howling (1981) 6
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017) 7
Io e te (2012) 6
Logan Lucky (2017) 6
Lymelife (2008) 6
Mammoth (2009) 6
Mary and Max (2009) 7
Messe noire (1928) 5
A Monster Calls (2016) 7
Opération lune (2002) 6
The Oxford Murders (2008) 4
Paradies: Hoffnung (2013) 6
The Pyramid (2014) 5
Smile (2019) 7
En solitaire (2013) 6
Summer of 84 (2018) 6
Uncommon Valor (1983) 5
Wackersdorf (2018) 7
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (2018) 7
What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015) 7
Woman on the Run (1950) 7
Allied (2016) 6
Ant-Man (2015) 6
Ballet Shoes (2007) 6
Le départ (1967) 6
L'écume des jours (2013) 6
Elizabeth Harvest (2018) 6
Das finstere Tal (2014) 8
Frasier, Season 3 (1995) 8
Fury (2014) 6
The Great Buck Howard (2008) 6
Greenfingers (2000) 6
Hidden Figures (2016) 6
The Howling (1981) 6
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017) 7
Io e te (2012) 6
Logan Lucky (2017) 6
Lymelife (2008) 6
Mammoth (2009) 6
Mary and Max (2009) 7
Messe noire (1928) 5
A Monster Calls (2016) 7
Opération lune (2002) 6
The Oxford Murders (2008) 4
Paradies: Hoffnung (2013) 6
The Pyramid (2014) 5
Smile (2019) 7
En solitaire (2013) 6
Summer of 84 (2018) 6
Uncommon Valor (1983) 5
Wackersdorf (2018) 7
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (2018) 7
What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015) 7
Woman on the Run (1950) 7
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