What movies have you seen recently?

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I saw Trolls World Tour! It was really good.

What We Do In the Shadows

Batman Forever.
Very badly dated.

The Chase

A clever, stylish 1946 film from the Hollywood era known as "The Golden Age Of Film Noir."

It is in the public domain, so it can be found on You-Tube on the channel for TCM.

I watched The Aristocats last week.

Asterix and gauls 4/6 , funny the hair growth scenes

Two Women (TV movie) 4.5/6 , Loren once again as Cesira in ww2 Italy

Batman Forever is okay , at least its better than Batman & Robin

Ocean's Thirteen.
ok

The Conversation

Bad boys

Finding nemo

Code 8 on Netflix. I thought it would be terrible, but it was actually well-done, despite a few silly moments.

Stagecoach (1939 version with John Wayne)

No Country For Old Men

I, Madman.

A birthday gift from my wife which I had seen years ago.
A young, aspiring actress who works in a used bookstore discovers the works of a forgotten author named Malcolm Brand. He writes truly horrific fiction ranging from a mad doctor who had used his own sperm to create a human-jackal hybrid, to a mad doctor turned poet who mutilates his own face then murders people for their physical features he grafts onto his face, all to earn the love of an actress he's obsessed with. Soon, she finds episodes of the books being reenacted in real life. When she finds Brand's old publisher, she learns the stories are in fact autobiographical.
While this horror movie from the eighties hasn't aged well in some respects, it's still a worthwhile film.

Corridors of Blood (1958)

A doctor in 1840s London, distressed at the agonies his patients endure while undergoing surgery, tries to discover an effective anaesthetic. In the process he becomes addicted to his drugs (based on laudanum) and comes to a bad end. There's a sub-plot involving 'Burke and Hare' types who murder sick people and sell the corpses to medical schools.

Quite an interesting film. Poor production values, made in black and white and could just as easily have been made a quarter of a century earlier, but interesting subject matter and some powerful, if harrowing, scenes. The story is fictional, but in fact the first breakthroughs in anaesthetics were made in the USA during this period, in the form of Ether. The film stars Boris Karloff as the doctor and Christopher Lee as one of the villains, who murders him in one of the final scenes.