What movies have you seen recently?

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Lady of the Tropics, 1939 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031549

Stars Hedy Lamarr, as an ultra-attractive half-caste Vietnamese woman, who is courted by several men, and who eventually marries Robert Taylor's character--an American drifter/playboy.

One thing that is interesting--it was filmed in 1939, and set in Saigon (actually filmed in Cambodia), when the French Empire was at its greatest--just before France fell to the Nazis, and Indochina fell to the Japanese.

A lot of stereotypes presented, which were probably largely true. The French apparently fathered a lot of children in their colonies, but didn't much care for them.

This would make for an interesting post-Hayes-code remake, with actual Asian and half-Asian actors playing the Vietnamese roles, and some actual T&A instead of merely implied coitus.

The Informant

The Sin

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783798

Interesting Thai movie about a young man who falls in love with his young stepmother.

Encouraged by ASPartOfMe's assessment, last night we watched Please Stand By [2017].

We both enjoyed the movie.

And I wonder how she would've done if she hadn't been put in a group home.
Or how I would've done if I had been stuck in a group home.

"Leave the World Behind"...doomsday flick revolving around a supposed cyberattack. It was decent, maybe a little too long.

H.P. Lovecrafts The Old Ones.

Even though you can tell this is a terrible movie, obviously the people who made it loved Lovecraft's fiction. That alone makes this worth seeing.

Raw Meat.

Guillermo Del Toro says this is his favorite movie, where cannibals feed on unsuspecting victims in the London subway, though after watching it my wife and I can't figure out why.

Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs

A sequel to Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, both starring Vincent Price.

Both feature a significant amount of 1960's style eye candy.

I thought that the Bikini Machine movie was pretty good. The sequel seemed to be a cheap knock-off.

The Land Unknown

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050622/

There are better movies about fictional ancient life in Antarctica. This one was cute, in its own way.

Beetlejuice 2

Last night we watched:

The Zero Theorem [2013]
<=>"Nothing is everything."



Pleasingly, convincingly strange