What was the last movie you saw?

Escape Room
Not bad movie about a bunch of guys who, with the promise of a prize of 10 grand, take on a challenge to escape a room full of hidden traps and such.
 
NIGHTKILL 1980 - Presumably Jaclyn Smith took this as a contrast to Charlie's Angels and it sure is. She's an unhappily married woman with an obnoxious husband (Mike Connors) and secretly having an affair with his employee James Franciscus who is ex-CIA. He decides to free her of her marriage by poisoning her husband--she wasn't in on the scheme and is forced to go along with his plan. They stick his body in a freezer but when she goes to check the body--it's not who she expects it to be. Her problems multiply--and then Robert Mitchum shows up as a cop.
There is some bizarre dialogue too--Mitchum is going through her house and sees all these hunting trophies and he says "who is the hunter, you or your husband?"
Later after she has to deal with a mess of problems he says she should clean herself up and then a second later he says, "are you alright??"
Of course she isn't.
Her peak abuse is being locked into a steam bath where her body gets horribly scalded. It's rather gruesome.
It's no shampoo commercial.
 
Justice League Dark Apokolips War (2020). I really like the DC Animated Universe: they're gritty, violent and straight-forward. It is even more so with the Jutice League Dark and Suicide Squad movies, because they are originally down and dirty already.

In this pretty much 90 min of blood, punches and hellish magic, The Justice League, Justice League Dark and Teen Titans charge against Darkseid in his planet... but they fail because of a traitor. Two laters, with the Earth in shambles, John Constantine, Raven and a weakened Clark Kent try to save the universe.

Oh, and John Constantine reveals that he had an affair with King Shark, and that Brits and Aussies have a feud.
 
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Everything Everywhere All At Once - (Or a metamodern antidote to Nihilism). A fantastic and delightful movie that is so much better than the trailer (which was already good). It manages to fuse together family drama, superb martial arts action, intelligent and thoughtful dialogue and themes, moving relationships and genuinely laugh out loud moments. A truly original movie and essential viewing. I suspect this the movie that will be talked about as this generation's Matrix.
 
In the Valley of Elah

I like Tommy Lee Jones, and I usually like the movies in which he stars. I had never heard of this movie, but I saw it on offer for £1 so purchased purely on the basis of his name on the cover. I've watched the first 1/3rd of the movie, and so far it's really good. TLJ tends to have been typecast for the past couple of decades as the experienced older cop/sheriff, and this movie movie is no different (ex military police). So far so good.
 
King of Thieves (2018)
A heist movie about a bunch of old boys attempting the Hatton Garden robbery.
Michael Caine, Tom Courtney, Ray Winstone, Jim Broadbent and Paul Whitehouse shine. Loved it.
 
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King of Thieves (2018)
A heist movie about a bunch of old boys attempting the Hatton Park robbery.
Michael Caine, Tom Courtney, Ray Winstone, Jim Broadbent and Paul Whitehouse shine. Loved it.
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If you like this then you should watch the ITV mini series 'Hatton Garden' with Timothy Spall, which is very good.
 
Shutter Island. It's a really good recent one especially if you like old fashioned mysteries. It's a horror really but it plays on some of the stereotypical tropes in mystery genres as well. Sadder than I had expected in bits but I really liked it.
 
FURY AT SMUGGLER'S BAY - 1961 - One of those "cozy" pirate adventure films made in the early 1960s, this would be a good feature companion to NIGHT CREATURES and THE SCARLET BLADE which have similar plot elements and atmosphere. In this one Peter Cushing is a squire seeking to stop the destruction of ships on the coastline by murderous thieves, but he is being blackmailed by scallywag Bernard Lee. The dramatic relationship between them is the strongest part of the story (that and the locations). John Fraser is the squire's son. This is typical dull romantic lead role but since I don't see him in much outside of EL CID--he stands out more in the part than William Franklyn who is the anti-hero and yet he is rather boring. It isn't a story you remember much about after watching it but if you revisit it now and then it provides enough entertainment via passive amnesia to satisfy, especially "M" as the treacherous servant turned pirate.
 
INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN 1957 - Played all the time on afternoon science fiction tv--the aliens are pretty nifty. Paul Blaisdell was a poor man's HR Giger but his designs were imaginative and distinctive.

WEREWOLVES ON WHEELS 1971 --This film does not live up to its name. We do get a couple of werewolves and one of them is on wheels but it just doesn't work as a horror film. It has more of a drama art house approach with some horror elements thrown in almost as an afterthought. It's pretty to look at times--we get atmospheric shots of the desert but the story is too mundane. Maybe the soundtrack contributes to the lack of mood--it doesn't have much character. I have watched a few biker movies and you don't want to watch many of them again. Here's a title that could be remade with much more excitement.
 
KILLER FORCE aka THE DIAMOND MERCENARIES 1976 -- Silly desert caper but I like re-watching movies with lots of desert scenes. Telly Savalas is head of security for a Pretoria diamond company and Peter Fonda is a security guy chosen to find out who is smuggling diamonds out. There's a rogue team led by Hugh O'Brien, OJ Simpson and Christopher Lee planning to rob it. The wardrobe specialist for Savalas gets a screen credit but Lee has the most memorable line: "the world has lost a very average whore, Mr. Nelson."


 
Brute Force was the ultimate prison film. I have watched more than a few, & nothing compares to it.


WINGS (1927) WWI action film about love & war.



THEY CAME TO ROB LAS VEGAS (1968) Steve Skorsky (Lee J. Cobb) is the owner of an armored car business, whose reputation is spotless, but has a side business of smuggling for the mob. Tony Vincenzo (Gary Lockwood) works as a blackjack dealer in a casino, so he can make a relationship with Skorsky's mistress Ann Bennett (Elke Sommer) hoping to get info on the routes taken by the armored cars, so he can rob one. Douglas (Jack Palance) is the Federal Agent hoping to catch Skorsky with the goods.

Interesting type of heist, in which the crooks bury the armored car in sand dunes, use a helicopter to obliterate the tracks from the road to the tomb, etc. So, under the dunes (and I must wonder just how deep the loose sand really might be) they have constructed a chamber in which several men can work to breech the armored car's defenses, etc. Things go south when one of the crooks loses patience and demands his share right now. He wants to use explosives to open the car, while cooler heads know that will attract the authorities. Those authorities are out scouring the area trying the find an armored car that seemingly has vanished into thin air.


Interesting different method!
 
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THEY CAME TO ROB LAS VEGAS (1968) Steve Skorsky (Lee J. Cobb) is the owner of an armored car business, whose reputation is spotless, but has a side business of smuggling for the mob. Tony Vincenzo (Gary Lockwood) works as a blackjack dealer in a casino, so he can make a relationship with Skorsky's mistress Ann Bennett (Elke Sommer) hoping to get info on the routes taken by the armored cars, so he can rob one. Douglas (Jack Palance) is the Federal Agent hoping to catch Skorsky with the goods.
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Tony Vincenzo. I have watched that before I didn't catch on the Kolchak name connection.
I recall the end credits are unusual--they show behind the scenes shots of them filming the movie.
 
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