Hi Lemmy,

I'd love to make a list/index of good websites for movie / TV reviews and recommendations with all of your help.

I will keep updating the post and add categories

Most of the things that I watch are US content or a derivative and I feel like I'm missing out. On more curated sites like rogerebert.com there are a is a lot of non-US content which I really like.

Are there more sites like Rogerebert? Is there something like an english Cahiers du Cinema? Is there a rotten tomatoes for Asian or European movies?

Maybe the mods can eventually make a nicer post and pin it.

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Index

Curated Reviews

Rogerebert

Little White lies

Review Aggregators

Metacritic

Rotten Tomatoes

IMDb

Magazines

Newspapers

The Guardian

NYTimes

Hollywood Reporter

Variety

Blogs

Other

Criterion Collection

YouTube

Dan Murrell

Podcasts

The Filmcast

|RELEASE DATE|RUNTIME|IMDB|ROTTENTOMATOES|METACRITIC| |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| |Nov 10th, 2023|2hr 13m|8.3|96%|81|

Premise:

A cranky history teacher at a remote prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a troubled student who has no place to go.

Director(s):

Alexander Payne

Writer(s):

David Hemingson

|CAST||| |---|:---:|---| | Paul Giamatti |...| Paul Hunham | | Dominic Sessa |...| Angus Tully | | Da'Vine Joy Randolph |...| Mary Lamb | | Carrie Preston |...| Miss Lydia Crane | | Brady Hepner |...| Teddy Kountze | | Ian Dolley |...| Alex Ollerman | | Jim Kaplan |...| Ye-Joon Park |

Feel free to show up early if you want to hang out and share clips. People do that earliest about an hour before the movie starts on a good day.

We are watching here: https://cytu.be/r/matrixhub

We’ll probably watch 2-3 movies and vote on what to watch as we go, but you can help me whittle down the selection here https://strawpoll.com/61gDmW16LZw

I’ve been doing these every Saturday.

The Stranger

New Year's Eve

Full Movie

(All piped)

I just watched trailers for Transformers One and the new Crow film on Fandango and was turned off by both of them as I watched them.

Mostly because they were being hyped up as comedies or action films that are just made to sell more tickets whatever they're playing.

I think American cinema has been going downhill for years, but I am curious about trying a movie theater one day to watch something meaningful, and not just spend money on entertainment alone.

I hope I can find something to watch, but what do you guys think?

What happened to physical releases? Especially in 4k. It used to be there were all sorts of behind the scenes and commentary and hidden junk. Now it all feels so bare bones.

My most recent disappointment was The Crow 4k. I was hyped to get my steel book in the mail only to have to sit through 14 pages of copyright and piracy warnings, no main menu music at all just a static image and some behind the scenes stuff that was all the same stuff on loop. It was a pretty big letdown. I've had better experiences with pirated DVDs bought at swap meets

The cause of death has not been revealed, but by all accounts he was healthy.

An astronaut crash lands on an elongated asteroid with extremely strong gravity. He manages to crawl away from his ship and finds that the gravity in the middle is normal and the gravity at the far end is reversed. Time is also affected by gravity and goes backward at the far end of the asteroid. His dog was injured and he carries it to the far end to heal it. He then goes back to his ship, manages to fix it, and goes back home. There were trees in the middle with fruit as well. I think that's all I remember. The problem I've been having is if I put 'gravity' and 'movie' in the same search I get Gravity with Sandra Bullock which definitely isn't the right movie. Thanks in advance for any help.

I'm having trouble finding a movie I caught the ending of on cable TV once upon a time, and never saw again. Does anyone here recognize it?

Modern (~1990s) soldiers (the heroes) are pinned down. They rig explosives for some reason and use the radio to remote detonate them. Something goes wrong, and one of the soldiers takes a walkie talkie and walks towards the explosives, without any cover, to use it to force them to go off. He has to get very close to them. He gets shot repeatedly, and just before being fatally wounded, he yells "Blow!" And the explosives go off.

Additional information:

• On US cable in the mid to late 1990s
• Modern war film, with then-current tech (Desert Storm-era)
• Soldiers are outside in rocky/deserted terrain during the daytime in above the described scene
• walkie-talkie is a military-grade CB brick
• Soldier is a short, young guy who I've seen in a few other movies typecast as a low-ranking soldier or officer of some kind

Hi there,

I hope my title as well as the examples shown in the picture get the idea across of what I'm looking for. Doesn't matter what the genre is, I am just looking for movies which are shot in this grim lighting.

Also, for fun, try and guess which movies the pictures come from.

Answer

Suspiria (2018)

Black Swan

The Road

Rewatched this weekend and it's such a great film and I wish more people knew about it. If you love music and sci-fi you'll probably love this film.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15318807

> Looks like trunks are back in style!

This was a hipster rendition of 2000's (mostly forgotten)How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Hello everyone,

The AMA will take place in !movies@lemm.ee, see below for the details.

Have a good one,

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/31132235

> Will (@nelly32418@lemm.ee) just posted "Kodar: The Primordial God of Light and Ether", his latest short film, in this post: https://lemm.ee/post/31115977 (it is in the latest posts in this community, should be easy to find) > > We thought it might be interesting to have an AMA session, and here we are! > > For more information about Will: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Ropp > > To convert the time to your local timezone: https://time.is/0900_7_May_2024_in_EDT > > Please note that the thread is not the one for the questions, Will will open it on Tuesday. > > Thank you Will!

To celebrate this amazing holiday, here is Han shooting first.

1. The Marvels (Disney/Marvel)
   • Budget: $219.8 million
   • Box office: $206.1 million
   • Net loss: -$237 million
2. The Flash (Warner Bros./DC)
   • Budget: $220 million
   • Box office: $271.3 million
   • Net loss: -$155 million
3. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Disney/Lucasfilm)
   • Budget: $387 million
   • Box office: $384 million
   • Net loss: -$143 million
4. Wish (Disney)
   • Budget: $200 million
   • Box office: $254.9 million
   • Net loss: -$131 million
5. Haunted Mansion (Disney)
   • Budget: $150 million
   • Box office: $147.5 million
   • Net loss: -$117 million

I dare you.

> > > Jeff Bridges' addition to the Tron: Ares cast marks his first return to a feature film since 2018's Bad Times at the El Royale. The acclaimed actor has starred in nearly 100 different films and television series since he made his onscreen appearance in the classic television series Sea Hunt (1958 - 1961) alongside his father, Lloyd Bridges, who was in the leading role. Bridges has been nominated for Best Actor seven times throughout his illustrious career, winning for Crazy Heart in 2010. > >

> > > Bridges' most recent Oscar nomination was for Supporting Actor for 2016's celebrated heist western Hell or High Water starring Chris Pine and Ben Foster. Since then, Bridges has had a supporting role in the 2017 drama The Only Living Boy in New York and the 2017 action disaster movie Only the Brave starring Josh Brolin and Miles Teller. Bridges notably played Champ in Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman: The Golden Circle before playing Father Daniel Flynn / Dock O'Kelly in Bad Times at the El Royale in 2018. > >

Is it now a Hollywood tradition to make really shitty movies set in Oahu?

Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy watching this movie but holy fuck is it bad. The premise is nonsensical, the jingoism is super over the top. Is this meant to be a satire?

Physical version is coming July 9, digital version is coming June 25

>“Mufasa: The Lion King” enlists Rafiki to relay the legend of Mufasa to young lion cub Kiara, daughter of Simba and Nala, with Timon and Pumbaa lending their signature schtick. Told in flashbacks, the story introduces Mufasa as an orphaned cub, lost and alone until he meets a sympathetic lion named Taka—the heir to a royal bloodline. The chance meeting sets in motion an expansive journey of an extraordinary group of misfits searching for their destiny—their bonds will be tested as they work together to evade a threatening and deadly foe.

> Sony's Marvel film "Kraven the Hunter" is being pushed back from its August release, moving to Dec. 13, 2024.

tl;dr: !movies@lemm.ee is a complementary community mostly focused on discussions rather than news

Hello everyone,

As I did a few weeks ago to share the discussion thread about Dune: Part II, I just wanted to share again about !movies@lemm.ee.

Why another movie community?

There are a few movies communities on Lemmy, be it this one or !moviesandtv@lemm.ee. They are mostly focused on movies news, but don't have much discussion threads about current movies.

On top of that, as Lemmy doesn't have unique URLs for posts, there is no way to just have a megathread pinned with links to discussion threads, as those would only work for people on one instance.

Which is why !movies@lemm.ee was created. Our most successful thread so far was for Dune: Part II (direct link to the thread), and we hope to have other insightful discussions about movies in the future.

Some time ago someone expressed that one of the things they were missing from Reddit was being able to go to a discussion thread after having watch a movie to read other opinions on it, we are trying to fill that gap.

Have a good day.

Update: Answered in the comments much more thoroughly and succinctly than I can summarize, so head below for some great answers.

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She's apparently the warrant officer, which I've seen hypothetical explanations state is the XO, the second in command, but she explicitly states that she is the third officer at the end of the movie, and throughout The movie she is the pilot and she checks the electrician's work and volunteers to go fight the alien first, and also states that she is in command while the others were off the ship.

So was Kane second in command?

And what is a warrant officer?

Thank you

BTW if there is a crazy Aliens expert, I have a few tiny questions that only a crazy fan who literally read everything ever written and watched every interview about the movie might be able to answer.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/10934427

> > EXCLUSIVE: The new 28 Years Later trilogy from director Danny Boyle and Sony Pictures is gaining momentum, and some serious star power. Sources tell Deadline that Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes have boarded the first pic, a sequel to the original 28 Days Later. > > > > ... > > > > Deadline recently broke the news that the studio has already tapped Candyman director Nia DaCosta to helm the second part of the trilogy, and that the plan is to shoot both films back to back. As for the three newest cast members, the studio is clearly showing it means business, adding star power instead of going the lesser-known-actor route like in previous installments