I've been binging on Hayao Miyazaki's films this past week. Very nostalgic and still love them after all these years. And I'm glad to say that Princess Mononoke didn't scare the shit out of me this time.

Hey if you are into anime films at all you should give a watch for Mamoru Hosoda's films. Personally I prefer Hosoda's character models to Ghibli and the story structures are a lot more familiar for western audiences too. Wolf Children is pretty damn good. Once you get past the odd premise.

I am very much into Anime, so I'll certainly have to look him up. Thanks!

I've been binging on Hayao Miyazaki's films this past week. Very nostalgic and still love them after all these years. And I'm glad to say that Princess Mononoke didn't scare the shit out of me this time.

Hey if you are into anime films at all you should give a watch for Mamoru Hosoda's films. Personally I prefer Hosoda's character models to Ghibli and the story structures are a lot more familiar for western audiences too. Wolf Children is pretty damn good. Once you get past the odd premise.

I am very much into Anime, so I'll certainly have to look him up. Thanks!

Nice! Wolf Children is otherwise perfect but there's this 10 second long part in the first act that's... well... you'll know when you see it. Try to get past it, it's such a great movie otherwise and could do without those 10 seconds. Nothing's perfect I suppose?

Snowpiercer
Dark and rather effective tale of a post-apocalyptic future, where the world is covered in ice and the last of the population are stuck on a train, slaves to a dystopian pecking order. There's a good balance of violence and tension, supported with believable characters and a cruel sense of humor, along with some impressive visuals. Tilda Swinton steals the show as bitch you'll love to hate. Check this one out.

Under the Skin
I wanted to like this movie more than I did. It has an interesting premise (Scarlett Johansson as an alien who feeds on men seduced by her, a black widow if you will) and it's settings in Scotland are quite lovely to behold.
However, it wears its Kubrick influences a little too heavily. I don't mind slow and artistic passages, but any slower and you'd swear it was a Winding Refn film. Still, there's some genuine suspense and enough moving scenes to keep you interested; worth seeing at least once.

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I read a review before I saw it that described Johansson's nudity as unsettling rather than erotic; as far as this movie goes I agree, though that's not to say she isn't a siren. Her one legitimate sex scene though is equal parts sexy, ominous and even amusing.

[JuZ]

Ooh Snowpiercer sounds like my kind of movie.

[EphelDuath666]

I'll buy Snowpiercer on Blu-ray this month, have been looking forward to it for ages. And I actually liked 'Under the skin' quite a bit. A very different kind of alien invasion movie. But probably really only for people who like movies such as 'Upstream Color'.

^I saw Snowpiercer at a little cinema and bar in Phoenix with some friends a couple weeks ago. I liked it, but the violence was too much for me. I had to take my glasses off so I couldn't see what was happening. And I totally guessed what the kids were being taken for. Boo-yah!

[JuZ]

Just finished the latest Captain America. I had to force myself to finish it because I'd paid three fiddy to rent the thing.

So disappointing as I really enjoyed the first one.

It basically felt like two movies spliced together. One movie was about some acrobats who enjoy cartwheeling through explosions. The other movie was about a dozen slightly sad and annoyed people who took turns at pretending to die.

[Victimlas]

Couldn't agree more...

For me it was: Oh look the Winter Soldier is... SNORE. Couldn't have cared less

[Octillus]

I thought it was the best marvel movie? Oh well.

Finally saw Brokeback Mountain...i have to say, while it was good and there were some good performances, I can't help but feel it was over hyped.

Wish I Was Here

Well, that tugged at the heart strings. I'm hindsight, this was probably not the best movie to see when pregnant and having had a family cancer diagnosis 3 days before. That was the ugliest scene in a cinema since I saw Toy Story 3, haha! Still enjoyed it though

I finally watched Requiem for a Dream with a friend.

FUCK.

I don't think I can ever watch it again, despite how marvelously done it was. I wept.

A friend and I just watched The Wolf of Wall Street. It's been years since I laughed that much at a movie

[JuZ]

The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Overtook GOTG as my favourite film of the year so far.

[EphelDuath666]

The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Overtook GOTG as my favourite film of the year so far.

ain't that a really, really, really awesome movie? One of my favorites of the year too.

watched a lot of German movies recently. Must be my patriotic week or something. Nah, kinda doubt that though.