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  • It's the forthcoming films and TV thread...innit.

It’s been restored recently in 2K, will probably be that version.

Along_the_Wire

Watched it recently, it’s more horrifying than I ever remember. If it does come to all out nuclear war, I’ll be heading out to try and catch one of the missiles on my head.

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    The Substance
    The day of the Jackal (Sky Atlantic)
    Silo S2 (Apple)
    Gladiator II (it will probably be a let down)
    The Lord Of the Rings: the war of Rohhirrim
    Nosferatu
    Severance S2

      deadhead The day of the Jackal (Sky Atlantic)

      Looking forward to this…. Saw the film as a kid and thought it was excellent.

          RichM I really hope they don’t ruin Severance but Apple have a decen track record of not overcooking things so we shall see

              Ban request for Deadhead - The Substance is already widely available.

              Derm’s favourite comedians are Freddie Flintoff and Chubby Brown?

              Talk about wonders never cease!

              5 days later

              This looks good. Older and grizzled Jude Law seems like a good modern day Gene Hackman-replacement.

              12 days later

              Forthcoming physical media. I preordered The Usual Suspects, The Gift and The Cell. That’s 105 € gone lol.

                Homegrove why do you spend that much money, is streaming of these films not good enough?

                    RichM if you have a good set up with good sound there’s a big difference. At best streaming services push about 20 mbps, and that’s with Apple TV, 4K Blu rays go up to 80 mbps so there’s quite a difference when it comes to compression.

                    I also just like collecting them movies. But with the sound especially there is a big difference with lossy sound on streaming and HD on disc in my 7 speaker surround set up.

                        Most people who stream stuff do it with the TV sound, or with a lap top so obviously physical media is redundant for that. It’s just sickos like me who still like it. And have space for it, in our case a dedicated home theatre room.

                        Mubi is putting The Substance on their streaming service for October 31st (I think I read somewhere it’s for Halloween only) if you want to watch a movie that goes well with plenty of snacks.

                        5 days later

                        Apparently a remake of Cliffhanger is on its way, with Lily James. I mean, fuck off.

                        Another remake of a classic on its way. From the director of the excellent Fried Barry
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                        • mjh replied to this.

                          mjh it is!…couldn’t believe it when it popped up in my local Ritzy videos after reading about it in Fangoria.

                            a month later

                            Nosferatu reviews are out, and a few odd ones out they’re all raving about it. Did not think about it before, but this is probably the only period accurate Dracula-film (even if it’s not REALLY a Dracula-film) set in the 1800s because of course Eggers will make sure it’s period accurate. They’re also saying it’s a true horror-film too.

                            I can’t wait. January 3rd in Finland because the cowards didn’t release it for Christmas like most of the world will do.

                            13 days later

                            An actual Iraq war vet Joe Mendoza co-wrote and directed this with Alex Garland. Looks awesome, I love Black Hawk Down and Hurt Locker.

                              The Hurt Locker is a great film.