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Warfare (2025) 7/10:

Saw this at the Electric this evening. Alex Garlands ‘writes’ and directs with the help of ex-vet Ray Mendoza a real life event in Ramadi from the Iraq war circa 2006. Feels a lot like a slightly lower budget version of Black Hawk Down, but the building of tension is good and the fighting to me at least seems realistic. I think Garland wrote this movie as an honorarium to those who fought in this battle and as such it lacks any plot or significant character development, but maybe this in itself is the message. It’s gritty and bleak and good on a big screen.

    Wasily can’t wait to see that. It opens here May 9th.

        Homegrove might give you flashbacks to your national service, Hanners. Stay safe.

          K-Pax
          A bit schmaltzy and very much of it’s time (2000) with the soundtrack and the way it’s shot. Kevin Spacey puts in a typical arty performance. Decent long haul fodder imo. 6.5/10

          Nosferatu. Odd. First Robert Eggers film I’ve seen, and I can see why he’s divisive. Very much a slow burn of a movie, quite liked the dark, gothic styling. Decent cast. 6/10.

          Sinners is definitely a cool movie, the same kinda cool when you watch a good Guy Ritchie gangster movie. It’s just all over the place and it’s trying to do and say way too many things. And I’m sorry, but the whole “centerpiece” musical scene midway, that everyone seems to be raving about was corny. The river dance vampires also felt like a force fit and random. Having said that, it’s entertaining and all the characters are a ton of fun. The main problem is the plot becomes a shit show in the second half after a brilliant set up. Music was good, but if we’re comparing, A Complete Unknown was much better in that department.

          7.2 / 10

            rhouses my wife had similar feelings about transported through time-music number, but it’s the main reason I’m thinking about going to see it again in cinema. Though I doubt I’ll have time, got tickets to see The Amateur, Black Bag, The Thing (1982), Accountant 2 and Thunderbolts* all in the next 10 days. 😂

                Homegrove niiiice. Couldn’t bring myself to spend on the amateur, but was tempted.

                How come warfare is releasing so late in Finland? Best of the year for me so far.

                    rhouses it’s pretty common these days that we get smaller studio-films later from US and UK.

                      Along_the_Wire Annihilation and Civil War were my favorites from the years they came out. Us Garland-heads are few, but proud.

                      Still not seen Men, even though I own it.

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                            Homegrove Ex-machina > Warfare > Men > Civil War > Annihilation (IMO). For someone who made their career as a writer I’m surprised at how poor some of the storyline and character development is in some of his directorial movies.

                              Warfare is insanely good, the people complaining about it being army propaganda and offended by the footage of the crew at the end, are the reason why Donald Trump is in office.

                              Ex Machina probably sits on top. Have no issues with Civil War, tense and it felt weirdly like a very real future. Struggled with Men, thought it was pretty shit but still found it very creepy. Couldnt get passed 30 mins of Annihilation, but maybe ill give it another go.

                              Homegrove Annihilation

                              I got about half way through it before I put a brick through my Sammy

                                The Amateur (2025). Solid ⅗ mid budget action movie, that usually go straight to streaming these days. That said you can easily wait for this to hit Disney+ in about three months, I just went to cinema because matinee tickets were 12 €, and I had the time. Half a star added because Finland played an important plot point in this.

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                                    The Monkey (2025) 4/10.

                                    I took my eye off the ball to crate dig in the middle of this for about 2 minutes and when I came I was lost at sea.

                                    Two non-monozygotic (non-identical) twins inherit a drumming monkey toy from their absent father. When the monkey drums, bad shit happens. Somehow the 2 very different looking brothers grow into two Theo James’ in the present day and one tries to stop the other from deploying the aforementioned primate. Like a lot of Stephen King there’s the usual reflection on childhood as formative in subsequent character development but sadly like a lot of his adaptations the screenplay lacks the narrative of the book. Some inventive kills but over-use of CGI means they’re all unimpactful. Avoid unless you have nothing else to do.