This isn’t day for night — it’s colour grading for day?

Is that CGI?

Heh heh. OK, this is a comedy? I have no idea what led me to buying this movie, but I did? Apparently? Did somebody recommend it?

It’s quite amusing so far.

I really should note why I’m buying stuff, because this seems pretty random.

This is obvs a low budget movie, but it looks really good.

Except for the CGI snow which they overdo in some of the scenes.

I’m really enjoying this — they’ve got great repartee going, likeable characters and entertaining actors.

Hey! That’s Cheyenne Jackson, isn’t it?

It’s a kind of chamber piece — there’s less than a dozen actors in total, I think, and they’re trapped in a tiny village. And all the characters are real characters.

Well… it’s really slowing down now. Did they run out of money to do outdoors shots and just had to plough through 30 script pages with these people sitting in one room?

OK, that was just some down time — the movie picks up again.

This is one of the best low budget comedy/horror movies I’ve seen in years. It’s really charming — the funny bits are really funny, and there’s some scary bits that are scary. It’s just really well made. *slow clap*

However, it was just a bit flabby in the middle there. Perhaps because they didn’t even have enough money to shoot something fun? So instead we got a section in the hotel there that didn’t seem to go anywhere interesting — and a lot of “eh?”, like the fate of that science woman (who had some of the funniest scenes before that).

Perhaps it’s a ⚃ movie really, but I’m rating on a low budget scale, so:

Werewolves Within. Josh Ruben. 2021. ⚄

I’ve seen this before, and I didn’t like it much then. But that was a crappy pirated copy, so when I happened upon this blu ray release from the BFI, I bought it anyway.

And now I’m watching it. Perhaps it’s better this time.

Indeed.

So basically, the entire film happens in this hotel room? And it’s all philosophical discussions between a British journalist and an alien robot — about the Middle East conflict(s).

It sounds like it should be brilliant, right? But it’s not.

Very Vermeerish.

Peter Wollen was a film professor at UCLA, and had done a number of shorts before this movie — which is his final credit as director.

Perhaps he was a good teacher — but… er…

This movie has a lot of problems, but perhaps one of them is the stereotypical casting? In this movie, by an older male professor, the protagonist is an older male journalist, who is lecturing a young woman (OK, robot) about all kinds of things. It’s a kind of Mary Sue movie, really. Mary Wollen.

Perhaps it could have worked with different casting for the guy.

I wonder whether Wollen was thinking he was making something like Liquid Sky — that’s got an alien and strange things, too, but…

Man, this is even worse than last time I saw it. It’s just bone-crushingly uninteresting.

Friendship’s Death. Peter Wollen. 1987. ⚁

Oh, this is a cute little comedy about a high school reunion or something?

So it’s about a prissy gay dude and his old bully stuck in a car for nine hours? I guess hilarity will ensue.

It turns out that the high school bully was secretly bi?

It’s fun. It’s a very low budget movie, and it doesn’t have much of a plot, but it’s cute.

OK, now it’s just a bit boring. They totally forgot to write the movie — instead it’s just a series of random meetings that’s getting progressively more annoying.

Nice art.

This starts off as a pretty charming movie, but then it gets brutally — brutally — tedious.

The Thing About Harry. Peter Paige. 2020. ⚁