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[Moll Flanders]

Under The Shadow (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes

 

[Moll Flanders]

^ Under The Shadow was quite creepy in places. Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war was a very original setting for a horror film.

Today they have some Halloween films on Film 4. Bell, Book and Candle, Hocus Pocus, Devil's Due and Fright Night.

I'm scared just to watch new The Walking Dead after last week.

 

[shyvas]

^ Under The Shadow was quite creepy in places. Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war was a very original setting for a horror film.

Today they have some Halloween films on Film 4. Bell, Book and Candle, Hocus Pocus, Devil's Due and Fright Night.

I'm scared just to watch new The Walking Dead after last week.

You scared ? I just don't believe it !

 

[Andy_T]

^ Under The Shadow was quite creepy in places. Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war was a very original setting for a horror film.

Interesting! Have you seen "A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night"?

 

[Moll Flanders]

You scared ? I just don't believe it !

Haha, I just love scary films, not too violent, just spooky. I want to see this film. Ouija: Origin Of Evil (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes

Interesting! Have you seen "A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night"?

No, but that was the Iranian horror film I thought of when I read about Under The Shadow. I think I downloaded it and watched the beginning, but not the rest. Vampire film, I think? Have you seen it?

 

[MadamSarcastra]

Watched remake (unrated director's cut) of Dawn of the Dead again at Jerry's. Fun stuff. Dawn of the Dead (2004) - IMDb

I'm gonna make a beer & drink a pizza. Gotta download a spooky game demo in the meantime... and hope I don't spot a rodent. I sprayed peppermint oil/clove stuff around again (also good for repelling mosquitoes, spiders, & centipedes)... hope it'll hold. LOL

 

[MadamSarcastra]

Early this evening (late this afternoon), I'll be watching V for Vendetta at Jerry's... just like November 5th last year.

V for Vendetta (2005) - IMDb

 

[Moll Flanders]

Haha, I just love scary films, not too violent, just spooky. I want to see this film. Ouija: Origin Of Evil (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes

I saw this at the weekend and it's not that frightening, but a good film.

Ouija: Origin Of Evil · Film Review Ouija: Origin Of Evil is much better than it needs to be · Movie Review · The A.V. Club

 

[Calliegirl]

Colonia - great movie.

Lena and Daniel, a young couple become entangled in the Chilean military coup of 1973. Daniel is abducted by Pinochet's secret police and Lena tracks him to a sealed off area in the South of the country, called Colonia Dignidad. The Colonia presents itself as a charitable mission run by lay preacher Paul Schäfer but, in fact, is a place nobody ever escaped from. Lena decides to join the cult in order to find Daniel. Based on true events.

 

[Moll Flanders]

I just watched this film and it was really quite sad in places, for a horror film. I wish I hadn't watched it.
The Monster (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes

 

[shyvas]

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - Trivia - IMDb

I love watching this film as the duo Spencer/Hepburn certainly stole the show . He died 17 days after the film was completed. Hepburn could be seen crying in the last scene of the film and those tears were real.
It also brings back lots of memories as I saw it when it first came out on the screen. I was quite a youngster but enjoyed it immensely at the time.

 

[Moll Flanders]

I also watched Shadow of a Doubt last night as I had recorded it earlier this week. I think I was getting it confused with another film as I didn't remember that ending.

Shadow of a Doubt - Wikipedia

 

[shyvas]

I also watched Shadow of a Doubt last night as I had recorded it earlier this week. I think I was getting it confused with another film as I didn't remember that ending.

Shadow of a Doubt - Wikipedia

I also recorded that one; It is one of my favourite films. BBC are doing a Hitchock series and I also watched Vertigo and Suspicion.

 

[MadamSarcastra]

Last night I watched Good Night and Good Luck. Good Night, and Good Luck What a fantastic flick. And very appropriate. Oh, no, I have an ACLU magnet on my fridge! I must be a commie!

After that, I watched Idiocracy... also extremely fitting. Idiocracy (2006) - IMDb

While I was viewing them I was thinking... Good Night and Good Luck, we're going back there. Idiocracy, we're already there.

Been watching two flicks a night, and picking ones that mirror some of the situations & emotions of recent days. Night before last I watched L.A. Confidential (bribery, bigotry, racism, corruption) and This Is The End (Duh! Apocalypse!)
L.A. Confidential (1997) - IMDb This Is the End (2013) - IMDb

Election night, I watched The Martian again. The Martian (2015) - IMDb The emotional parallels were quite profound.... the veritable sh*t-storm that left us all feeling like we were impaled in the gut & left utterly abandoned... not to mention a couple notable times when there was hope/optimism/elation, then BOOOOM!!!!


And ending where I began, I'll close with some Edward R. Murrow quotes. A wise man once said:

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

 

[Amy SF]

If Edward R. Murrow was around today, he'd be appalled at the ascendancy of Donald Trump and the fringe right into mainstream American politics. He'd speak out against it all, and be crucified by the right. He'd receive death threats. Donald Trump would defame his character and sue him for slander. His legitimacy as a newsman would be called into question and petitions calling for his dismissal from CBS and arrest for treason and assorted fake crimes would circulate online. And so on and so forth. You get the idea. So I'm grateful Murrow lived in a different time when, while not everyone appreciated what he did, at least they were willing to respect his journalistic integrity and skills.

 

[Moll Flanders]

I've read about Leonardo DiCaprio and his new documentary Before the Flood. I think he must be vegetarian or vegan himself? The Standard UK: "Is Leonardo DiCaprio Vegan?"

This article is about frugality but it talks about the documentary and the environment and meat-eating.Frugality and how it can prevent catastrophic disruption of life on Earth - Tawcan

 

[Andy_T]

According to this article, Leonardo Di Caprio is vegetarian (according to "Revenant" production designer Jack Fisk):
Why Leonardo DiCaprio Made Himself Vomit While Shooting The Revenant - CINEMABLEND
The Standard UK:

 

[Amy SF]

According to this article, Leonardo Di Caprio is vegetarian (according to "Revenant" production designer Jack Fisk):
Why Leonardo DiCaprio Made Himself Vomit While Shooting The Revenant - CINEMABLEND
The Standard UK:

I've never actually seen this movie. I'm not sure I have the stomach for it.

 

[Andy_T]

I have seen it and agree with your doubts

 

[Moll Flanders]

I quite enjoyed the film I watched last night, it was quirky and I wasn't sure who to trust out of the main characters until the very end of the film.

They Look Like People (2015) - Rotten Tomatoes