Indie Film Release Guide: July 29th [An ONTD Original]

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[ahkna]

This week I watched Deep Blue Sea 3 which was not good, but also great. Absolute nonsense, of course but a lot of fun in the same way the first was fun.

Also watched The Babysitter and The Babysitter: Killer Queen, which were great. I love clever, funny horror. I watched Velvet Buzzsaw after those but it fell flat.

Misbehaviour with Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Keira Knightley about feminists protesting the 1970 Miss World beauty pageant was one I really liked. There's a scene at the end where the actors look right into the cameras and the cameras flips to show the real women the actors portrayed now, 50 years later. I liked that a lot.

Oh, also Hysteria about the invention of the first vibrator, which was mostly fiction but fun. Hugh Dancy is just really easy to watch.

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Ahh, I'd forgotten all about Misbehaviour, should check that out! Glad it was good.

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Absolutely gonna go see Resurrection... kinda obsessed with Rebecca Hall after The Night House. Might go see Vengeance, since it's at my local AMC. Still have to see Marcel but man, I know it is gonna make me cry and I hate crying in theaters!

Finally got back to watching some movies over the past week, all new to me:

Thor: Love and Thunder: Hated it. Extremely rushed, overly quippy, no emotional heart even with a plotline that should have one, dumb villain motivations - this underwhelmed me even though I went in no expectations.

The Gray Man: Not great all around. Bad script, needless locale changes, a few miscasts - but Gosling made it watchable for me. Happy to see Julia Butters again.

The Big Chill (1983): I didn't love this, but I liked it! I am a sucker for a plotless relationship exploration film in general, and this one also gets into how quickly idealism can die when money becomes a factor. It's a lot of white people sitting around talking, with 60's songs creating emotional shortcuts for the audience, so it's certainly

[flirflir]

Love Rebecca hall! Shes just so good. Can't wait to see resurrection

[darklitplanet]

ohh, thanks for the head's up that hatching is on hulu now! i've been considering going for the rental but held off because i hoped it'd hit one of my streaming services, glad it happened so quickly!

lots of horror here, and lots that looks good! nothing playing near me though, oh well, but i'll keep an eye out.

i saw nope and really enjoyed it. i have a lifelong [Spoiler (click to open)]chimp phobia and had no idea there was a chimp in this movie lmfaooooo. holy shit, that flashback scene when they show the attack from the kid's perspective - that was the most terrified i've been in a movie theatre since under the skin lmao, the only other movie i've seen that made me tear up from sheer terror. it was an incredible scene, that fistbump will haunt me. and besides that, i liked that it was a fun and simple plot that still gave you a lot to chew on analytically if you want to. i'm excited to watch it again, i think it will definitely hold up better than us did for me.

i also saw natural born killers for the first time bc i wanted more juliette lewis in my

[lechuza_yoya]

Pennywise the story of it, become available this week but I am bitter bc where I am from is not.

[firstknivesclub]

Bf and I watched the Final Destination series this week. I can't wait for the 6th one.