What is The Last Movie You Watched?

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Annihilation (Alex Gardland, 2018 )

At a time when our cells are being attacked by a novel Coronavirus, Annihilation might not be the most aappealing film to see, but it is quite clever, is visually outstanding, and has as its basic idea that if aliens come to Earth, they might want to become Humans in order to survive- or Tulips, or Bears. There are the usual plot holes, a lack of safety gear among explorers being one of them. Not sure if all the team need to be women, and the concluding shots are a bit predictable even if the preceding scene with Lena suggests otherwise -and the exchange with her husband. I recommend it, though it falls short in the end, Let's say 7/10?

I had a Netflix binge courtesy of a friend who has an account. We watched-

Bird Box (Susanne Bier, 2018 )
The Silence (John R. Leonetti, 2019)
Tau (Federico d’Alessandro, 2919)
Changeling (Clint Eastwood, 2008 ).

In the first two, a global catastrophe means that, to survive, people must either shield their eyes, or remain completely silent. It may not be Covid-19 and is more catastrophic, but the strategies of survival make for interesting films, with Sandra Bullock in Bird Box the best of the bunch.

Tau is the by now standard garbage about a lone trillionaire computing genius who uses his powers to refashion humanity into a supercomputer, before being felled, by a human, on this occasion, with tits.

Changeling is the true story of a serial killer in California in the 1920s, and is the kind of well crafted story Eastwood has been directing for decades- but removes the fact that in real life the boys were sexually molested, and that the killer’s mother was involved.

Premature Burial with Ray Milland directed by Roger Corman

Under The Skin w/Scarlett Johansson

I think I'm gonna need therapy after watching that.

Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi, 2019)

I hated this film. It is superficial, and its attempt at satire failed to make me laugh at any time, or even smirk. It is not the worst film I have seen, and it has a 7.5 score on imdb so some people must like it.

The Invisible Man (Leigh Whannell, 2020)
In the original novel by HG Wells, Griffin is a science graduate whose experiments enable him to become invisible, but not to revert to being a normal human. It is later noted he was born Albino, the implication being that Griffin resented being ignored by society because of his looks, so believed being invisible was the logical solution, but it acts as a curse, and he becomes anti-social even murderous.
In this version, we have, yet again, a millionaire or billionaire techno geek who lives in a remote super-tech house, and has problems with women, mostly a need to exert total control over them. Whereas in Wells Griffin terrorises villages in Sussex, in this film it is his girlfriend who is subjected to a sequence of nasty acts, though in this film there are two plot twists which depart from Wells which I won't give away as spoilers. Elizabeth Moss has become the go-to actor for the oppressed woman fighting back, but I don't find her sympathetic and hope I never see her in a film again. I can't say I liked the film but some people might.

Edge of Extinction (Andrew Gilbert, 2020)

Edge of credibility would be the more appropriate title. In spite of surviving a nuclear winter following a nuclear war, the water in the English countryside is still drinkable, the people desperate, the acting most of the time even more so. There are birds -pigeons- to be caught and eaten whereas for others, human flesh has become standard fare. One survivor has managed to find a storehouse of canned food that even when discovered by others is not ransacked. The drama pivots on a faded and jaded trope -the woman in distress who claims to be alone but has enough baggage to end civilization before it has barely (re-)started, though thankfully her name is not Eve. I can't recall how much I paid for the DVD, but it is probably not worth more than £1.

A Fantasic Woman (Sebastián Lelio, 2017)

This is a sensitive and beautifully crafted film about a transgendered woman in Santiago and what happens when her partner dies. Some peope might see standard stereotypes in the film, the bigotry of some, the sympathy of others, the prurient scene in which the main character is obliged to undress, for 'legal' and 'medical' reasons, but the film works because it appears to be authentic, and because of the acting skills of those involved. I actually saw this on tv in London at the apartment of a friend who had SRS a few years ago, and she refused to watch it, make of that what you will. But one of the best of its kind -compare it to the hysterical nonsense of The Crying Game- and you will see how such subjects can be done in the servicee of cinema, not to debase it.

Damn, Stavros.... I really enjoyed your reviews.... I was going to say I saw the re-make of Rebecca. It's horribly miscast. Armie Hammer is as stiff and dull as I would expect.... no way he could carry the film like Sir Laurence Olivier did almost 80 years ago with the masterful direction of Sir Alfred Hitchcock and also the so call antagonist of Ms. Danvers portrayed by Kristen Scott Thomas is just another bad decision in terms of casting. However the costume and set design are pretty good. The cinematography is not bad. But, this remake can't hold a candle to the original film version.

Thanks for the compliment. Not enough people review the films they have seen, but that is their chioice.
I haven't seen the new version of Rebecca, and I am not in a rush to either given the poor reviews in the press which match yours. I must also say I was stunned when you said the Hitchcock was 80 years old and had to check to see you are right. This link is to a brief but interesting introduction to the book, with some clips from both film versions. Joan Fontaine is one of Hollywood's most under-rated actors, with the ability to express so much from a facial gesture, and she had an angelic beauty, though I think her performance in Max Ophuls' Letter from an Unknown Woman is her best, being one of my favourite films, though I recommended it to someone who loathed it.