The Castle (1997)

Curiouser and curiouser!

The Abyss is now on Disney+ UK in 4K.

Park Road Post Production thanked in the credits for the 4k remaster.

Even curiouser it's the theatrical version not the Special Edition.

Curiouser still it includes the infamous rat scene banned in the UK.

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Utterly, remarkable. Echoes of Malick, Le Jette, Peep Show and countless other influences beyond me.

Over a hundred years of cinema and this feels brand new.

An indescribable work of art.

RaMell Ross is a giant whose shoulders others will stand on.

Watch it. And then watch it again.

This sent me down a rabbit hole! I vividly remember seeing the scene as a kid but definitely no blood. Turns out it was edited out of the television version. Apparently the animated blood was added because the filmmakers couldn't get the practical effect to work.

Exactly. This reminds me Roger Ebert's oft-quoted "... movies are like a machine that generates". His entire speech really nails it.

It may be the least Lynchian but I bloody love The Straight Story.

RIP

"There's a storm coming in".

AI is a climate destroying plagiarism machine that's going to decimate the creative industry.

Dragon sickness.

"...he did not reckon with the power that gold has upon which a dragon has long brooded..."

The Hobbit

I don't disagree, a wonderful performance.

Have you seen the Simon Callow one man rendition of A Christmas Carol?

It's simply magical.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0001kwg

I bloody love this film. A new Christmas classic and the soundtrack is something else!

About time we had another Carry On film.

Amazon has it for release 30 December 2099.

I can't wait for that long!