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Sarky polyglot (🇫🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇸🇪 🇩🇪 🇪🇪 🇷🇺 🇪🇸) cinephile baking enthusiast with a vivid imagination and a sweet tooth. 🇫🇮
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🚂👫 ...and while I don't personally find it as brilliant and awesome as many critics and people do, I still totally get its charm and why it appeals so much to so many. After all you have to be a pretty cold-hearted bastard not to be moved by #BriefEncounter. 📽️🎞️
Black and white frame from the British romantic tragedy 'Brief Encounter' (1945). A man (Trevor Howard as Dr. Alec Harvey) and a woman (Celia Johnson as Laura Jesson) in a rowing boat on a park pond with swimming birds on both sides of the boat. Black and white frame from the British romantic tragedy 'Brief Encounter' (1945). View of a railway station's darkly lit underpass. A woman and a man are embracing each other at the far end of the underpass. The shadow of an approaching couple visible on the wall at the end of the underpass. Black and white frame from the British romantic tragedy 'Brief Encounter' (1945). Close-up of a faintly smiling woman (Celia Johnson as Laura Jesson) sitting in a train compartment looking out of the window. Her face reflecting from the window. Black and white frame from the British romantic tragedy 'Brief Encounter' (1945). View from inside through the window on a garage door of a man (Trevor Howard as Dr. Alec Harvey) wearing a suit, a coat and a brimmed hat (on the left) facing a woman (Celia Johnson as Laura Jesson) outside the garage door at night.
November 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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🔫🚘 And even though #Cohen&Tate / #CohenAndTate is admittedly darker, more violent & action oriented I still think #TheHit would make a lovely companion piece to it if anyone's looking for double feature ideas. Even if it didn't really tickle my fancy much despite starring a trio of fine actors. 📽️🎞️
Poster for the British road movie/crime film 'The Hit' (1984). Directed by Stephen Frears. Starring John Hurt, Terence Stamp, Tim Roth, Laura del Sol and Bill Hunter. On the poster an illustration of a dark haired Latin woman wearing a lowcut blue dress on the left and a dark haired older man dressed in white holding a pistol in his right hand standing in the background on the right. Silhoutte of a mountain range in the distance. Frame from the British road movie/crime film 'The Hit' (1984). Close-up of a fair haired middle-aged man (Terence Stamp as Willie Parker) wearing a white shirt sitting in the backseat of a car being threatened with a revolver pointed at his face. The left side of a brown haired man's face (John Hurt as Mitchell Braddock) visible on the right edge of the frame. He's holding a black and white photo of the man sitting next to him. Frame from the British road movie/crime film 'The Hit' (1984). View from above. White Mercedes-Benz 220 S parked next to a petrol pump on the left edge of the frame. On the dirt covered ground on the right a man dressed in white is walking towards a woman wearing a white shirt and black trousers leaning on her side on the ground.
November 16, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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But unless you are scared of/disgusted by creepy crawlies it must be said that neither #Squirm 🪱 nor #KingdomOfTheSpiders 🕸️🕷️ is particularly scary or thrilling. Actually both are surprisingly dull for most of their running time if I'm being completely honest. 📽️🎞️
Frame from nature horror/animal attack exploitation film 'Squirm' (1976). Close-up of a wall mounted shower head with three earthworms coming out from it's openings. Frame from nature horror/animal attack exploitation film 'Squirm' (1976). Spectacled brown haired young man (Don Scardino as Mick) wearing a red shirt with white dots and khaki trousers (on the left) and a shocked brown haired young woman (Patricia Pearcy as Geri Sanders) wearing a white sleeveless floral whirt and jeans (on the right) standing outside next to each other and holding each other's arms. Frame from the nature horror/animal attack exploitation film 'Kingdom of the Spiders' (1977). View from inside an overturned truck through its side window. Two men looking down into the truck, older man (David McLean as Gene Smith) wearing a white cowboy hat and a sheriff's uniform on the left and a shocked younger man (William Shatner as Dr. Rack Hansen) wearing a dark brown cowboy hat, a dark green bodywarmer/gilet and a blueish shirt on the right. Frame from the nature horror/animal attack exploitation film 'Kingdom of the Spiders' (1977). On the foreground a tarantula on a log. In the background a police car parked outside a one-storey farmhouse with a uniformed police officer consoling a woman standing on the front porch.
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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🕸️🕷️ First off, #KingdomOfTheSpiders is no Arachnophobia! But it's definitely more akin to proper animal attack exploitation. Although you have to wait for the shit to properly hit the fan before we reach genuine camp territory! 🫣 Still poorer than Squirm, unless you prefer bad movies. 📽️🎞️
Poster for the nature horror/animal attack exploitation film 'Kingdom of the Spiders' (1977). Directed by John "Bud" Cardos. Starring William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, Woody Strode, Altovise Davis, Natasha Ryan, Marcy Lafferty, Lieux Dressler, David McLean and Roy Engel. On the poster an illustration of a tarantula on the foreground with a bunch of panicked people and tarantulas, and a dead body lying on the ground in the background. The tagline "A living, crawling, hell on earth!" in large black letters on top of the illustration with the film's title in large red letters below. Frame from the nature horror/animal attack exploitation film 'Kingdom of the Spiders' (1977). Brown haired man (William Shatner as Dr. Rack Hansen) wearing a dark brown cowboy hat and a blue shirt (on the left) and a fair haired woman (Tiffany Bolling as Dr. Diane Ashley) wearing a light green jacket and trousers (on the right) kneeling next to a mound with loads of tarantulas on it. They're both looking at the spider she's holding in her left hand. She's got sunglasses on top of her head and a camera hanging from her neck. Frame from the nature horror/animal attack exploitation film 'Kingdom of the Spiders' (1977). Dead body of a woman dressed in a blue dress lying face down on the ground outside a maroon wooden house. There's loads of tarantulas on the grass on the ground and on top of the body.
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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⚡ Also feels like this adaptation underlines a bit too heavily who's the true monster of the story. Certainly has the most humane "Frankenstein monster" of all the different incarnations that I can think of. 🤔 And, surely the film should've been titled 'Victor'...? 😏 #Frankenstein 📽️🎞️
Frame from the gothic horror film 'Frankenstein' (2025). Man (Oscar Isaac as Baron Victor Frankenstein) wearing a black brimmed hat and a black coat is standing at a large partly broken round window of a huge stone building. Frame from the gothic horror film 'Frankenstein' (2025). Black haired man (Oscar Isaac as Baron Victor Frankenstein) wearing a white shirt is sitting in a darkly lit laboratory with stone walls. He's looking at the stitched up corpse lying on the table on the foreground. Frame from the gothic horror film 'Frankenstein' (2025). Reanimated stitched up corpse (Jacob Elordi as The Creature) standing inside a mill is peeking through the partly opened wooden doors. Frame from the gothic horror film 'Frankenstein' (2025). Close-up of a brown haired reanimated stitched up corpse (Jacob Elordi as The Creature) holding a glass plate showing a dead person's face in front of his own face. Snow covered ruins of a building in the background.
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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⚡ Surprisingly faithful adaptation. Not JUST in relation to Shelley's novel but also to previous adaptations. So there's not a whole lot of surprises left for the viewer IF you're familiar with earlier versions of the story. #Frankenstein 📽️🎞️
Frame from the gothic horror film 'Frankenstein' (2025). View of the Arctic ice. A creature standing next to a hole in the ice on the right. A sailing vessel stuck on ice in the distance on the left. Frame from the gothic horror film 'Frankenstein' (2025). Barechested black haired man (Oscar Isaac as Baron Victor Frankenstein) looking shocked standing in front of a table in a laboratory. Frame from the gothic horror film 'Frankenstein' (2025). Reanimated stitched up corpse (Jacob Elordi as The Creature) who's chained by its wrists is kneeling next to a gutter filled with water in a darkly lit basement and looking down on the water. Frame from the gothic horror film 'Frankenstein' (2025). Black haired man (Oscar Isaac as Baron Victor Frankenstein) wearing a white shirt and waistcoat and black trousers and holding a cane in his left hand is standing in a darkly lit room in a mansion facing the camera. Reanimated stitched up corpse (Jacob Elordi as The Creature) wearing a long black coat is standing behind him in the background.
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Admittedly a lot happens (esp. compared to its modest running time) but ultimately #DOA just isn't nearly as clever as it probably hoped to be. And I'm not sure if it'd been much better even if it'd embraced the film noir aesthetics of the film's opening and finale more... 📽️🎞️
Black and white frame from the neo-noir thriller 'D.O.A.' (1988). Close-up of a man (Dennis Quaid as Prof. Dexter Cornell) with a sweaty face wearing a suit. Frame from the neo-noir thriller 'D.O.A.' (1988). Close-up of a brown haired man (Dennis Quaid as Prof. Dexter Cornell) wearing a dark suit and a maroon tie lying on his side on a bed and waking up. Frame from the neo-noir thriller 'D.O.A.' (1988). Close-up of a smiling short haired blond woman (Meg Ryan as Sydney Fuller) wearing a pink shirt. Black and white frame from the neo-noir thriller 'D.O.A.' (1988). Close-up of a man (Dennis Quaid as Prof. Dexter Cornell) standing at a broken window looking down on the ground. It's raining outside.
November 7, 2025 at 5:04 AM