Last Seen Movie

[AmandaRose]

I'm watching all three Underbelly Files movie's they are spin offs of the TV show Underbelly that told the true story of the the Melbourne gang wars that took place between the 1970s to the late 1999s between the Carlton Crew and the Carl Williams Gang.

Tell Them Lucifer was Here is about the 1998 murders of Victorian police officers Gary Silk and Rod Miller and the subsequent manhunt for their killers.

Infiltration is about the story of Australian police detective Colin McLaren's infiltration of the Calabrian Mafia in Griffith, New South Wales which saw dozens of underworld figures imprisoned

The Man Who Got Away tells the story of David McMillian, a drug smuggler and the only Western man to ever escape from Bangkok's Klong Prem Central Prison

 

[Taleweaver]

Just watched 'Brexit: the uncivil war' yesterday. Pretty interesting docutainment starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

 

[campbell0505]

I can't remember what movie I last watched, but today I watched a documentary on YouTube about the Unabomber, really interesting, especially the way they found out who the unabomber was.

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I'm watching all three Underbelly Files movie's they are spin offs of the TV show Underbelly that told the true story of the the Melbourne gang wars that took place between the 1970s to the late 1999s between the Carlton Crew and the Carl Williams Gang.

Tell Them Lucifer was Here is about the 1998 murders of Victorian police officers Gary Silk and Rod Miller and the subsequent manhunt for their killers.

Infiltration is about the story of Australian police detective Colin McLaren's infiltration of the Calabrian Mafia in Griffith, New South Wales which saw dozens of underworld figures imprisoned

The Man Who Got Away tells the story of David McMillian, a drug smuggler and the only Western man to ever escape from Bangkok's Klong Prem Central Prison

Is it any good? I know about Carl Williams, as I live in Melbourne, I've watched videos about his stuff on YouTube, but haven't seen this.

 

[Deleted User]

Detective Pikachu - was somewhat promising at the beginning but the ending was trash. What is it with Pokemon movies and unsatisfying endings? Felt very unfinished to me.

 

[AmandaRose]

Is it any good? I know about Carl Williams, as I live in Melbourne, I've watched videos about his stuff on YouTube, but haven't seen this.

The Underbelly tv series is awesome. Carl Williams was a bloody psycho as was Chopper and the Moran Family lol.


The TV series should be watched in this order and they are all available on YouTube.

1. Underbelly A Tale of Two Cities
2. Underbelly The Golden Mile
3. Underbelly Season 1 (it didn't have a sub name lol)
4. Underbelly Informer 3838
5. Underbelly Fat Tony & Co
6. Underbelly Chopper
7. Underbelly Badness
8. Underbelly Squizzy
9. Underbelly Razor


There is also a Hollywood film about Chopper that has some of the same actors from the TV series playing totally different roles than they did on the tv show which was pretty weird to be honest. I wasn't a huge fan of the Chopper film

 

[FAST6191]

Hmm might have to go back to Underbelly then. I saw the first series (that judge ordering it be banned saw me participate in a nice bit of Streisand effect) and actually got on well. I had not long seen the wire and pretty much every other police/crime show had lost out because of that. That however managed to stay watchable (assuming you could ignore the near fatal lack of extras, and apologies for even mentioning it here). After that it went back to earlier stuff and I was less interested so did not bother, and missed that the underbelly universe is now that extensive.
If you are after more Australian crime shows I did not mind Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms, and it is only 6 episodes anyway.

Film
Driveways 2019
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9318280/

Slice of life film and something of a send off of Brian Dennehy (long serving actor and definitely one of the "oh that guy" types).
I have a troubled relationship with slice of life films (though not as much as slice of life anime, those I generally dislike) and this was well made, acted and whatever else but it did nothing with it really. Some might say that is the point but others do however manage to do something with it and genuinely be worth experiencing.

 

[AmandaRose]

, and missed that the underbelly universe is now that extensive.

Its even more extensive than my list above as I somehow managed to miss out a whole season of it called Land of the Long Green Cloud. Here is the updated list of the order they should be viewed in lol.

1. Underbelly Land of the Long Green Cloud
2. Underbelly A Tale of Two Cities
3. Underbelly The Golden Mile
4. Underbelly Season 1 (it didn't have a sub name lol)
5. Underbelly Informer 3838
6. Underbelly Fat Tony & Co
7. Underbelly Chopper
8. Underbelly Badness
9. Underbelly Squizzy
10. Underbelly Razor

Also thanks for the TV show recommendations @FAST6191 I will defo check them out.

 

[duwen]

Night Shift (1982)

Ron Howards second theatrical directorial offering. Stars Henry "The Fonz" Winkler and Michael "Beetlejuice" Keaton as the titular night shift employees at NYC's morgue and their escapades becoming pimps to a bevvy of hookers headed up by Shelley "Cheers" Long. It's not bad, but it definitely sounds better than it is and it's certainly not in the same league as Howards follow up (with the same writers), Splash (1984).
That said, it's always nice to see the Times Square region of NY at it's most squallid, before it's Disneyfication.

 

[Alexander1970]

The Relic (1997)

Horror Movie about an South American Lizard-like Monster who is on a murderous Raid in a Museum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Relic_(film)

 

[Aldoria]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsommar_(film)

Beautiful "horror" movie, good luck watching it

 

[duwen]

Joshû 701-gô: Sasori (aka,Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion) (1972)

First in the "Female Prisoner Scorpion" series. A gem of the "pinky violence" genre, and an exploitation classic.
This movie starts with an unsuccesful escape from a really grim womens prison, and intersperses flashbacks of what led to Meiko Kaji's Scorpion character to be incarcerated in the first place with the awful degredation you expect from a film in this genre with the slow-burn revenge sizzling in the background.
Great stuff! They don't make them like this anymore... and unfortunately probably never will again!

 

[plasturion]

 

[AmandaRose]

Just watched this film about the greatest singer/song writer of all time.

 

[Sora de Eclaune]

The last movie I watched was... This! I really enjoyed it, even if it wasn't 100% accurate and skipped over quite a few details that were probably important enough to have included in the film.

 

[airrich]

Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers

 

[FAST6191]

Took a break from TV shows (the medical shows... I have a genuine problem here) for long enough to watch another film.

The Witch (stylised as The VVitch in some places) from 2015
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4263482/

Short version. The sort of horror/scenario I don't see very often any more. Ending might leave a bit to be desired but the rest of it more than makes up for it.
Basic setup. Way way way early in the days of colonisation (decades before Salem for instance) some essentially fresh off the boat family (as in the kids still remember England) get kicked out of a New England puritan village for seemingly being too religious.
They go setup a farm a ways away (hard thing to do today, never mind back then) and then the film kicks off. So yeah family drama meets basically small family cult philosophy meets madness meets supply issues meets technically some supernatural but done in anything but your typical way.
I loved it. Wonderfully built sets, cinematography is not crazy martial arts but done super well, scoring, acting.... I don't know who I am going to be recommending it to exactly though. It is not a slash em up/will they survive horror, not science gone wrong, not proper fun religious/cult stuff, not really supernatural, somewhat psychological but also I have seen far more . I love all those sorts of films but I can also see those that have say one of those as their thing not be into it.
My main wish right now is I could see the reaction of one of the ever fun modern "I'm a New Englander" uber religious true believer types to this. I also don't know if the result of that would be apoplexy (and if it is then it would be) or genuine terror. Such a thing is also probably how I would make a recommendation, or that and if you fancy yourself a cinephile.

I have not watched the trailer yet and some say it is a rather misleading one so with that I would implore you to go in cold.

 

[AmandaRose]

If there is one thing you do today please watch this film on Netflix or YouTube where Netflix has made it available for free.

 

[duwen]

Took a break from TV shows (the medical shows... I have a genuine problem here) for long enough to watch another film.

The Witch (stylised as The VVitch in some places) from 2015
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4263482/

Short version. The sort of horror/scenario I don't see very often any more. Ending might leave a bit to be desired but the rest of it more than makes up for it.

Yeah, I loved The Witch, but also felt the ending to be so much lesser than it deserved. I definitely recommend Robert Eggers follow up film, last years The Lighthouse - almost certainly my favourite film of the year (narrowly pipping Tarantino's Once Upon A Time in Hollywood to pole position).

 

[Alexander1970]

Inspiried by @FAST6191

Superstition (1982)
Cinema/Uncut Release "The Witch"



Canadian Slasher movie,that really puts you in a good mood....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition_(1982_film)

 

[FamicomHeero]

Justice League

The disjointed and underwhelming baby of Thor: Dark World and Spiderman 3.