TV/Movies Megathread

[HVC]

Too many kids   

[The Larch]

Too many kids   

Just so you know, there's supposed to be a fourth brother on the Alicent side that hasn't appeared in the show but exists in the books. I believe they've handwaved him in the show claiming that he's being fostered in Oldtown.

[The Brain]

Loft (2010). Not to be confused with Loft (2008) or The Loft (2014). Five bros share access to a love nest for meeting their mistresses, but when a dead body shows up who can they trust? It's reasonably OK. The chicks are hot.

[Syt]

a love nest

Is it in: a loft?

[The Brain]

a love nest

Is it in: a loft?

Yes.

[The Larch]

Guillermo del Toro has created an anthology terror show for Netflix called Cabinet of Curiosities that apparently has received great reviews. The episodes are all adaptations of short stories from different authors (including two Lovecraft ones), as well as some original Del Toro stories. Anyone here watched it already? I believe the first few episodes are already out.

[celedhring]

I'm still behind on HoD, so much work lately--- 

I have a giant streaming backlog.

[The Larch]

I'm still behind on HoD, so much work lately--- 

I have a giant streaming backlog.

Pass it off as research for future projects. 

[grumbler]

I'm still behind on HoD, so much work lately--- 

I have a giant streaming backlog.

A giant steaming log?  Bad news for your plumbing.

[Jacob]

Too many kids   

Just watch the show after you put them to bed.

[The Brain]

Akelarre. A group of young women are accused of witchcraft by the Inquisition. What weapons do you have when they have all the power, and what would count as victory? Pretty good, I liked it.

[The Brain]

Barbarian. Woman arriving at Airbnb finds that Pennywise is already staying there. Totally OK, brings some new oxygen to the genre.

[Savonarola]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Susan Sarandon's finest role.  (Actually I'm a little surprised the studio kept her after she refused to do a nude scene.  She was obviously not hired for her acting ability or singing.)

So long as Tim Curry is on screen it's not bad; when he's not it's not good.  The studio had originally wanted to do a bigger budget version of this with a rock star (possibly Mick Jagger) as the lead.  Fortunately (at least as far as anything concerning RHPS can called fortunate) they did relent to Richard O'Brien's demand to keep most of the original cast.

[The Brain]

Hellhole. Priest arrives at isolated monastery to observe an exorcism. Slow and often dark (as in you don't see a lot), but certainly not the worst in the genre. At least you get to see the big bad happen.

[Savonarola]

Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

This is the second, and final, time Bela Lugosi would portray Dracula (admittedly almost all his other roles were Dracula by another name.)

The convention of Frankenstein being evil because he has a criminal brain comes from the 1931 movie In all the Universal sequels, other than Bride of Frankenstein, there's an attempt to give him a good brain, but that goes hilariously awry.  This one continues that as Dracula tries to give the monster the simple, pliable brain of Lou Costello.  This also continues the Monster-Rama movies of the 40s by having Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolfman and even a cameo by Vincent Price as the invisible man.  It's too bad they couldn't have gotten Claude Rains for the Invisible Man and Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster (rather than Glen Strange); still this is a great deal of fun and the best Universal Horror movie of the 40s.