I watched 5 movies last week:
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- Never Let Me Go gets off to a slightly slow start, but it’s a lot fun when it settles into a (early Cold) war thriller, and the cast is very good, even if Gene Tierney arguably doesn’t get enough to do throughout.
- The Doctor and the Devils is mostly just a little boring—some good performances but probably at least one too many characters, and little to no humor.
- SCTV: The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of doesn’t feel entirely dissimilar to a dozen other comedy documentaries Netflix has put together in recent years, but it’s nonetheless incredibly joyful and rewarding. As Richard Roeper writes: “This is a no-frills film, relying on those golden-old clips, the warm, witty, and insightful memories of comic giants, and the sharp observations of modern-day talents. That’s more than enough.”
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- The Hidden Room, otherwise known as Obsession, is surprisingly bad. It’s a well shot, sometimes even tense, thriller, with some solid performances, but it’s built on such contrivances, with a plot’s so dumb but wants to convince you at every turn that it’s exceptionally clever—to the point that characters will often literally just say so.
- I’ll say this much for The Snow Demon: it’s probably as good as you can expect a movie this bad to be. Make no mistake, it’s awful, an absolute waste of an hour, as uninteresting as it was unscary, but it was semi-competently made, with an actor or two who are probably capable of better, which for this kind of no-budget affair is saying…well, not a lot, but something.
I also rewatched Lifeforce, which isn’t a very good movie, but is arguably an ambitiously weird bad movie.