Sam Inglis

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New Band Maid. Thoughts 1: I THINK this is the first song Miku has recorded the rhythm guitar track for, and there are some great moments for her 2: I LOVE the bridge with Miku's cute vocal break 3: Kanami's riff drives the track well, solo isn't her best, but it's good. 4: Saiki looks BREATHTAKING

I wanted Chuck Russell's last film to either be MUCH smarter, or even dumber and MUCH shorter.

I'm not a big Spielberg guy, especially late Spielberg. But fuckin' yikes.

Just because, some Glim Spanky for you. This one translates as 'Beautiful Thorns'.

They don't make 'em like this anymore, and I don't think they could if they tried.

This. I'm perfectly comfortable taking anyone who uses Gen AI off the artistic roll call forever, because I have so much real art I'm yet to see.

I do have quite a lot of horror films on 4K where I've seen the film, but not put the 4K disc in yet, so that's going to be my run up to Halloween - some cool 4K revisits that I've not done before.

Silence of the Lambs is as great as ever, and the 4K looks very good, I will say it's not the revelation some shot on film titles are though. The detail is very crisp and deep, but there's not MUCH it has over the BR to my memory.

The Maria Bamford doc on Netflix couldn't be more basic in form, but it has benefit of being about someone who is both extremely engaging and absolutely fucking hilarious. If you know her comedy there's nothing new, but hopefully it gets more people to check out her work.

NEK! continue their 100% record of great tunes, and of nonsense lyrics.

I randomly found this on a Swedish DVD in one of my local charity shops. A nice surprise, and worth seeking out if you've only seen Bill Skarsgard in his horror roles.

Having recently finished Dragon Age the Veilguard and Mass Effect, I'm very disappointed to hear the Bioware news. I've been wanting to play more of their games.

As regular internet users, is there anything we should be doing about this php issue?

Can't believe that, in my continuing exploration of J Rock, I haven't done a deep dive on Shiina Ringo yet. Definitely need to fix that. Can anyone suggest a starting point?

I've said it before, but there really is not a single bad picture of Meiko Kaji. So great to see her being celebrated like this, she's such a rare screen actor; able to hold your attention from anywhere in frame just with a gaze. You can't teach that.

I've been starting an abandoning quite a few horror movies lately. I'll do some, including a first watch of Sinners, on Halloween itself, but just haven't been feeling it as a marathon (the new to me stuff this year hasn't been much cop on the whole), so I'm just going to do random viewing instead

It's already October 21st in Japan, so Happy 35th Birthday to Band Maid's founder, rhythm guitarist, co-vocalist and spokespigeon, Miku Kobato. Here's an acoustic version of Brightest Star

Correcting this, because Door has a sequel (oops) 7: Tourist Trap 6: Malignant 5: Tenebrae 4: The Final Girls 3: Edge of Sanity 2: Blood and Black Lace 1: Peeping Tom

Frank Sinatra film The Detective is based on a novel with the same lead character as Die Hard. An actor named Lloyd Bochner plays a major supporting role in The Detective. His son, Hart Bochner, is Ellis in Die Hard.

Toranoko Rammy have been away for a while, but it seems like they did thier first live show in a while recently and dropped this new track.

New video from Hitsujibungaku

What am I buying? The best screening room I can. What am I doing? Starting a Blu Ray label

It genuinely makes me emotional to see so many more people get to see this masterpiece as it should be seen. I saw this cut twice on film at BFI, the second time with a Q and A with most the surviving main cast. There's NOTHING like it.

I try not to be hyperbolic without reason, so believe me if you've not seen it when I say this is one of the greatest films ever made, and you owe it to yourself to experience the full force of it on screen. I've seen this cut twice before. It's the definitive version of a true masterpiece.

This is brilliant news. The PCC is an institution, a true place for cinephiles, and has some of the best programming in rep cinema. Long may it reign.

It's the 15th in Japan, so Happy 33rd Birthday to Band Maid's incredible bassist, MISA. Here's a stunning version of Don't You Tell ME with an extended solo conversation between MISA and Kanami.

My 9000th film logged on Letterboxd

I have lots of films that I've not watched in my collection, but also lots I love, but haven't seen for ages, in pursuit of the next new thing. I think, after Halloween, I will do more revisits, rewatch faves and rework my Top 200 Films list. If only because I need to find the passion for it again.

Well, I'm no longer a JJL completist.

I'll post this every time it pops up, because there's no UK physical release, and I don't think it's on other UK streamers. Titane is back on Channel 4's website. Well worth seeing if you haven't before

I know a lot of people were weirded out that the MCU's Aunt May was hot, but it's definitely weirder that Pamela Voorhees is gorgeous. [I met Linda Cardellini once, as beautiful as she is in pictures, you have no idea how good looking she is in person]

Considering that they just did the Channel 4 ADHD thing, I'll just wait for the God Awful Movies episode.

The only original song on the Band Maiko EP (the rest are reinterpreted versions of existing Band Maid songs). I'd love to see them do this again, but Gion Cho is still one of their greats.

This might be a smaller platform, but that works for me. I'm a very small fish here, but the only reason I ever wish for more reach is so that I could give more exposure to the JRock bands I talk about. (Look up Atozome on Youtube).

So, they're releasing four films, telling parts of the same story, across four weeks in the same month. How is this not just TV in public?

Short version of Band Maid's new song, Spin, for the anime Beyblade X. Full version is out on the 28th.