Official last movie you saw thread

Eraser (1996) 👍🏻

Heweliusz (miniseries) 👍🏻

Woman In Cabin 10 (2025), i loved it, 10/10

The King https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7984766/
One Battle After Another https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30144839

The Great Race (1965)

American epic slapstick comedy film. It's about an epic automobile race from New York to Paris. Rewatched this yesterday and it's still fun, albeit a bit childish if you think about it. Still, can recommend.

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

American crime drama mystery Western film. It's about a one-armed stranger who arrives in a tiny desert town, but finds the residents hostile and protecting a terrible secret they want to keep hidden. Good cast (Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin and more). Overall it's decent but I'm not really a fan of Westerns so I wouldn't watch this again. If you are a Western fan I can recommend it, though.

Halloween (2018), it was good, 7/10

I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)

British romantic comedy. It's about a young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé but when the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts. First of all, this is a Powell and Pressburger movie so unsurprisingly it's great. Like so many of their movies it's a timeless work of art, albeit probably not among my top favourites by them. The competition is steep. Overall I can highly recommend this one.

The Crime of Dr. Crespi (1935)

American crime mystery horror film. It's about a doctor who invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in whoever it is injected into and uses it on his romantic rival. Erich von Stroheim (as the main character Dr. Crespi) is great in this and so is Dwight Frye (as Dr. Thomas, the guy who married Crespi's girlfriend). This movie is just about an hour long but there's not much more story to tell, so that runtime is okay. Overall I thought this was very entertaining so I can very much recommend it.

Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride (1925)

American silent spoof comedy horror film. It's about an esteemed Doctor who uses himself as a guinea pig when he experiments with a new drug that changes him into a compulsive prankster. This is a very entertaining pre-Laurel&Hardy Stan Laurel movie. The gags are a bit silly but that's the case with every spoof comedy. And just to mention it, this is obviously a spoof of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and specifically the 1920 John Barrymore version of the story. Overall I enjoyed this one so I can recommend it.

A Jitney Elopement (1915)

American comedy film. It's about a young woman who's supposed to marry a wealthy count but she already has a lover who rescues her from the arranged marriage her father had planned for her. This is fun. Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance (in one of her first movies) as the two lovers with some Chaplin regulars like Ernest Van Pelt (who plays the woman's father) and Leo White (who plays Count Chloride de Lime) in the supporting cast. The title comes from the fact that later in the movie (during an automobile chase) they are pursued by a jitney, a type of share taxi popular in the US between 1914 and 1916. So... very specific and very much of its time. I bet you couldn't do this a few years before or after because jitneys wouldn't have been relevant then. I've just read up on them and their history is quite fascinating. They were first around in the US, specifically LA, in 1914, in 1915 they were at an all time high in popularity and then local regulations, demanded by streetcar companies, forced jitneys out of business in most places. They were so successful that the city government banned them at the request of the streetcar operators. So yeah, very limited time frame in which a movie with that word in the title would even be relevant. Now while this is not one of Chaplin's best movies I definitely still enjoyed it so I can recommend it.

King of Dollars (1905)

French comedy fantasy short film. It's about a magician who's doing magic tricks with coins. A big of camera trickery, some cuts here and there, a scene where the movie runs in reverse... stuff that definitely wasn't unheard of in Segundo de Chomón's movies. This is fun, especially the guy "vomiting" out those coins and then winking to the camera as he gets out of frame afterwards. Sure, this has a runtime of just under two minutes but then again it's 120 years old. Can recommend, although it's not my favourite de Chomón work.

The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895)

American historical short film. It's about the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. This is the first known film to use special effects, specifically the stop trick. Here, an actress (or rather an actor in drag, as was tradition in theatrical acting for centuries, if not longer) is being led to the execution block, the executioner holds up his axe and then there's a cut during which the actor is replaced by a mannequin, then the axe comes down and chops the head off the mannequin and that's the whole movie. Did I mention it's 18 seconds long? Well, that's 1890s cinema for you. So, this sure is historically significant for many reasons (it also may have been the first film in history to use trained actors) so I think I'll have to judge it more on that, but yeah, I can recommend it.

And that was this year's Decade Countdown Movie Challenge. I just had to bang out all of these four last ones today because they were so short. And this way I can watch some light-hearted theatrical releases from this year that I've missed at the cinema (mostly because the cinema near me didn't show them) before starting Tatsuya Nakadai memorial week on monday, which is bound to have some heavy-hitting dramas (including the epic war drama trilogy The Human Condition, which has a combined runtime of almost 10 hours). Overall I think Decade Countdown Movie Challenge 2025 was a bit weaker than some of the others I've done. Maybe I was putting the list together a bit hastily because it was a lot later than in previous years so I didn't have time to properly looks for some of the greats of each year. Maybe I already watched a lot of the movies that would've qualified. But of course I only have myself to blame.

So here's this year's list:

Frankenstein (2025)
Hell and Back (2015)
Just Like Heaven (2005)
Lord of Illusions (1995)
Night on the Galactic Railroad (1985)
Lisztomania (1975)
The Great Race (1965)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
The Crime of Dr. Crespi (1935)
Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride (1925)
A Jitney Elopement (1915)
King of Dollars (1905)
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895)

Here's a link to last year's list and here's a link to a comment where I listed all the previous year's I've done this, from 2018 to 2023.

Good Fortune (2025)

American supernatural comedy film. It's about an angel named whose failed attempt to show a struggling man that money does not solve one's problems by body swapping him with his wealthy employer results in him losing his wings, while the work he did as an angel begins to unravel around them. This is really entertaining. Good cast (Keanu Reeves, Aziz Ansari, Seth Rogen, Keke Palmer, Sandra Oh, Stephen Henderson and more). Overall of course this wasn't the deepest movie but it teaches you a bit about enjoying your life for how it is. All I can say is that I very much enjoyed it (and probably would've enjoyed it even more if I saw it at the cinema) so I can definitely recommend it.

The Last Duel https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4244994/

Elephant (2003). It was a bit of a pointless ~1.5 hours, I felt.
Has a bit of artistic panache and the multiple points of view serve for a cool editing style and interesting story-telling mechanism, but IMO, it did almost nothing more than fluff up the run-time more than anything else. The story is so bare-bones that I could tell you exactly what happened in about 2-3 sentences. It scores a 3/10 for me, sadly.

Black Phone 2 (2025)

American supernatural horror film. It's about two siblings, along with their friend, who head to a winter youth camp to uncover a mystery regarding the first victims of the Grabber, whose ghostly presence now haunts the camp. This is a very good sequel. I didn't enjoy it quite as much as the first one but I thought this was still very entertaining. Good cast (Mason Thames, Ethan Hawke, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, Demián Bichir, James Ransone and more). Overall I can recommend this.

Good Boy (2025)

American supernatural horror film. It's about a dog and his owner, a young man with a chronic lung disease, as they move into his late grandfather's rural home, where a malevolent supernatural presence gradually engulfs him, while his devoted dog attempts to rescue him. First of all, the dog knocks it out of the park acting-wise, one of the greatest animal performances I've seen. The movie itself is only 73 minutes long and that's neither too long nor too short for the story at hand. It has a very eerie atmosphere partly due to being told from the perspective of the dog, so you don't see people's faces all that often and stuff like that. Overall I thought it was very good. Definitely would've liked to see that one at the cinema, too. So yeah, I can very much recommend it.

Sisu Road to Redemption 2025

I can't believe this was playing in my area.

SO worth the wait. Almost as good as the first.

8/10

Mortal Kombat (2021) 🤙🏻

Glina. Nowy rozdzial (S01) 👍🏻

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025)

American mockumentary comedy film. It's about the fictional heavy metal band Spinal Tap who are reuniting after 15 years for one final show. This worked surprisingly well for a legacy sequel. Might be because it's a mockumentary and anything that wouldn't work in a serious movie just works because it's mockumentaries are silly anyway. Might also be because Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer are great together in all of their mockumentaries and this one is no exception. The rest of the cast is very good, too (of course Rob Reiner plays the documentarian again; we also got Fran Drescher, Don Lake, John Michael Higgins, Kerry Godliman, Jason Acuña aka Wee Man, and more as well as Paul McCartney, Elton John, Garth Brooks, Questlove, Trisha Yearwood, Chad Smith and Lars Ulrich appearing as themselves. Overall if you're a fan of the original you'll find something to enjoy in this, too. This one doesn't quite go to 11, but I still enjoyed it a lot so I can recommend it.

The Thick-Walled Room (1953/56)

Japanese war drama film. It's about a group of ordinary Japanese soldiers who are jailed for crimes against humanity. I think it's a bit too sympathetic towards the Japanese soldiers at times, in a "these people have done nothing wrong at all" kinda way. Could've been a bit more nuanced. Anyway, the cast (that's mostly unknown to me) delivered good performances. Towards the end there's some unnecessary animal cruelty where a kitten is kicked a few times. Overall I don't think I can really recommend this.

With this being the start of my Tatsuya Nakadai Memorial week you can already guess, but this was Tatsuya Nakadai's first role, although uncredited. Oh, and if you're wondering about the (1953/56) thing this movie was completed in 1953 but not released until 1956, so while you could technically see him in a movie for the first time in 1954 (the legendary Seven Samurai, where he also appears in a small, uncredited role) I'd still consider this one his first role. But yeah, this movie is definitely not one that stands out between all of the old Japanese movies that I've seen (and probably will see this week).

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)

Japanese epic war drama film. It's about a Japanese pacifist who is unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection and is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan. Obviously I can only really judge this trilogy after watching all three movies but so far I think this is great. Tatsuya Nakadai is incredible in this, as is his supporting cast, but the main focus is of course on him. This movie, which was made by the same guy who also made the movie I watched yesterday about a similar topic, is way more realistic about the very touchy topic of crimes committed by the Japanese military during the Second World War. Again, I can't really go into details before I've seen the other two movies in the trilogy. So overall I know that a Japanese war drama with a runtime of almost 3 1/2 hours isn't gonna be everbody's cup of tea, but if you've been on the fence about watching this one I can highly recommend it.

The Blob (1988) 👍🏻

1923 (S02) 👍🏻

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)

Japanese epic war drama film. It's about a Japanese pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals. This builds and improves upon the first one. Tatsuya Nakadai is even better, the rest of the cast as well. This is the shortest of the three movies at just barely under 3 hours but I feel like we get to see more in that time than we saw in the 3 1/2 hours of the first movie. Overall I can of course still not really comment on this until I've seen the whole thing (fun fact, in Japan this is usually considered and watched as one long movie instead of three seperate ones) but yeah, this is even greater than the first one. Highly recommended.

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)

Japanese epic war drama film. It's about a Japanese pacifist who faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival as his ideals are challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military. Well, that was that. The Human Condition trilogy. My expectations were high and these three movies (which are actually considered to be just one long movie in Japan) still exceeded them. Truly one of the greatest trilogies ever. An absolute masterpiece. Tatsuya Nakadai was of course absolutely brilliant, portraying our main character Kaji who went from being a labor camp supervisor to an Imperial Army soldier and eventually a Soviet POW and who was always trying to rise above a corrupt system and better his fellow men's lives under any circumstance. I don't think anyone else could've done it better than Tatsuya Nakadai. Overall I really can't recommend this enough.