Cinéma d'auteur (Criterion), documentaires et pépites du cinéma mondial.
![Who Is Pete Hegseth? The Rise of an Extremist (2026) [0:06:15]](https://external-preview.redd.it/SHAo47ptJAglSCUVHfOg6oF7ODxMZVoZnMyIQVSSQx0.jpeg?width=140&height=105&auto=webp&s=ada599898dc94daeaa3cb8b97d68ed2eed9f5d7d)
Pete Hegseth is a Princeton graduate, decorated veteran, and America's Secretary of Defense. He is also a man his own mother called an abuser, flagged as an insider threat by his own soldiers, and accused of sexual assault. This is his full story.
I’ve been going down a rabbit hole trying to find the full, unedited version of this interview. You can find short snippets on YouTube, but the complete footage is notoriously hard to track down. In this uncut 2019 interview, Epstein and Bannon discuss elite networks, fractional reserve banking, and the 2008 financial crisis.
Note: You can search the entire interview transcript instantly. If you type "Wall Street" or "financial crisis" into the transcript search box on the right, it jumps to the exact second he starts explaining his theories.
The cat has chosen Death by Hanging. She likes to watch things swing.
These have all been on my watchlist for a while. But Purple Noon has been on there the longest.
They're all blind buys because I can't find anywhere to watch them and I can't get my bloody TV to let me watch the Criterion Channel.
I still have Resurrection (2025) arriving later this month.
No (usable) discs, booklet or even a 4k sticker on the front. Anyone else had this happen from Amazon or elsewhere?
Hostel 1 was always a good movie about ignorant Americans looking to exploit a foreign culture. I don't think it's a surprise that it came out during the GWOT, when America started invading countries with people who had no clue about those cultures, and were accused of trying to exploit them for their resources. The idea of a bunch of bros heading to a European country where all the men died in a war leaving nothing but lonely, horny women they can exploit is pretty gross.
But Hostel 2 never really had any great cultural connection. But if you watch it today, it really holds up well during the online manosphere era. The jacked middle aged dude convinced that once you kill someone it changes you is very reminiscent of the Joe Rogan TRT types telling older guys they need to do combat sports or do those weird "make me a man" bootcamps. The loser nerdy "nice guy" who really wants to hurt women because his wife is assertive and he's a wuss. It's not a good movie, but I think it holds up really well.
Favorite kill was definitely the corn on the cob. But like also incest and just the whole thing felt super weird. Like I know the mom has stupid strength but also, wow so insanely dramatic reactions. Can someone explain to be the nature of the relationship between the mom and son? Is this a kink thing or is it just straight up incest?
I plan to watch Local Hero, it looks right up my comfort alley.
Been looking forward to Wall-e and Princess Bride for years so I finally decided to get them.
Local Hero and Cloud are blind buys. Local Hero just looked really nice and Cloud I got because I loved Kurosawa's Cure immensely.
I hope to add The Grand Illusion if that ever gets a 4K release. Fingers crossed!
As tradition! 3rd or 4th year in a row? Alamo Drafthouse showed it a long time ago. Been watching it every year since!
Battle of Algiers. Been on my list for a long time and going into it blind.
Eraserhead. One of my favorite Lynch films and happy to finally have it in my collection.
About half are blind buys, I selected them because all I hear are amazing recommendations.
The Last Emporer
Thank you for perusing my collection! Curious about how everyone orders their movies. I go alphabetically by director then chronologically, if I have more than one movie by them. Is that psychotic? Do most people go by spine number?
I think I’m guilty when I very first seen the chainsaw massacre series ( I was young )
But more recently I have rewatched some gems that i definitely didn’t appreciate the first time around
Movie of the day...Gamera, the Giant Monster (1965).
This is a very trippy movie.
A giant turtle is freed from its icy prison in the arctic by an atomic explosion. After destroying a nearby arctic research vessel with fire breath, it disappears for a while. But then the world experiences a rash of UFO sightings. The UFO turns out to be the turtle because apparently giant turtles can fly.
The lore in this first Gamera film is so demented that all you can do is shrug and tell yourself, “Just go with it.” And once you do that, it’s actually kind of fun.
I like how the too-stupid-to-live child character who loves turtles keeps insisting Gamera is not bad. Why don’t you tell that to all the kids whose parents were just killed by Gamera, you little twerp?
I normally recommend watching Japanese movies in the original language with subtitles, but in this case I don’t think it really matters.
Rating: C-
![Rick Steves' Iran (2009) [00:55:44]](https://external-preview.redd.it/VJyGOtSQJlMXat8B_OaL04vBbHxsSE_xc3R5Gk1TWf4.jpeg?width=140&height=105&auto=webp&s=1631a020fce417ee974ff911c09328495b8f4c9e)
Went to this in the cinema, and it's from Julia Ducournau who made Raw and Titane. Raw was very obvious "body horror" stuff. Titane didn't really work, felt like it was apeing the concept of the Dougie Jones storyline in "Twin Peaks". Alpha might be the best of the three because it has body horror stuff but also some good characters and themes.
The film takes place in a world that has a new blood-borne virus that causes people to progressively turn into stone and their blood to sand, before killing them. Alpha, a teen, gets a sketchy tattoo on her arm at a party, and her mom, a doctor, freaks out because she has treated people with the virus and is worried that her daughter was infected. At the same time, the mom's skeletal junkie brother comes to live with them to detox. Alpha doesn't remember him from when she was young, and didn't even know her mom had a brother.
Alpha also faces bullying at school when it's suspected she might be infected. This element coincidentally felt similar to The Plague that was out this year.
This is actually pretty decent. It has a few problems, but with how "asked and answered" movies are lately, if something gives you anything to ponder afterwards, that's a plus for me.
Horror honestly doesn’t get enough credit for the positive effect it has on your mental health. I know it sounds counter intuitive and anxiety inducing ect, but there has to be some science behind it.
I broke up with my fiancé of 6 years in October last year, and my mind has been busy for the longest time. I spent every waking moment until I went to sleep reliving all of our memories and picturing her face every-time I closed my eyes. My anxiety was through the roof.
This last 2 weeks I’ve started rewatching a lot of my favourite horror movies, and honestly it’s like medicine.
My theory is the fact it’s anxiety inducing in a controlled way, and the fact you spend 2 hours with your eyes peeled to the screen really distracts you from your sub-conscience.
It really does work, does anyone else have a similar opinion?