#2020 movies

[maddiesrandomthoughts]

this was very boy genius of them

#portrait of a lady on fire #sapphic movie #sapphic yearning #boygenius #pheobe bridgers #lucy dacus #julien baker #movies #2020 movies #french #french movie

[ecnmatic]

WILDFLOWER (2023) dir. Matt Smukler.

#icons #movies icons #kiernan shipka #kiernan shipka icons #bea johnson #bea johnson cons #wildflower #wildflower icons #icons without psd #twitter icons #filmedit #actresses icons #moviesedit #2020 movies #tvandfilm

[retrocinemv]

𖥔 ࣪ ˖ 57. on the rocks (2020) dir. sofia Coppola

#2023 #on the rocks #sofia coppola #directed by women #female directed films #rashida jones #bill murray #marlon wayans #cinematography #film stills #movies #cinema #cineshots #screencaps #female directors #2020 movies

[cloudtinn]

"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."

Emma. (2020), dir. Autumn de Wilde.

#movies #emma #emma 2020 #autumn de wilde #anya taylor joy #mia goth #johnny flynn #cinematography #cineshots #film stills #films #2020 movies #jane austen #emma. #cloud_tinn

[portraitsunset]

☆ the kid detective (2020) dir. evan morgan

#the kid detective #2020s films #2020 movies #adam brody #evan morgan #sophie nelisse #film #cinematography #film screencaps #indie film #director #filmmaking #movies

[malecharactersclub]

#onward #pixar onward #onward pixar #barley lightfoot #pixar movies #disney pixar #disney pixar movies #3d animation #3d animated film #2020 movies #2020s movies #screenshots #screencaps

[adamwatchesmovies]

Palm Springs (2020)

Palm Springs is a consistently funny, well-executed time-loop comedy full of unexpected depths. I’d seen it before, called it one of my favorite movies of 2020 but was a little hesitant when my coworkers suggested we watch it together. A movie this good I don’t want to watch over and over; I want to space out my viewings so I can forget the little details and re-capture some of the surprise I got the first time. My apprehension was unfounded, as it proved just as good on a rewatch. You don’t know what you’re getting into when you step into this movie.

On November 9, in Palm Springs, Sarah (Cristin Milioti) is shocked when Nyles (Andy Samberg) - a complete stranger - gives a touching speech at her sister’s wedding. While everyone celebrates, they connect privately. The next morning, Sarah wakes up. It’s still November 9th. Nyles has been stuck in a time loop. Every morning, he wakes up and it’s November 9th. Now, it's happening to Sarah too.

You expect a certain kind of humor from this concept. Nyles has done it all so he knows exactly what dance moves everyone will pull during the wedding reception - it makes him move on the floor like no one else could - and his time in the loop has made him so nonchalant about stuff like death it’s hilarious. That’s all well done but the big laughs come from his pairing with Sarah. She’s new to this, so he has to do his best to explain to her everything he already knows about this time loop, to no avail. It gets funnier when she accepts her fate and decides to make the best of it. With their life free of consequences, they pull elaborate pranks on the wedding guests, spring expertly coordinated and rehearsed dances “out of nowhere” and find endless ways to mess around and have a good time.

With excellent performances by Andy Samberg and Cristin Milloti - who have terrific chemistry, it’s easy to think this will be a nice, breezy rom-com that eventually gets solved when…. I dunno. The two declare their love for each other and break the time-loop spell or something? but there's more to the movie. Nyles has been stuck in the time loop for so long this is his life now. While everything may reset every day, it’s a vacation that will never end. He never has to work. He can do whatever he wants and never suffer the repercussions. Nothing he does matters, and he sees it as a good thing. Every morning he wakes up in a relationship with a woman who’s cheating on him (Meredith Hagner as Misty) but he doesn’t care. In fact, he likes it. If he ever wants sex, he knows what to say to her and on the days where he finds Misty intolerable, he’ll befriend someone else at the party. What’s there not to love about this perpetual Palm Springs? As he falls for Sarah, it feels as though things have just gotten better… but they aren’t, because she’s not like him. Breaking free from the time loop could be synonymous with that stage in a relationship where you move in together, meet each others’ parents, or get married. Moving forward is scary, it carries risks, but without those risks, what's the point? Sarah understands that the uncertain is what makes life living. The way our protagonists grow and the realizations they make along the way is often upsetting, which compliments the hilarity wonderfully. This is the kind of movie you can watch over and over and always find some new detail that makes you see just how well-written it is.

Palm Springs starts off as raunchy fun and then comes at you from the side with the heavy emotions. The blend is so smooth you look back and are surprised you didn’t see it coming. It packs so much into its story and characters you’ll be shocked it only lasted 90 minutes. This is a refreshingly romantic and uproarious movie - a new favorite for everyone who sees it. (September 16th, 2021)

#Palm Springs #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Max Barbakow #Andy Siara #Andy Samberg #Cristin Milioti #J. K. Simmons #2020 movies #2020 films

[twoheadedfilmfan]

📸 Autumn De Wilde

#johnny flynn #anya taylor joy #emma. #emma 2020 #autumn de wilde #behind the scenes #2020 #2020 movies #2020s cinema

[zachfett]

The Superdeep (2020) Directed by Arseny Syuhin Cinematography by Hayk Kirakosyan

The visuals are impressive and the setting is fantastic, it's basically The THING meets GTFO (the game).

Story-wise it's a mess, and for some reason they poorly re-dubbed everyone except the main character even though they were already speaking in English, it's very distracting and there's no way to watch it with the original audio.

#The Superdeep #2020 #Arseny Syuhin #Hayk Kirakosyan #Milena Radulovic #Maksim Radugin #Nikita Dyuvbanov #Vadim Demchog #Kirill Kovbas #Dmitry Selipanov #movie photography #movie screenshots #film #movies #cinema #cinephile #movie stills #film screencaps #film screenshots #2020 movies #2020 films #superdeep #Кольская сверхглубокая #Russian movies #Russian films #Kola Superdeep Borehole #GTFO #GTFO game #The THING #the thing 1982

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

February: Orange Redux

The Devil Wears Ju-ni Hitoe Kimono (Junihitoe wo Kita Akuma) / Ayaka Miyoshi as Lady Kokiden

Parts of this film take place in the Heian period (794-1185), and Lady Kokiden does wear this spectacular orange "twelve-layer kimono" in her first appearance. (Despite the name, the number of layers actually varied over the years. Eventually, five was settled on as the standard number.)

The cloth has a subtle woven texture that is not very visible in the rather dim light of the scene, but it shows up nicely on the movie poster:

The colors of the twelve-layer kimono used to vary seasonally. I would guess this combination represents summer?

#the devil wears ju-ni hitoe kimono #orange dresses #ayaka miyoshi #one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #Junihitoe wo Kita Akuma #2020 films #2020 movies #japanese movies #japanese film #japanese cinema #heian era #heian style #heian fashion #heian costume #lady kokiden #the devil wears ju ni hitoe kimono #orange dress #orange redux

[asian-cine-phile]

BEASTS CLAWING AT STRAWS 지푸라기라도 잡고 싶은 짐승들 (2020) dir. kim young hoon

#beasts clawing at straws #jeon do yeon #jung woo sung #asiandramasource #asian cinema #korean movie #asiancentral #asiandramanet #userdramas #dailyasiandramas #dailycinema #지푸라기라도 잡고 싶은 짐승들 #dailyworldcinema #korean cinema #south korea #contemporary #kdramadaily #kdramaedit #movies #2020 movies #2020 #best of jeon do yeon #mubi #cinephile #cineshots

[ecnmatic]

WILDFLOWER (2023) dir. Matt Smukler.

#icons #movies icons #charlie plummer #charlie plummer icons #ethan icon #ethan wildflower icons #ethan wildflower #wildflower #wildflower icons #icons without psd #twitter icons #filmedit #actors icons #2020 movies #moviesedit #tvandfilm

[kevinsreviewcatalogue]

Review: Never Hike Alone: The Ghost Cut (2020)

Never Hike Alone: The Ghost Cut (2020)

Not rated

<Originally posted at https://kevinsreviewcatalogue.blogspot.com/2023/10/review-never-hike-alone-ghost-cut-2020.html>

Score: 4 out of 5

If you've read my, or anybody else's, reviews of the Friday the 13th series, you'd know that it has a very spotty track record. The first movie is hardly most people's pick for the best in the series, the fact that there were more than twice as many films after the one titled The Final Chapter than before it has made the series the butt of jokes about horror franchises that get run into the ground, and nearly half the movies in this series range from just mediocre to borderline unwatchable. In short, it's an iconic slasher series where it wouldn't take much to make a movie that's around the middle of the pack quality-wise where its installments are concerned. And given the long legal battle that plagued this series for much of the 2010s, leave it to the fans to make just such a film. Never Hike Alone: The Ghost Cut is an anthology-style compilation of three Friday fan films by Womp Stomp Films that together range from pretty good to one of the most inspired things ever done with the idea of a big guy in a hockey mask hacking people up with a machete. It's a labor of love that (being a non-commercial fan film) is free to watch online, and which I highly recommend doing.

The film starts with a music video called "Disappear", a darkly humorous opening where Jason Voorhees hacks up three teenagers who ventured into the ruins of Camp Crystal Lake to drink and screw, all soundtracked by the titular acoustic guitar song by Trevor Vaughan. It sets the mood very nicely, playing right into our expectations of what a Friday movie is and delivering exactly that, while also examining just what Jason might be like in his "downtime" when he's not hacking people to bits. The second segment, Never Hike in the Snow, started out strong by showing Jason in an environment that's new to him: the winter, chasing and killing a young man named Mark Hill through the snowy woods. It starts off strong with a great buildup to a great kill, though as it went on it became the weakest segment in the film by my estimation, turning increasingly disjointed with plots about the sheriff Rick Cologne (a returning character from Jason Lives played by the same actor, Vincent Guastaferro) comforting the victim's mother, the same sheriff having to deal with Tommy Jarvis (again, returning from Jason Lives with Thom Mathews reprising his role) as news of the murder causes him to come out of the woodwork suspecting that Jason is back, and a scene of a hapless deputy going into the woods searching for clues as to Mark's murder. Each scene was exceptionally well-shot even by the standards of a professionally produced film, let alone a fan flick, but while there were interesting ideas, especially in the scene with the mother, it didn't come together particularly well.

Fortunately, the film spent the next hour with its best part by far, its titular centerpiece originally filmed and released in 2017 and later included with the other two segments as the "Ghost Cut". This is mostly a one-man show in which a hiking influencer named Kyle McLeod ventures into the trails of the Wessex County forest, stumbles upon Camp Crystal Lake, and must fight for survival against Jason. Much of the first half is a slow burn as Kyle ventures deeper and deeper into Jason's turf, with growing clues that something isn't right, from the coyotes wailing in the distance one night to the "No Trespassing" sign he encounters to various signs of the carnage past at the long-abandoned camp. It's an effective buildup that's paid off wonderfully when Jason himself shows up to kick ass and take names. He's played here by the film's director Vincente DeSanti, and watching him, I felt something I had only rarely felt in the past watching the Friday films: genuinely afraid of Jason. All too often, Jason gets portrayed as a crowd-pleasing mascot who the film not-so-secretly sides with as he takes out the trash, rendering him less a monster than a roguish anti-hero of sorts. Not here. This movie portrays him as a mean, brutish, no-nonsense, and surprisingly cunning villain who could probably kill you with his bare hands, let alone his machete, and who you absolutely do not want to mess around with. It helped that Drew Leighty as Kyle was a guy who I could easily root for. He may be a YouTuber, but the film avoids making him an obnoxious caricature for the sake of it, with scenes of him grumbling about the spon-con deal he's doing with the company that made the collapsible shovel he's carrying. And when push comes to shove towards the end, he turns into a real-deal survivor who feels like a genuine match for Jason. I wanted to see this guy live and prevail, which was more than I could say for a lot of the people who've crossed paths with Jason, and that fact made me fear what Jason was trying to do to him that much more.

The Bottom Line

It's rare for a fan film to be this good, but Never Hike Alone: The Ghost Cut manages to be not only better than a lot of the actual Friday the 13th films, but a damn good horror movie in its own right. Even if you're not a Friday fan, I still recommend giving this one a look, especially since it's free and easily accessible.

#never hike alone #never hike in the snow #friday the 13th #jason voorhees #tommy jarvis #2017 #2017 movies #2020 #2020 movies #horror #horror movies #slasher #slasher movies #camp crystal lake #womp stomp films #vincente desanti #thom mathews #vincent guastaferro

[portraitsunset]

☆ Shithouse (2020) dir. Cooper Raiff

#shithouse #cooper raiff #cinematography #2020 movies #2020s films #dylan gelula #logan miller #amy landecker #olivia scott welch #coming of age #indie film #filmmaking #film #film screencaps #movie stills

[supernightboy08]

Happy Anniversary Sonic Movie 1! 🎂🥳

Gotta Go Fast!

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic movie 2020 #sonic 2020 #sonic movie #sonic the hedgehog movie #2020 movies #2020 #ben schwartz #jim carrey #screencap

[adamwatchesmovies]

Peninsula (2020)

Peninsula isn’t as fresh, frightening, or memorable as Train to Busan. It also doesn’t quite follow through with its premise but makes up for it with something I bet you’d never see out of a zombie movie set in Korea: Mad Max-style action!

Four years after a zombie outbreak in South Korea, former Marine Corps Captain Jung-Seok (Gang Dong-won) and his widowed brother-in-law Chul-min (Kim Do-yoon) are offered a life-altering job. Inside the undead-riddled Peninsula is an abandoned truck filled with US$20 million. They've been hired to retrieve it as part of a team of four who will enter South Korea at night - when the darkness will hide them from the innumerable ghouls. Once inside, they're shocked to discover survivors in the ruins.

If you’re looking for a heist movie with zombies in it, you want Army of the Dead. Peninsula starts with the team going in to grab the money but within minutes, half of them are dead. Chul-min is taken captive by crazed militants who’ve established a society in the ruins of the city, while Jung-Seok is rescued by Min-Jung (Lee Jung-hyun), her father Kim (Kwon Hae-hyo), and her two daughters, Joon (Lee Re), and Yu-Jin (Lee Ye-won). Now, the ghouls are the least of everyone’s worries. Unit 631 roams the streets, looking for any strays to put in their arena. There, the people have to run away from hungry flesh-eaters while the soldiers bet on who will die. Chul-min needs a way out ASAP. Unfortunately, the satellite phone he would’ve used to call his Chinese mobster bosses has been confiscated. Now Jung-Seok needs to save his brother, get the phone, get the money and leave with the help of the family who rescued him… but things are on the verge of getting dicey. See, Jung-Seok’s met Min-Jung before. She asked him for help four years ago when the zombie plague began. He refused and left her behind. Oops.

As a zombie movie, Peninsula disappoints. They don’t really play a big part in the film except at the beginning and then at the end. Mostly, this is an apocalyptic film. People scrambling for food, cobbling together equipment, setting up dodgy institutions where might makes right, that kind of thing. And of course, there’s the driving. If you’re going to check out Peninsula, it should be for the movie’s best scene, a spectacular race in the city featuring dozens of vehicles with our heroes in the lead and everyone trying to turn them into roadkill. Whereas the rest of the film barely uses zombies, this part of Peninsula brings the two genres together. The dead are obstacles to be dodged, they’re also weapons to use against those pursuing you. It’s fast-paced, expertly coordinated and loads of fun.

Plenty is going on in the film, which makes the nearly two-hour running time go by plenty fast… except at the end. During the conclusion, Peninsula tries to do too much. It pours on the drama as people have to make heroic sacrifices, there are double-crosses that make escape impossible, hope is renewed, then dashed, then renewed again, and so on. Some of this should’ve been cut, not only so we could end on the high we got from the driving scenes but also so the cheese could be kept at a minimum. Still, it works more than it doesn’t.

Peninsula is not a memorable zombie film and when we examine Seoul Station (the prequel to Train to Busan) we see that the terrific 2016 picture that spawned this franchise was more of an anomaly than a revival of the genre. You can still enjoy this follow-up if you love zombies and you want a bit of something new but anything more than the price of a rental is too much. (Original Korean with English Subtitles, May 21, 2021)

#Peninsula #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #train to busan #yeon sang-ho #ryu yong-jae #gang dong-won #lee jung-hyun #kwon hae-hyo #kim min-jae #koo kyo-hwan #2020 movies #2020 films