list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

So far Dune adaptations have largely been gorgeous failures.   But I am interested in the current one just to see why some things are unfilmable, or if they pulled it off this time.

Well it just seems the larger story, the whispering lady and the worms and Spice and on and on.   Things that kinda only work in written form.   Heck even the TV series was almost unwatchable.

must see gialo/horror 

the Old Ways (2020) Directed by Christopher Alender

I was thinking recently that of all the world's accents, the least conducive to conveying terror and dread might just be Mexican. Can you imagine the Exorcist with Father Merrin and Father Karras portrayed by Cheech and Chong respectively invoking the same intended gravitas?. Picture my delight therefore at discovering a contemporary exorcism film that takes place in Veracruz, Mehiko. Rest easy Gringos, as any unwitting humour is absent entirely and the economy of the dialogue throughout is probably deliberate. Although the Old Ways doesn't bring anything new to the table genre wise, it does have a back story depth that very few even attempt. Kudos are due therefore to Director Christopher Alender's subtle and understated handling of his theme which posits the spiritual and moral anomie prevalent in the first world is fertile ground for all manner of psychological maladies to thrive. (real or imagined, with demonic possession being just one manifestation of this) Our heroine Cristina is a high achiever US emigrant journalist who lives in a state of heroin injected spiritual perdition c/f her cousin Miranda, who remained in Veracruz, is infinitely more naive but considerably wiser in the ancient brujeria wisdom from which the movie is clearly inspired. Perhaps the denouement might be considered a tad predictable but it shouldn't spoil your enjoyment of what is a very accomplished horror which manages to weave in a moral fable in a place where we would have least expected one.