What movies have you seen recently?

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Dark Web: Cicada 3301 (2021) on DVD

The Night Stalker (1972)
on Svengoolie on MeTV

I always enjoy this movie.

C.H.U.D 1984 on TUBI

If you can find them then you'd probably also enjoy:
― The Night Strangler [1973]
― Kolchak: The Night Stalker [1974–1975]

More of the same...and I enjoyed them all.

Thanks Double Retired. I have them in my DVD collection, but I like it when television randomly serves them up. I also like giving a heads up for people who may also be interested and has access to the channel.

"I also like giving a heads up for people who may also be interested and has access to the channel."

^{I guess we've got that covered!}

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

I recently saw "IN THE NAME OF THE SON" on my Roku.

A middle-aged man is a professional driver for South Korea's rich, powerful and drunk. He is troubled because he was ordered to kill innocent, unarmed students during the Gwangju massacre (May 1980). The son of the professional driver went to attend college in the USA, and promised never to return until his father confronts the terrible things he did (the son died in a car accident in the USA and will now never return). At some point, the hero gets an illegal handgun. He digs up the body of a student he killed and buried in a park, which is promptly found by other people, and the body is tested for DNA. So the grieving parents finally learn what happened to their son. The professional driver also sent a video confession (and his military dog tags) to a TV station, apologizing for all the people he killed with his gun. As the TV is playing the confession, he delivers a powerful man to a house where rich and powerful CEOs and politicians are meeting. He uses a trick to get into the party with his gun and kills the commander who ordered him to kill the students years ago, and then he killed himself. The movie ends.

As you watch the movie, and you see the professional driver go about his life, you can see on people's faces how all of them have been affected by the massacre (GREAT acting by everyone). Most were devastated to lose relatives. But the rich and powerful don't care, and they never paid a price for ordering, and even participating in, the killings. And I'm not sure there was any one defining moment where the professional driver decides to use the gun to take his revenge. Maybe there was, maybe there was not.

Also, I found it interesting that when the driver goes into the house, the camera does not show the inside of the house. The camera stays outside, and we only see shadows of men through the blinds inside the front window of the house. The men are moving around, clearly afraid, and they try to move away from the man with the gun. This isn't an American movie, where Clint Eastwood or Charles Bronson (and, of course, the gun) would be shown prominently on the screen "blowing away" the bad guy. And of course, since the gunman himself participated in murder in May 1980, and had to drink a whole bottle of soju (alcoholic drink) to summon the courage to bury the student in the park, maybe both the gunman AND the commanding officer have "dirty hands" here. Maybe South Korean cinema is not allowed to show shootings, or maybe it is a "cultural thing". Or the director chose this "style" to show the shooting.

(Just like the sensitivity of suicide in many cultures. I think the main female character in South Korea's "A Stray Goat", 2017, killed herself after being raped. It is kind of alluded to, but it was never confirmed that she killed herself.)

American "superhero" movies show characters who can simply wave their hand and cause an earthquake that destroys HALF A PLANET. That is not believable, so how is it hard work, or entertaining? Korean cinema shows real people, with troubles and flaws, and they work through the entire movie to try to make things better. THAT is what I want to see !

I would also recommend "A Millionaire's First Love" (saw it on my Roku). Money means nothing to a rich young brat, since his grandfather is a billionaire. He will inherit everything when he turns 18, but only if he goes back to his small village and gets an education. Otherwise, he only gets one percent of the money. He is a bully, and tries to bribe the small-town school administrator to give him his diploma, but it doesn't work. He meets a young girl and he thinks he recognizes her from his childhood. They fall in love. He later realizes they grew up together in the orphanage, and she still lives there (the boy was suddenly taken away to the big city years ago to live with his grandfather). She dies in his arms from a congenital heart defect. In the end, money does not mean anything to the young man because it could not save his girlfriend. He gets 100% of the inheritance, but I think he continues to live at the orphanage.