Welcome to Unpaid Spokeswomen, a column where we log what we’ve been into this week. Behind the wigs, makeup, costumes, and several layers of irony, we are two humans who genuinely enjoy doing things. Here is a weekly roundup of our unfiltered expert recommendations.
This one runs 8 minutes over the mark, but it has one of the best, most original takes on a vampire stories I've ever encountered, so in my opinion, it's worth the extra 8 minutes.
These are all horror/thriller movies, but to balance them, I'll also recommend a comedy special. This is Simon Amstell's "Do Nothing" and it is brilliant! It is also 1 hour long, so a winner already.
This one is 96 minutes, but I'd be surprised if you can see it all at once. It is HEAVY! Dark, repulsive, stomach turning. There is no eating during this one. Don't even think about it!
This movie is great! Not only is it under 90 minutes, it only has one actor on camera the whole time. And that actor is, drum roll, please, Tom Hardy! He is driving the whole time and having phone conversations. That's it. That's the movie. It is SO good!
"House" is literally one of my favorite movies of all time. This Japanese horror film is effing coconuts and such an acid-trip that you'll think about what you watched months from now. I swear I love nearly the same exact movies as Katya...most times. Reading Gooped and confirming it again and again makes me feel all warm and oozing on the outside.💀🖤🦇🕷🕸😱 Love ya, Miss Katya💋
my recs: Heavenly Creatures with Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey at 99 minutes; Paranoid Park at 85 minutes - the theme may seem specific but the pacing and delivery of the story is perfection with a P!
I am at the point where I check running time before I agree to a movie in a theater. Over 100 minutes? No thanks, I'll wait for streaming. I just can't sit there that long! I get frustrated and stop enjoying the movie.
I hate that feeling when you think “oh that’s the end of the movie”, 20 minutes later “oh that’s actually the end of the movie, but no 35 min after that you experience total disappointment at the actual ending. I love Mary and Max (2009) is a lovely comedy/drama stop motion. “News From Home” (1976) is an great documentary.
“Manifiesto” with Cate Blanchett is a little longer but have you seen it?
Thanks for the movie list and the snack suggestion!!! Trixie you should try chia puddings.
oh yes, I saw The Wicker Man, it's incredible, it broke my heart
Don't know if I can watch Eraserhead again, but can't wait to see the others, as I eat a barrel of goldfish, TY!
I relate a lot to being hungry all the time, except I don't really try to control it lol
Recommendations of films no more than 90 minutes long you say? Let's see what we can do.
Enemy
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2316411/?ref_=rt_li_tt
This is twisted, strange, scary and just bizarre little movie from the director that gave us the current "Dune" movie. Added bonus - Jake Gyllenhaal.
The Broken
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0906734/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
ATM
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1603257/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
Absentia
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1610996/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
Immortality (original title The Wisdom of the Crocodiles)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120894/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
This one runs 8 minutes over the mark, but it has one of the best, most original takes on a vampire stories I've ever encountered, so in my opinion, it's worth the extra 8 minutes.
These are all horror/thriller movies, but to balance them, I'll also recommend a comedy special. This is Simon Amstell's "Do Nothing" and it is brilliant! It is also 1 hour long, so a winner already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4mH6E0hMbI
Infinitely Polar Bear - tender, funny, emotional, heartbreaking
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1969062/?ref_=rt_li_tt
Mr. Right
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2091935/?ref_=rt_li_tt
Hunger
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986233/?ref_=rt_li_tt
This one is 96 minutes, but I'd be surprised if you can see it all at once. It is HEAVY! Dark, repulsive, stomach turning. There is no eating during this one. Don't even think about it!
Locke
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2692904/?ref_=rt_li_tt
This movie is great! Not only is it under 90 minutes, it only has one actor on camera the whole time. And that actor is, drum roll, please, Tom Hardy! He is driving the whole time and having phone conversations. That's it. That's the movie. It is SO good!
I think these should do for now. Happy watching!
"House" is literally one of my favorite movies of all time. This Japanese horror film is effing coconuts and such an acid-trip that you'll think about what you watched months from now. I swear I love nearly the same exact movies as Katya...most times. Reading Gooped and confirming it again and again makes me feel all warm and oozing on the outside.💀🖤🦇🕷🕸😱 Love ya, Miss Katya💋
my recs: Heavenly Creatures with Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey at 99 minutes; Paranoid Park at 85 minutes - the theme may seem specific but the pacing and delivery of the story is perfection with a P!
I am at the point where I check running time before I agree to a movie in a theater. Over 100 minutes? No thanks, I'll wait for streaming. I just can't sit there that long! I get frustrated and stop enjoying the movie.
I hate that feeling when you think “oh that’s the end of the movie”, 20 minutes later “oh that’s actually the end of the movie, but no 35 min after that you experience total disappointment at the actual ending. I love Mary and Max (2009) is a lovely comedy/drama stop motion. “News From Home” (1976) is an great documentary.
“Manifiesto” with Cate Blanchett is a little longer but have you seen it?
Thanks for the movie list and the snack suggestion!!! Trixie you should try chia puddings.
Tea and popcorn is the tea for a summer body