It was a trip when The Muppet Show made Young Marty cry, didn't know, didn't ask, didn't wonder why.
Back by unpopular demand 1nce again, it's the Martorialist best movies and TV shows awards post. Told ya, you shoulda killed me last year. Damn, it feels good to be a blogger when you can inflict your year-end lists on the internet. I have no idea whether 2024 will go down as A Vintage Year™ for movies & television, I just know that I've watched some stuff which tickled my specific fancies. Is Natasia Demetriou nadja average actress? Then let's talk turkey.
Robot Dreams
Anora
The Substance
Love Lies Bleeding
Late Night With The Devil
You'll Never Find Me
Heretic
Grand Theft Hamlet
Getting It Back: The Cymande Story
Scala!!!
What We Do In The Shadows (series 6)
Colin From Accounts (series 2)
Inside No. 9 (series 9)
Peacock (series 2)
Mandy (series 3)
Neighbours (2024 episodes)
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (series 7)
Mr. McMahon (all 6 episodes)
Mammals (series 1)
Saucy! Secrets Of The British Sex Comedy (both episodes)
Only Connect (2024 episodes)
Match Of The Day 1 and 2 (2024 episodes)
Toy Shop on Tour (series 3 so far)
** Kevin Bacon's sleazy hick P.I character from MaXXXine needs his own spin-off prequel movie.
** 2024 movies I still need to see: MadS and The Zone Of Interest.
Best old movies I saw for the first time this year: The Long Kiss Goodnight, Little Shop Of Horrors (director's cut), Near Dark, Miracle Mile, Meantime, Restless Natives, The Cars That Ate Paris, X, The Lavender Hill Mob and Eating Raoul.
** Since coming to the conclusion that the Ramones were the greatest Rock band ever, I've spent 2024 constantly rewatching bits of their movie Rock "N' Roll High School. This is surely one of the best opening credits sequences in the history of cinema innit?
Obligatory shout out to Party Sparty for running my favourite movie/TV blog.
Been a great year for films, imo. Anora, The Substance, Love Lies Bleeding and Late Night With The Devil were quality.
ReplyDeleteNever even heard of Grand Theft Hamlet until now. Only docs I caught this year were The Contestant and Dario Argento Panico.
I caught it last night after someone at the last movie club meeting was talking about it. Most surreal thing I've watched this year.
DeleteNow what we do in the shadows is ending and ghosts has ended, what will we do for horror-adjacent gentle but vulgar sitcoms?
ReplyDeleteYou not fucking with the Wolf Hall saga, cuh?
Actually not seen any of those films. (Think I might need a Muni subscription). I'm confused as to what came out this year and last but I enjoyed Dune 2, Perfect Days, Miyizake and the Heron and
Woman of the Hour.
Corpse
My dad is a big fan of Wolf Hall. I've never seen it beyond a couple of clips on Gogglebox.
DeleteI'm down for a What We Do In The Shadows movie which combines the characters from the O.G movie with the characters from the TV series.
Did watch a gang of great old movies this year though (largely thanks to BFI player). In reverse chron order, some rewatches...
ReplyDeleteFanny and Alexander 1984
Yojimbo 1961
Stray Dog 1949
Drunken Angel 1948
Point Break 1991
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000
Police Story 1985
Anatomy of a Fall 2023
It Follows 2014
Evil Dead II 1987
The Evil Dead 1981
The Passenger 1975
Soul 2020
Challengers 2024
The Long Good Friday 1980
Insomnia 2002
Still Walking 2008
Punch-Drunk Love 2002
All of Us Strangers 2023
Aftersun 2022
The Zone of Interest 2023
Sideways 2004
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead 2007
Poor Things 2023
corpszee
Punch Drunk Love = only PTA movie I fuxwit.
DeleteAll Of Us Strangers is the next screening at the movie club I go to. Sounds alright for a benny movie.
Boogie Nights is the number one PTA movie for me.
ReplyDeleteHeads up: The War Games on tonight, blud.
I completely forgot he did Boogie Nights 🤦♂️ For some reason I'd got it into my head Wes Anderson did that 😵
DeleteCheers. Fingers crossed they don't make a complete pig's ear of this one.
Mr McMahon might be the wildest thing i saw all year
DeleteLove Lies Bleeding is IMHO the spiritual successor to Bound (1996) and I love them both
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of that before. Trailer looks sick.
DeleteFavourite movies:
ReplyDeleteThe outrun
The Apprentice
The holdovers
The Holdovers is another one I need to get around to watching.
Deletewhat we do in the shadows was a hoot this season. the most hilarious thing i watched all year was kings of tupelo, i laughed my ass off. last night i watched a film from the 70s called mikey and nicky it was a knockout.
ReplyDeleteGood movie. Falk & Cassavetes were the proverbial Good Combination.
DeleteProposal for Miracle Mile to get the film club treatment.
ReplyDeleteI did mention it a few meetings back. Nobody else had ever heard of it, but a couple of people said it sounds intriguing.
DeleteIt’s been fruitful, regardless. If a film club is curating gems like Near Dark, The Long Kiss Goodnight and Eating Raoul, then it’s definitely doing it right. 👍
ReplyDeleteMakes me wish we had something like that here.
Eating Raoul was a YouTube watch after revisiting Rock 'N' Roll High School. The other movie club screenings have been:
DeleteThe Warriors (O.G version)
After Hours
Little Shop Of Horrors (director's cut)
It Follows
They Live
Do The Right Thing
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Hundreds Of Beavers
Attack The Block
Had to endure Rushmore too, but no pain, no gain.
Watched Hundreds of Beavers earlier this month. Essentially a mash-up of Looney Toons and a video game platformer.
ReplyDeleteBunch of the crew were also responsible for Lake Michigan Monster (2018), which looks equally as silly.
Every time my attention started to wander in that there would be a good slapstick gag to drag me back in.
DeleteIt got a little repeative for me at times. The beaver city scenes were great however.
ReplyDeleteI liked it, but I'm surprised to see it featuring so high in some 2024 lists I've seen.
DeleteGotta add Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl to the movie list. That franchise has yet to put a foot wrong.
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