What have you watched recently? 3D!

I lucked out and managed to get to a screening of Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers today before cinemas in the UK get shut down again. I really enjoyed it, and the animation was great - visually some similarities to The Secret of Kells, as perhaps expected given some of the similarities of setting. I really liked the repeated use of frames within the screen to show multiple perspectives at once, and the "wolf scent view" was really well done, reminding me a bit of the changing art style in The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya. For my money, another absolute cracker from Cartoon Saloon. Looking forward to Nora Twomey's next feature with them, which is out sometime next year on Netflix.

Over the weekend I also rewatched Scream, which holds up surprisingly well and whose "the real horror was incels all along" theme is, if anything, more impactful now. And tonight, out of sheer boredom, I stuck on Slenderman. Lasted fifteen minutes before deciding that life's too bloody short for that pish. Also watched Overlord, which had some good bits (as you'd hope, for a film about Allies vs a Nazi zombie factory) but also suffered by having less of a script and more of a trope checklist. There's a looooong bit in the middle where it gets very dull and you're just waiting for things to get moving, and to be fair the last half hour or so has some good stuff, but still marred by being extremely tropey and predictable, so if you have seen literally any WWII or zombie film ever, you'll know exactly what's going to happen and when. Grand if you are e.g. doing the ironing like I was, but I reckon I'd have been annoyed at the sheer laziness and predictability of it if I'd bothere to see it at the cinema.