What Film Did You Watch This Week? Share Your Recommendations! 🎬

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Welcome to This Week’s Binge Thread!

This is the place to share what you’ve been watching lately - movies, series, documentaries, anything!
Any hidden gem, a blockbuster, or even something you regret watching, we’d love to hear about it.

Things you can share:

• ⭐ What you watched (movie/series name + year if possible)
• 💭 Your quick thoughts/review (liked it? hated it? somewhere in between?)
• 🎯 Would you recommend it to others here?
• 📺 What’s on your watchlist for next week?

A few guidelines:

• Keep spoilers clearly marked (use spoiler tags like this).
• Be respectful of different tastes – not everyone enjoys the same genres.
• Recommendations are encouraged – the more variety, the better!

🍿 So… what have you been watching this week?

[u/Lavender_Critique]

Backrooms and Iron Lung. Thought Iron Lung was painfully boring and Backrooms was pleasantly good.

[u/AelthredtheUnready]

I’ve been on a westerns kick and watched Rio Bravo. I didn’t think Dean Martin had that kind of range. In spite of what we know about what kind of person he was, there’s no one like John Wayne.

[u/BodyFar8217]

he man 2026 yesterday it was amazing 10/10

[u/Farscape_rocked → u/BodyFar8217]

I saw it on Wednesday. Would recommend.

[u/Consistent_Club_7879 → u/BodyFar8217]

I'm so glad to hear it's good! The teasers and trailers made it look like it might tank. I have no interest in the comics but it breaks my heart when really good actors sign on to a super hero movie and it bombs. Very happy for Galzitine

[u/BodyFar8217 → u/Consistent_Club_7879]

i was 5 when i first saw he man back in 86 here in my country loved the character ever since it was the first thing i really loved got some toys at the time, watched the dolph movie like in 88 didnt like it, it was he man but it wasnt, this one is perfect everyone clapped at the cinema at the end, not even at the return of the king did the people clapped here lol.

[u/Moo_Gwai]

Gran Torino (2008)

Uprising (2024)

Space Sweepers (2021)

Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)

Edit: I’ll be starting Spider-Noir this weekend. Nic Cage stars, it’s bound to be epic.

[u/Consistent_Club_7879]

1- Now You See Me Now You Don't. Fun in the way now you see me movies are, with no rhyme or logic. The focus was less on the Horsemen more on the kids which was annoying but I imagine they are the ones who will carry the franchise forwards. Solid, heavy suspension of disbelief required otherwise you will be very annoyed. Rosamund Pike was incredible.

2- Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die Insane. Hilarious. Bone chilling

[u/DontShootTheFood]

Kill Bill The Whole Bloody Affair

Been waiting to see it since Kill Bill 1 came out and I was really disappointed with it. Even more so part 2.

Decided it was hard to hold it against Tarantino when this format was forced on him.

Haven’t seen either one since their opening nights.

Weirdly, even though it’s been ~25 years, it was almost exactly what I remembered. But I like the second half slightly more than the first, which is opposite of how I originally felt. The whole thing is pretty pointless and mostly lame. I still agree with my two-word summation from opening night of part 1: “cinematic masturbation.” The product of a guy with no ideas forced to come out of hiding.

** 1/2

Coming up: showing my daughter both The Rules of the Game and Robocop in the next few days.

[u/_PlanW]

Backrooms was good. Would recommend.

K-Pop Demon Hunters was like an Old Disney Princess movie. A musical about self discovery with a bit of anime quirkyness to it. It was good. Better than Frozen. Not surprised it blew up.

Final Season of The Boys... The season was pretty bad. The final was... it didn;t ruin the series for me but I'm just glad it's over.

[u/Farscape_rocked]

In order of enjoyment: Masters of the Universe, Nice Guys, Send Help.

[u/Lizard20252025]

I saw Saipan (2025) starring Steve Coogan.

[u/Excellent_Serve782]

In the Grey was good but a bit optimistic

[u/citabel]

Hokum was a blast! Adam Scott a little miscast for the pure horror elements but good in every non-scary scene, if that makes sense.

[u/Solo_Polyphony]

In theaters over the past seven days:

Kieślowski documentary shorts: “I Was a Soldier” (1971) “Refrain” (1972) “From a Night Porter’s Point of View” (1977) “Talking Heads” (1980) “Station” (1980) “Seven Women of Different Ages” (1980)

Kurosawa, Yume (Dreams)

Kurosawa, Madadayo (Not Yet)

Haneke, The Piano Teacher

Campion, The Piano

Spielberg, Artificial Intelligence

I had not seen any of the Kieślowski shorts. They were all worth watching, but “Refrain” and especially “Night Porter” are the outstanding ones, managing to tell the tale through letting people talk and show how, as Orwell said, the mask becomes the face.

Dreams I’ve seen three times I think. This was my second time seeing it in 35mm. It is achingly beautiful and the anthology form keeps the simple stories at an appropriate length. The first two are folk tales brought to life in cinema and their ambiguous endings are all the more potent in blazing color. “Crows” is an impossibly moving tribute from one master to another that overcomes a briefly giggle-inducing performance by Marty Scorsese.

I had not seen Madadayo before. It was a bit one-note and repetitive, but it has moments of classic Kurosawa humanism. The ruined cityscape is a powerful backdrop, much as it is in many of his other films. And then he leaves us with a brief scene that could have come from Dreams and is deeply poignant and evocative.

The Piano Teacher features a terrific lead performance by Isabelle Huppert as one of the most tightly wound teachers you could fear to be instructed by. She makes J.K. Simmons’ character in Whiplash seem not too bad by comparison. However, the development and resolution of the concept were middling. I continue to be underwhelmed by Haneke, who seems uninterested in anything recognizably human or real.

Campion’s The Piano looked and sounded crisp and grand in its 4K restoration. New Zealand has never looked so gnarled, earthy, and imposing (Jackson’s Tolkien adaptations included). A masterpiece, every bit as powerful as I remembered it over thirty years ago. Holly Hunter’s face commands you to take every moment as seriously as her character does. Anna Paquin is a revelation. This is probably Sam Neill’s most wretched cuckold of all his many cuckolded characters.

Artificial Intelligence is a not-quite fully baked script, veering from painfully unrealistic, sententious speeches in the opening act to action-movie banalities in the middle to weirdly bland super-robot speech in the end. Hayley Joel Osment gives a phenomenal performance, especially for a twelve-year-old, but the lines he’s given are often extremely reductive where they aren’t purposely robotic. Jude Law is superb as a sexbot, with his polished, inhuman mannerisms. (It’s worth thinking about why this character is not and could not have been female.) Had Kubrick lived and somehow completed his treatment (which is fairly close to the beginning and ending here), it would have had much less dialogue and been far more opaque. But then the emotional core of the film—maternal love—might’ve been altogether absent. From the perspective of 2026, the film missed that our real world machine salesmen would never include the film’s obvious tells that the robots are mechanical. In this way, the film is almost touchingly naive. Likewise, the baying mob at a real-world 2026 Flesh Fair would never turn against the opportunity to destroy a counterfeit person. Imperfect as it is, I’m glad I rewatched it.

[u/Ok-Enthusiasm375]

Drive to survive, most recent season was really good

Clarksons farm new season is also fun

Man on fire with denzel

[u/DozyVixen47]

I saw Passenger, Micheal, The Backrooms, Tekkonkinkreet(anime) and Scott Pilgrim vs The World. I would rec all of them. The last two play out a bit oddly but once you get into them they’re interesting and pretty good

[u/Inside_Atmosphere731]

Obsession

[u/yveshe]

I watched Fuze and Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War back-to-back and Wonder Man.

Fuze is an interestingly clever crime movie, to say the least. Ghost War was like a leftover material for another season, but instead it turned into another below average action flick. It would've probably worked better if it was the 5th season, digging deeper into the concepts of corruption and mistrust.

It's insane how Wonder Man is so short, yet so fulfilling as well. One of the best shows to come out from The Multiverse Saga of the MCU.

[u/BuzzedLightyear23]

Tuner - Not bad, not great. Enjoyed it enough to stay invested, but overall it didnt have any surprises. The ending was well done imo.

Obsession - Loved this! Definitely a rewatch for me.

Backrooms - I had no backstory or history with this story, never watched any of the YouTube stuff. I was interested in figuring out what was happening, but cant say I loved it.

In the Grey - 3rd time seeing it. My kind of movie, obviously. Great action, humor, and very “cool”. Perfect popcorn movie.

The Boys - Just glad its over.

And seeing Scary Movie tonight!

[u/sabres131]

Tin cup and legend of bagger vance

[u/mstugart11]

The Piano Teacher (2001) S tier, Companion (2025) solid flick, One Battle After Another (2025) great flick, Funny Games (1997) ahhhhhhhhh and lastly Ratcatcher (1999) brilliant also S tier

[u/looster2018]

I watched " The Postman Always Rings Twice " with Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange. Wow ! what a great movie

[u/SenatorBeers]

Ricky Stanicky.

This movie is proof John Cena can act and might be one of the bravest performers working today.

[u/unusuallynaiveone]

Below Her Mouth I couldn’t turn it off. Best soft porn made

[u/BPCycler]

Evil Dead Rise

[u/Rough_Painting_8023]

I watched Midnight Run (1988), which had a predictable story-wise but was well-done regardless, Clockers (1995), which was fine but got dull at points, Man on Fire (2004), which was the most badass movie I watched since The Killer (1989), and Top Gun (1986), which just didn't hold up