C.<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/5SecondMovieReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>5SecondMovieReview</span></a> : "Weirdsville" (2007)</p><p>If this didn't have you at "satanic yuppie cannibal cult", I'm not sure I can help you. Incredibly funny Canadian movie with Taryn Manning and the incomparable Matt Frewer in a supporting role. It's excellent; see it.</p><p>I mentioned this movie once before, long ago, but didn't give it the review treatment. It's part mystery, part stoner comedy with a fantastic cast.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>movie</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/review" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>review</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MoviesForAdults" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MoviesForAdults</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Canadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Canadian</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/comedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>comedy</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/stoner" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>stoner</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/TarynManning" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TarynManning</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MattFrewer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MattFrewer</span></a></p>
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C.<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/5SecondMovieReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>5SecondMovieReview</span></a> : "Hayseed" (2023)</p><p>A comedy / murder mystery whodunit, which can be tricky to pull off, but they got the balance right here. It's excellent; see it.</p><p>It's in a small-town setting and feels very <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Canadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Canadian</span></a>, though it isn't. If you liked Corner Gas or Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town, I suspect you'll like this.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>movie</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/review" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>review</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MoviesForAdults" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MoviesForAdults</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/comedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>comedy</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/whodunit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>whodunit</span></a></p>
C.<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/5SecondMovieReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>5SecondMovieReview</span></a> : "The Gorge" (2025)</p><p>Not perfect, but very good. See it.</p><p>It also breaks my rule about the more genres associated with a movie, the worse it is. This one is listed as "action, adventure, horror, romance, scifi" but doesn't fall into that trap.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>movie</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/review" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>review</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/NoSpoilers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoSpoilers</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/TheGorge" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheGorge</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/TheGorge2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheGorge2025</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/approved" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>approved</span></a></p>
C.<p>I occasionally post what I call a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/5SecondMovieReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>5SecondMovieReview</span></a> - essentially a quick yes/no recommendation with no spoilers. I try to highlight stuff that you may not have run into or seen ads for, at least some of the time.</p><p>This doesn't fit that mould, because I actually want to describe the content of this one.</p><p>"The Wrecking Crew" (2008) is a documentary about a loose-knit group of session musicians in LA that came to prominence in the 1960s. They recorded a huge slice of the hit early rock 'n' roll records that were nominally by the acts shown on the album covers. Literally everyone who has ever listened to music from this era has heard them play, almost certainly without knowing it.</p><p>The music side of this documentary is great, even if (like me) you're not a fan of this era of rock music. I can't stand the Beach Boys and all kinds of pre-British-invasion USA pop music.</p><p>But where this really shines is in showing the human side of the events and the business. It's touching and funny and warm.</p><p>Highly recommended.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WreckingCrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WreckingCrew</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/SessionMusician" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SessionMusician</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HiredGun" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HiredGun</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/session" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>session</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/recording" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>recording</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>artist</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>movie</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/review" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>review</span></a></p>
C.<p>5 second movie review: "Black Bag" (2025)</p><p>Excellent; see it. A film for adults, which Hollywood normally studiously avoids doing these days.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>movie</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/review" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>review</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/5SecondMovieReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>5SecondMovieReview</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/spy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>spy</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>thriller</span></a></p>
C.<p>5 second movie review: A Working Man (2025)</p><p>It won't change your life, but it does what it says on the tin. If you like action/vengeance, see it.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>movie</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/review" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>review</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/action" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>action</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/vengeance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>vengeance</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/5SecondMovieReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>5SecondMovieReview</span></a></p>
C.<p>We watched "Late Night with the Devil" (2023) tonight. I posted a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/5SecondMovieReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>5SecondMovieReview</span></a> of it earlier. We enjoyed it.</p><p>However... one little thing about it is nagging at me, like a splinter in the mind's eye.</p><p>It's a period piece, set in the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/1970s" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>1970s</span></a>. The major thread of the story includes a psychologist and her sessions with a patient, which are <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/recorded" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>recorded</span></a>. Part of one is played back as part of a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/television" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>television</span></a> show, and onscreen during that <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/playback" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>playback</span></a> is an open-reel (aka reel-to-reel) <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/tape" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tape</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/deck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>deck</span></a> playing a tape.</p><p>1970s, open-reel recording - it's <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>retro</span></a>, it's <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/cool" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cool</span></a>, it's period-authentic, right?</p><p>I can't shake the feeling that whoever put the visual together has never actually seen an open-reel tape recorder in operation. This picture is lousy, because it's a screencap from the movie, which is supposed to be showing a television broadcast in good old analog SD - but it gets the point across.</p><p>See anything wrong?</p><p>The takeup <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/reel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>reel</span></a>, on the right, turns clockwise, the opposite direction of the (normal) direction of the supply reel. So the tape wraps onto the inner side of the takeup reel, and ends up "inside out".</p><p>There's also no tension arm on the supply side, and an apparent <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/tension" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tension</span></a> arm on the takeup side, but it's not actually in the tape path.</p><p>I don't think any machines were actually made like this, but I'm not an <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/expert" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>expert</span></a>. Can anyone identify the deck they butchered or digi-simmed to create this <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/sin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sin</span></a> against nature? 😉 </p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OpenReel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenReel</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ReelToReel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReelToReel</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>audio</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/audiophile" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>audiophile</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/TapeDeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TapeDeck</span></a></p>
C.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dmv.community/@buzzkill" class="u-url mention">@<span>buzzkill</span></a></span> </p><p>Thanks for the reminder; I'd been meaning to watch this, so my partner and I just did.</p><p>Review: It's good. Watch it.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/5SecondMovieReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>5SecondMovieReview</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/review" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>review</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>movie</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cinema</span></a></p>
C.<p>5-second movie review...</p><p>Just watched Me, Myself, & the Void (2023). It's fantastic. Watch it. Completely unrelated to but reminds me of Dave Made a Maze (2017) [1] stylistically.</p><p>[1] This is also fantastic. See it.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>movie</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MovieReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MovieReview</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/FilmReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FilmReview</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/review" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>review</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/5SecondMovieReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>5SecondMovieReview</span></a></p>
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