When you think about scenes in movies, boiling water never is too far from the screen. Tropes such as demanding that someone grabs hot water and towels when babies are born or directors using the whistling effect of a boiling kettle to signify tension seem ubiquitous and there's always the numerous horror movies where some poor victim receives a splash of the hot stuff to relate. Not to mention FATAL ATTRACTION of course. With that said when we came to discuss the Top 5 Scenes with Boiling Water, we collectively struggled to remember a single film, scene, or line of dialogue anywhere, from any movie or tv show that was about the subject so join us as we muddle through that.
 
Howie's Netflix menu paralysis resulted in us watching HOLD THE DARK. When Medora Sloane's 6-year-old son is abducted from the remote Alaskan town of Keelut, she asks author and wolf expert Russell Core (Jeffrey Wright) to help track down the pack responsible. As her husband Vernon (an intense Alexander Skarsgård) returns injured from active combat duty to join the hunt, distressing revelations being to emerge. Director Jeremy Saulnier and writer Macon Blair (I DON'T FEEL AT HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE) bring us this dense examination of human behaviour with strong cinematography and occasional explosive outbursts of brutal violence. Grim, bleak and utterly devoid of humour I found this one sometimes narratively incoherent and without a strong emotional performance or character to connect to.
 
SURF'S UP sees aspiring penguin professional surfer Cody Maverick competing against the world’s best in the Big Z Memorial surfing contest, including 9-time former champion Tank "The Shredder" Evans and dim-witted stoner Chicken Joe. After being stung by a sea urchin named Ivan, lifeguard Lani takes Cody to meet her uncle Geek but what does all this have to do with the disappearance of Cody's inspiration, Big Z? I don't know but I bet it won't be that they are the same person, Zeke having faked his own death to avoid having to deal with the humiliation of becoming second best at the sport he loves. Although I wouldn't bet a lot on that. Or anything. With a strong ensemble cast including Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel, Diedrich Bader, Jon Heder and a memorable turn from James Woods as an ambitious otter and a genuinely novel and ambitious mockumentary aesthetic, incredible water effects and an improvisation heavy approach this was enjoyed by us all.

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