What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)

[inva]

They Made Me a Fugitive

1947 noirish gangster film starring Trevor Howard as a former pilot in post-war London who falls in with a gang, gets set up and then is out for revenge with the police on his tail. I picked this up from a sale a while ago mainly because I recognised the director Alberto Cavalcanti from the great WW2 film Went the Day Well?, and as much as I liked that one They Made Me a Fugitive is even better.

Great fun, full of dark brooding atmosphere in dingy alleys and all that sort of thing and shot in excellent black & white photography. The stand out feature though is the phenomenal performance from Howard. It's well up there with the best noirs.

 

[belboid]

Made in Dagenham. Which I'd never got round to watching before. And I suppose I'm glad I did even if it really is a bit rubbish. Tottering on the edge of being a Comic Strip GLC/Miners Strike piece, no cliche left unstitched. Quite well observed in a few places, but, really.....

Filth - that's better. A surprisingly good job of a deeply unpleasant book, good show.

 

[TruXta]

3 eps of American Horror Story - Asylum (S2). I like it. It's a mish-mash of every genre cliche imaginable, but it's got something.

 

[christy01]

Rush 2013 movie about 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.

 

[Yetman]

Rush 2013 movie about 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.

Watched some of that. Bit meh. Well shot though.

 

[mwgdrwg]

Come on, it was abominable! Way too long to.

It was, but still better (or 'less worse') than Origins!

 

[TruXta]

It was, but still better (or 'less worse') than Origins!

NO!

 

[DotCommunist]

3 eps of American Horror Story - Asylum (S2). I like it. It's a mish-mash of every genre cliche imaginable, but it's got something.

Lange's accent is quite odd in that one. Like she's going for some boston/new england/period accent. She gets away with it because she is Mrs Lange

 

[TruXta]

Lange's accent is quite odd in that one. Like she's going for some boston/new england/period accent. She gets away with it because she is Mrs Lange

You think? I was just thinking while I watched it she's got a strong southern accent.

/checks ears

 

[DotCommunist]

You think? I was just thinking while I watched it she's got a strong southern accent.

/checks ears

southern in series 1. series 2 she got that weird 'all vowel sounds are a's' going off

 

[TruXta]

southern in series 1. series 2 she got that weird 'all vowel sounds are a's' going off

It's supposed to be set on the East Coast isn't it?

 

[DotCommunist]

my american geography is hopeless but- the accent side of things is marginally better. Way she says 'Dark meat' in episode 1 had the new england sound foe example, compared to the pronounced southern lilt of series 1.

series 3 is also the tits btw. Best show in ages

 

[TruXta]

Nice.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Nebraska (2013)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821549/

Finally a screener became available.

Hilarious, poignant, brilliantly cast and equally well acted; i thought Bruce Dern was outstanding. Highly recommend.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Philomena (2013)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2431286/

Coogan and Dench combine well. The Catholic church are so craven and inhumane. Excellent film. Recommend.

 

[friedaweed]

Philomena (2013)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2431286/

Coogan and Dench combine well. The Catholic church are so craven and inhumane. Excellent film. Recommend.

I watched that last night myself. Cracking film

 

[QueenOfGoths]

"Best in Show" - really enjoyed it, gentle but sharp humour

 

[DexterTCN]

"Best in Show" - really enjoyed it, gentle but sharp humour

Lots of improvisation in it, apparently. Great little movie.

 

[Part 2]

Started watching Orange is the New Black last night, 3 episodes in and it's keeping my interest, a few more tonight, maybe it will really get going.

Just watched Her, very good but not everyone's kind of film.

 

[grubby local]

Sightseers (2012). so english, so unexpected, so funny.
gx

 

[Yetman]

Enders Game - Excellent effects, excellent dialogue, decent acting, it got a bit 'EVE Online' at points but still, maybe not a great film, but a very good one.

 

[stupid dogbot]

I watched The Expendables last night.

I think I just needed something which was rubbish to take me out of where I was. This was suitably rubbish.

 

[Greebo]

Good Hair - one of the most watchable and unpatronising documentaries I've seen in a long time. Not exactly feelgood, but not endless misery either. If you've got afro hair or know somebody with it, you need to see this.

 

[belboid]

Prometheus - thought it was time I rewatched it, to see if it made more sense second time around. And it was certainly appearing to, up until the point where I had another large G&T and forgot what the hell was going on.

Kick Ass 2 - wow, just nasty, ultra-violent, witless and crude. One to avoid fer sure

 

[braindancer]

Cave of Forgotten Dreams - Werner Herzog doco on the Chauvet cave in Southern France where 32,000 year old paintings were discovered in the nineties. Brilliant and fascinating film - intended to be seen in 3D however, so no doubt would have been even more impressive at the cinema than on my shitty telly.

 

[OneStrike]

Philomena, it's well worth a watch. Well acted, a strong storyline and a few laughs/tears if you are in the mood. I wanted my face to leak and it nearly did, progress for me. 9/10, everyone loves Steve Coogan, right? Also has that Bond girl Dench in it.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Philomena, it's well worth a watch. Well acted, a strong storyline and a few laughs/tears if you are in the mood. I wanted my face to leak and it nearly did, progress for me. 9/10, everyone loves Steve Coogan, right? Also has that Bond girl Dench in it.

After watching Coogan in that dreadful Alpha Papa or whatever it was called i was reluctant to watch Philomena but it was excellent.

 

[belboid]

After watching Coogan in that dreadful Alpha Papa or whatever it was called i was reluctant to watch Philomena but it was excellent.

what you on about??!! Alpha Papa was excellent. It didn't rely for its humour on taking the mickey out of an elderly Irish woman's 'simpleness' like Philomena did. It could really have done without that cheap tosh. Shame cos it badly let down an otherwise excellent film that is well worth watching (tho I'm not that arsed to have missed it at the pics, cinematic it wasn't)

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

what you on about??!! Alpha Papa was excellent. It didn't rely for its humour on taking the mickey out of an elderly Irish woman's 'simpleness' like Philomena did. It could really have done without that cheap tosh. Shame cos it badly let down an otherwise excellent film that is well worth watching (tho I'm not that arsed to have missed it at the pics, cinematic it wasn't)

It's an interesting point you make because i thought Alpha Papa had a number of racist moments in it.

 

[Idris2002]

Coogan's family are from Mayo, right?