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

[imposs1904]

Benched. Excellent US sitcom on the USA Network. Not groundbreaking. Just well done.
Binge watched Amazon Prime's Transparent. Loved Gabby Hoffman but watching reruns of Uncle Buck will never be the same again.

 

[DotCommunist]

Black Mirror: White Christmas

absolutely horrific.

 

[belboid]

Only Lovers Left Alive. Absolutely cracking. Tho it did make me wonder why yank dramas never go anywhere in North Africa other than Morocco.

Cabin in the Woods - still highly enjoyable.

 

[DexterTCN]

Locke.

Tom Hardy in a car. No action, no chases.

Voice support from (Alice from Luther), (Moriarty from Sherlock), some others and Olivia Coleman.

Apparently filmed over about 6 days.

It's really, really good. Hardy is a top class actor.

A short film (85 minutes?) it grows and grows in tension and gravity. The modern enclosure of the car is his hope and his jail, he creates conversations with his (non-attending) father, laying out his feelings and anger to an empty back seat. Every phone call brings more pressure and collapse to his well-built, concrete world of facts and figures and error-checking. Of being responsible.

The ending is worthy.

 

[D'wards]

Boyhood. Absolutely brilliant - Ethan Hawke would never be one to sell a film to me just because he's in it, but after watching this I realised he's a quietly excellent actor. Always gives a good performance, even if the film is not so hot.

 

[Indeliblelink]

The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears (2013) very enjoyable stylish neo-giallo from the directors who did "Amer" a few years ago. A man suspects his wife has been murdered and the killer is stalking their art nouveau styled apartment complex.

 

[RubyBlue]

Kill your darlings - brilliant - loved it

 

[belboid]

We Are the Best - as good as everyone says.

Belle - above average costume drama

 

[Thraex]

Watched "The Theory of Everything" yesterday, absolutely fantastic. Thought it might be some schmaltzy 'triumph in the face of adversity' thing but, no. Left me feeling quite sad. Awards ahoy, I'd say.

 

[Tigerlil]

The Drop. Enjoyed this with Tom Hardy and James Gandolphini, it had an air of menace throughout.

 

[Yetman]

Maze Runner - A poor mans hunger games. Not very good really.

The Interview - fell asleep; bit crap with the jokes but raised a few smiles and was quite polished, of what I saw.

'71 - Rookie soldier gets sent to N.Ireland during the troubles and ends up having an absolute right proper shit one. Very good.

Horns - Harry Potter grows horns and starts freaking people out. Good storyline, taking artistic license as far as it can go - I liked it. Mrs thought it was far too silly.

 

[Orang Utan]

We Are the Best - as good as everyone says.

I got all excited about watching this on Netflix, but there are no subtitles

 

[spartacus mills]

Closely Observed Trains - a faithful adaptation of Bohumil Hrabal's novel.

 

[Idris2002]

Watched "The Theory of Everything" yesterday, absolutely fantastic. Thought it might be some schmaltzy 'triumph in the face of adversity' thing but, no. Left me feeling quite sad. Awards ahoy, I'd say.

Not seen that, but I have seen The Imitation Game - Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing. I normally dislike him, but he was very good in this very good movie. I was even able to tolerate Keira Knightley as Bletchley Park crytography ace Joan Clarke. I'd thought she was invented to give Cumberbatch's female fans a chance to put themselves in the movie, but she was a real person apparently. And Turing did propose marriage, even though he was gay.

The special effects used to depict the Battle of the Atlantic and the Blitz were stunning - and made me wonder why there hasn't been a new Battle of Britain movie using modern SFX.

 

[DexterTCN]

22 Jump Street.

At least as funny as the first one. Written by the guys who did the Lego Movie, I think.

It replicates the first film in a good way, some of the jokes miss but so many hit it doesn't matter.

/sings Benny Hill theme tune

 

[Supine]

I did a binge and watched five episodes of Transparent yesterday. Is a really good sites on Amazon about a man becoming trans in his late sixties.

Written by one of the guys who wrote Six Feet Under i believe. Is brilliantly casted and written.

 

[DotCommunist]

episode 1 of Galavant. Extremely silly but very funny. Imagine a disney musical but live action and with dirty jokes. Shouldn't have been my thing really but the sheer bawd and wit won me over

penultimate episode of Z Nation. Easily the best thing SyFy have released this year and makes the tiresome pompous up-its-own-arse Walking Dead look as po faced as it is

 

[butchersapron]

The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji - finally a good silly Miike film. Him doing a daft manga and giving it a lot of energy - that's all you need to know.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

The Imitation Game. It is not entirely historically correct, to say the least.

 

[Idris2002]

The Imitation Game. It is not entirely historically correct, to say the least.

But it is a much better film than I expected it to be.

At least it didn't turn Alan T. into a squarejawed muy macho hetero Texan.

 

[inva]

Green for Danger
Entertaining little wartime murder mystery film from 1946, starring Alastair Sim and Trevor Howard. Great fun.

 

[redsquirrel]

Green for Danger
Entertaining little wartime murder mystery film from 1946, starring Alastair Sim and Trevor Howard. Great fun.

Love that movie, Sim is excellent

 

[yardbird]

Half way through American Sniper.

 

[Betsy]

Caught up with Dallas Buyers Club courtesy of Netflix..great film with powerful performances from Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto.

 

[Belushi]

Gloria (Sebastian Lelio 2014) Paulina Garcia is terrific in a wonderful Chilean film about a middle aged woman in search of happiness.

 

[belboid]

Gloria (Sebastian Lelio 2014) Paulina Garcia is terrific in a wonderful Chilean film about a middle aged woman in search of happiness.

it's a few years old, in fact. But whenever it was, its bloody brill

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Watched the first episode of The Corner, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0224853/

 

[The39thStep]

Starred (2013)

Brit prison film. Just unrelentingly grim and violent. Captures the claustrophobic and febrile environs perfectly. Btought up some npleasant recollections. Well done for what it is but one watch was enough. Strange, I watched that french on Prophet and it didn't push any buttons

Good until the last 20 mins

 

[DotCommunist]

Fury

Brad Pitt IS 'wardaddy'! no cliche left unexpressed in this tour de force of 'war is shit'. Special wardaddy ire is reserved for the SS, continuing the clean wermacht trope.

Combat scenes were good, dialogue atrocious.

 

[butchersapron]

LFO: The Movie - not, despite the title about LFO: The Band, but a pretty twisted black comedy of sorts from Sweden about a freak who learns to control people though LFO. Original and doesn't go where you think, but certain things mean it's going to put a lot of people off.

Real Life - Albert Brooks' really really early satire on reality TV (1979) and just how the reality is constructed. Really well done and smart, but it's just so frigging gentle compared to where satire has gone since that it doesn't really appear to bite.