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

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That portraying evil fairies/elves isn't as simple as portraying the good ones, so I never expect "dark elves" to be much cop. :)
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But what has that to with Spotlight, a journalism drama based on a real child abuse case ? Do you think it was the dark fairies wot did it ? Are you sure you quoted the right post ?
 
Gonna watch the big short later as it's just leaked on the torrent sites. Supposed to be quite good.
 
Stumbled across Pulp Fiction on Dave - I can never not watch it until the end whenever I catch it on telly. Its a flipping masterpiece
 
A good filmy day yesterday. Watched the Eagle has landed, can't believe I've never seen it before. Loved it. Donald Sutherland was really brilliant.

Then The Sapphires which was billed as a comedy and it was not. I really liked it though.

Telstar: The Joe Meek story. Was ok, not the best biopic I've ever seen.

I really enjoyed the Sinatra doc that was on BBC 4 last night.
 
Backyard - fictionalised account of the investigation into the murder of 100s of women in Mexico during the 90s...

A powerful film, not an easy watch. The script let it down in places and the story wasn't always coherent, but overall it was a strong film about a harsh subject.
 
The Big Short - who'd have thought it would be possible to make an entertaining film (and informative, too) about the sub-prime mortgage crisis? Steve Carell is great, and I'll confess I didn't even know Brad Pitt was in it until the credits *phones Specsavers*. Great soundtrack too - not many films with Mastodon and Kelis both working well with the scene.
 
The Bishop's Wife (1947) ,starring Cary Grant as an angel sent down to help a bishop (David Niven) but ends up taking a bit of a shine to his missus. Lovely christmas film that fits in well with the other festive feel good movies of the era, (It''s a Wonderful Life, Miracle On 34th Street, A Christmas Carol). A nice way to end the Xmas hols.
 
Netflix's A Very Murray Christmas - directed by Sofia Coppola. So so hommage to festive telly shows of yesteryear meets behind the scenes chaos schtick. Not as funny as it could have been.

American Horror Story - Coven. 5 eps in and so far; the best season yet.

The Bridge 3 - I thought it would dive a bit after Martin but Henrik was a good replacement.
 
Creed.

This is like the best Rocky movie but better :)

Pathos is big in this but I don't mind so much, it fits in well.
 
Behind the Candelabra - 3 years after everyone else I've seen how absolutely magnificent Michael Douglas was as Liberace - and Michael Douglas usually repels me so much I can't watch anything with him in it. Consistently entertaining throughout but I don't think it really plumbed his (or his assistant Matt Damon's) psyche deeply enough; some of the antics on display were so completely bizarre by any standard that imho the film should have either camped it up MORE and gone for broke as one long crrrazy caper, or gone a bit more arthouse-miserable and had a bit more psychoanalysis-style picking things apart. But honestly it's great. (favourite bit: keeping gaga Mama amused with slot machines loaded with cash, kept specially in the house for her and regularly topped up with cash by minions...)
 
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The Counselor

Really bad. The book was shit, the most obviously 'written for the movie' book Cormac McCarthy has churned out to date, which is annoying 'cos he's a favourite author of mine. Not much happens in the slim book, and its all a bit silly, but what is there is so OTT and glossy it could have made a good looking film if nothing else. It doesn't. Cameron Diaz does look great, as do the cheetahs, but everything about it is awful. I knew the plot and still couldn't follow it, and it went on for over 2 hours - too long by about 80 minutes.
 
French action film Sleepless Night (Nuit Blanche). Slightly daft premise of kidnapped-son-of-corrupt-cop-turns-into-Die-Hard-in-a-nightclub but really quite lovely action sequences and fights that look like a couple of guys just clobbering each other in a barbaric fashion rather than taking the scenic route via Bloodless Hollywood Fight Choreography. Nice intimate camerawork. Entertaining popcorn fare with a great soundtrack. Very pleasantly surprised.
 
not a dvd an actual film at the movies right now (Ritzy Brixton, for example) ..
I went to see The Lobster yesterday.
And it was wonderful, highly recommended. :)
 
Mistress America. Like some awful stage farce where not a single character rings true. Lots of manic overacting.
 
Heat. Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro.

Wow, managed to get relatively old and missed this. Some film. Nasty robbers you want to do well, old fashioned cops beating the bad guys. Superb acting, back story's. Shoot outs and a run round the airfield climax.

Watch.
 
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) - Danny Kaye and Boris Karloff in a classic comedy.
Modern Times (1936) - The Little Tramp is driven mad by repetitive factory work and the boss spying on workers via giant telly screens. Then he's mistakenly arrested leading a workers rights march and in jail he ends up accidentaly taking coke. Brutal cops and quite a comment on the times.
I Am Big Bird - The Caroll Spinney Story (2014) - Unashamedly sentimental and heartwarming doc on the man behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. Took me right back to the early 70s. Sesame Street was shown on RTE; so it had a big influence on me. I blubbed several times!
 
Hateful 8. Tarantinos new one. It was ok I suppose, but really not much to it. Lots of it distastefuly. Some good shots. curates egg

season finale for Ash vs Evil Dead.

excellent. Whole series has been great
 
DotCommunist said:
Hateful 8. Tarantinos new one. It was ok I suppose, but really not much to it. Lots of it distastefuly. Some good shots. curates egg

season finale for Ash vs Evil Dead.

excellent. Whole series has been great
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Loved the music in the tv series - so well chosen! Loved the Whitesnake especially.
 
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