FreguentLy
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Fellini 8 and a half , Von Triers The idiots... and....Possession 1981.. all in one day. I know its not very wise))
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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I don't watch films..but for a special occasion (home alone, house to myself) I thought I was going to be watching a film about gardening in space...but it only dawned on me, after several tedious hours (numerous spliff breaks) that I was watching the wrong film. Blighted earth, mumbling actors and very unlikely space ship trips (with endless waffle about gravity, wormholes, love (!))...the final hour stretched over what felt like 3 days. There was no gardening apart from some scenes of cornfields at the very beginning...but due to character mumbling and being unable to work youngest's Play Station, I had no idea what was going on. Youngest offspring has offered to remedy situation (should have been watching The Martian but ended up with Interstellar)...but I am going back to not watching ANY films after the mind-blowing shitness of several hours I will never get back.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Therese Desqueyroux - in a shocking departure from the normal order of the universe, Audrey Tautou isn't a wide-eyed ingenue tripping through an idealised Paris, but a sulky, mysterious, simmering, bored 1920s provincial housewife who tries to off her oafish husband with his own arsenic drops, for no particular reason other than ennui at her boring life. Refreshingly dark but rather pointless overall.
Saw that at the cinema when it came out. Found it really dull and couldn't care less what happened to any of them.
The book's meant to be way more interesting than the film and Mauriac was a Nobel laureate after all so presumably had something going for him but the film's definitely put me off reading it.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Wolf Lake - A bunch of hunters, led by Rod Steiger - who lost his son in Vietnam, go up to a remote lakeside cabin for a spot of hunting. Once there conflict between them and the caretaker, a deserter, and his girlfriend, reaches flash point and violence ensues. Directed by Burt Kennedy who did some semi-reasonable westerns (Support your Local Sheriff/Gunfighter).
The cabin location is nicely used but like all films in this genre it suffers from the problem of just being significantly inferior to Straw Dogs. Peckinpah really did write the last word for this type on film, has anyone done something that competes with Straw Dogs?
The cabin location is nicely used but like all films in this genre it suffers from the problem of just being significantly inferior to Straw Dogs. Peckinpah really did write the last word for this type on film, has anyone done something that competes with Straw Dogs?
FreguentLy
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Hour of the Wolf . Ingmar Bergman
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
The Lego Batman Movie.
Obviously it's great. Loads of references to ...well...everything. Daleks, T-Rex, Sauron..everything (gremlins). The jokes come so fast it's hard to keep up, references to every batman ever.
Add in a nice reverse message about friendship and you've got a nice little package for kids and adults alike.
Obviously it's great. Loads of references to ...well...everything. Daleks, T-Rex, Sauron..everything (gremlins). The jokes come so fast it's hard to keep up, references to every batman ever.
Add in a nice reverse message about friendship and you've got a nice little package for kids and adults alike.
Virtual Blue
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The Tower - abundance of sadness and loss throughout, it was gripping throughout. Good story-telling.
Last episode of American Gods.
Last episode of American Gods.
FreguentLy
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The Neon Demon... and Ed Wood
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
We Are Twisted Fucking Sister! is another great documentary about a band I had hitherto absolutely no interest in - it's on Netflix if you fancy a punt
DotCommunist
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Black Dynamite. From 2009. Appears to be a parody/pastiche of those 70s blaxsploitation films. I chuckled once or twice but in the end sacked it off. Perhaps you have to have been a fan of the genre to get it completely and all that stuff was before my time.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Great Adrian Younge soundtrack though
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Ares
a weird but good french near future dystopia- you know the drill, corporate rule, everything looks shit. Its good. Twisty enough tale to hang the violence on and ends with my favourite thing so all i all 7/10
a weird but good french near future dystopia- you know the drill, corporate rule, everything looks shit. Its good. Twisty enough tale to hang the violence on and ends with my favourite thing so all i all 7/10
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Sing Street
Entertaining
Entertaining
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Allied.
Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard are SOE agents who fall for each other. What starts out as exciting derring-do against the Fascist beast soon takes a darker turn.
This one seemed to get panned when it was released last year, but I thought it was pretty good for what it was - "not bad at all" would be my verdict. I normally don't much care for BP, but he was good for this. And Cotillard I definitely liked. I doubt if wartime Casablanca was anything like either this or the Bogart flick, but it's a convincing bit of world building, as was the stuff about wartime London and occupied provincial France. And the tension was not only built early on, but sustained throughout, and kept up to the final scene. I'd recommend it, actually.
Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard are SOE agents who fall for each other. What starts out as exciting derring-do against the Fascist beast soon takes a darker turn.
This one seemed to get panned when it was released last year, but I thought it was pretty good for what it was - "not bad at all" would be my verdict. I normally don't much care for BP, but he was good for this. And Cotillard I definitely liked. I doubt if wartime Casablanca was anything like either this or the Bogart flick, but it's a convincing bit of world building, as was the stuff about wartime London and occupied provincial France. And the tension was not only built early on, but sustained throughout, and kept up to the final scene. I'd recommend it, actually.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Fences
Denzel Washington is outstanding in this stage play from 1985 that hasn't really been opened out to a cinematic experience. The film is okay, but doesn't have anything particularly new or insightful to say, but DW is engrossing.
Passengers
Chris Pratt & Jennifer Lawrence wake up in space, but aren't sure why. Not as bad as many other reports had made it sound, but there isn't really much to it. Pratt & Lawrence are as pleasant to watch as usual, and the Michael Sheen scenes are great, despite making no real sense at all. In fact the whole film makes no real sense at all, but wtf.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Inexplicably popular, well, maybe not inexplicable as it loosely derived from those books, but still...it's just rubbish. Even if you like those books, this is just a bit rubbish.
20th Century Women
The truish story of Mike Mills' upbringing among three strong, feminist, women in the late twentieth century. Often very funny, sometimes a tad unbelievable, it made for an interesting contrast with Emma Clines' The Girls which mrs b & I had just read. Bad parenting doesn't always ruin your life, it seems.
Denzel Washington is outstanding in this stage play from 1985 that hasn't really been opened out to a cinematic experience. The film is okay, but doesn't have anything particularly new or insightful to say, but DW is engrossing.
Passengers
Chris Pratt & Jennifer Lawrence wake up in space, but aren't sure why. Not as bad as many other reports had made it sound, but there isn't really much to it. Pratt & Lawrence are as pleasant to watch as usual, and the Michael Sheen scenes are great, despite making no real sense at all. In fact the whole film makes no real sense at all, but wtf.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Inexplicably popular, well, maybe not inexplicable as it loosely derived from those books, but still...it's just rubbish. Even if you like those books, this is just a bit rubbish.
20th Century Women
The truish story of Mike Mills' upbringing among three strong, feminist, women in the late twentieth century. Often very funny, sometimes a tad unbelievable, it made for an interesting contrast with Emma Clines' The Girls which mrs b & I had just read. Bad parenting doesn't always ruin your life, it seems.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Certificate HB
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Forced myself to finish Luke Cage from ep9 til the end. Glad I did. It improved a lot towards the end, despite being a bit silly throughout.
I shall now endeavour to finish Iron Fist before The Defenders arrives.
On that note, I am enjoying Endeavour greatly. Shaun Evans makes a captivating Morse and inhabits the character thoroughly, bringing something very personal to the role whilst channelling just enough of John Thaw for it not to be impersonation.
I shall now endeavour to finish Iron Fist before The Defenders arrives.
On that note, I am enjoying Endeavour greatly. Shaun Evans makes a captivating Morse and inhabits the character thoroughly, bringing something very personal to the role whilst channelling just enough of John Thaw for it not to be impersonation.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Dr Janina Rameriz did a two parter on the histories of britains monastic orders. So thats fascinating church history and all the ancient places and things used to tell the stories of the monasteries. I now know the difference between a cistercian and a benedictine
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Did Buckfast have a charming cameo role?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I don't remember any lasting talk of it. Apocryphal or not, I once heard that the monks who made it were shocked to discover it was the drink of choice for rowdy young men in scotland and even considered stopping.
I'll probably look that up but I suspect its a nice little falsity playing on the 'oh, those unworldly monks, bless them eh'
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
I didn't think Luke Cage was as good as the hype and Iron Fist isn't as bad as some of the reviews but it is far worse than Luke Cage/Jessica Jones. Though Jessica Henwick is pretty good in it.
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