DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I've been watching stan against evil which is just funny enough to get away with its short doses but is not a keeper.
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Dear White People - the film. Clever and engaging college flick about privilege and race. Hope the series is as good.
The Babadook - not what I expected at all. Horror movie where the monster is
The Babadook - not what I expected at all. Horror movie where the monster is
all about loss and containing it, I think
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Isle of dogs.
The whole family enjoyed it.
My daughter laughed out loud, I didn't find it funny, but it was beautiful and breathtakingly charming to look at, great cinematography.
The whole family enjoyed it.
My daughter laughed out loud, I didn't find it funny, but it was beautiful and breathtakingly charming to look at, great cinematography.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I presume you mean this
and not this
and not this
Ghost Stories - Ghost Stories – Warp Films
Lives well up to the high standards that Warp Films has established.
A nice bit of brain fuckery, but keeps it pretty tongue in cheek . Great performance from Paul Whitehouse.
Lives well up to the high standards that Warp Films has established.
A nice bit of brain fuckery, but keeps it pretty tongue in cheek . Great performance from Paul Whitehouse.
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trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Mediterranea (2015) - depressing, enraging, and really very good film about the lives & journeys of young West African men making it to Italy through routes over the Sahara, through Libya, over the Med in a leaky boat, and dropping straight into the hands of exploitative, dodgy, Mafia-linked citrus groves in Calabria in southern Italy. It sounds grim - and it's not a light evening's watch - but it is not ever mawkish, or just wanting to torture you or make you feel guilty. All shot in a very grimy, low-key, not-arty neorealist style, and lots of it in the dark, too - so it does have an aesthetic, but it's not pretentious arthouse 'watch the light glitter on the waves while we pull this focus" sort of visual essay. The heart - so much heart - of it is in a couple of brilliant performances from the two leads, and an unusually light and generous view of human motivations (when you consider the setting.) Every character in this is a real person, not a caricature, with a real back story and an individual character - not just a cardboard cut-out serving as a symbol or to push an argument. Jonas Carpignano (the director) looks like a talent to watch out for, on this showing. I was expecting Mediterranea to be just relentlessly earnest and downbeat (like Biutiful, for instance - so po-faced about its misery it almost made me laugh) - but this is a much much more nuanced, and tougher, sort of movie than that. Recommended.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
We're on holiday in Spain at the moment and the only English language TV channel in our apartment is Movies 4 Men 
so I've watched a right load of old shit the last few evenings. Last night's offering was Bad Country, a film which managed to make Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon and Louisiana itself look irredeemably cheap.
so I've watched a right load of old shit the last few evenings. Last night's offering was Bad Country, a film which managed to make Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon and Louisiana itself look irredeemably cheap.DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Death of Superman (2018)
an update on the classic, modern day costume styles that look closer to the comics of now and better dialogue than the original. Warner Brothers, so excellent animation
an update on the classic, modern day costume styles that look closer to the comics of now and better dialogue than the original. Warner Brothers, so excellent animation
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
We're on holiday in Spain at the moment and the only English language TV channel in our apartment is Movies 4 Men
Movies 4 Men has unexpected gems now and then but soooo much of it is bargain-bin nonsense... they've got a weakness for historical epics tho so I end up watching it a lot (thinking to myself all the time "..... and I'm not a man so **** you, channel schedulers
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Indeliblelink
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That's the one where they spent loads of money to blow up an actual railway bridge over the river only to find the smoke from the explosives had hidden most of the action, so at great cost they rebuilt the bridge and did it again, only for the same thing to happen.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Somewhere in Time - cheesy time travelling romantic drama from 1980 with Christophers Reeve & Plummer, Jane Seymour. From a story by (I am Legend) Richard Matheson and with a gorgeous John Barry soundtrack.
Loved this when I was younger. Perhaps due for a remake?
Loved this when I was younger. Perhaps due for a remake?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Sleep Dealer
Really enjoyed this. Its a smart sci fi story with heart. Missed it in 2008, but then foreign language films often pass me by. Worth checking out. Covers political, environmental and social themes as by product/driver of a great story. 9/10
The Commuter
Neeson on a train. A silly conceit really, about choice and blah, but in the end its a tense and enjoyable action film on a train. Slow build but once ots off it doesn't stop. Saw this billed as 'the best train action film since Under Siege 2, which is fair enough although this ones played less cheesily.
6.5 out of ten neesons
Really enjoyed this. Its a smart sci fi story with heart. Missed it in 2008, but then foreign language films often pass me by. Worth checking out. Covers political, environmental and social themes as by product/driver of a great story. 9/10
The Commuter
Neeson on a train. A silly conceit really, about choice and blah, but in the end its a tense and enjoyable action film on a train. Slow build but once ots off it doesn't stop. Saw this billed as 'the best train action film since Under Siege 2, which is fair enough although this ones played less cheesily.
6.5 out of ten neesons
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Finally caught up with The Last Jedi.
It's... okay. I don't get the hatred thrown at it, as it's no sillier than most SW films. Yes, it could have left a good 20 minutes on the cutting room floor to be a better film, but that's a common complaint.
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I'm not sure how you can sit in an editing suite, for a film that's already 2.5 hours long, and watch Luke milk a space walrus and think "This is pretty important. It stays."
It's... okay. I don't get the hatred thrown at it, as it's no sillier than most SW films. Yes, it could have left a good 20 minutes on the cutting room floor to be a better film, but that's a common complaint.
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I'm not sure how you can sit in an editing suite, for a film that's already 2.5 hours long, and watch Luke milk a space walrus and think "This is pretty important. It stays."
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Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
I'm watching the Citizen Khan christmas specials, as you do in July 
not-bono-ever
meh
10 clover field lane
What THE FUCK were the producers thinking about with the glued on ending ? Deeply unhappy
What THE FUCK were the producers thinking about with the glued on ending ? Deeply unhappy
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I love that film....first saw it at school....love the soundtrack
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I'm surprised no one has (to my knowledge) covered Damn Dog or any of their other songs. The soundtrack was the only place to get XTC's 'Take This Town' for years
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I have two copies of that soundtrack...
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Incredibles 2
Not as fresh as the original but still great fun. The animation is superb and like the last one, I felt that this is the way to do a superhero film (esp Fantastic Four)...
Not as fresh as the original but still great fun. The animation is superb and like the last one, I felt that this is the way to do a superhero film (esp Fantastic Four)...
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
First episode of Jessica Jones ,by complete mistake , but was pleasantly surprised.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Denial
Largely a courtroom drama about the libel action brought by holocaust denier David Irving. It was alright but the only character I liked was Alex Jennings as the judge.
If the trial happened now, Irving would probably have a large crowd of supporters outside court
Largely a courtroom drama about the libel action brought by holocaust denier David Irving. It was alright but the only character I liked was Alex Jennings as the judge.
If the trial happened now, Irving would probably have a large crowd of supporters outside court
not-bono-ever
meh
Impossible
About family surviving the Asians tsunami. Rarely have I had so little empathy for characters. How they managed to string this out for 90 minutes is beyond me
About family surviving the Asians tsunami. Rarely have I had so little empathy for characters. How they managed to string this out for 90 minutes is beyond me
Reno
The In Kraut
Last night I watched Isle of Dogs with the cat. It looks great and the animation is beautiful, but it’s not as good as Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox. However, it’s Alfie‘s new favourite film (the previous one was the CGI/live action remake of The Jungle Book). He watched the whole thing intently. I think he may have been fascinated by the vaguely familiar looking animals and the odd way they moved in stop motion.
Then I thought as a special treat I’d show him the original Cat People from the 40s, but he wasn’t into that. Too scary or maybe the b&w is too abstract.
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