Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
That sounds pretty good, actually.
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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I’m only on ep 2 but an enjoying it enough so far, even if the alternative history takes a bit to get used to. I thought Paloma Faith was going to be a weak link but she’s pretty good as a likeable villain
I'm going to try to squeeze in GoodFellas (1990) if I can tonight but the World Series game 7 is on tonight. It's on DVR so I can really watch it anytime
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
The first two eps have a ridiculous momentum but I didn't make it past ep 3 yet.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
It's an annoyingly tight game, I should be in bed now
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
Unsurpisingly, have been Hallowe'en/horror movies for the past few days: -
Hocus Pocus
Trick 'R' Treat
Get Out
Videoman (Swedish, not a horror, but Skybox told me it was)
Nightmare Before Xmas (Annual tradition)
Hocus Pocus
Trick 'R' Treat
Get Out
Videoman (Swedish, not a horror, but Skybox told me it was)
Nightmare Before Xmas (Annual tradition)
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Do you also watch the last one at Christmas?Unsurpisingly, have been Hallowe'en/horror movies for the past few days: -
Hocus Pocus
Trick 'R' Treat
Get Out
Videoman (Swedish, not a horror, but Skybox told me it was)
Nightmare Before Xmas (Annual tradition)
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
Do you also watch the last one at Christmas?
Certainly not, I'll be too busy watching xmas films
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
The Card - Alec Guinness excels (as always) in this forgotten comedy classic from 1952. Capitalism, class, cads and football. Sterling support from Glynis Johns and Petula Clark.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Finished Perpetual Grace LTD which is a cracking 10 party series on Epix with Ben Kingsley, a really good cast and great plot.Nearest thing to it would be Fargo imo. Its not on Amazon or Netflix but hopefully they'll buy it. One of the best and most original series I've seen for a while. You've got a grieving firefighter whose failed astronaut father wanders Austin, Texas, in his spacesuit, a two time murderer whose ambition was to run a glasses franchise,an accused sex offender, a Texas ranger , a compromised Mexican sheriff, and a wierd nearly autistic kid all wrapped up in a plot with the son of a preacher and his wife who wants to steal his parents money. Highly reccomended.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Tetsuo - The Iron Man
Bonkers short film from 1989. It's a mindfuck of a monster movie which is, in turns, groundbreaking (for its time), dark, humorous, very disturbing. What's it about? Fear of industry or sex or neither? Fuck knows.
Bonkers short film from 1989. It's a mindfuck of a monster movie which is, in turns, groundbreaking (for its time), dark, humorous, very disturbing. What's it about? Fear of industry or sex or neither? Fuck knows.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
The Age of Shadows (2016) - tense, brutal, very Melville-esque tale of spy and counterspy in Korea under the Japanese occupation. Bit too long and slightly low on emotional nuance (because there's too much high-stakes life-and-death espionage and assassination going on.) Reminded me a bit of aspects of Army of Shadows and Infernal Affairs - the agonising dilemmas of being in a Resistance and running double agents high up in the occupying powers, cat-and-mouse games of trying to figure out the oppo etc. Being Korean this is a bit long, looks absolutely gorgeous, is insanely patriotic /jingoistic (Japanese villain hams it up a storm), bone-crunchingly violent. No sex at all but lots of drinking and gunplay. Unbearably tense at times. Would recommend.
Also got sucked into a rabbit hole and binge watched the whole series of Giri/Haji - Japanese/UK contemporary crime drama - on iPlayer - it really weaves a spell, full of dry, Fargo-like drollery, some tremendous performances, innovative story telling and a properly rainy dank London. Thinking back on it, much of it doesn't make much or any sense at all but it really gets a grip on you. Worth your time even if some of it's silly looking back.
Also got sucked into a rabbit hole and binge watched the whole series of Giri/Haji - Japanese/UK contemporary crime drama - on iPlayer - it really weaves a spell, full of dry, Fargo-like drollery, some tremendous performances, innovative story telling and a properly rainy dank London. Thinking back on it, much of it doesn't make much or any sense at all but it really gets a grip on you. Worth your time even if some of it's silly looking back.
rekil
to menny cranks
Kang Ho Song has been in a crazy amount of great fillums. On the same theme, see Assassination as well. Amsal (2015) - IMDb
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
If anyone wants to dip their toe in the water here is a streaming site with it on Watch Online Perpetual Grace LTD Season 1 Episode 1 - Eleven
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The Dead Don’t Die. A deadpan comedy zombie film that was the opening flick at the Cannes Film Festival, and well received as well. Ignore the low IMDB ratings- usual idiots doing their usual downvoting thing I suspect.
Bizarre but very watchable- it reminds you of Wes Anderson’s films. Good cast. Adam Driver is great in it, he steals the show.
Not sure it’s worth the pay per view fee, so unless you’re itching to watch it I’d recommend waiting until it’s free somewhere. But great Saturday night fodder.
Bizarre but very watchable- it reminds you of Wes Anderson’s films. Good cast. Adam Driver is great in it, he steals the show.
Not sure it’s worth the pay per view fee, so unless you’re itching to watch it I’d recommend waiting until it’s free somewhere. But great Saturday night fodder.
Still groundbreaking now. Worth reading up on Japanese punk cinema, some great weird fims to be found.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
It's worth the price for the soundtrack joke
Beanpole. It's on Mubi but had limited cinema screenings.
Follows 2 women in Leningrad after the war. It's really beautiful to look at, such amazing use of colour it looks like it's painted at times. Performances from the two lead actors are excellent aswell.
Follows 2 women in Leningrad after the war. It's really beautiful to look at, such amazing use of colour it looks like it's painted at times. Performances from the two lead actors are excellent aswell.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
For me, it was just one more thing in a long series of "If Adam Driver is in it, I won't like it". I've nothing against him personally, he's just not in things that I like.
The Dead Don't Die reminds me of Once Upon a Time in Mexico - the director and a load of his mates get together and appear to have a great time making a film. Film is flat, not actually bad, just flat. It was almost worth it for Tilda Swinton, though.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Tetsuo 2 is quite disturbing. Worth watching though
A Dog Called Money....PJ Harvey film about the making of The Hope Six Demolition Project album. Filmed in Kabul, Kosovo and Washington.
I like PJ but it's really not that good. A few good moments but the artistic process just wasn't that interesting for me. Pretty sure there was a documentary about at the time of the album release that only featured Washington filming that was shorter and better.
I like PJ but it's really not that good. A few good moments but the artistic process just wasn't that interesting for me. Pretty sure there was a documentary about at the time of the album release that only featured Washington filming that was shorter and better.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Tentacles - a truly bad 1977 film about a murderous giant octopus that kills people.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
The King on Netflix - sort of a millennial reboot of Henry V with Timothee Chalamet in the lead (who does well, but is just far too much the pouty pretty boy for the role) and a cast of various faces you'll recognise. Sean Harris does a brilliantly slippery councillor, Robert Pattinson a ridiculously camp and obnoxious French Dauphin, and Joel Edgerton a genuinely moving Falstaff. Excellent take on the battle of Agincourt (a sort of medieval presaging of WWI, an inferno of blood mud and clanking metal) and it's all beautifully shot. Overall the mood's impressively dark and twisty but po-faced and a bit too full of posh young boys posturing and whining (but hey I guess that's not so far from the reality of medieval or indeed modern warfare.)
I watched The Concorde: Airport '79.
Probably one of the worst movies I've seen
Probably one of the worst movies I've seen
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Grizzly - another shit 70s film about a grizzly bear that takes to murdering backpackers in a national park. They used a bazooka in the end to blow it up, after it had killed lots of people and eaten them.
Next tonight is Quatermass II.
Next tonight is Quatermass II.
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
It was Monday night, but Tales of Halloween (sic). Not bad, especially enjoyed Barry Bostwick as a tophatted suburban devil out for kicks 
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
Tootsie
Still holds up.
Still holds up.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
The Keeper- Film about Bert Trautman who in post war England went from being a POW doing forced labour to Man City's keeper. Surprisingly better than I thought it would be , well filmed , well acted and a delightful cameo of post war life in the North of England . It posed for me an interesting question about what my attitude would have been to City signing him if I'd have been alive at the time. The whole dilemna of forgiving but not forgetting versus the anti fascist feeling at the time is actually well explored, especially the position of City's Jewish supporters. Enjoyable and interesting.
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Apart from being one of the all time great comedies imo, Airplane! is widely credited with killing off the airport disaster movie franchise (Airport 75, 77, etc) as nobody would take them seriously after its release. For which we should all be grateful.
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