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They Cloned Tyrone
Conspiracy blaxploitation sci-fi tale, where John Boyega, Jamie Foxx and Teyonah Parris find out the truth about what's going down in the hood.
This is a bit muddled at times but it looks suitably retro, the cast are brilliant and the story is out there. Jordan Peele does unsettling weirdness better.
Conspiracy blaxploitation sci-fi tale, where John Boyega, Jamie Foxx and Teyonah Parris find out the truth about what's going down in the hood.
This is a bit muddled at times but it looks suitably retro, the cast are brilliant and the story is out there. Jordan Peele does unsettling weirdness better.
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Popeye
Robert Altman directs this adaptation from 1980. Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall give it their best but overall it's a jumble and Altman doesn't suit the comic strip genre. Nilsson's songs are agreeable, the set (filmed in Malta) is impressive but it feels a missed opportunity.
It's anachronistic, supposed to be set around 1959/1960 but the look is more early 1900s.
Wonder what Segar thought about it. Loved it when it came out but it's more of an interesting failure on rewatch.
Robert Altman directs this adaptation from 1980. Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall give it their best but overall it's a jumble and Altman doesn't suit the comic strip genre. Nilsson's songs are agreeable, the set (filmed in Malta) is impressive but it feels a missed opportunity.
It's anachronistic, supposed to be set around 1959/1960 but the look is more early 1900s.
Wonder what Segar thought about it. Loved it when it came out but it's more of an interesting failure on rewatch.
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
Goodfellas - on release as part of a Scorsese / De Niro season at the local cinema. Seen it loads of times, went along for the big screen experience and it was a freebie. Nothing more to say on this film, it’s if anything far too familiar so now plays like a comedy a bit too much.
The Philadelphia Story - classic screwball comedy with Hepburn, Grant as her ex husband and Stewart as a journalist trying to get the exclusive story. Hepburn is about to remarry to a lunk, but can Grant or Stewart change her mind. The younger sister of Hepburn’s character is good value. Still don’t think anything can match Bringing Up Baby though for this type of film.
Paths of Glory - Kubricks WW1 set military trial film. Kirk Douglas defends 3 men accused of cowardice, and exposes the upper ranks for a bonus. Quite liked the battle sequences.
Rye Lane - charming romantic comedy set in the best part of London - South London. Quite funny, convincing leads, real characters. Good to see a film with black characters not involving the road man life.
The Philadelphia Story - classic screwball comedy with Hepburn, Grant as her ex husband and Stewart as a journalist trying to get the exclusive story. Hepburn is about to remarry to a lunk, but can Grant or Stewart change her mind. The younger sister of Hepburn’s character is good value. Still don’t think anything can match Bringing Up Baby though for this type of film.
Paths of Glory - Kubricks WW1 set military trial film. Kirk Douglas defends 3 men accused of cowardice, and exposes the upper ranks for a bonus. Quite liked the battle sequences.
Rye Lane - charming romantic comedy set in the best part of London - South London. Quite funny, convincing leads, real characters. Good to see a film with black characters not involving the road man life.
His Girl Friday?
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Boston Strangler
Keira Knightly is excellent as the journalist who uncovered the series of murders in 60s Boston.
Grim subject matter but not sensationalised. Watch if you liked Zodiac, Spotlight, Mindhunter.
Keira Knightly is excellent as the journalist who uncovered the series of murders in 60s Boston.
Grim subject matter but not sensationalised. Watch if you liked Zodiac, Spotlight, Mindhunter.
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Asteroid City - a pleasant eye candy comedy with some boring bits.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
The Raid 2. Shockingly brutal, even given its predecessor. It's very good but lacks the pure focus and tension of the first one. Also a bit too long (or perhaps I was just too tired and hot).
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
The last episode of the first series of "Who is Erin Carter?"
Quite entertaining, but the tying up of some of the plotlines was less impressive than expected. Mostly significant for the ways that they lined up the probability of a second series.
Quite entertaining, but the tying up of some of the plotlines was less impressive than expected. Mostly significant for the ways that they lined up the probability of a second series.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (2023). An excellent adaptation, fantastic direction - especially the action scenes - great chemistry between the leads, and beautiful costumes, sets/locations and lighting. It's been far too long since I read the book to be able to remember whether they took any liberties with the story, though. Looking forward to the second part in December.
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
Maybe the 13 year-old title of this thread could be changed to recognise adjustments in technology?
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It's kind of retro charming, though
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
First episode of KaDeWe - now is our time.
And it's a hard NO from us. Don't bother with this one, which purports to tell the story of post-World War 1 Berlin as seen from the perspective of the city's most prestigious department store, KaDeWe (Kaufhof Des Westens, i.e., "Store of the West").
It's another exercise in wish-fulfilment self insertion for the target demographic, which does not include people who actually know the history of this episode in any detail. The family who owned KaDeWe at this time were Jewish, but there's no sense at all of them being such in this one. . . unless you count the family's son who has come back from the trenches determined to restore the family fortunes by getting back into the luxury goods game. You see the problem with that one.
The scene where he visits a brothel (accompanied by the firm's straight-arrow Protestant accountant) is also depicted in a way that links sexuality and war trauma in a way that is better suited to the psychopathology of fascism - and you're using one of the main Jewish characters for this, lads? Are you sure that's wise, sir?
As for the shop girl who supplements her meagre wage with "sex work", well this is presented as female empowerment not exploitation - again, you see the problem. This character is depicted as having a disabled father and a sister with Down's Syndrome. You can't look at these scenes without thinking of what was going to happen to people like that in real life, and not so long after the events depicted (badly) in this series.
There's also an annoying gimmick where modern cars and street scenes are inserted into the narrative - this is meant to say something about the persistence of history, but it just looks idiotic.
So, yeah, don't bother with this one, no matter what your idiot twentysomething hipster friends tell you.
We put on Dad's Army in the end - far more agreeable.
And it's a hard NO from us. Don't bother with this one, which purports to tell the story of post-World War 1 Berlin as seen from the perspective of the city's most prestigious department store, KaDeWe (Kaufhof Des Westens, i.e., "Store of the West").
It's another exercise in wish-fulfilment self insertion for the target demographic, which does not include people who actually know the history of this episode in any detail. The family who owned KaDeWe at this time were Jewish, but there's no sense at all of them being such in this one. . . unless you count the family's son who has come back from the trenches determined to restore the family fortunes by getting back into the luxury goods game. You see the problem with that one.
The scene where he visits a brothel (accompanied by the firm's straight-arrow Protestant accountant) is also depicted in a way that links sexuality and war trauma in a way that is better suited to the psychopathology of fascism - and you're using one of the main Jewish characters for this, lads? Are you sure that's wise, sir?
As for the shop girl who supplements her meagre wage with "sex work", well this is presented as female empowerment not exploitation - again, you see the problem. This character is depicted as having a disabled father and a sister with Down's Syndrome. You can't look at these scenes without thinking of what was going to happen to people like that in real life, and not so long after the events depicted (badly) in this series.
There's also an annoying gimmick where modern cars and street scenes are inserted into the narrative - this is meant to say something about the persistence of history, but it just looks idiotic.
So, yeah, don't bother with this one, no matter what your idiot twentysomething hipster friends tell you.
We put on Dad's Army in the end - far more agreeable.
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
You had a busy night last night. Did you do an all-nighter?
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Scream VI. I’d seen surprisingly favourable reviews so I was curious. Probably fair to say it’s the best of the sequels. Points awarded for making fun at itself and the slasher subgenre in general, and taking a few unexpected turns. Still not a patch on the original, but decent enough for any fan of the genre, or this franchise.
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
That’s over a week or so, I don’t always remember to update the thread
Today I watched My Favourite Wife. Cary Grant and Irene Dunne impeccable with their comic timing I felt in this screwball comedy. Particularly good scenes in the courtroom. Just what I needed to cheer me up after feeling poorly for the last day or so
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - very silly.
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Finished up last few episodes of Green Frontier. Wanted more! What a beguiling and bewildering tale.
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
The trifecta of Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin in Nine to Five. Feeling a bit below par it was a good tonic to watch on a train. Dolly has a real star quality and it’s a lot of fun watching the women get their own back on the lazy perve of a boss, and improve the conditions for their fellow workers.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
were you inspired by the Screenshots about workplace movies last week? Cos that almost made me download it
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
I think I must have been, if that’s the radio 5 thing with Mark Kermode and someone else.
hippogriff
Imposter
Radio 4, Mark Kermode and Ellen E Jones
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. Its a guy richie film loosely based on the arthurian myth, weird as fuck but oddly great. Charlie Hunnam as Arthur (see below) just makes it odder, at one point he tells someone 'you haven't had enough porridge this morning to talk like that son'. Incongruous dialogue and guy richie style shots abound. It opens with a demonic olliphaunt rip off being ridden by Mordred who is dressed like the Kali-Ma guy from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and is also a fire sorcerer. Littlefinger is in it as crack shot bowman and master escape artist.
They decided to play arthur as a lad who grew up in a brothel into a local villain with a heart of gold. Sort of works.
They decided to play arthur as a lad who grew up in a brothel into a local villain with a heart of gold. Sort of works.
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I never can tell. Hunnam is trying but his midatlantic creeps in frequently
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Strong "Tim Nice-but-dim" energy off the Hunnam lad in your pic, anyway.
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Terrible. Just shockingly bad; a hot mess of monumental proportions with no charm or wit, a narrative consisting mostly of a succession of action scenes, and worse, a plot that descends into the truly absurd. I feel sorry for everyone involved, and would advise any fans of Indy not to soil their memories of the franchise by watching it 
Incredible next-generation deepfake technology though. About the only good thing to come out of it.
Incredible next-generation deepfake technology though. About the only good thing to come out of it.
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On the other hand, Copshop is a very entertaining crime action thriller. A bit reminiscent of Assault on Precinct 13, it features a man on the run and a contract killer locked up in a police station before all hell breaks loose. Very Tarantinesque in style and the array of characters involved, it’s a great Sunday evening film, and Alexis Louder and Gerard Butcher play a blinder here.
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A wonderful end to the series, everybody involved did a great job and how could the saga top it's weird sci-fi list of ancient knights, grails, ghosts, magic stones and aliens? The Dial will bring you on an incredible journey.Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Terrible. Just shockingly bad; a hot mess of monumental proportions with no charm or wit, a narrative consisting mostly of a succession of action scenes, and worse, a plot that descends into the truly absurd. I feel sorry for everyone involved, and would advise any fans of Indy not to soil their memories of the franchise by watching it
Incredible next-generation deepfake technology though. About the only good thing to come out of it.
A fantastical 7/10
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