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My wife couldn't be bothered to finish watching and went to bed well before the end. So bad was it.
Sounds like you're having a lot of joy, cinema wise!
But yeah, Love Lies Bleeding was a really nice film. Kooky and sexy and fun. I didn't see the director's film, you recommend it?
No it's miserable. But yeah Saint Maude is a really good, unique and subtle horror film.Sounds like you're having a lot of joy, cinema wise!
But yeah, Love Lies Bleeding was a really nice film. Kooky and sexy and fun. I didn't see the director's film, you recommend it?
Watched Under The Silver Lake last night which is a PTA esque sketchy noir romp through LA. I enjoyed it even if the missus labelled it "another one of your weird films" and the film it closely reminded me of is Inherent Vice which is also another one of my weird films that I enjoy greatly. There is a semblance of a plot revolving around Andrew Garfield looking for a missing girl amongst what he believes to be a sinister conspiracy but don't expect it to hang together or conclude satisfactorily. Just enjoy the ride.
I had to sign up for a free trial on Mubi to watch this as well. Never heard of it before but taking a look through the back catalogue it looks like they've got every arthouse/indie/foreign film ever made so could well be worth it if that's your jam.
I had to sign up for a free trial on Mubi to watch this as well. Never heard of it before but taking a look through the back catalogue it looks like they've got every arthouse/indie/foreign film ever made so could well be worth it if that's your jam.
I strongly recommend watching Killer Heat, which on top of having an absolutely shit name, is the most ludicrous, poorly written, obvious film ever made. It's basically everything that shouldn't be done for a film in its genre, and every time you think it can't get any stupider, it goes and doubles down in an almost admirable way (if it wasn't so shit). My theory is that someone red the novella and decided it'd be fun to have a month holiday on a Greek island, and oh why not make a film so it's all paid by the production company - none of them seem the least concerned about what's going on on screen anyway. Can't really blame them. Its only redeeming quality is that it's short.
Oh and Mubi is amazing. You're in for a treat.
Yeah another one for the "vibes" cinema category. It's a great film, carried by a fun, solid performance by Garfield (who recently announced he was resuming his acting career after his hiatus).I don't know if you've ever seen It Follows, by the same director, it's a bit divisive I think but I enjoyed it and it's very atmospheric.
Oh and Mubi is amazing. You're in for a treat.
The Mubi user rating is probably the best online. Anything on 8 or above is usually a pretty brilliant movie.
Yeah I've seen It Follows. Great movie.
I don't know how much I trust you anymore, you enjoyed Alien Resurrection...
I don't know how much I trust you anymore, you enjoyed Alien Resurrection...
Hey you leave my beautiful short hair religious lesbian robot alone!
You spin better than Malcolm Tucker does!
Hey you leave my beautiful short hair religious lesbian robot alone!
Awesome character too!!
Anyway, I'm excited Sweet Square, I'm seeing Megalopolis in 3h!
Nice that somebody else is joining the cluuuUUUUuuuub.
I absolutely loved Under the Silver Lake but its so obviously influenced by Pynchon that that makes sense. Some excellent outside the box scenes in there, like Garfield punching the 13 year old.
Somebody has recommended movie The Commitments. Is it any good and worth watching?
Yeah its great.
Black Widow
I’m sure I reviewed it before. But watched it again while bleeding a few radiators. It’s better than I remember, but man alive the final act CGI lurches from cartoonish to exceptional almost scene by scene.
7/10
I’m sure I reviewed it before. But watched it again while bleeding a few radiators. It’s better than I remember, but man alive the final act CGI lurches from cartoonish to exceptional almost scene by scene.
7/10
Great feel good Irish film.
Fun fact, The Commitments is written by Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais who have possibly the most impressively mad writing credits ever, having written some of the most seminal British shows of the 70s & 80w (Likely Lads, Porridge, Auf Weidersehen Pet etc) then went to Hollywood and did The Commitments, the Judge Reinhold family body swap comedy Vice Versa, a Bond film, a Jason Statham heist thriller, an Aardmann film, a notorious flop of a road movie with Cameron Diaz & Christopher Walken and the first fecking Goal! film….. and in between all that managed to pump out 64 episodes of Lovejoy!.
Plus they’re both pushing 90. Legends
Plus they’re both pushing 90. Legends
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The Featherweight is a good watch. Very cool cinematography and a rare film that breaks the fourth wall successfully.
legendary review!
We loved it. One of those movies you wish was a series. The characters are great but the story moves so quickly you want them to slow down. Great music, good fun.
This was a staple growing up. What a filmography.
Keep an eye out for a very young looking lead singer of The Frames. He was also in the movie “Once”. @moses is a huge fan.
Nowhere
A pregnant woman gets stuck in a cargo container out in the ocean after trying to escape a country at war. Considering the concept, this is a movie that paces itself really well and never feels boring. Different obstacles are introduced at the right time and the lead character usually does logical things to overcome them. It's a difficult one to watch but it's meant to be. The lead performance was also really good. I enjoyed it 6.5/10
A pregnant woman gets stuck in a cargo container out in the ocean after trying to escape a country at war. Considering the concept, this is a movie that paces itself really well and never feels boring. Different obstacles are introduced at the right time and the lead character usually does logical things to overcome them. It's a difficult one to watch but it's meant to be. The lead performance was also really good. I enjoyed it 6.5/10
Deadpool & Wolverine
Finally got around to seeing this on PVOD. Scheduling meant I couldn’t get to the cinemas, but luckily I have an unbelievable home theatre set-up, so I wasn’t too worried about not seeing it on the “big” screen. Well, it was worth the wait. I went in knowing what I wanted out of it, and it delivered. Some genuinely hilarious laugh out loud moments, several in fact. Some moments didn’t land but there’s so much going on that it doesn’t matter. The cameos were also fantastic. I’d avoided spoilers, so they all came as a surprise, and pleasant ones at that. Reynolds is in peak Reynoldsy form, and Jackman is great. Has a couple of scenes where you are reminded that he has serious acting chops, but most of it he plays the angry, lost Logan to perfection.
Loved it in all honesty. I know it’s hip to hate on popular films, and not be one of the sheeple; but no fecks given here. Just top entertainment.
9/10
Joker 2: Folie a deux
I was probably in the minority in finding the first Joker to be a disappointing derivative slog. One of the most overrated films in recent memory. So I went into this not expecting too much, but with the hope that they would build on the great acting of the first, and take it in an original direction that really enhanced all the good things about the first one. Well….they definitely went in an original direction, unfortunately the signpost must’ve been pointed to the garbage dump, because this was an enormous growler. One of the worst films I’ve ever seen. Just utter shit. And a fecking musical to boot. What were they thinking? Atrocious.
1/10
Finally got around to seeing this on PVOD. Scheduling meant I couldn’t get to the cinemas, but luckily I have an unbelievable home theatre set-up, so I wasn’t too worried about not seeing it on the “big” screen. Well, it was worth the wait. I went in knowing what I wanted out of it, and it delivered. Some genuinely hilarious laugh out loud moments, several in fact. Some moments didn’t land but there’s so much going on that it doesn’t matter. The cameos were also fantastic. I’d avoided spoilers, so they all came as a surprise, and pleasant ones at that. Reynolds is in peak Reynoldsy form, and Jackman is great. Has a couple of scenes where you are reminded that he has serious acting chops, but most of it he plays the angry, lost Logan to perfection.
Loved it in all honesty. I know it’s hip to hate on popular films, and not be one of the sheeple; but no fecks given here. Just top entertainment.
9/10
Joker 2: Folie a deux
I was probably in the minority in finding the first Joker to be a disappointing derivative slog. One of the most overrated films in recent memory. So I went into this not expecting too much, but with the hope that they would build on the great acting of the first, and take it in an original direction that really enhanced all the good things about the first one. Well….they definitely went in an original direction, unfortunately the signpost must’ve been pointed to the garbage dump, because this was an enormous growler. One of the worst films I’ve ever seen. Just utter shit. And a fecking musical to boot. What were they thinking? Atrocious.
1/10
I also hated Joker. Thanks for the warning on Joker 2: Joke Harder.
Joker: Folie à Deux
What? So shit it manages to become insulting. I couldn’t offer up a single positive. One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. Generally a pair of leads putting in good performances would give some kind of shine to a bad movie. But no. It’s tumescent.1/10
Continuing my journey into Hitchcock's catalogue and watched The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) last night. Firstly, it's very confusing that he has two films of the same name, and it's tricky to work out which is the better one to watch first. Opinions seem to be divided online, so I went with the later one. I personally really enjoyed it. James Stewart appears to be one of Hitchcock's choice actors, and he shines in this one, yet again. Loved Doris Day's performance in this too and the finale with her singing and playing the piano is a beautiful moment. Thought the final ending shot was fantastic for its humour and tone. It's another fun film to watch and I have to say that it holds up pretty well considering that it's nearly 70 years old at this point.
Really liked it and found it to be a fun watch. It will probably end up on my yearly rotation now. The build up during that scene at the Royal Albert Hall was great and Doris Day's performance in that was somewhat cathartic when 'that moment' happens. Got to say that the run-time was pretty spot on, too. Almost like Hitchcock knew what he was doing.
Easy to see why he is one of the greats. He just has banger after banger.
Really liked it and found it to be a fun watch. It will probably end up on my yearly rotation now. The build up during that scene at the Royal Albert Hall was great and Doris Day's performance in that was somewhat cathartic when 'that moment' happens. Got to say that the run-time was pretty spot on, too. Almost like Hitchcock knew what he was doing.
Easy to see why he is one of the greats. He just has banger after banger.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. A Luc Besson epic adventure. Think The Fifth Element, but more serious, infinitely more sprawling, and with a completely different setting and story. (I'm sure that's helpful.)
As a whole, it doesn't work so well. It's a bit like a road trip, where different settings and circumstances constantly lead to different adventures with different people. Except there doesn't seem much rhyme or reason to how things follow each other, and the whole thing feels all over the place.
On the other hand, it's a Luc Besson space epic, so it's full of crazy situations, humor, entertainment, and imagination. So it's also fun, and I suppose yet another 3/5.
As a whole, it doesn't work so well. It's a bit like a road trip, where different settings and circumstances constantly lead to different adventures with different people. Except there doesn't seem much rhyme or reason to how things follow each other, and the whole thing feels all over the place.
On the other hand, it's a Luc Besson space epic, so it's full of crazy situations, humor, entertainment, and imagination. So it's also fun, and I suppose yet another 3/5.
Grave of the Fireflies. A Studio Ghibli animation film about a young Japanese teenager at the end of WW2, who has to take care of his young sister after his mum dies due to an air raid and other options disappear as well.
This is infinitely sad. We know right at the start that they both end up dead (that's the first scene, so no spoiler), but the circumstances leading to that outcome are just heartbreaking. There's a lot of joy as well, as they keep positive despite everything (especially the girl finds fun in everything); but even that's a source of sadness in the background of the film. But it's exquisitely told (even if the ending felt a little rushed) and designed/animated, and an amazing, amazing film. Five tears out of five.
War is just the stupidest thing. Although, if anything, this film ultimayely judges nationalism and pride and their consequences, rather than war as such.
This is infinitely sad. We know right at the start that they both end up dead (that's the first scene, so no spoiler), but the circumstances leading to that outcome are just heartbreaking. There's a lot of joy as well, as they keep positive despite everything (especially the girl finds fun in everything); but even that's a source of sadness in the background of the film. But it's exquisitely told (even if the ending felt a little rushed) and designed/animated, and an amazing, amazing film. Five tears out of five.
War is just the stupidest thing. Although, if anything, this film ultimayely judges nationalism and pride and their consequences, rather than war as such.
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I've only seen that film once. Watched it close to a decade ago. Thought it was outstanding, but I can't bear to watch it again for fear of my heart breaking a second time. It's a powerful film.
Yeah, it's amazing, but I really don't want to watch it again... My wife also really shouldn't, she'd be at risk of dehydration!
Roddie Doyle wrote the book, which is mostly dialogue, and spent a year working on the script. These two were then brought in to help him with it.
Two English lads aren't coming up with any of that dialogue.
Joker 2 - Oh boy......uhhh..still trying to figure out what they spent 200 million on? Absolute dog shite. And this by no means will be one of those films that will be considered brilliant in ten years time, fecking shite now, will be fecking shite then.
It's got the Coppola seal of approval: