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king addick · March 13

I personally really enjoyed Sinners. The KKK were prominent so vampires or not, at least its accurate for the time.
Jack O'Connell is really coming on leaps and bounds. Sinners and 28 years later shows how good he is.

Next on my list is "I Swear" glowing reviews all over so be silly not to give it a look.

stoneroses19 · March 14

king addick said:

I personally really enjoyed Sinners. The KKK were prominent so vampires or not, at least its accurate for the time.
Jack O'Connell is really coming on leaps and bounds. Sinners and 28 years later shows how good he is.

Next on my list is "I Swear" glowing reviews all over so be silly not to give it a look.

Just waiting for the year he picks up all the major awards. Phenomenal talent.

stonemuse · March 14

stoneroses19 said:

king addick said:

I personally really enjoyed Sinners. The KKK were prominent so vampires or not, at least its accurate for the time.
Jack O'Connell is really coming on leaps and bounds. Sinners and 28 years later shows how good he is.

Next on my list is "I Swear" glowing reviews all over so be silly not to give it a look.

Just waiting for the year he picks up all the major awards. Phenomenal talent.

It will happen

AddicksAddict · March 14

The Bride. It’s a mess but a fun mess with a few Easter eggs including one for Young Frankenstein, and a not particularly subtle but not unwelcome feminist, #metoo, overtone.

Making_all_the_noise · March 15

How to make a killing - a modern, strangely dull remaking of one of the all time great films in “Of Kind Hearts and Coronets”.

Glenn Powell is mediocre and Margaret Queeley’s performance starts on a high before progressively tailing off into something unconvincing. Even a small twist at the end does little to shock or recover any credit because the performances are all so flat and the plot so repetitively turgid that you don’t care for any character.

Generously I’d call it watchable but very uninspiring.

ken_shabby · March 15

Carter said:

I too have recently watched Nuremberg

Russel Crowe was brilliant, Remi Malek less so and I couldn't help but think his flouncing was unnecessarily overly dramatic. Leo Woodall was class, good actor that kid

Like a lot of blokes in their 40s I've got an unhealthy interest in the second world war and the events of the Nuremberg trials and the behaviour of Göering in particular.

My missus lost interest about halfway in, I was there at the end. Solid 7/10

Thought it was fantastic. Thoroughly absorbing, and found it historically interesting and at the same time griping. I'd happily give it 8.5 out of 10. Said earlier a lot of us are fascinated by this period, and this was great. If I was going to pick holes, I thought some of the speech felt more like 2025 than 1945. As a balance, Russel Crowe was immense.

Mendonca In Asdas · March 15

Not seen Nuremberg, yet, good to hear some reviews.

valleynick66 · March 22

Peaky Blinders film - albeit on Netflix.

Ok but underwhelming for me. It’s run its course now for storylines I think.

hoof_it_up_to_benty · March 22

valleynick66 said:

Peaky Blinders film - albeit on Netflix.

Ok but underwhelming for me. It’s run its course now for storylines I think.

Thought it was very disappointing and a bit contrived. Without a lot of the best characters it was just a bit lost.

Not a great storyline.

Covered End · March 25

I just watched I Swear on Netflix.
What a fabulous film.

hoof_it_up_to_benty · March 25

Covered End said:

I just watched I Swear on Netflix.
What a fabulous film.

A great film.

AllHailTheHen · March 26

War Machine on Netflix. The sort of film where you can take your brain out for 100 minutes of pure popcorn hokum.

Bedsaddick · March 26

AllHailTheHen said:

War Machine on Netflix. The sort of film where you can take your brain out for 100 minutes of pure popcorn hokum.

I thought it was terrible.

Mendonca In Asdas · March 26

Seen the first 10 minutes of Mercy, seems good

Mendonca In Asdas · March 26

Project Hail Mary (at cinemas now).

Mendonca In Asdas · March 26

I gave it a 9.9 rating.

JiMMy 85 · March 27

I watched Mercy and while the script isn't bad at all - with a decent murder mystery angle and interesting reversal of expectation on the AI thing - it's from Timur Bekmambetov, the guy who produced the abysmal War Of The Worlds for Amazon, and visually it's just as stupid with all the social media/ iPhone bullshit.

I recently discovered it's called 'screenlife' storytelling, and Bekmambetov seems to be cornering the market in this stuff (this is his fifth screenlife movie, and I feel like a moron for calling it that). You can see the attraction for the actors as these one-location things allow the likes of Pratt and Ferguson to minimise their time on set (Ferguson couldn't have spent more than a week recording her part) while lower-budget actors do all the running around.

It's not awful, in fact it's entirely watchable. But it is fucking lazy and the visuals are like watching a kids' TV show. I like Pratt and I'm comfortable watching him do his thing, so I watched it to the end. And the end is the silliest part lol

3 out of 8

Weegie Addick · March 29

Project Hail Mary is superb. 2001 A Space Odyssey meets ET (for adults) with a bit of Cold War and light religious overtones thrown in for good measure. Being tipped for next year’s Oscars already but they may have got the timing wrong on that!

Pavoren007 · March 29

Just back from Project Hail Mary and loved it. Ryan Gosling was immense and had not read a preview before going in so really enjoyed how it played out, particularly ‘Rocky’s’ role and relationship with Grace.