Not a new film but watched The Outfit on iPlayer the other day. Clearly based on a stage play, Mark Rylance leads as an English tailor and mob facilitator in Chicago. Quite a claustrophobic and intense film, with a bit of relevant violence. Very absorbing and recommended.
I saw that last week. Liked it. More or less filmed in one place wasn't it, which gave it that claustrophobic feel you referenced. Little bit of a twist at the end too, after the main twist.
Saw Beetlejuice sequel tonight. Made me chuckle several times and Keaton was his whacky self in role which was great. O’Hara’s performance was excellent too. All as mad as a box of frogs. 7/10
Seeing the Joker sequel tomorrow morning and loved the first one, so here’s hoping…
Saw Beetlejuice sequel tonight. Made me chuckle several times and Keaton was his whacky self in role which was great. O’Hara’s performance was excellent too. All as mad as a box of frogs. 7/10
Seeing the Joker sequel tomorrow morning and loved the first one, so here’s hoping…
Beetlejuice 2 was okay, Keaton himself was great, the bits with the original cast were good but all the weird subplots with Monica Belluci and Willem Dafoe characters seemed bolted on and a bit extraneous.
Not bad and Tim Burton clearly playing his "greatest hits" but not a patch on the original.
Can absolutely understand why this movie with divide audiences around the world, let alone critics. Personally, I loved it, as did my daughter, but that is because we had no issue with so many musical numbers featuring. We also took the courtroom drama for what it was, including the slow pace which really starts to build up the picture on why Arthur Dent followed the pathway of his alter ego.
The last act of the movie helped the whole Arthur Dent/Joker story make sense to me. I won’t say any more and don’t google it before seeing the movie, if you are going to see it, but as a DC comic reader in my youth, the jigsaw pieces weren’t quite in the right order until seeing this movie.
Phoenix and Gaga were superb throughout and the tone as dark and thought provoking as the first. Some will see this and give it a one or two out of ten, personally an 8/10 from me. 🤡
Leave the World Behind Just saw this on Netflix. There was a quote that described it as the best film of 2023, and the oil tanker sequence in the trailer got me in. But it's strange. The tension builds, but not a lot happens. I sort of liked the ending but there was a feel of trailing off rather than reaching a climax. And bits of it (large swathes) went unexplained.
I enjoyed it, but it left me wanting it rewritten with a sting or two. 6/10
The wife wanted to see The Substance starring Demi Moore so we did. The reviews are favourable. It started off crap and gradually got worse. Indescribably bad although not down to Demi Moore. I was begging for it to end, "someone please stop it"
The wife wanted to see The Substance starring Demi Moore so we did. The reviews are favourable. It started off crap and gradually got worse. Indescribably bad although not down to Demi Moore. I was begging for it to end, "someone please stop it"
PS My son says Speak No Evil is excellent.
I've seen people online saying the final third is absolutely bonkers?
The wife wanted to see The Substance starring Demi Moore so we did. The reviews are favourable. It started off crap and gradually got worse. Indescribably bad although not down to Demi Moore. I was begging for it to end, "someone please stop it"
PS My son says Speak No Evil is excellent.
I've seen people online saying the final third is absolutely bonkers?
I was trying to stifle my laughter it was so ridiculous. It's almost worth seeing to experience how crap it is. I don't recall seeing a worse film at the cinema.
Saw Joker 2 with my daughter on Monday. It doesn't deserve the pile on its receiving imo. I thought the musical numbers were incorporated into the story pretty well. For a film where very little actually happens I found it surprisingly entertaining. Most of the criticism is coming from DC Purists who don't like the way it disassociates itself from the Batman/Joker narrative. People wanted a follow up to what they thought was a Joker origin story in the first film,
Saw Joker 2 with my daughter on Monday. It doesn't deserve the pile on its receiving imo. I thought the musical numbers were incorporated into the story pretty well. For a film where very little actually happens I found it surprisingly entertaining. Most of the criticism is coming from DC Purists who don't like the way it disassociates itself from the Batman/Joker narrative. People wanted a follow up to what they thought was a Joker origin story in the first film,
Absolutely agree with this. I think it was Mark Kermode’s podcast which suggested that the sequel was in fact better than the first. Not sure about that, but like you I found it entertaining throughout.
I particularly enjoyed trying to work out whether you were seeing a scene play out as Arthur Fleck was imagining it play out or whether it was actual?
Todd set us on that path in the first movie but reminded all of the audience that this duality was occurring with the umbrellas very very early on in the movie. While all of the umbrellas the jail guards were carrying were black, they turned into bright shades of orange, blue, red and yellow (I think) as soon as Arthur looked up to the rain and thereafter until they arrived at the therapy centre (at which point the umbrellas were once again the black colour they always actually were).
I have read some fan reviews which criticise the storyline not making sense but that was because it appeared that they had believed everything on screen to be ‘actual’ rather than the blend of Arthur’s mind’s view/fantasy mixed with actuals.
Not sure if it fits here,but Threads is on BBC4 tonight apparently at 10,set in the 80s about a nuclear attack on the UK. Never watched it all, so will try and catch it tonight.
Not sure if it fits here,but Threads is on BBC4 tonight apparently at 10,set in the 80s about a nuclear attack on the UK. Never watched it all, so will try and catch it tonight.
Watched it purely for the nostalgia value and then had to turn it off before the end. I remember watching it at school in small chunks so they clearly cut out the bits where pets & babies were left in the rubble. Just went to bed thinking, ‘we have learned feck all’. But a stark reminder that every generation has something hanging over it. That fella who does all the warnings just reminds me of Frankie Goes to Hollywood and even though we knew by 1984 that lying under your mattress & doors won’t save you, I was still be briefed that nonsense by the old duffers in the Met when I joined in 1989 😫🫣😱😂😂😂😂
Saw Lady Macbeth recently and highly recommend it to those who like their dramas very dark indeed. Great performances all round and Florence Pugh is chilling in her breakout role. Brrrrrr!
Anyone gone to see Megalopolis? Seen quite a few saying that that is super confusing and generally terrible
I love Coppola's Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now and Dracula. Apocalypse Now is mind-blowing. But his other works seem average (except The Conversation maybe). I don't have high expectations for Megalopolis but I'll definitely watch it.
My mate went to watch Apocalypse Now in Imax a few weeks back in some anniversary release and he said it was incredible
Anyone gone to see Megalopolis? Seen quite a few saying that that is super confusing and generally terrible
I love Coppola's Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now and Dracula. Apocalypse Now is mind-blowing. But his other works seem average (except The Conversation maybe). I don't have high expectations for Megalopolis but I'll definitely watch it.
Please go in with low expectations, Jessie!....extremely low
Anyone gone to see Megalopolis? Seen quite a few saying that that is super confusing and generally terrible
I love Coppola's Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now and Dracula. Apocalypse Now is mind-blowing. But his other works seem average (except The Conversation maybe). I don't have high expectations for Megalopolis but I'll definitely watch it.
Please go in with low expectations, Jessie!....extremely low
Or just don’t go and spend the money on something else.
Would recommend A DIFFERENT MAN, if you can still see it in cinemas. Excellent darkly comic tale looking into how disability/disfigurement is depicted.
Got this confused with the Richard Pryor film, probably one for the things that make you feel old thread as i looked it up and not only was it called 'See no evil, hear no evil' it was also released in the 80s
Not sure if it has been covered but went to see "Lee" featuring Kate Winslet. Very moving and some good twists can thoroughly recommend, not just for topless Kate.
Broadly speaking its about society girl / model, who turns wartime photographer, during 2nd world war. Lee is gutsy female photographer who won't take no for an answer when trying to get to the front to take award winning photos.
Hated it. Laughed a bit at start, but then it was pretentious nerdy humour, that got really boring and repetitive. The story was making sense, then lost it completely. Luckily was only 90 mins long, so rather than leave just stuck it out.
Saw the new Alice Lowe film Timestalker at The Storyteller in Sidcup this evening.
Absolutely batshit crazy, but I really liked it. I love her 2 other films so am a bit biased. Bit weird seeing Nick Frost playing a properly nasty character.
Basically the plot follows a woman stalking the love of her life through time. She is reincarnated various times. It starts in 1663 and ends in 2117.
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Seeing the Joker sequel tomorrow morning and loved the first one, so here’s hoping…
Not bad and Tim Burton clearly playing his "greatest hits" but not a patch on the original.
Can absolutely understand why this movie with divide audiences around the world, let alone critics. Personally, I loved it, as did my daughter, but that is because we had no issue with so many musical numbers featuring. We also took the courtroom drama for what it was, including the slow pace which really starts to build up the picture on why Arthur Dent followed the pathway of his alter ego.
The last act of the movie helped the whole Arthur Dent/Joker story make sense to me. I won’t say any more and don’t google it before seeing the movie, if you are going to see it, but as a DC comic reader in my youth, the jigsaw pieces weren’t quite in the right order until seeing this movie.
Just saw this on Netflix. There was a quote that described it as the best film of 2023, and the oil tanker sequence in the trailer got me in.
But it's strange. The tension builds, but not a lot happens. I sort of liked the ending but there was a feel of trailing off rather than reaching a climax. And bits of it (large swathes) went unexplained.
I enjoyed it, but it left me wanting it rewritten with a sting or two.
6/10
It started off crap and gradually got worse.
Indescribably bad although not down to Demi Moore.
I was begging for it to end, "someone please stop it"
PS My son says Speak No Evil is excellent.
It's almost worth seeing to experience how crap it is.
I don't recall seeing a worse film at the cinema.
Just went to bed thinking, ‘we have learned feck all’.
But a stark reminder that every generation has something hanging over it. That fella who does all the warnings just reminds me of Frankie Goes to Hollywood and even though we knew by 1984 that lying under your mattress & doors won’t save you, I was still be briefed that nonsense by the old duffers in the Met when I joined in 1989 😫🫣😱😂😂😂😂
Not as bad as The Substance but was so poor.
3/10
Broadly speaking its about society girl / model, who turns wartime photographer, during 2nd world war. Lee is gutsy female photographer who won't take no for an answer when trying to get to the front to take award winning photos.
Universal Language- 2/10.
Hated it. Laughed a bit at start, but then it was pretentious nerdy humour, that got really boring and repetitive. The story was making sense, then lost it completely. Luckily was only 90 mins long, so rather than leave just stuck it out.
Absolutely batshit crazy, but I really liked it. I love her 2 other films so am a bit biased. Bit weird seeing Nick Frost playing a properly nasty character.
Basically the plot follows a woman stalking the love of her life through time. She is reincarnated various times. It starts in 1663 and ends in 2117.