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[DalyanPete]

Just now, stringvest said:

 

you're missing out.  The story is still relevant, and it's a great film.

Was toying with it again last night, really need to bite the bullet  don't think I've even seen a clip from it despite its many plaudits.

[VladimirIlyich]

20 hours ago, DalyanPete said:

Was toying with it again last night, really need to bite the bullet  don't think I've even seen a clip from it despite its many plaudits.

The ending has featured in so many other productions that not seeing a clip surprises me.

[SasaS]

On 27/10/2021 at 20:22, VladimirIlyich said:

Old Henry 7/10.

 

Pretty good for a western but some of it was a bit too far fetched.

 

About right. A pleasant surprise, with most new(ish) films being shit now.

[Total Longo]

Avengement - Extremely violent & silly cockney/mockney, sawn off shooter, nutters from Parkhurst (thanks @Harry Squatter) revenge caper with Craig Fairbrass, the lad out of This is England (who looks like Pickford) and some British martial arts fella who gets his teeth knocked out early on and has them inexplicably replaced by the same ones as Jaws had in The Bond films. Seen it all before a hundred times but it was still reasonably enjoyable nonsense. And sometimes you just want an old fashioned 90 minute film.  

 

6 cor blimey guvnors out of 10 

[Elite]

The Equaliser 3 - 7.5/10

 

Denzel perfect for this type of thing. Enjoyable.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Took the kids to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 
 

Absolute quality, boss soundtrack and great graffiti inspired animation. 
 

and hearing Superfly say “6 in the morning, police at my door” was one of many highlights.

 

9.3 Hard Shells out of 10

[Bjornebye]

3 hours ago, Total Longo said:

Avengement - Extremely violent & silly cockney/mockney, sawn off shooter, nutters from Parkhurst (thanks @Harry Squatter) revenge caper with Craig Fairbrass, the lad out of This is England (who looks like Pickford) and some British martial arts fella who gets his teeth knocked out early on and has them inexplicably replaced by the same ones as Jaws had in The Bond films. Seen it all before a hundred times but it was still reasonably enjoyable nonsense. And sometimes you just want an old fashioned 90 minute film.  

 

6 cor blimey guvnors out of 10 

 

 

[DalyanPete]

18 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

The ending has featured in so many other productions that not seeing a clip surprises me.

Intriguing, not going to ask like!

A spoiler from a 1941 film,

[manwiththestick]

Oxygen. Recent film from Alexandre Aja very much in the vein of that Buried film with Ryan Reynolds.

 

A woman (Melaine Laurent) wakes up in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of who or where she is or how she got there with the added frustration that the oxygen level of the chamber is reducing.

 

Decent enough, wasn't overly convinced on the ending but an overall 7/10.

[Mook]

Safety Not Guaranteed

 

A quirky film about 10 years old starring Aubrey Plaza as a journalist who goes in search of a mentalist/time traveller bloke to write a story about him. A nice easy way to spend 90 minutes. 6.5/10 (Amazon Prime).

[manwiththestick]

2 hours ago, Mook said:

Safety Not Guaranteed

 

A quirky film about 10 years old starring Aubrey Plaza as a journalist who goes in search of a mentalist/time traveller bloke to write a story about him. A nice easy way to spend 90 minutes. 6.5/10 (Amazon Prime).

Good film that, watched it a few times.

[redheart]

2 hours ago, Mook said:

Safety Not Guaranteed

 

A quirky film about 10 years old starring Aubrey Plaza as a journalist who goes in search of a mentalist/time traveller bloke to write a story about him. A nice easy way to spend 90 minutes. 6.5/10 (Amazon Prime).

 

I'd rate that 8.5/10 rather than only 6.5

[Anubis]

On 02/09/2023 at 18:15, redheart said:

I took my 8 year old to see Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

 

The movie is a 9.5/10

 

Gene Wilder is an 11/10. It was Gene's world and he just let the rest of us live in it

 

AoT originally posted this brilliant Gene Wilder story.

 

 

Twitter user Joe Scaramanga writes, “Lovely Gene Wilder story in the Grauniad comments…”

 

I met him sometime in the early 1990s – I can’t pinpoint the year – when he came with a friend to visit the Turner Study Room at the Tate Gallery, which I was in charge of at the time.

 

He was strikingly shy, but as polite as could be, and tremendously appreciative of the experience that the Study Room offered.

 

It was only later in the day that I found out a bit more about his visit.

 

Before coming to the Study Room, he had taken time to have a conversation with a sweet- natured and approachable Irish attendant called Catherine, who told me what happened.

 

She had asked for, and received, his autograph – “Oh, to Catherine, please – thank you”.

 

On leaving the Study Room, he and his friend explored new areas of the Gallery – and, since the attendants rotate their positions, he unexpectedly saw Catherine again up ahead.

 

Whereupon, shyness banished and now in performance mode to the astonishment of visitors nearby, he yelled “Catherine!! How are you?? You don’t write, you don’t phone…!”

 

She was thrilled – wouldn’t you be?

[Kepler-186]

Elite Squad (2007) 

 

Brazilian film set in late 90s Rio starring Wagner Moura (Pablo Escobar of Narcos) as a captain in the elite BOPE police unit. 
 

Corrupt coppers, drug lords in the favelas, idealistic new recruits and some quality shoot outs. 
 

8/10 

[Poor Scouser T]

Control. Joy Division Thing. Seen it before but my youngest is now full into proper music (plays guitar by ear to tunes) So re-watch Excellent. Not a fan but appreciate Curtis for his brilliance. 23 yrs shame.  Great lead 8/10

[Carvalho Diablo]

Nefarious

 

Absolute total and utter shit / 10

[razor]

On 05/09/2023 at 01:57, DalyanPete said:

He did well for himself.

 

I suppose everybody already knows this, but when Tony Curtis puts on that weird accent when he pretends to be the millionaire to attract Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot, he's doing his Cary Grant impersonation (hence the in joke of Jack Lemmon saying, "I mean, who on earth talks like that!").

[skend04]

Barbie

 

My daughter wanted to watch it last night (honestly) but by the end she thought it was meh. I'm really not sure why it's done so well, well I do, but is it a billion dollar box office blockbuster?

 

Not for me.

[Anubis]

10 hours ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Nefarious

 

Absolute total and utter shit / 10

Unsurprising given the source material and the intent of the film makers was essentially right-wing religious propaganda.

[Special K]

Equaliser 3 - 7/10

 

Denzel being badass is never dull

[Anubis]

Just now, Special K said:

Equaliser 3 - 7/10

 

Denzel being badass is never dull

You know it’s about to get serious when Denzel straps on his Suunto.

[redheart]

Strays...a comedy about talking dogs and the world from the perspective of dogs.

 

Some of this was brilliantly funny but some just creepy and weird.

 

Not sure how to score it.

[Mook]

1 hour ago, Special K said:

Equaliser 3 - 7/10

 

Denzel being badass is never dull

 

Funny you should say that, I watched Training Day last night and he just wound me up trying to play a streetwise Narc.

 

Somebody should have shot him in the first ten minutes and it might have been a decent watch.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Of Time And The City

 

Terence Davies' love letter to Liverpool.

 

Brilliant.

 

8.5/10 -  1 stream available on Nodi Ezra Real Debrid

[Carvalho Diablo]

My Feral Heart

 

Following Luke, a Downes Syndrome lad, who cares for his elderly mum, but when she dies, his life changed dramatically.

 

Some great acting, very emotive, but a random and unconvincing plot twist undermines this film.

 

7/10 NERD