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Saw One Battle After Another last night and will henceforth be adopting Benicio del Toro's persona in all human interactions.
Or maybe Sean Penn's - it's a close-run thing.
Or maybe Sean Penn's - it's a close-run thing
As long as you don’t adopt his prosthetics.
Watched it on Apple TV and took a while to get into it but ended up really enjoying it.
This is quite amusing - Mark Kermode compares A Bout de Souffle and Breathless
^^ Looks like my sort of thing 🙂 Will have to tell the other half its a comedy 😛
Probably gonna book Crime 101 for the weekend. Looks a bit slick but claims to be a throwback to Heat, To Live & Die in LA type stuff, so hopefully.. will report back
^^ Looks like my sort of thing 🙂 Will have to tell the other half its a comedy 😛
Probably gonna book Crime 101 for the weekend. Looks a bit slick but claims to be a throwback to Heat, To Live & Die in LA type stuff, so hopefully.. will report back
Not heard of that!
Will take a look.
claims to be a throwback to Heat
Heat is one of my favourite ever films and the Robert de Niro character one of my favourite ever characters, so if it's 10% as good, it'll be worth the price of a ticket !!
claims to be a throwback to Heat
Heat is one of my favourite ever films and the Robert de Niro character one of my favourite ever characters, so if it's 10% as good, it'll be worth the price of a ticket !!
"Don't have anything in your life you can't walk away from in 30secs flat." is pretty solid advice.
Anyone else looking forward to “Project Hail Mary”?
There’s still time to read the book first, to which the trailers suggest the film cleaves closely.
I've got the book here ready to read, and looking forward to seeing the cute rock spider thing on the screen. But book or movie first is the question now?!
Saw Crime 101 at the weekend. Better than expected tbh. Ruffalo was Ruffalo - v good as a beat down cop. Hemsworth was a bit too handsome and built for some aspects of his role, but very watchable. Barry Keoghan was great - his scenes were really tense. Was pretty slick, but an engaging, non-draggy story. Cinema was packed and everyone was silent (SHOCK!). 2hrs plus flew by.
Liked that when there was a sex scene, it was all implied rather than the seductive music and stroky-stroky soft-lighting-woman-keeps-her-bra-on type crap that's been prevalent.
Preview for Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die with Sam Rockwell, looks like the next goodun.
Anyone else looking forward to “Project Hail Mary”?
Preview shown for that too. Didn't sell it to me.
"Don't have anything in your life you can't walk away from in 30secs flat." is pretty solid advice.
Unless it involves a dog. No way would I walk out on them in 30s...
I've got the book here ready to read, and looking forward to seeing the cute rock spider thing on the screen. But book or movie first is the question now?!
I have read the book and am now waiting for the film. I hope that they did it well, but sometimes a film does it better, sometimes not.
I've got the book here ready to read, and looking forward to seeing the cute rock spider thing on the screen. But book or movie first is the question now?!
The book is OK (I like my scifi a bit more hardcore tbh) , theyve given away the big reveal of the alien itself in the trailers so dont see any prolems with reading
Ill be interested to see how they handle the ending
The book is OK (I like my scifi a bit more hardcore tbh) , theyve given away the big reveal of the alien itself in the trailers so dont see any prolems with reading
The book has a lot of similarities with the Martian (for obvious reasons) and the film is written by the same screenwriter as The Martian film. My expectation is that if you liked The Martian, then you'll like Hail Mary. A lot of similar geeky science stuff but the stakes are bigger than one person's survival. I read the blurb for the book and thought it wasn't going to be for me, the plot sounded too fantastical; however, when I did get around to reading it I loved it.
Looking forward to the film, the trailer does suggest it's going to be very close to the book.
Ill be interested to see how they handle the ending
There's a 2nd trailer that has a shot suggesting they may have altered this, unless it's a red herring.
Anyone else looking forward to “Project Hail Mary”?
People getting annoyed with the trailer because it gives away the central plot point- as if folks don't know the book exists is like playing a trailer for Spiderman and then getting angry as he swing through Queens on web...will go an see it though, the book's a load of fun.
I saw Hamnet last Friday in the local artisan cinema.
I cried - it's brilliant.
And even though it's not a 'blockbuster' I think it needs the big screen to bring the full emotion across.
Go and see it if it's doing a re-run near you.
. The twins thing, while technically well done, was a bit of a dead end otherwise, was there any point of 2 Michael Jordans? None of the characters seemed to be developed, and given the length of the thing, I couldn't understand why
Yes was all over the shop - reeks of a million borrowed ideas - which is fine if it comes together.
If it all comes down to the KKK - the there are plenty of better examples without weaving it around a bizarre horror music mashup. (The KKK then felt like a tag on).
I really wanted the KKK to turn up earlier and get taken apart by vampires. That would have been their worst nightmare.
Just got back from "Wasteman" - a "Scum" for the 2020s. Properly powerful, couldn't fault it tbh. Brilliantly acted. And sooo tense! Not felt so absorbed in a film for a long time. Music from Forest Swords and closing titles from Young Fathers were icing on the cake for me.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29028515/?ref_=fn_t_1
anyone excited for this?cant figure it out myself looks aimed at kids but only 40 somethings will remember the original!
I will go to see this - just hope that Skeletor does not disappoint.
Watch I Swear last night on Netflix. Very moving film, beautifully and sympathetically made. Lead actor definitely deserved the best actor prize and the Baftas and now I'm even angrier about the Americans ignorant reaction to the outburst than before. Highly recommended.
Just got back from 28 Year Later, The Bone Temple
Wow
pre watched 28 Years later last night, so thought I was ready.....
A lot to take in, horrifying, gory, brilliantly acted, gripping completely nuts and some amazing cinematography
(apologies if theres another 2026 movie thread)
I quite liked it,definitely a bit different than the usual zombie tropes, I was a bit unsure about the first 28 Years later but the second one was something else.
I’m hoping they do another.
how's about that then ?
Watch I Swear last night on Netflix. Very moving film, beautifully and sympathetically made. Lead actor definitely deserved the best actor prize and the Baftas and now I'm even angrier about the Americans ignorant reaction to the outburst than before. Highly recommended.
Agreed and very much agreed – anyone that reacted as they did to his "outburst" at the Baftas should be made to watch the film then be asked for their revised opinion.
I was sat in a car dealership waiting for my car to be serviced when I watched it – it was slightly embarrassing when I started to blub at one point LOL!