JustOneCornetto Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 Falling For Figaro (2020) Caught this on Netflix, decent enough but pretty formulaic story of a wannabe being taught by nasty foul mouthed teacher. Here it's Danielle Macdonald as a high flying Fund Manager in London who quits to try and become an opera singer. She enlists a former opera diva played by Joanna Lumley who is in a small village somewhere in Scottish Highlands. Has it's moments but the love interest with rival pupil played by Hugh Skinner doesn't work too well but Danielle is a good actress and mostly carries the film. 6/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 Silence (2016) Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver are the handsomest Portuguese 17th century Jesuit priests you'll ever see who go to Japan to track down their mentor Liam Neeson who has been AWOL since the Japanese wisely decided to start persecuting Christians. A film so well made that it overcomes the A star leads and the preposterous language issues to build up to a gripping finale where Scorsese gets to pose (and answer) some big questions. The Japanese cast are superb and although Garfield isn't believable for a second as a Jesuit he still manages to turn in a memorable performance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustOneCornetto Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 Heart Of Glass (1976) Seen this a couple of times before but watched it this time with Herzog's commentary to understand it a bit better. It's all very absurd, at times bizarre with a local prophet in a Bavarian late 18th century village predicting disaster and when the foreman of the local glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous Ruby Glass the whole village descend into collective insanity. Herzog says that he hypnotised the actors before filming their scenes and you certainly get the feeling that some of them seem to be in a trance, you also realise that this is very much experimental with an underlying philosophical message. 7.5/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDoddyKane Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 (edited) “Cache” or also called “hidden” 2006 , one of the best films ive seen.A family starts to realise they are being watched. Everything is good in this movie and its worth rewatching. Movie making at its best. Another movie i rewatched recently “Hollywood shuffle 1987” , written, directed and starring Robert Townsend. Its about a struggling black actor in LA trying to get work. Very funny at times, well acted and with a big message. Should have got more credit than it did. Edited April 27, 2022 by BigDoddyKane 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Octopussy (DVD) - that Bond laddie flits to India after 009 in a clown suit is killed nicking a Faberge egg. Umm...yeah, this was more engaging than I remember, but I'm afraid my mind drifted off somewhere and never quite came back. The Soviets are selling Faberge eggs to fund something, but some of them are fugazi, and a rogue general is trying to kick off an invasion of Western Europe by detonating a nuclear warhead on a train housing a travelling circus, and there's this lassie called Octopussy for no good reason other than another terrible pun...just all a bit of a mush TBH. Might just be me finding it hard to follow 'cause I was tired, but it seemed OK for what it was. Not sure if I posted anything after we watched For Your Eyes Only, but thank Christ Bond didn't f**k the 16-year-old ice skater. Felt like it was touch and go there for a while 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Just watched the first 30 minutes of Dune - maybe I was tired but it I found it to be really dull. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Tunbridge Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Watched Cape fear for the first time last night. Decent movie and De Niro is great in it, but all the whacky camera spinning around stuff with the boat at the end ruined it a bit IMO. Also the weird colour sequences were stupid as well. I like how accurate the simpsons parody was now I’ve actually seen it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingRocketman II Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 On 24/04/2022 at 12:09, Detournement said: @bennett It's a good film because all the characters are believable as part of 10th century Viking or Slav society. There is no BBC style modern influence beyond making it tame enough for a 15 certificate. Skarsgaard's character is the hero but the film isn't afraid to show him as stupid and violent. I knew Ethan Hawke and Willem Defoe were in it. It took me a few minutes to recognise Hawke. Didn't pick up on Defoe at all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 25 minutes ago, KingRocketman II said: I knew Ethan Hawke and Willem Defoe were in it. It took me a few minutes to recognise Hawke. Didn't pick up on Defoe at all. Ethan Hawke and Nicole Kidman being Alexander Skarsgard's parents is an interesting casting decision. Also Skarsgard's 45 year old action figure bod is making me think my 40th birthday present to myself should be HGH and testosterone. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Just seen the newest Batman film. Not bad. I liked how they didn't bother with any origin stuff and almost no back story. Also liked how they used the villains, and that the main one wasn't the fucking Joker (so, so overused; saddened by the hint of him near the end). Next time it gets remade, in about 10-15 years, I'd love to see them do the Knightfall story, be it 2 or 3 films. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustOneCornetto Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 Special Correspondents (2016) Written and directed by Ricky Gervais this is a decent enough comedy about a sound engineer (Gervais) and a radio journalist played really well by Eric Bana who are sent to Ecuador to report on some civil unrest and end up being 'kidnapped'. There's a fair few laughs and some really cringey comedy from Vera Farmiga who plays the wife of Gervais with Kelly Macdonald as the love interest. America Ferrera is also good and didn't realise she was Ugly Betty until I saw her name in the credits. Not a classic but worth a watch. 6.5/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSU Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 045 -- Laggies (#16 in the A24 series) At 25, Keira Knightley's character is having a crisis as she watches her friends marry, settle down, and begin to have kids of their own. When her boyfriend suggests he's about to propose, she panics, and in an attempt to cling on to her youth she befriends a high school student (Chloe Grace Moretz), whose dad (Sam Rockwell) is very suspicious of the relationship. You can see where this is going even before Sam Rockwell shows up, but it's funny, has a bit of heart about it and deals with its signposted twists and turns in a pretty entertaining way, especially once you decide to ignore Knightley's accent. 7/10 046 -- A Most Violent Year (#17 in the A24 series) On the surface, a movie about the distribution of heating oil in New York in the 1980s doesn't sound particularly interesting, but with Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain in the lead roles, it's something of a triumph as straight-laced Issac does his best to protect his employees by fair means while Chastain is more open to other drastic measures. It's a smoldering, atmospheric piece, maybe a little slow but all the better for it. Bit of a surprise looking back to see it managed to avoid a single big award nomination. 9/10 047 -- The Bad Guys -- On the spectrum of anthropomorphized animated kids movies, this is much closer to The Nut Job than it is to Zootopia (or whatever that was called in the UK). A pretty stellar cast of voice talent is singularly wasted in this dull, by the numbers, morality tale. A Wolf, Snake, Tarantula, Shark, and Piranha are the titular Bad Guys, untrusted by society so become bank robbers to make ends meet but during their biggest job, they're caught and challenged to turn over new leaves. The animation is quite nice but there was nothing much else to hold interest and judging by the unsettled kids in the cinema, there wasn't much to keep them hooked either. 2/10 048 -- While We're Young (#18 in the A24 series) -- Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts are an uptight documentary film-maker and his wife, feeling adrift from friends who are having kids and settling down and totally older versions of the couples in Laggies. They meet Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried, a more free-spirited younger couple who also make documentaries, and all of a sudden Ben Stiller is wearing a hat and they're all going to mystical Peruvian cleansing ceremonies while their old friends look on a shake their heads. I'm not sure if it's played for laughs, but everyone sucks here to greater or lesser degree, mostly greater, which left me hoping for an out-of-the-blue meteor collision to put them all, and me, out of our miseries. 4/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 Dodgeball ”If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball” Absolute classic 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 Spider-Man 2 (2004) Shite. Stupid shite. The only redeeming features are J.K. Simmons and Kirsten Dunst not wearing a bra. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 Moonfall - the latest turgid output from disaster specialist Roland Emmerich. So dire that I fast forwarded to the last 10 minutes in the hope that the Earth would be destroyed. It wasn't. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSU Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 (edited) 049 -- Cut Bank (#19 in the A24 series) It's a dreary kind of thriller based around the premise that providing evidence of a crime against a postal worker can result in a six-figure reward, which gives the characters here an idea. Blood Simple it isn't as it crawls from one cliched moment to another. The cast list, Liam Helmsworth, Billy Bob Thornton, John Malkovich, Bruce Dern, and the effort they put into this is far better than it deserves. On the positive side, it made me think of my own trip to Montana and Glacier County, so I guess there's that, even though it was filmed in Canada. 4/10 Edited May 4, 2022 by MSU 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 Petite Maman. French movie about an 8 year old girl who loses her grandmother. It was ok. A bit weird tbh. 6/10. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 No Time To Die Didn’t fancy 3 hours in the cinema so caught this in two sittings at home (Amazon Prime). I’ve liked Daniel Craig as Bond but really didn’t like the last outing or two. Was surprised by how much I enjoyed this one. A few often action scenes felt a bit generic and dragged out but some had real tension (maybe the film was a bit cobbled together?). Wasn’t sold on the main baddie and his mumbling but otherwise the languid pace and locations reminded me of the Moore era stuff. Surely the Basil Exposition stuff was a nod to Austin Powers? In my top 3 Bonds 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul-r-cfc Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent Nick Cage plays himself as he gets roped into a CIA operation in Majorca and a Taken-esque plot. Really enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Cage is a good comic actor, and does a good job taking the piss out of himself and his meme-tastic filmography. Pedro PAscal also puts a good shift in as a rich super fan. Overall, nothing special but worth a watch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 We got through the original Star Wars trilogy. My youngest is making me watch the prequels. Tonight we are watching the Phantom Menace. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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