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Doctor Sleep

Really enjoyed this. I’d have liked an 18 version but keeping it 15 makes more money. 
 

A real treat for The Shining fans with the amount of nods to it crammed in and it weaves the two books and original film together very well. 
 

So often the final act lets films down but it was properly delicious here. 
 

A non-Shining fan may take less from it but I loved it. 

8.5/10

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Doctor Sleep
Really enjoyed this. I’d have liked an 18 version but keeping it 15 makes more money. 
 
A real treat for The Shining fans with the amount of nods to it crammed in and it weaves the two books and original film together very well. 
 
So often the final act lets films down but it was properly delicious here. 
 
A non-Shining fan may take less from it but I loved it. 
8.5/10


I went to see it last night and really enjoyed it.

Some task to make a movie that is based on not only Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining, but also a follow up to a movie by one of the highest praised directors of all time. (Also adding in the factor that King didn’t like Kubrick’s version). A lot of different people to keep happy there. Props to the director.

Rose the Hat was a really good baddie.

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1 hour ago, YER SISTERS YER MAW said:

The Lighthouse;

Based on true events. Two guys are stationed in a lighthouse on a remote island during the 1890's and end up loosing their marbles. I actually found it quite intriguing and solid performances from Dafoe and Pattinson. 7.5/10

 

 

I posted the trailer for that on 'Upcoming Film Releases' back in August and I'm really looking forward to it but don't think it's released in UK till end of January.

 

 

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I posted the trailer for that on 'Upcoming Film Releases' back in August and I'm really looking forward to it but don't think it's released in UK till end of January.
 
 
I watched it on Plex last night. You should be able to find a 1080 copy on the usual movie APK's or Kod1.
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I watched it on Plex last night. You should be able to find a 1080 copy on the usual movie APK's or Kod1.
Actually, I think you are right about it not being released until next year. There appears to be two different movie's called "The Lighthouse" based on the same true events. This was the one I watched last night and was released last year. Funny, when I started watching it last night I was expecting it to be in black and white too. I really should have twigged. [emoji3064][emoji2359] This one is worth a watch too though.



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The Irishman 9/10

Very long and very downbeat, albeit with humorous moments, but beautifully directed by Scorsese.

It has none of the glitz or glamour of Goodfellas or Casino, opting instead for a more philosophical approach, meditating on mortality, loss, guilt, decline and death. So many wonderful scenes and full of razor sharp dialogue. 

De Niro, Pacino and particularly Pesci are all fantastic, with Stephen Graham brilliant as Tony Pro, and I’d like to have seen more of Sebastian Maniscalco as ‘Crazy Joe’ Gallo, as he was really good in a small role. 

I’ll be honest, I wasn’t completely sold on the de-aging effects, and that’s the only reason I haven’t given it a 10. Otherwise I loved it, but it definitely had an ‘end of an era’ feel to it.

Sad to see such great actors and such a brilliant director starting to wind down, but they’re all in majestic form here. I think it will come to be regarded as one of the very best films of Scorsese’s career.

Poignant, sad, haunting and absolutely brilliant.

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Midway 7/10

Everything you expect from an American war film albeit one starting plenty British actors. 

I'm not sure about the end it dedicates the picture to the American and Japanese forces who died in the battle, what do others think, is this a good thing? 

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Primal.

Basically Snakes On A Plane except with jungle animals on a boat. Any film that starts with Nicolas Cage up a tree chomping on a cigar and reading a magazine, and ends with him shooting the breeze with a talking parrot is alright by me.

Plus points for Cage's usual bizarre delivery of dialogue and almost Wicker Man levels of scenery chewing but minus points for the scariest thing in the whole movie being Famke Janssen's new face.

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Midway 7/10
Everything you expect from an American war film albeit one starting plenty British actors. 
I'm not sure about the end it dedicates the picture to the American and Japanese forces who died in the battle, what do others think, is this a good thing? 

The dedication bit was a bit PC for my liking. Couldn’t imagine Steven Spielberg doing that for the SS guards at the end of Schindlers List.

The movie btw was a pile of steaming shite. Not a patch in the Battle of Midway film I saw as a kid in the 70’s.
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16 hours ago, killiepiemuncher said:


The dedication bit was a bit PC for my liking. Couldn’t imagine Steven Spielberg doing that for the SS guards at the end of Schindlers List.

The movie btw was a pile of steaming shite. Not a patch in the Battle of Midway film I saw as a kid in the 70’s.

Totally agree. 

I was looking forward to this film.  Read the book "Shattered Sword" which basically said every previous book on the battle was wrong.

This battle really was the turning point for the Pacific War and it should have been the entire focus of the film.  Instead the film ncluded the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle raid.  Also a ridiculous amount of CGI and very little character development or suspense.

When I saw the original film in the cinema they use Sensurround which basically made the cinema shake during the battle scenes.  It had also been used for the film Earthquake.  However it caused damage to a lot of old cinemas so it was scrapped.

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