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Post by amyja89 on Jun 7, 2024 20:44:07 GMT
The Dead Don't Hurt - **
Oof. There are slow burns, and then there are no burns. This is definitely the latter. Standard man going away to fight in the Civil War/wife having to fend for herself stuff. Seen it all before, and in much more arresting fashion. Enjoyable actors doing not so enjoyable work.
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Post by marob on Jun 9, 2024 9:30:57 GMT
Dr Strangelove. I liked it, but thought it was only mildly amusing. Not sure how well it’s going to translate to stage in a few months time, and it didn’t particularly make me want to find out either. But then from what I have seen of his films I’ve never really got the fuss around Kubrick. I was the only one in there.
Then Rope, Dial ‘M’ for Murder, and Rear Window, bundled together as ‘The Apartment Trilogy’ with introductions from the host of a podcast called Talking Hitchcock. Have seen them all before, but not for many years. Great seeing them on a big screen, and all three pretty well-attended. Enjoyed Rope and Dial M but both are a little slow and talky, Rear Window much slicker, funnier and an absolute classic.
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Post by kallyloo on Jun 11, 2024 8:32:11 GMT
Your Monster (Sundance film festival London). Blended genre pic of romcom, musical and horror. Sounds nuts but was actually pretty good and the festival winner.
I really enjoyed the empowering independent woman scenes and the monster romance was quite special. I mean where have all the good romcoms gone to in the last decade?
It’s was fantastic to hear about it’s evolution from the director and cast, and even more significant to understand the story evolved from a real event she actually experienced.
Not sure the mildly horrifying ending entirely worked, but it certainly made me reconsider assumptions I’d made earlier.
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Post by patiently_waiting on Jun 20, 2024 10:20:21 GMT
I'm looking forward to seeing Shooting Stars - an Anthony Asquith silent film with live score at Wilton's Music Hall next week!
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Post by lichtie on Jun 20, 2024 14:14:35 GMT
It Happened One Night at the BFI. I could have sworn I'd seen this before but I hadn't. Very enjoyable slice of pre-code Capra.
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Post by blamerobots on Jun 20, 2024 21:11:31 GMT
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Twas a rewatch because I watched the show again. It's one of those no good stressful horror movies and I love it
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Jun 20, 2024 21:20:43 GMT
Watched Double Indemnity for the first time earlier this week having watched Hit Man again and heard about the similarities. I love a good classic noir and this is a proper good one. Brilliantly well-drawn characters, cracking dialogue, just loads of fun (as much as a movie about murder can be - actually Hit Man might have it beat in that one department).
Then I watched Cha Cha Real Smooth last night. It's on Apple TV+. It's a very sweet movie and Dakota Johnson gives a great performance. It's very funny throughout - the director/writer/star Cooper Riff gives a very good performance (though he has a very particular cadence that was unlike anyone else I'd really heard which was occasionally distracting). But sometimes the direction is a little wishy-washy and the writing centers Raiff's character at the expense of the depth of the others. Some people will find it too treacly but I thought there was enough complication behind the generally positive vibes to cut some of the sweetness with a little acid. Worth a watch it you're looking for a quality, easy watch
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Post by harrietcraig on Jun 23, 2024 16:54:00 GMT
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger. I saw a screening yesterday at the Museum of Modern Art in New York that kicked off MoMA’s month-long Powell and Pressburger retrospective. (I believe it has already been released in the UK, but it doesn’t get a commercial release in the US until July.)
The film is great fun: narrated by Martin Scorsese, whose love for P&P’s films is clear, and full of clips from their movies, interviews with them, etc. Made me want to see many of their films again — and, thanks to MoMA, I’ll get a chance to do so in the next few weeks.
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Post by danb on Jun 23, 2024 18:09:46 GMT
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Twas a rewatch because I watched the show again. It's one of those no good stressful horror movies and I love it It is a work of god-like genius! |
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Post by blamerobots on Jun 23, 2024 19:21:03 GMT
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Twas a rewatch because I watched the show again. It's one of those no good stressful horror movies and I love it It is a work of god-like genius! Every viewing of it has me going through the rollercoaster of complete fear and terror of which has never been rivaled to bawling my eyes out at the end like what happens when I watch most of Lynch's filmography |
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Post by danb on Jun 23, 2024 19:38:49 GMT
It is a work of god-like genius! Every viewing of it has me going through the rollercoaster of complete fear and terror of which has never been rivaled to bawling my eyes out at the end like what happens when I watch most of Lynch's filmography It just complimented and counter-pointed the series so well. And yes it is truly terrifying. I didn’t think it could be bettered til episode 8 of The Return. |
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Post by amyja89 on Jun 24, 2024 19:41:00 GMT
The Bikeriders - ***
Cool imagery and kooky accent competition aside, this is all very surface level stuff. The movie never really manages to unlock the psyche of 'the rider' like it wants to. Easy Rider is mentioned at one point, and I thought damn, yeah, I'd rather be watching that.
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Post by amyja89 on Jul 1, 2024 16:35:57 GMT
Kinds Of Kindness - **
I have such a on/off relationship with Yorgos Lanthimos, adore The Favorite, very much like Killing Of A Sacred Deer, Dogtooth and Alps, but hated Poor Things and think I hate this too.
Weird for weirdness sake. Split into a triptych of stories featuring the same cast in different roles each time. Each part starts with an interesting premise (the first being the strongest IMO), but then just descends into some of the more tiresome elements of Lanthimos' work, namely over the top sex stuff and rape. It gets old fast, and overstays its welcome.
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Post by showgirl on Jul 7, 2024 3:21:25 GMT
After the most prolongued film drought I can ever recall (c 6 weeks of almost nothing but cartooons, horror or franchises), I finally saw 2 good films yesterday.
Unicorns was wonderful, though rather niche, especially for Vue, which was the only chain showing it at a time I could attend and which meant I had the whole of a large auditorium to myself. A shame, as though it takes its time (2 hours), it's well worth seeing and the closest comparison I could think of would be My Beautiful Laundrette, except that I didn't find the plot of th latter plausible or well-told, whereas this both had me hooked and seemed more credible and therefore convincing.
After a theatre matinee I saw Fly Me To The Moon, which in complete contrast was definitely too long (c 2 h 10) and presumably intended as straightforward entertainment, but fine if you expect no more than that - and I did enjoy seeing Scarlett Johansson, who seemed to be having fun, though I'd have preferred someone better suited to the role than Channing Tatum as the male lead.
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Post by matttom0901 on Jul 8, 2024 13:38:37 GMT
2 weeks ago I was at the RAH Cyndi Lauper concert and I remembered that as a kid, I loved a film with Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt, called Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
I rewatched it a few days ago after not seeing it for at least 20 years. God, it’s exactly as I remember it 🤣 possibly a guilty pleasure to watch.
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Post by Marwood on Jul 13, 2024 19:24:30 GMT
Kinds Of Kindness **
My mood wasn’t helped by arriving just as the lights dimmed and I couldn’t see the seat numbers: I discovered an idiot was sitting in my front row seat who then went ‘I booked a row c seat, the view is terrible’ and moved along without apologising (tough sh*te, you sit where you have paid for a ticket and there are no terrible views in that screen): he then buggered off half an hour before it ended so I hope he has many sleepless nights pondering how it ended but unfortunately I thought this was distinctly awful, like three not very intriguing episodes of Tales Of The Unexpected that had been cobbled together: it gets an extra star for the tunes played at either end, and some of the nudity (not the shots of Willem Dafoe though 🤣)
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Post by danb on Jul 13, 2024 20:08:16 GMT
If anyone goes to see ‘Longlegs’ can we have a review please?
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Post by showgirl on Jul 15, 2024 2:33:24 GMT
Disappointed that both Hit Man & Unicorns seemed to disappear after their first week; both excellent and unusual films which appeared to receive little, if any promotion. Whilst yet more tedious and unpleasant horror is everywhere - that & despicable (in both senses) cartoons.
For normal adults who don't appreciate feeling infantilised or terrified, there is now Thelma, which is fine and watchabel enough but imo not as good as the critics think.
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Post by kallyloo on Jul 15, 2024 17:15:56 GMT
If anyone goes to see ‘Longlegs’ can we have a review please? If you’re a fan of weird 70’s and 80’s horrors like Crononberg’s Scanners and The Brood, Kubrick Shining and Demme’s Silence of the Lambs, you will like this. If you enjoy all forms of Nick Cage you’ll love it. |
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Post by amyja89 on Jul 15, 2024 19:29:52 GMT
Fly Me To The Moon - ***
Fluffy, mostly fine stuff. Scarlett Johansson is pretty delightful, but I didn’t buy Channing Tatum in the role for a SECOND. Appreciate the film for coming at such a well worn subject from a slightly different angle.
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Post by danb on Jul 15, 2024 21:11:44 GMT
If anyone goes to see ‘Longlegs’ can we have a review please? If you’re a fan of weird 70’s and 80’s horrors like Crononberg’s Scanners and The Brood, Kubrick Shining and Demme’s Silence of the Lambs, you will like this. If you enjoy all forms of Nick Cage you’ll love it. Hmm probably not then. |
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Post by blamerobots on Jul 16, 2024 1:09:39 GMT
Watched the 1983 Pirates of Penzance film again tonight. It's such a joyful and fun film. I was raised religiously on this alongside Mary Poppins and the Sound of Music growing up, between VHS and DVD... When people complain about changed keys for performers, I always point to Linda Ronstadt's Poor Wand'ring One in this show because even though she's singing it a fifth down you'd never be able to tell unless you knew the score so well. She's angelic. Kevin Kline was a queer awakening, etc. etc. A lot of things people probably know if you've seen this  |
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Post by pws on Jul 16, 2024 7:30:31 GMT
Hundreds of Beavers
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Post by elizapot on Jul 16, 2024 8:57:53 GMT
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Post by Marwood on Jul 16, 2024 19:36:10 GMT
Last minute decision to see Climax tonight at the BFI. I saw it before when it was first released and it was only when the spiked sangria kicks in that I remembered some of the truly horrible things that happen and thought that maybe it was not an ideal film to watch on a summers night 🤣 The scene where the child necks the sangria and his mum then locks him in a fuse cupboard while he screams and grizzles (and then loses the keys) is particularly intense 🤣(there was worse than that too, I think once every six years is more than enough for anyone to watch something like this unless they want to end up like The Joker)
I saw Gaspar Noe do a q&a after a screening of Enter The Void when that was released and he said he wanted to make a kids film: I hope this wasn’t the result.
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