Civil War, Alex Garland’s gut wrenchingly visceral take on an alternate present day, or near future American civil war. It deserves to be seen in a cinema, at full volume. It’s had some mixed...
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Civil War, Alex Garland’s gut wrenchingly visceral take on an alternate present day, or near future American civil war. It deserves to be seen in a cinema, at full volume. It’s had some mixed...
Road House (2024 remake of the 80s Patrick Swayze film) on Prime. Serve with a pint or two of wine, highly entertaining. Jake Gyllenhaal is great as a ripped, washed up UFC fighter turned bouncer. In...
Funnily enough as a film maker myself, I could appreciate the brilliantly strong style and art direction, and the thinking behind the story, without actually enjoying watching it. I think the...
Apparently I’m the only one who struggled with Poor Things. It was no doubt brilliant and original film making, great acting, art direction, music, wardrobe, photography, and all the rest of it. But...
As a fan of the book and the first one, Dune part 2 definitely hit the spot. Epic film making, particularly in IMAX, though I wouldn’t recommend sitting too close. You can safely ignore Kevin Maher’s...
Tetris is surprisingly entertaining. In fact, considering it’s a movie about a video game contract negotiation, it’s incredibly entertaining.
I was watching lights out on a projector which certainly helped, I can only imagine what IMAX would be like, you’d probably need a bucket. The ‘testicle retracting feeling’ made me laugh, it...
Thanks for the tip, a surprisingly effective b-movie. It really seemed to know which buttons to push, quite hard to watch in fact!
Bravely watched Tár last night to see what the fuss was about, Mondays being half price at the local. Quite hard going, and I’d still have got the point if it was a good hour shorter. And yet I’m...
I’m not sure if the new Avatar belongs in this thread, in spite of its visual spectacle. I found the constant changes of frame rate jarring and they really took me out of the film. The 48 frames per...
This thread is for good movies you enjoyed, there’s another thread for ones you didn’t like! But FWIW I did enjoy Batman. It’s perhaps a long time to sustain one mood, it rarely comes up for air and...
‘Wrath of Man’ and ‘The Protégé’ seem to be in the same genre of kick-ass revenge films with slightly too much plot. I ended up wondering if it’s best to stick with, ‘You killed my dog’ and take it...
Love and Monsters on Netflix is good fun, in a kind of zombieland meets warm bodies meets giant bugs way.
The Billie Eilish doc on Apple TV+ is surprisingly good. Add in the Bee Gees doc and the Britney doc and you have a theme week!
The Bee Gees feature documentary (currently £2 on prime) is a surprisingly good watch.
I must confess I enjoyed Baywatch (extended cut) free on Prime after slightly too many glasses of wine. I’m not sure I’d attempt it sober, but given the right state of mind it was a guilty pleasure.
Watched Zombieland II Double Tap last night, it’s £2.99 on iTunes this weekend. Really enjoyed it, strangely appropriate for our apocalyptic times, but highly entertaining throughout (assuming you...
‘Vice’ is about as fun as a film about Dick Cheney could realistically be. It’s also the worst advert for Rolex imaginable.
I really enjoyed ‘Mandy’. But to appreciate it, it helps to read this quote from the director about his previous film:
It’s essentially a loving homage to a 1983 video nasty aesthetic that...
Cold War was good. Before watching I thought that a polish subtitled 4:3 black and white movie was going to be a struggle, but it turned out to be beautifully made, with gorgeous photography. It...
American Made is good entertainment, Tom Cruise actually playing a character and not just playing Tom Cruise. A bit like Wolf of Wall Street meets Narcos. It’s on iTunes now.
I must recommend 'The Handmaiden'. Hard to explain why without giving anything away, but it's not exactly family viewing - from the director of the unbelievably violent 'Old Boy'. Beautiful, clever,...
'Headhunters' is well worth a look. It's on iTunes. Fun with some friends and a few bottles. If you like the look of the trailer then I can definitely say the film lives up to it.
Dredd is...