Shandon Par Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 On 21/06/2020 at 19:27, Stellaboz said: The Wasp Machine. 5/10 About the Cuban Revolution, or the prelude to it, or something. Did an awful job of explaining what exactly was going on and who was who, so I'm non the wiser to the events. 1 point awarded for Penelope Cruz 4 awarded for Ana de Armas who is an exceptionally beautiful lady and whos topless scene will live with me for a long time. A gift the whole world should embrace. What he said. ^^^ Nice to see Pablo Escobar (from Narcos) again too. Bit of a shambles. It's as if the editors never watched the final film. This Revisionist History episode covers some of what went on: http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/41-the-queen-of-cuba 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Good Vibrations BBC iplayer A bit like an inferior version of 24 Hour Party People but set in Belfast during the troubles. Centres on a record store boss with an eye for talent but not a head for business. Ran out of steam a bit but if you like a cheery film with lots of music it passes the time. 6/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 On 24/06/2020 at 15:27, Shandon Par said: Good Vibrations BBC iplayer A bit like an inferior version of 24 Hour Party People but set in Belfast during the troubles. Centres on a record store boss with an eye for talent but not a head for business. Ran out of steam a bit but if you like a cheery film with lots of music it passes the time. 6/10 Eye for talent? Not sure if that is in good taste or not. Enjoyed the Undertones appearance. They found a looky likey for Feargal Sharkey but didn't bother so much with the rest. Also an appearance by the current Doctor Who. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 21 minutes ago, Fullerene said: Eye for talent? Not sure if that is in good taste or not. Enjoyed the Undertones appearance. They found a looky likey for Feargal Sharkey but didn't bother so much with the rest. Also an appearance by the current Doctor Who. Oh I forgot about what happened at the start! Yes, the young Fergal Sharkey was a good bit of casting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 (edited) Hobbs and Shaw Possibly the biggest piece of nonsense I've ever seen. The fucking audacity of how ludicrous it is should be admired. It's genuinely daring in how astonishingly stupid it is. It breaks new ground in the field of nonsense. Of course this makes it an exception watch. One of the funniest films I've seen in a long time and any film with The Rock and Jason Statham is a winner. Idris Elba excels as a guy who doesn't so much chew the scenery as gorge upon it. Vanessa Kirby is exceptionally attractive and also a very talented actor. Throw in brilliant cameos from Kevin Hart and Ryan Reynolds (and Roman Reigns!) and you have what is close to a masterpiece. Oh, and for some reason Glasgow city centre stands in for London during a car chase. 9/10 Edited June 26, 2020 by DA Baracus 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 What Dreams May Come 9/10 An absolutely beautiful film. The colours are gorgeous. It's a stunning film visually. Robin Williams plays a man who is killed and then goes to heaven. Sadly his wife kills herself and he must save her from hell. That massively simplifies things but to say more would be a huge spoiler. Incredible film. Be prepared to sob and laugh and laugh-sob. Emotionally fulfilling. Just lovely. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 14 hours ago, DA Baracus said: Hobbs and Shaw Possibly the biggest piece of nonsense I've ever seen. The fucking audacity of how ludicrous it is should be admired. It's genuinely daring in how astonishingly stupid it is. It breaks new ground in the field of nonsense. Of course this makes it an exception watch. One of the funniest films I've seen in a long time and any film with The Rock and Jason Statham is a winner. Idris Elba excels as a guy who doesn't so much chew the scenery as gorge upon it. Vanessa Kirby is exceptionally attractive and also a very talented actor. Throw in brilliant cameos from Kevin Hart and Ryan Reynolds (and Roman Reigns!) and you have what is close to a masterpiece. Oh, and for some reason Glasgow city centre stands in for London during a car chase. 9/10 It's utter nonsense but in the best possible way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Tunbridge Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 Eurovision story of fire saga- 4/10. If you want a comedy you don’t need to invest yourself in this is worth a watch on Netflix.Definitely too long at 2 hours but has a couple of laughs here and their certainly not Ferrells worst work but nowhere near his top stuff. If you are a Eurovision super fan there’s a lot of cameos to try and spot as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 Last night I watched two 50s sci-fi movies, unusual in that neither was an allegory of the invasion of Communism as so many were at that time. This Island Earth (1955) starred Rex Reason and Faith Domergue (yeah, I know) as two scientists hired by a mysterious chap who turns out to be an alien. He wants the Earthlings to develop a power source to assist the aliens in their war with a neighbouring planet. For its time it has some good special effects (and some awful ones) and the rubber suited mutant is just laughable. Still, it was an enjoyable hour and a half. Forbidden Planet (1956) is literally on another planet in terms of acting, special effects and budget, Leslie Nielsen in his first acting role, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Robby the Robot star in a movie loosely based on The Tempest and which clearly had an influence on Star Trek TOS. The animated effects and "electronic tonalities" are excellent throughout. The budget for the movie was just under $2M which was unheard of for a sci-fi movie at the time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul-r-cfc Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 Eurovision story of fire saga- 4/10. If you want a comedy you don’t need to invest yourself in this is worth a watch on Netflix.Definitely too long at 2 hours but has a couple of laughs here and their certainly not Ferrells worst work but nowhere near his top stuff. If you are a Eurovision super fan there’s a lot of cameos to try and spot as well. I enjoyed it for what it was. Some shite accents and yeah, a touch long but enough laughs, good glimpses of Edinburgh and a few banging tunes. Last one in particular was actually a very good song in its own right. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutz_the_Squirrel Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 The King Of Staten Island- really well put together cast and characters in this indie semi-autobiography. Some big laughs within if you’re into dry comedy. 7/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 - one of the rare sequels that has the original title as a suffix. Directly following on from the first film, our surviving heroine finds herself locked up in an asylum, the governor of which has a coincidental interest in the magic Cenobite box... Some folk consider this the best of the series, but I'm not seeing it. We get to see the dimension that the Cenobites emerged from, and find out a wee bit more about their background, but it's all a bit drab and extremely cheap. There's even less plot this time around, an overwhelming feeling of "who cares?", and you could spend the entire thing wondering why things are happening and what the characters' motivations are. I seem to remember liking the third one more, purely because it was more entertaining (CD-player-mouth Cenobite!), but I guess we'll see. BigFatTabbyBoy was also mystified by the plot & characters, and just seemed annoyed by the end. Underwater - a deep-sea mining crew find themselves in a shitload of trouble when everything mysteriously starts to implode as their excavations have uncovered something unexpected. This was alright, although it felt far too formulaic, and there wasn't a lot of surprise (except possibly for one big effects thing towards the end...but yeah, even then, you could've seen it coming). Decent cast, with some familiar faces doing as well as they could, and even Kristen Stewart wasn't quite her utterly wooden self, so kudos. Worth a watch if you fancy a bit of undersea sci-fi horror, just don't go in expecting too much. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanton Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 The Wolf Hour . Naomi Watts as an agoraphobic writer in a somewhat disappointing physiological thriller that fails to deliver 4-10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustOneCornetto Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Come Back To The 5 And Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) Robert Altman's film adaptation of the successful Broadway play about a bunch of die hard James Dean fans who meet up on the 20th anniversary of his death. Great performance by Sandy Dennis as the central character, Mona, whose perception of the last 20 years is a bit delusional. Old wounds and some secrets are revealed with the rest of the cast including Cher, Karen Black and Kathy Bates playing their parts well. 7/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 On 20/06/2020 at 04:21, tongue_tied_danny said: Yeah, The Long Goodbye and Thieves Like Us are two that I have on DVD. I really like Elliott Gould's flat in The Long Goodbye. It's in a complex called The High Tower in Hollywood. I would love to live there. Emma Thompson also lived there in "Dead Again", a Kenneth Branagh film which Mrs Shotgun enjoys a lot more than I do. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Irresistible Jon Stewart written and directed political satire. A small town mayoral election ends up having two heavyweight (Steve Carell & Rose Byrne) PR campaigners back the local candidates. Short and sweet film. 90 minutes well spent. 7.5/10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Euro vision is 2 hours of utterly glorious nonsense. Especially love Ding Dong, I want it played at my wedding. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul-r-cfc Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Euro vision is 2 hours of utterly glorious nonsense. Especially love Ding Dong, I want it played at my wedding. I googled it in case it was a real Icelandic folk song! Made me want to pay attention to eurovision next time round tbh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Ran Inspired by @Shandon Par avatar, I decided to give Ran a watch for the first time in well over a decade. This epic is set in feudal Japan. An aging warlord abdicates and divides his territory between his three sons. This creates a bit of a power vacuum and before you know it loads of samurai are fighting like f**k. It's supposedly based upon King Lear, but I've never seen it or read it so I can't really comment. It's long and slow moving but is a joy to watch. The visuals are stunning and the set piece battles are spectacular. My only complaint is that the main character could move far too quickly for a septuagenarian. 9/10 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 The Age of Adaline. 6/10 Blake Lively is something else. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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