pub car king Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 The BBC Scotland channel has some decent old films on at the minute. Restless Natives was on the other day and the excellent but hard to find Orphans is on at the minute. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 I don't want to be "I prefer the book" guy but I thoroughly recommend reading The Martian. Matt Damon's character is absolutely brilliant, almost like someone out of an Irvine Welsh novel. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverton End Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 Defiance (2008) During WWII, Belarussian Jews hide out & fight Nazis in the forest, led by the 3 Bielski brothers. Good movie based on true events, the special features on the disc had a nice piece on today's descendants of the 'forest partisans'. 8/10 Rescue Dawn (2006) Another biopic/true events movie. On his first mission, during the Vietnam war, US Navy fighter pilot Dieter Dengler is shot down over Laos, gets captured, tortured & is holed up with 6 other prisoners, some who are clearly mentally ill due to their ordeal. An escape plan is hatched, the real highlight of this movie though is the jungle cinematography & music. Directed by Werner Herzog 8/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanton Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 On 01/01/2021 at 12:39, BFTD said: Glad to see somebody else mention this. I assume everyone was just so happy to finally see Wonder Woman on the big screen that they didn't want to think too much about who was playing her. She's an expressionless doll. Everything I've seen her in she's been awful, glad to see she's consistent . Probably means I'll give it a miss 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanton Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 Mr Holmes - Ian McKellen stars as the now retired Sherlock Holmes ,who's memory is now failing him . Along with the son of his housekeeper he's trying to remember the facts behind his final case , the case that caused him to retire. Told in series of flashbacks it's a nice gentle tale The type of film that used to be on TV on a Sunday afternoon when I was younger. 8/10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elric Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 The Journey - Talks between Ian Paisley and Martin McGuiness. Really enjoyable and Timothy Spall outstanding as Paisley. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Red Sparrow. Jennifer Laurence gets into some nice outfits as a Russian ballet star turned spy by her sincere sounding, but ultimately creepy uncle. She's eventually sent to state seduction school for spies in order to find out the identity of an internal mole. Plot is a bit stupid but she's always a delight. 6/10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtie23 Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Jojo RabbitBrilliant. Funny and poignant throughout. The boy who played Hitler was absolutely superb. 9/10SoulPretty standard Pixar stuff. Someone on here before said it reminded them of inside out and I agree with that. Music was good6.5/10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrie Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Rim of the World By that talentless hack McG, where he takes a whole pile of better 80's movies like Sleepaway Camp and whatnot throws them in a blender, attempts to throw bad CGI on top to disguise a crap plot and fails to even do that. 3/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy boo Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 3:10 to Yuma Christian Bale is a poor rancher who ends up escorting a group of bounty hunters to take outlaw Russell Crowe to rendezvous with a train to take him to jail. Closely followed the Crowes gang who are determined to rescue him of course. Good interplay between the two main characters as Crowe tries to out psych Bale......8/10. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 3:10 to Yuma Christian Bale is a poor rancher who ends up escorting a group of bounty hunters to take outlaw Russell Crowe to rendezvous with a train to take him to jail. Closely followed the Crowes gang who are determined to rescue him of course. Good interplay between the two main characters as Crowe tries to out psych Bale......8/10.Forgot the gang were the Crowes. Just watching Justified atm and season 5 is centred around a Crowe gang who are just hillbilly dipshits. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 (edited) Think it's been touched on here but, having Netflix I too ended up watching The Midnight Sky.... a positive write up and George Clooney starring and directing surely this will be a cracker? Two hours or so of my life I will never get back, mind numbing pish. Edited January 6, 2021 by Flybhoy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 1 hour ago, Flybhoy said: Think it's been touched on here but, having Netflix I too ended up watching The Midnight Sky.... a positive write up and George Clooney starring and directing surely this will be a cracker? Two hours or so of my life I will never get back, mind numbing pish. Relentlessly boring is what I think I said about it on here, or something similar. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrie Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 (edited) Message From the King Chadwick Boseman in a passable revenge thriller where he hunts down those who killed his sister in LA. He works with what he has and it also features paedo Alfred Molina and sleazy as hell Luke Evans. Disappointing as it is from the director of Calvaire, but it's perfectly serviceable. 6/10 Edited January 8, 2021 by Comrie 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinkle Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Shadow In The Cloud f**k me its bad. Like really, really bad. Chloe Grace Moretz is a WWII pilot who is travelling with confidential documents on board a plane where things start to go wrong quite quickly. Some of the worst scripting, acting, cgi, etc ive ever witnessed. Under no circumstances should anyone even waste their time on the trailer let alone the 80 odd minutes of nonsense that follows. I know a few people will be reading this thinking 'im gonna watch it to see if its as bad as hes saying'. Dont, just dont 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killiepiemuncher Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Shadow In The Cloud f**k me its bad. Like really, really bad. Chloe Grace Moretz is a WWII pilot who is travelling with confidential documents on board a plane where things start to go wrong quite quickly. Some of the worst scripting, acting, cgi, etc ive ever witnessed. Under no circumstances should anyone even waste their time on the trailer let alone the 80 odd minutes of nonsense that follows. I know a few people will be reading this thinking 'im gonna watch it to see if its as bad as hes saying'. Dont, just dontI’m drawn to it now. I’ll lambast you later. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustOneCornetto Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Black Narcissus (1947) Was going to watch the 3 part remake on BBC but decided to watch the film first. Powell & Pressburger did a great job of creating the mountain top setting considering it was all filmed in a studio in London. It's a story about a group of Nuns sent to the Himalayas to set up a school and a pharmacy in what used to be a Palace for the King's harem. Deborah Kerr is good as the young Nun in charge and David Farquar loafs around as the hunk getting these women's juices flowing and strange to see Jean Simmons playing the part of a young Indian girl trying to tempt the young Prince. It's not bad and we see each of the Nuns trying to cope in this alien environment to different degrees with Sister Ruth totally losing it leading to tragic consequences. 8/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 I went for a John Carpenter and Kurt Russell double bill last night. Big Trouble in Little China This is good fun, always entertaining. 8/10 Escape from New York A stone cold classic. 10/10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Less Than Zero. It's a Hollywood take on a hugely cynical and cold novel which tries to insert a moral. It also takes out most of the punk/ new wave stuff from the book. The story is crap but the performances are good from Robert Downey Jr and David Spader. Bonus points for having Roy Orbison Life Fades Away over the credits. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpInTheAyr Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 Under The Silver Lake.A quirky sort of whodunnit with Andrew Garfield. Bit weird and filled with pop references but has a certainly charm to it even though it's a 2 hours plus indie film 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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