Ira Gaines Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 What We Do in the Shadows A mockumentary about a group of vampires in New Zealand. This is really fucking funny. It's the folk that do Flight of the Conchords that made this. This will either help you go see it or not, but regardless of if you're a fan or not, there's bound to be a lot to like in this. 9/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P45 Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Chef 8/10. St Vincent 6/10. Wolfcop 6/10. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstonspider Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Fury 8 out ot 10. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
11thHour Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Finding Nemo - 5/10. First time seeing this and struggling to find why this film was so lauded. Pretty pish apart from the turtles. Duuuuude. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 ^^^ not my squishy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjc Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Risky Business - 6.5/10 Brat packer Tom Cruise pops his cherry with a hooker but no lines of coke in sight! Tangerine Dream - Love on a real train is still a class tune 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidernation Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Desolation of Smaug 7/10: Enjoyed the film but barely any similarity to the book. As long as you accept that it's pretty good. Would have been an 8 but -1 for the ridiculous CGI/Barrels sequence Lego Movie 4/10: Meh, what was all the fuss about? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 The Lego Movie is brilliant. ROUND YE 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 The new Hunger games, agreed with others that its hard to really sympathise with most characters, while the whole idea that Lawrence has to be the person to inspire everyone to fight is incredibly weak as they've never really backed it up to any decent degree, you're just expected to accept it as plausible. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy boo Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Risky Business - 6.5/10 Brat packer Tom Cruise pops his cherry with a hooker but no lines of coke in sight! Tangerine Dream - Love on a real train is still a class tune My favourite band must have as many soundtrack albums as proper ones...dozens!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia 3/10 Documentary about Gore Vidal, rather than Gore Vidal's personal vision or anything. One of those documentaries that begins by being so besotted with its subject that it can't get out of first gear and just trots around lavishing praise and editing things that make it look like everything is going super fucking swell all of the time. There's plenty of his waspish barbs against other intellectuals and that's funny for a bit, especially when he verbally lamps Norman Mailer halfway across a TV studio one time. But - he moves to Italy to apparently better critique the US: "I needed distance to help me write." Umm. OK. Except the next bit is about how great his life in Italy is - celebrities coming over all the time, an active sex life with local lads - the guy hasn't a friggin' clue what's happening. Then there's a bit where he talks about why religion is so terrible, which segues into lots of fawning by Chris Hitchens and other members of the atheist bully gang. Ugh. Then there's a bit where he meets Gorbachev and they basically w**k each other off. Vidal makes a speech at a thing that sounds boring as f**k (he's really old here) and his points are all very bland and then *SNIP* applause, Gore wins again! Then a bit where he's in a bar in Venice where he goes every NYE for the last 50 years. Then someone bangs on about his incredibly unimpressive books that no one actually reads. Then a bit where he's running for the Democratic primary in California. At a dinner he barbs his opponent, saying 'he needs to take 4 years off and learn what he thinks about things', then the screen freezes and says "Brown spent the next four years studying Buddhism and visiting Mother Teresa". What it doesn't play up is that Brown won and Vidal lost. It's a bit 'needless to say, Gore had the last laugh.' 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Filth 5/10 Had a few good scenes but as a whole it was a bit of a mess really. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Mud 8/10 Matt McConaughey as the titular character hiding out on a boat from the law and gets discovered by two kids who came looking for the boat. Really enjoyed this, light enough coming-of-age fare but stays away from schmaltz and the acting never gets melodramatic. Only slightly let down by a slightly A-Teamish ending. Two Days, One Night 7/10 A Belgian-French movie with Marion Cotillard as a woman given two days to try to convince her workmates to forego the bonus they've been offered in exchange for her being made redundant from the company. Cotillard is very good in it as the woman suffering with depression forced back out into the world to save her job but for a film that is essentially one person knocking on doors for its 90 mins duration it needed a bit more directorial flair. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia 3/10 Documentary about Gore Vidal, rather than Gore Vidal's personal vision or anything. One of those documentaries that begins by being so besotted with its subject that it can't get out of first gear and just trots around lavishing praise and editing things that make it look like everything is going super fucking swell all of the time. There's plenty of his waspish barbs against other intellectuals and that's funny for a bit, especially when he verbally lamps Norman Mailer halfway across a TV studio one time. But - he moves to Italy to apparently better critique the US: "I needed distance to help me write." Umm. OK. Except the next bit is about how great his life in Italy is - celebrities coming over all the time, an active sex life with local lads - the guy hasn't a friggin' clue what's happening. Then there's a bit where he talks about why religion is so terrible, which segues into lots of fawning by Chris Hitchens and other members of the atheist bully gang. Ugh. Then there's a bit where he meets Gorbachev and they basically w**k each other off. Vidal makes a speech at a thing that sounds boring as f**k (he's really old here) and his points are all very bland and then *SNIP* applause, Gore wins again! Then a bit where he's in a bar in Venice where he goes every NYE for the last 50 years. Then someone bangs on about his incredibly unimpressive books that no one actually reads. Then a bit where he's running for the Democratic primary in California. At a dinner he barbs his opponent, saying 'he needs to take 4 years off and learn what he thinks about things', then the screen freezes and says "Brown spent the next four years studying Buddhism and visiting Mother Teresa". What it doesn't play up is that Brown won and Vidal lost. It's a bit 'needless to say, Gore had the last laugh.' Always seemed like a laddie who's terribly fond of himself. You can forgive an awful lot for the epic lolfest that is Caligula, however. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 The Lego Movie is ace. Anyway, just out of the cinema. Saw Interstellar. Incredible. Not ashamed to say there were a couple of tears. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Waco: The Rules of Engagement - documentary about the events surrounding the 1993 FBI raid on the Branch Davidian headquarters in Waco, Texas. Blimey. I think most folk have the idea in their head that the Davidian massacre was the mass suicide of a religious cult centred around a Jim Jones-style zealot, and I must admit that I started watching this thinking it would be the story of a lunatic and his indoctrinated sheep sacrificing themselves in the name of a mythic being. Not, as it turns out, the case at all. Much like the situation itself, the film's a slow build, but it gets quite horrific towards the end. David Koresh doesn't seem like he was someone you'd want babysitting your weans, but the film's narrative is about a militaristic and triumphalist government organisation failing to crack a fairly small nut with a steam-powered sledgehammer, before ensuring that their mistakes are literally buried. Really well worth a watch, so long as you don't mind feeling outraged and helpless. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MangoBroccoli Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Anyone seen Mandela Long Walk to Freedom? Is it any good? Was going to watch it today but went for Captain Phillips instead 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 Anyone seen Mandela Long Walk to Freedom? Is it any good? Was going to watch it today but went for Captain Phillips instead You made a good choice. Long Walk... is fairly boring stuff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtie23 Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 Hot Shots Classic 90s comedy 9/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror - a professor opens a tomb, then ZOMBIES! That's pretty much your whole plot right there. No expense was spared when writing the script for this dreadful '80s Italian flick. There are plenty of genre staples on offer - hundreds of close-up head shots of appalling facial make-up, women who cower and scream while zombies slowly shuffle across the room towards them, and fight scenes in which everyone involved are obviously desperate not to hurt each other. There are a few innovations, however; did you know that teeth grow from your lips after a long enough period of decay? And that zombies have heads made from plaster? There's also a bizarre mother-son incest subplot, which is far less interesting than it sounds. Seriously, if your make-up effects are woeful, why would you spend so much time shooting close-ups of it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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