The Dig - about finding the Sutton Hoo Anglo Saxon treasure hoard in 1939
passed the time well enough
passed the time well enough
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mightymoyes
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Watched judas and the black messiah on Friday night, quality film. Fred Hampton was remarkable for someone so young
Ford v Ferrari.
Didn’t expect much, but I really enjoyed it.
Matt Damon was good if not a little subdued and Christian Bales brummy accent was passable.
bitter sweet and very watchable
Didn’t expect much, but I really enjoyed it.
Matt Damon was good if not a little subdued and Christian Bales brummy accent was passable.
bitter sweet and very watchable
Nothing wrong with Jason Statham. One of the better action hero types around.
X Men (2000)
The box set of the first seven X-Men films was going for £6 and given that there's quite a bit of talk that the Mutants might be coming into the MCU I figured it was as good a time as any to jump in.
Given the evolution of comic book films over the last 20 years this feels a little bit average and very 90's (Hello Cyclops) but does a decent enough job of introducing the whole franchise. I've a feeling it played an important part in that evolution but it'd need someone better versed in the genre than me.
X2 (2003)
An improvement on the first and feels like everyone involved has a better grip on where things are going. Very enjoyable.
Blue Collar (1978)
Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto play three friends who work at a car manufacturing plant. Money worries, union corruption, desperation and anger lead to a robbery which has huge ramifications for them. It's not a feel good story with a happy ending.
All three are excellent though apparently they argued constantly and there was more than one physical fight among them during shooting. Pryor is outstanding in a much more serious and nuanced role than the usual comedic roles I've ever seen him in.
The box set of the first seven X-Men films was going for £6 and given that there's quite a bit of talk that the Mutants might be coming into the MCU I figured it was as good a time as any to jump in.
Given the evolution of comic book films over the last 20 years this feels a little bit average and very 90's (Hello Cyclops) but does a decent enough job of introducing the whole franchise. I've a feeling it played an important part in that evolution but it'd need someone better versed in the genre than me.
X2 (2003)
An improvement on the first and feels like everyone involved has a better grip on where things are going. Very enjoyable.
Blue Collar (1978)
Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto play three friends who work at a car manufacturing plant. Money worries, union corruption, desperation and anger lead to a robbery which has huge ramifications for them. It's not a feel good story with a happy ending.
All three are excellent though apparently they argued constantly and there was more than one physical fight among them during shooting. Pryor is outstanding in a much more serious and nuanced role than the usual comedic roles I've ever seen him in.
SussexToffee
Player Valuation: £1m
Red Spot, fantastic Swedish thriller on Netflix. Being a fan of European Cinema, I’ve always wanted to see what Sweden has to offer and my first viewing of a Swedish film didn’t disappoint.
Decent film. Surprisingly tense. I like films with only a few characters in. Wont say too much as it’s easy to spoiler. Spanish with subs.
This is definitely happening as seen in WandaVision.
SussexToffee
Player Valuation: £1m
I liked the Spanish film on Netflix which was a “bucket film”, as the whole thing was filmed in one location all the way through being a prison cell, so I have high expectations of this. That only had like three characters.
Is this one on any streaming platform?.
Across 110th Street (1973)
Could be bundled in with the Blaxploitation era but the direction and camerawork is a cut above. Amazing location shooting around Harlem and a fantastic Bobby Womack soundtrack. Second film I've watched today that stars Yaphet Kotto and his straight laced inexperienced cop couldn't be more different to the usual villain roles he got.
A pre Starsky & Hutch Antonio Fargas features as well as the incredibly voiced Richard Ward. Well worth a look.
Could be bundled in with the Blaxploitation era but the direction and camerawork is a cut above. Amazing location shooting around Harlem and a fantastic Bobby Womack soundtrack. Second film I've watched today that stars Yaphet Kotto and his straight laced inexperienced cop couldn't be more different to the usual villain roles he got.
A pre Starsky & Hutch Antonio Fargas features as well as the incredibly voiced Richard Ward. Well worth a look.
Netflix.
According to www.justwatch.com - very good site for tracking down a (legitimate) streaming source for a film.
Was hoping for more from this to be honest. One of those films where there is no real protagonist. Leaves behind a horrible feeling that all people are scum and humanity is screwed.
Rosamund Pike plays one of the most disgusting characters I’ve seen on film for a long time.
Lapeno77
Player Valuation: £35m
Watched 'the Little Things' last night with Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto.
Fairly straightforward film but I can't get the thought out of my head that its been hacked and reshot after test screening or something. Seems to be little hints at the film having a much darker ending that audiences didn't like.
Also, really infuriating that Jared Leto gives really unnerving , creepy performances but decided to do what he did with the Joker in the DC films
Fairly straightforward film but I can't get the thought out of my head that its been hacked and reshot after test screening or something. Seems to be little hints at the film having a much darker ending that audiences didn't like.
Denzel is the killer. There is a focus on the killer having a really nice pair of boots according to the survivor from the opening. In 2 key parts of the film, the camera lingers on the boots belonging to Washington
Also, really infuriating that Jared Leto gives really unnerving , creepy performances but decided to do what he did with the Joker in the DC films
Project Almanac - Have had this for a while and been wanting to watch it for ages. Finally got round to it last night, and enjoyed it. I love time-travel films, and this was a fun example. MIT wannabe and his friends find the plans/core of a time machine in the basement of his house, where his dad had left it hidden before he died on the sons seventh birthday, ten years previously. They try to get it working and decide how they should use it.
Found the hand held filming style a bit off putting, but it fits in with the story and I soon got used to it. The lead is good as are the rest of the main cast imo, and Sam Lerner, who plays Geoff in The Goldbergs is in it - as a kid who's surname is Goldberg. There is a bit of a 'plot-hole' which they totally ignore/fail to acknowledge, if you presume the usual rules that time-travel films generally subscribe to, but easily ignored as the main time it crops up, the scene in question is really good fun. Overall it kept so much of my attention that I wasn't able to multi-task as I normally do when watching films on my own, and if you like sci-fi/TT and some light drama then worth checking out imo.
Found the hand held filming style a bit off putting, but it fits in with the story and I soon got used to it. The lead is good as are the rest of the main cast imo, and Sam Lerner, who plays Geoff in The Goldbergs is in it - as a kid who's surname is Goldberg. There is a bit of a 'plot-hole' which they totally ignore/fail to acknowledge, if you presume the usual rules that time-travel films generally subscribe to, but easily ignored as the main time it crops up, the scene in question is really good fun. Overall it kept so much of my attention that I wasn't able to multi-task as I normally do when watching films on my own, and if you like sci-fi/TT and some light drama then worth checking out imo.