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Catcher10 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: December 23 2009 Location: Emerald City Status: Offline Points: 17965 |
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Finished The Penguin, excellent!! 9/10
Carry On (Netflix) surprisingly very good. 8/10 Children's Train (Netflix), got better as it progressed, enjoyable. Kids aside the acting was just ok. 7/10 |
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richardh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 29402 |
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A Quiet Place Day One 2024
This is the third in the franchise and does not feature either John Krasinski or Emily Blunt (although Krasinski co-wrote the screenplay) who appear in the other 2. This does exactly what it says on the tin. One moment all is normal in NYC, next it's complete carnage but because, perhaps, they don't have a big Hollywood budget for a load of CGI, instead it centres on one or 2 characters a la The Walking Dead. It's very good with faces I'm not familiar with plus a very clever cat! 7/10
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Gentle and Giant ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 24 2019 Location: Blackpool Status: Offline Points: 4632 |
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Movies watched over the festive season:
Heretic - A horror movie with Hugh Grant. A great start but went downhill a bit later on. 2 young religious girls get trapped by an anti-religious nutter in his house during a storm. Worth a watch though 7/10 Little Bone Lodge - 2 criminals seek refuge at a remote Scottish property where a mother and her daughter live with the disabled husband. It heads in a totally unexpected direction and the twist is a good one. Nicely acted and some decent jumps near the end. Recommended 8/10 Gladiator II - I wasn't overly fond of the original despite it's positive reviews. This one isn't great tbh. The action scenes are decent but it's way, way too long and the story is quite weak (I could never watch something this long and drab in a cinema). The 2 Emperors were the best thing in it. 4/10
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Gentle and Giant ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 24 2019 Location: Blackpool Status: Offline Points: 4632 |
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Conclave - Not the type of film we normally watch but this one turned out to be quite good. After the death of the Pope all the Cardinals meet up to select a new one - hence the movie's title. A great cast and a good story made the 2 hours fly by. It's full of twists and turns with an ending that no one could ever foresee and a real jaw-dropping moment. 8/10
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richardh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 29402 |
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^ Would like to watch Conclave at some point.
I watched a few 2024 film review shows online and it seems The Substance is getting the plaudits (watch out for the shock Oscar that could be coming Demi Moore's way!). Not seen it myself but can't wait. Sounds intriguing. On the other side of the coin Madame Webb would probably get the worst film of the year award if such a thing existed (or does it? ''The Razzies'' maybe?). Again can't say much as I've not seen it (and probably won't!).
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Gentle and Giant ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 24 2019 Location: Blackpool Status: Offline Points: 4632 |
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The Substance is good - maybe not as shocking as some places make out though.
Last night we watched Elevation - Anthony Mackie and the gorgeous Morena Baccarin star. Nasty beasties appear out of nowhere and kill only humans. From the revealing title these nasties can't go any higher than 8,000ft. So 3 years later all the surviving humans live up in the mountains until, one day, our hero has to venture down to Boulder, Colorado to get medication for his ailing son. It's not too bad actually and there are some very tense scenes but ultimately there is nothing new here. Kills 90 minutes though and there is a hell of a lot worse - 7/10 |
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richardh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 29402 |
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Immaculate 2024
I have to admit I watch too many of these 'throw away' horror films and at 90 minutes this was never going to be a classic! Stars Sidney Sweeney as a US girl who decides to become a nun in an Italian convent (as presumably such things don't exist in the USA?!) and quickly wishes she had stayed at home. It delivers some decent shocks and a satisfying enough conclusion. 7/10 (but to be taken with a large pinch of salt!)
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MortSahlFan ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: March 01 2018 Location: US Status: Offline Points: 3073 |
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Adelheid - 8/10
Best movie I've seen in at least 2 years.. Despite my neighbor and her loud assed muffler going on for an hour.. I had to take a break (play drums to block out the sound) which usually is a hindrance to a movie, but I couldn't take it anymore.. I had this on my IMDB watch-list... along with 2,000 others. Don't remember ever even reading the title. I did a Search on here and found 0 results. Less than 1,000 votes on IMDB but it's on Criterion. I need more movies like this. Contemporary dramas about people that stand on their own, ones you can't compare. |
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In Order of Disappearance
Simplistic and rather depraved Norwegian revenge flick about a snowplow driver (Stellan Skarsgård) who goes after the drug dealers who murdered his son. |
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richardh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 29402 |
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I had to look this up. Apparently a 2014 film that had an English language remake called Cold Pursuit. It reminded me that Skarsgard made another Norwegian film back in 1997 called Insomnia that was then remade by Christopher Nolan and starred Al Pacino. Skarsgard is a fine actor with some great credits inc Chernobyl and both Dune films. Fun fact: he has 8 children and 7 are active in TV and films ( Alexander being the most famous I would suggest) with the 8th a doctor. Skardgard had a vasectomy after his eighth child was born!
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dr wu23 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20659 |
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Havent seen it yet but looking forward to Star Trek :Section 31 on Paramount +
The ultra secret spy agency first came up in DS9 my favorite Start Trek version
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MortSahlFan ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: March 01 2018 Location: US Status: Offline Points: 3073 |
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I leave out the bad movies - don't want to advertise them
The Grim Reaper (1962) - 7.5/10 Nothing special, except that I saw it and finished it without pausing. Pirosmani - 7/10 Very slow paced, but I liked it as it went along. https://youtu.be/OnzjKLDBKXo Mafioso - 7.5/10 One of the first movies to look at the Mafia.. Dawn of a New Day - 6.5/10 Egyptian melodrama in the ballpark of "All That Heaven Allows" and "Harold and Maude". There are so many better Egyptian movies than this, though. Banditi a Orgosolo - 7/10 Nayak - 7/10 Edited by MortSahlFan - February 07 2025 at 14:26 |
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richardh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 29402 |
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The Gorge
Normally best to avoid Apple TV+ films as they are usually not very good, but the interesting casting of Miles Teller and Ana Taylor Joy roped me into this. Also I knew nothing about the premise so was intrigued. Can't say much as it would be a spoiler but I felt that it sagged a bit in the middle and could have had a much punchier ending. Technically a good film but nothing special. 6/10
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Gentle and Giant ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 24 2019 Location: Blackpool Status: Offline Points: 4632 |
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^ I loved The Gorge. My wife says it's one of the best movies she's seen in ages. I'd give it a 9/10
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![]() Very British, very quirky, very rude.... I thought it was quite funny, Sue just didn't...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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richardh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 29402 |
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It's basically a hybrid movie (part sci-fi part rom-com) but I think it struggles to strike a consistent tone. Also I prefer my sci-fi to be as dark in tone as possible (ie pitch black) with some humour ('gallows humour' perhaps) allowed.
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Hi,
THE KNACK, and HOW TO GET IT. (1965). Directed by Richard Lester. Funny funny and weird, and crazy and strange. You can see why he ended up doing the Beatles, but the sad part? No one here will ever see, and understand the surrealistic moments in this film right out of THE GOONS and their radio show. This was repeated even further with The Beatles, and some of them loved the radio show and made characters for their own "Christmas Shows" which were for the fan club, There were 7 of these, but the last one was strictly John and Yoko and not as funny ... but weird, yes! |
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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richardh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 29402 |
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^ I watched that an age ago, I might even have been a teenager at the time. Those early Beatles films were important to me when I was young. Nowadays I still watch Yellow Submarine but that's it. The BBC actually put out a documentary about the making of Magical Mystery Tour film a few years back. The film itself was first broadcast on Boxing Day 1967 (I think it was that year) in a prime time slot and only succeeded in triggering a flood of complaints from viewers. The BBC had commissioned it and gave carte blanche to the fab four to do whatever they wanted. Hilariously Auntie Beeb had expected something quirky and fun like A Hard Days Night. Oh dear!
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richardh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 29402 |
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I do want to see this but it's a Netflix film so for me that rules it out as I am not prepared to rent or buy it. I gave up Netflix when I couldn't find any good TV to watch and they seemed to dump sci-fi aside from Squid Games which I massively struggled with.
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HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS!
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