What film did you watch last night?

[sheddy]

Philomena. True story with an excellent performance by Judy Dench playing an elderly mother trying to find her son who was taken from her as a child by the Catholic Church.
Now need to locate the book. Has anyone read it (or anything else by Martin Sixsmith) ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03ttndm/philomena

 

[MontyVeda]

... Also The Warriors - apparently some kind of cult movie, and gets a good score on IMdB, but I'm afraid I found it risible. One of those movies that really hasn't aged well...and you suspect it was crap when it was made.

The Warriors is a classic in my book (I'll have been about 13 when i first saw it)... it's definitely a 'sploitation movie and therefore cheap in many ways... but the opening titles are brilliant, the various gangs are very theatrical and the way the pirate radio DJ runs the show is verging on sublime. There's a dire directors cut that really should be avoided. I mean REALLY!

 

[Haitch]

I haven't seen this yet but it looks like good fun.

That looks excellent. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[NorthernDave]

London Has Fallen

Far fetched and with plot holes big enough to drive a bus through, but check your sense of reality in at the door and it's hugely entertaining nonsense.

8/10

 

[martint235]

Taken 3 which is just a standard Taken film and Inception which I can't decide if it was good or complete tosh.

 

[marknotgeorge]

The Voices. A very dark comedy starring Ryan Reynolds about Jerry, a likeable, slightly awkward chap who suffers from schizophrenic hallucinations and becomes a serial killer. The comedic tone to the violence and gore, and the tonal shifts between Jerry's perception of the world and that of other people both serve to help one empathise with someone who is clearly very ill. A good little film.

 

[swee'pea99]

The Warriors is a classic in my book (I'll have been about 13 when i first saw it)... it's definitely a 'sploitation movie and therefore cheap in many ways... but the opening titles are brilliant, the various gangs are very theatrical and the way the pirate radio DJ runs the show is verging on sublime. There's a dire directors cut that really should be avoided. I mean REALLY!

'When you first saw it?'

 

[marknotgeorge]

London Has Fallen

Far fetched and with plot holes big enough to drive a bus through, but check your sense of reality in at the door and it's hugely entertaining nonsense.

8/10

Yeah, I got told off for pointing out the Charing Cross Jubilee Line platforms have been closed for 16 years. sorry.

 

[John the Monkey]

The Warriors is a classic in my book (I'll have been about 13 when i first saw it)... it's definitely a 'sploitation movie and therefore cheap in many ways... but the opening titles are brilliant, the various gangs are very theatrical and the way the pirate radio DJ runs the show is verging on sublime.

As for me, I watched "Lesson of Evil".

Now this is a Takeshi Miike film about a sociopathic killer who is also a teacher, so I was expecting it to be gruelling, but it exceeded those expectations, with the last third being really quite horrible. I'm not sure whether there's a Hanneke-esque point being made about the audience's acceptance of the fates of the "bad" victims at the start, vs the escalation in the final portion of the film, but Miike's direction gives such a pitiless sense of glee at times that it seems hard to credit without a degree of afterthought. Without some sort of meaning or intention beyond shocking the audience, the ending is so horrendous that the film leaves you feeling empty and more than a little grubby.

 

[marknotgeorge]

Still Life. A beautifully made, thought provoking film about a lonely council worker (played by the always worth watching Eddie Marsan) who deals with those who die alone.

 

[Cubist]

Spotlight. I haven't enjoyed a film as much in years. Excellent, engaging. 10/10

 

[Turdus philomelos]

Jason Kenny Strikes Back. (2016)

One of those brilliant rocky esk type movies where the lead character gets knocked down at the beginning but fights back to become World Champion.

Great edge of the couch stuff.

 

[mustang1]

Contraband.

I wanted to like it but I very quickly knew this would be a background movie while I browsed for my next bike.

 

[Profpointy]

A play rather than a film. Hamlet at The Tobacco Factory, an arts theatre in Bristol. The house troupe "Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory" were excellent as always and overcame the challenge of Hamlet to make it believable and rattle along nicely. If you live in or near Bristol, worth looking out for anything this company do - all good actors, and fabulous as an ensemble. As regulars at their shows, it's nice spotting Horatio as "my Lord Hastings" from Richard III, or Jacques from as you like it playing Claudius. Some while back saw their Richard the second - perhaps the best theatre I've ever seen, particularly the chap playing the King.

 

[EltonFrog]

Just seen London Has Fallen. A challenging and thought provoking film with an intelligent script, artful direction, tasteful cinematography and subtle but assertive acting by the two lead actors.


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