AndyRM
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I think it's only fair that if you're sticking on Murder on the Dance Floor, we all get to... Well, you know. Might be frowned upon.
What film did you watch last night?
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I think it's only fair that if you're sticking on Murder on the Dance Floor, we all get to... Well, you know. Might be frowned upon.
matticus
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Well, going by the "From other local news sites:" section, Northampton could do with some positive attention :-/
AndyRM
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So could the actual Saltburn.
cyberknight
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Slowly watching Leon on amazon prime, its taking a while as no one else in the house likes what i like to view on tv .Its a bloomin good film !!
AndyRM
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Leon is genius. You have a lot to enjoy!
Grant Fondo
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Saw this recently, a sixties classic.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
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indeed i have the dvd somewhere , i have seen it many times but i bet its been 10+ years since i saw it
Cathryn
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I’m halfway through Nyad on Netflix about Diana Nyad, the swimmer! It’s incredible! I’ve been really weepy all the way through, primarily about seeing two incredible olde female actors absolutely bossing this movie! It’s absolutely brilliant!
Profpointy
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They cloned Tyrone
A slightly odd modern blaxploitation sci-fi conspiracy action movie. Described as comedy sci fi but whilst it's not exactly serious, it isn't quitr a comedy, and despite being a recent film plays the blaxploitation side pretty straight, in contrast to, say "Black Dynamite" which is an affectionate parody of the genre. Word of warning, you need to be a bit patient with the slow build up, with (initially - it's fine later) near incomprehensible (to me, a white Brit) ghetto dialogue. Turns out it doesn't matter too much what is said at that point, as it's just about "set-up" and introducing the characters: Fontaine, a minor drug dealer/gangster played by British actor John Boyega, Jamie Foxx (star of Django Unchained) as his associate / underling, a pimp, and Teyona Parris, as one of Foxx's 'hos. It then transforms into a sci fi story about "the man" represented by Kieffer Sutherland, manipulating the black community with drugs, clones, social experiments and secret underground bases.
If you can get over the slow start and sheer oddness of it this is well crafted, well written and with excellent lead actors in a ultimately moderately serious film, which is partly a parody but mostly an homage to the blaxploitation movies of the 70s
A guarded recommendation - maybe 7/10
A slightly odd modern blaxploitation sci-fi conspiracy action movie. Described as comedy sci fi but whilst it's not exactly serious, it isn't quitr a comedy, and despite being a recent film plays the blaxploitation side pretty straight, in contrast to, say "Black Dynamite" which is an affectionate parody of the genre. Word of warning, you need to be a bit patient with the slow build up, with (initially - it's fine later) near incomprehensible (to me, a white Brit) ghetto dialogue. Turns out it doesn't matter too much what is said at that point, as it's just about "set-up" and introducing the characters: Fontaine, a minor drug dealer/gangster played by British actor John Boyega, Jamie Foxx (star of Django Unchained) as his associate / underling, a pimp, and Teyona Parris, as one of Foxx's 'hos. It then transforms into a sci fi story about "the man" represented by Kieffer Sutherland, manipulating the black community with drugs, clones, social experiments and secret underground bases.
If you can get over the slow start and sheer oddness of it this is well crafted, well written and with excellent lead actors in a ultimately moderately serious film, which is partly a parody but mostly an homage to the blaxploitation movies of the 70s
A guarded recommendation - maybe 7/10
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Adam4868
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View: https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1745361905634742670?t=iLqiCIrETl81lzcVMp_GGg&s=19
Was reading this and brought me back to this post 🤣
Plus you can never have too much League of Gentlemen!
matticus
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<googles ...Wiki:>
They Cloned Tyrone is a 2023 American science fiction comedy mystery film
Which is a bit different, suggesting quite an interesting movie!
AndyRM
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Adam4868
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I hear people in Hadfield rarely have a TV or a passport 🤣
Richard A Thackeray
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I might try & persuade SWMBO to watch 'Green Book' with me this weekend
It's an excellent film
If you didn't know it was Viggo Mortenson, you'd probably never realise he was once Strider/Aragorn/The King Of Gondor)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkZxoko_HC0
It's an excellent film
If you didn't know it was Viggo Mortenson, you'd probably never realise he was once Strider/Aragorn/The King Of Gondor)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkZxoko_HC0
Green Book
A true story
I've seen a proportion of it before, but it was on BBC4 last night
It won Best Film at the 2018 Academy Awards, & Golden Globes
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkZxoko_HC0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Book_(film)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b33PN2NB2Do
matticus
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https://www.questmedianetwork.co.uk/news/glossop-chronicle/25-years-of-league-of-gentlemen/
Happy Birthday Royston Vasey! [I'm a day late, soz ... ]
