What film did you watch last night?

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Didn't Dire Straits have some lines about so many channels on cable TV but nothing to see in one of their hit songs?
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57 Channels & Nothing On
 
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AndyRM

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The Outrun - 9/10

I've seen a lot a films about addiction, and this is easily one of the best.

It's beautiful, well considered and clearly made by someone who knows what they're on about.
 

Psamathe

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Despite having Netflix & Amazon Prime Video, I still struggle to find a decent film to watch. :whistle:
Maybe I'm just getting took particular in my old age as I tend to end up watching films I've seen before, one of the recent ones being 'Juggernaut' with Richard Harris & Omar Sharif - ! :laugh:
I also am finding it increasingly difficult to find films and TV I enjoy. There are a few excellent ones but they do seem few and far between.

I suspect in part it's budgets and a shift to streaming services making so many films, competing for budgets with TV series and where they need to generate a lot of content paid on a very different financial model from the days of films in cinemas followed by free-to-air TV once the cinemas audiences had declined. But also in part my own tastes. There used to be a lot of good films I could watch again, maybe after a few months, but great fun. These days most films I watch again I find tiresome and don't pay much attention. There are a few that I can repeat but nothing like as many as I used to enjow re-watching.

Ian
 

AndyRM

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Heretic - 8/10

All three of the leads in this deserve all the praise their getting, particularly Hugh Grant who is totally against type as a twisted religious nutjob.

Relying on atmosphere and set pieces rather than cheap scares this is one of the best religious horror films I've seen for some time.
 

icowden

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All three of the leads in this deserve all the praise their getting, particularly Hugh Grant who is totally against type as a twisted religious nutjob.
I've really started to like Hugh Grant as an actor since he escaped from the romantic comedy niche. He's had a whole pile of roles since about 2016 where he's been able to show what a good actor he really is, rather than just playing the same character again and again.
 
CAlYeah, it's a screen adaptation. Supposedly one of a series of movies.
I've read the book, & most of his stories (Stephen KIng cites him as a big influence)

I'll look into it

EDIT @ 09:00
I've had a look at the Wikipedia page
It seems to be fairly close to the book!
(far better than Reanimator, or From Beyond, but......... they did give us Jeffrey Combs; Shran in Star-Trek : Enterprise)
I'd like to see a good film adaptation of (Lovecrafts) At The Mountains Of Madness or Call Of Cthulu
 
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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

We watched it on Friday evening, she seemed to enjoy it
I know the chap portraying Don Shirley is meant to be a Rapper(?), but I have no idea of what he sounds like, but he plays the part well!


We've got Railway Children Return to watch tonight, with Jenny Agutter as a very much older Bobbi!
I had a quick look, & was pleased to see that it was filmed around Haworth/Oakworth
Keighley Station was used for the opening sequence, showing the refugees embarking on the train
(Keighley & WVR station was aloo used in the present version of All Creatures Great & Small, when Mrs Hall meets her son)

I'll reserve a full judgement on it, till after watching it



View: https://youtu.be/g6IsUeWO2Yw?si=rfhVHzjZKe5NX7y-
 
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