Films you've watched recently.

[Floval Flyer]

Heard a lot form my students at the LFB yesterday about stuff they'd watched on Neflix.Not this one though.

Give it a go, it’s a film rather than a box set.

 

[Napster]

Get Out is incredible and very very layered- immense horror

 

[MK Shrimper]

The Miseducation of Cameron Post - More gay conversion therapy, this time for Chloe Grace Moretz. It's ok, doesn't really go anywhere. 6/10

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Give it a go, it’s a film rather than a box set.

Ha! I don't have Neflix,so it's unlikely I'll be able to give it a go.Interesting to read Mike Leigh slagging them off earlier in The Observer.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/10/mike-leigh-netflix-amazon-behave-like-hollywood-moguls

 

[MK Shrimper]

Sorcerer - 70s movie: Roy Schneider leads 3 other criminals in transporting highly unstable dynamite in two delapidated trucks through some Central American hellhole.
If they made this film today most of it would be CGI but you can feel the dirt and rain. Tense as flip! 8/10

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Enjoyed Willem Dafoe's biopic of Van Gogh "At Eternity's Gate " earlier.Been a big fan of his since Platoon days.Which must mean it picked up quite a few rotten tomatoes.

 

[Napster]

Hereditary/ wow best horror I’ve seen in ages.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Hereditary/ wow best horror I’ve seen in ages.

Thought it started well then totally lost it's way and ended up daft as a daft brush.

 

[Napster]

Thought it started well then totally lost it's way and ended up daft as a daft brush.

I can see that but I loved it

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Saw Clint Eastwood's The Mule earlier.It's certainly a much better film that Robert Redford's whimsical The Old Man and the Gun.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Saw Clint Eastwood's The Mule earlier.It's certainly a much better film that Robert Redford's whimsical The Old Man and the Gun.

I doubt that.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Also caught up with Mike Leigh's Peterloo yesterday on DVD (disgracefully it hasn't yet had a cinema release in Barna).Easily the best of his costume drama (Gilbert and Sullivan+ Turner) films I thought.Some subtle anti-Brexit sentiments too.ML (unlike Ken Loach) has always made (lower case) political films,whereas KL, usually much prefers the sledgehammer approach.

Edit.Forgot to mention that Bill Douglas's wonderful 1986 Comrades (certainly the first half at least) was clearly a model for ML's excellent film.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I doubt that.

See them both Paul and tell me why you prefer RR's (which he didn't direct) effort.RR has always had easy charm as an actor but I've always though that Clint is much more talented as a director and arguably as an actor too.BTW,(I know Clint's not very PC these days.FWIW,I've always much preferred RR's politics).

 

[MK Shrimper]

See them both Paul and tell me why you prefer RR's (which he didn't direct) effort.RR has always had easy charm as an actor but I've always though that Clint is much more talented as a director and arguably as an actor too.BTW,(I know Clint's not very PC these days.FWIW,I've always much preferred RR's politics).

Eastwood has done some good films - Gran Turismo, Unforgiven for example, but this doesn't appeal at all.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Eastwood has done some good films - Gran Turismo, Unforgiven for example, but this doesn't appeal at all.

Torino. Give it a try -it's a much better film than you might think from the subject matter alone or from some of the reviews.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Torino. Give it a try -it's a much better film than you might think from the subject matter alone or from some of the reviews.

Haha I've played to many computer games.

 

[MK Shrimper]

The Kid Who Would Be King - Arthurian kids romp from Joe Cornish. It's an odd film, like a Children Film Foundation film with a big budget. 7/10

 

[Ricky Otto]

Fighting with my family -
Wouldn't have picked this out if it wasn't for hearing Stephen Merchant talk about it in an interview as it's writer and director. True story about a girl from a Wrestling mad family in Norwich who made it as a star in WWE, Paige. I don't watch WWE so I have no idea about her but it is a good funny feel good kinda film. 7/10

 

[MK Shrimper]

3/4s the way through of a truly weird but hugely fun film. The Love Witch, a very 60s looking film where the very beautiful Elaine uses her witchy powers to seduce (it's not that hard, trust me) and then murder some very chauvenistic men.

 

[Mad Cyril]

The Kid Who Would Be King - Arthurian kids romp from Joe Cornish. It's an odd film, like a Children Film Foundation film with a big budget. 7/10

I used to enjoy the Adam and Joe show but they are just another example of posh kids getting on in the media along with their mate Louis Theroux.