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To save polluting the TV thread, I thought I'd start a thread for the films we've seen this year.
I saw A Real Pain the other day and it's a really nicely put together piece by Jesse Eisenberg. It unpeels like an onion, with each layer getting closer to the central pint. Good film.
Babygirl could have been so much better. Nicole Kidman does well but it all feels a bit 'off'.
Rewatched Anatomy of a Fall the other day - brilliant.
Lad develops Tourette’s after he gets to secondary school and it follows his adult life up to now. Not over sentimental but lets some great acting carry it along. Funny and sad, it’s well worth a watch.
I watched One Battle After Another at the cinema today and you should watch it. Almost definitely an oscar contender and likely winner for the score and best supporting actor with Sean Penn (at least).
The less you know the better, but it's hard to explain anyway. Just enjoy the ride.
Agree about this film - we saw it on Saturday. Initially concerned about the length, but the 168 minutes flew by!
Agree about this film - we saw it on Saturday. Initially concerned about the length, but the 168 minutes flew by!
Agreed on all the above. I normally check reviews and read up on the plot, but on this occasion didn't and really enjoyed the ride. Some great performances and a great script.
Agreed on all the above. I normally check reviews and read up on the plot, but on this occasion didn't and really enjoyed the ride. Some great performances and a great script.
Haven't been able to stop thinking about it since I saw it and annoyed at myself for not going to the IMAX too watch it again, for the car chase scene alone!
A film that probably doesn't get made if it wasn't PTA directed with Leo attached, because the studios only want to make films that have IP and a cast with Instagram followers in the millions... A shame, as these kind of original films are what makes cinema special
Last night I watched a documentary on Prime called John Candy - 'I like me'. Anyone who is a fan of his or grew up with his films in the 80s it is a must watch. A really moving story and incredible that he died over 30 years ago at only 43yo.
I’ve just watched a film from 2010 called The Tourist, set mostly in Venice staring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. I enjoyed it , wonderful scenery and a half decent action thriller effort.
Last night I watched a documentary on Prime called John Candy - 'I like me'. Anyone who is a fan of his or grew up with his films in the 80s it is a must watch. A really moving story and incredible that he died over 30 years ago at only 43yo.
Uncle Buck was my favourite, and my kids too.
The Candy film teared me up a bit - he was a real talent and lost him way too young.
An unbelievably stressful film. Went into it knowing the basic premise, which is that it's mostly set in one car as two parents drive to their daughter at night, who has been in a car crash, and that it was only 80 minutes long.
It's a thumbs up from me. I love these kind of low-key, high-concept thrillers, and definitely didn't see a lot of the twists and turns coming. I thought it had ended once, then it went off again, and I was a bag of nerves for most of the last half hour. The actual ending is fine, although I was hoping they were about to pull off something really great. But it was fine.
Rosamund Pike is pretty good, some of the other acting is less convincing, especially the over-the-phone stuff, but it didn't really matter, the film is carried along by unfolding events rather than character development.
Well I watched House of Dynamite the new Kathryn Bigalow film about a nuclear strike on America.
The whole premise is based on the US failing to immediately detect a nuclear launch from somewhere in the Pacific region (really!). Get past that and its OK, but not sure I get the hype.
The movie about Springsteen Deliver me from Nowhere is pretty good.It deals with his difficult relationship with his Father and how it affected his own personnel and professional life, its not a feelgood or' isn't Bruce great film' but a serious look at his demons and the choices he needed to make in his career. I dont think you need to be a big Springsteen fan to appreciate this movie as it deals with issues that most of us know about.Great acting throughout and a very well made film.Stephen Graham who is very good as always plays his Dad.
just watched 8 hrs of netflix series, MONSTER THE ED GEIN STORY, not for the faint hearted, now i thought i knew something of this and the film with steve railsback was great, called ed gein. this introduces love interest that is not fact , why do it? and try to make him out to be the poster boy of all killers . charlie Hunnam is ok, does a decent job , this is a cold, chilling drama. well worth a watch but some images of holocaust stuff and a fantasy world, maybe not to far from the truth, he was mad ! 9/10 for me. seems they will do more of these, with dahmer already done .
just watched 8 hrs of netflix series, MONSTER THE ED GEIN STORY, not for the faint hearted, now i thought i knew something of this and the film with steve railsback was great, called ed gein. this introduces love interest that is not fact , why do it? and try to make him out to be the poster boy of all killers . charlie Hunnam is ok, does a decent job , this is a cold, chilling drama. well worth a watch but some images of holocaust stuff and a fantasy world, maybe not to far from the truth, he was mad ! 9/10 for me. seems they will do more of these, with dahmer already done .
Obvs a series rather than a film, but I was really disappointed with this Ed Gein one. I thought Dahmer was great, and the brothers one just meh, but this seemed to be like an American Horror Story with too much artistic licence. I understand the angle, that he was like the Godfather and inspiration for the serial killer / shock horror genre, but I just didn't think it worked at all...
Keen on a cinema trip this week and Predator Badlands isn't out just yet, anyone seen anything good that's on now other than the Springsteen film? New Frankenstein worth a look?
Obvs a series rather than a film, but I was really disappointed with this Ed Gein one. I thought Dahmer was great, and the brothers one just meh, but this seemed to be like an American Horror Story with too much artistic licence. I understand the angle, that he was like the Godfather and inspiration for the serial killer / shock horror genre, but I just didn't think it worked at all...
Keen on a cinema trip this week and Predator Badlands isn't out just yet, anyone seen anything good that's on now other than the Springsteen film? New Frankenstein worth a look?
Bugonia is out this week, Yorgos Lanthimos new film.
Bugonia is out this week, Yorgos Lanthimos new film.
Looking forward to watching this, I usually like his films (although wasn't mad on Poor Things).
Sick as a dog today, ended up going back to bed, can only get Netflix on tv in the bedroom and couldn't find anything I wanted to watch, so watched del Toro's Frankenstein.
It's pretty much del Toro doing del Toro things, quite nice to look at in places, but heavy handed story telling and way too long. The father-son dynamic is there in Shelly's story I think, but it's elevated here and could have been interesting, but I just found it all a bit on the nose.
Last weekend I saw Palestine 36 and I thoroughly recommend it. I learned a lot about what the British army did in Palestine at that time. It should be far more common knowledge than it is. In fact, it should be taught in our schools.
Last weekend I saw Palestine 36 and I thoroughly recommend it. I learned a lot about what the British army did in Palestine at that time. It should be far more common knowledge than it is. In fact, it should be taught in our schools.
Reception Rotten Tomatoes currently (as of November 2025) rates the film at 100%, based on 19 reviews.[18]
Thanks for the recc, dmm. Hadn't heard of it.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Saw Nuremberg today. It's a gripping film with good performances from the leading actors, Russell Crowe as Goring, and Rami Malek as US army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley. It's Goring and Kelley's relationship that forms the narrative focus.
The ending has a hint of prescience about it, unsurprising given the current state of the world.
I'd recommend it both as a good watch and as an education in what was certainly the trial of the 20th century.
An unbelievably stressful film. Went into it knowing the basic premise, which is that it's mostly set in one car as two parents drive to their daughter at night, who has been in a car crash, and that it was only 80 minutes long.
It's a thumbs up from me. I love these kind of low-key, high-concept thrillers, and definitely didn't see a lot of the twists and turns coming. I thought it had ended once, then it went off again, and I was a bag of nerves for most of the last half hour. The actual ending is fine, although I was hoping they were about to pull off something really great. But it was fine.
Rosamund Pike is pretty good, some of the other acting is less convincing, especially the over-the-phone stuff, but it didn't really matter, the film is carried along by unfolding events rather than character development.
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I liked it. It almost felt like a play. The ending would have been perfect but they put an extra minute on it which took something away from it. But yeah, super stressful.
Watched Black Phone 2 last night. The first one was average (not sure why it got a big cinema release) and this one is worse. It feels like Nightmare on Elm Street 3 (Dream Warriors) at times. But not as good.
Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore.
went to see Bugonia last night... Purposely kept away from the reviews as it obviously has a lot to live up to after the amazing 'Poor thing' by director Yorgos Lanthimos and main protagonist, Emma Stone. It's a fantastic, surreal plotline that toys with the recent covid type conspiracies with Jesse Plemmons playing a you tube educated theorist ably assisted by his impressionable autistic cousin, who believes the world is being run by aliens. It goes down some very dark holes and demonstrates the underbelly of america's detached outsiders, whilst questioning the motives of big pharma. The repartee between Stone and Plemmons is superb and almost effortless, as they take turns to switch the power base of their situation. Thoroughly enjoyable, if a little predictable towards the end - a strong 8/10 for me.
went to see Bugonia last night... Purposely kept away from the reviews as it obviously has a lot to live up to after the amazing 'Poor thing' by director Yorgos Lanthimos and main protagonist, Emma Stone. It's a fantastic, surreal plotline that toys with the recent covid type conspiracies with Jesse Plemmons playing a you tube educated theorist ably assisted by his impressionable autistic cousin, who believes the world is being run by aliens. It goes down some very dark holes and demonstrates the underbelly of america's detached outsiders, whilst questioning the motives of big pharma. The repartee between Stone and Plemmons is superb and almost effortless, as they take turns to switch the power base of their situation. Thoroughly enjoyable, if a little predictable towards the end - a strong 8/10 for me.
I should be seeing it this weekend but life got in the way. Will try next week.
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