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Interesting on IMDB the number of back references to other parts of the Star Trek franchise within it, even a reference to Spaced. Almost all of it had passed me by though. I just got a slightly shit film to watch.
Post apocalyptic monster movie.
Fizzles out a bit as it goes along, but worth watching. 7/10
i saw it when it came out & was blown away by it. really powerful film. the trailers probably just show the shoot outs but it's far more profound & ugly. it really gets under the skin of what the mafia really is as an organisation & what it means (& feels like) to be living your life in that environment.
it's not sharp suits, or fine wine or wise guys singing 'volare', it's like mold or bacteria, creeping over eveything, poisoning everything, & rotting entire towns from the inside out.
it's scary & sad. & sadder that many invloved are young, because they are easier to manipulate & often come from damaged & broken backgrounds where life is seen as cheap (theirs & others).
anyway, this appeared in the paper last week & it made me want to rewatch it. italy is in serious trouble if this is the shape of things to come there politically.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/21/matteo-salvini-threatens-to-remove-gomorrah-roberto-saviano-police-protection
as stunning, if not even more so, on rewatching. it deservedly won at cannes & all over on release. so if you haven't seen it i recommend it. heavy viewing but the price of authentic insight.
The title was the best thing about it.
A good low budget sci-fi film on Netflix. Much better than l expected it to be. A gritty home-grown little gem of a film. Definitely worth your time.
Back And Forth
Another one on Netflix. The story of the Foo Fighters. A great documentry that pulls no punches about the hard decisions that are often needed to ensure the success of a band. Essential viewing.
I am not an Eric Clapton fan, per se, but I was profoundly moved by this film.
The story of his youth is far more distressing than I'd ever been made aware of before and (as much as it never seems to be an excuse for non-artistic types or, indeed, any poor person ever), to be honest, it's no wonder he turned into a selfish, paranoid, alcoholic, temporarily racist, misogynist twat for most of the 70's, 80's and 90's ...and, frankly, it's pretty astonishing that he found his way back to some semblance of normality.
The film does not shy away from the uncomfortable and, to be honest, unsettling truth about the realities of his upbringing, it doesn't try and put a positive or defensive spin on anything that happened during, what he himself described as; "the arsehole years", or overly play the (many) tragedies in his life for sympathy. It doesn't request plaudits for his recovery or the happy family life he's had since the turn of the millenia either.
A Life In 12 Bars is a really good film that stands on its own merits. And, as my wife can attest, you don't even really have to know who Clapton is to find it engrossing.
For me, it's definitely up there with the great music documentaries, like; Let's Get Lost, The Last Waltz and Beat This.
Here are some of them:
Heat, Blue Collar (1978), Don't Look Now (1973), The Thing (1982), On The Beach (1959), The Wicker Man (1973), Cure (1997), Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers (1978), Duck You Sucker (1971), The Last Of The Mohicans, Sexy Beast, Sunshine (2007), Old Boy (2003), Dawn Of The Dead (1978), Dead Of Night (1945)
Some good choices there. I haven't seen them all, but I'd certainly agree with Don't Look Now, On The Beach, The Wicker Man, Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers (like you I prefer the '78 version to the original), Last Of The Mohicans and Sexy Beast.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Unearthly Stranger (1963) - Scientists are being bumped off, meanwhile another scientist meets a mysterious woman and marries her ... Interesting & obscure British sci-fi: 6/10
The Beast Must Die (1974) - good fun action/mystery werewolf film in modern [1974] setting. Great cast of familiar faces, you have to figure out who is the werewolf as guests trapped in the country mansion of a big game hunter are killed. Made by Amicus: 6/10
Special screening of this last night, with some footage from the premier last week and an interview section at the end.
Charles Dance narrates it, telling the story of the Spitfire of course, so a bit of history with the Schneider Trophy and RJ Mitchell, then onto the war and you get some new interviews with veterans, Geoffrey Wellum, Tom Neil, Joy Lofthouse etc etc.
They've told their stories in countless books and previous documentary's before so personally I didn't learn anything new, but it's still a pleasure to hear them tell their stories.
However the star of the show is really the newly filmed aerial sequences, they're just amazing, and the music suits is superbly.