What films have you watched recently?

Stratavarious

Contagion.. seen it before but this time it was a documentary

Brio

Seasons 2 and 3 of Slow Horses now confirmed.

John_P

Thirteen Lives on Amazon.      Ron Howard’s film about the young football team that were trapped in caves in Thailand.  

Brilliant - really well put together and strong performances from the cast.    

axisus

John_P said:

Thirteen Lives on Amazon.      Ron Howard’s film about the young football team that were trapped in caves in Thailand.  

Brilliant - really well put together and strong performances from the cast.    

Ahh yes, the trailer looks excellent. It's an amazing story, and the film looks so authentic. If they'd have made a film like this in the 70s it would have a cast of Americans playing Thailand kids.

paulnb57

Rogue Agent Netflix 2022

Nearly turned it off after about 10 mims,  Im glad we stuck with it, slow burner, worth a watch

8/10

Danny1969

Buba - Netflix

A German black comedy that's based around a small time crook who firmly believes any good fortune to him will negatively affect his brother, who is his only surviving family member. Things heat up when they join the local fake Albanian mafia.

Great film, really offbeat and different 8/10 

sinbaadi

Halfway through rematching "Moneyball".

There's something about US sports movies (of which there are hundreds) that certainly the UK can't get anywhere close to. 

Brad Pitt and a brilliant supporting cast in a classic underdog situation that I remember being brilliant, but it's now 11 years old and I can't remember exactly what happens, which is great!

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

On the theme of Brad Pitt, I watched Bullet Train at the weekend. Absolutely fucking dreadful! Complete mess of a film, like the bastard lovechild of a poor Guy Ritchie cockerney gangsta film and a Michael Bay abomination. I think Brad Pitt's great, but not even he could have saved this.

Only ever walked out if one film at the cinema in the past, this came perilously close to being the second!

equalsql

Ethel & Earnest BBC iPlayer

The animated version of Raymond Briggs' graphic novel telling the story of how his parents met back in 1928 to their passing in the early 1970s. Briggs sadly died a couple of days ago so it was especially poignant watching this film.
This is a just a stunning piece of animation. It does his little graphic masterpiece justice. A wonderful tribute to his parents and a real reminder of just how stoical people were back then. The family lived in Wimbledon and during WW2, Young Raymond was evacuated to Devon at the tender age of 5 while his parents stayed home and experienced the horror of the German bombing of London, which the film portrays without pulling punches. 

A powerful, funny , life-affirming and sometimes, heartbreaking, film. 
A social document no less of a 40 year period of the 20th century.
An absolute 10 out of 10.

axisus

equalsql said:

Ethel & Earnest BBC iPlayer

That looks excellent, I must remember to watch it!

Brio

Ooh, looking forward to this.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/aug/10/fall-review-wildly-effective-survival-thriller-delivers-seat-edge-suspense

rze99

A Cure for Wellness 2017

A workhaholic Wall Street guy is sent by his evil board of directors to a remote Swiss health retreat to bring another executive back to NYC so that he sign documents to enable a merger which is urgent due to and SEC investigation.

It's soon clear the wellness centre is weird as hell and that the patients are brainwashed. What's going on.... and can the visitor from NYC convince his colleague to return?  

Technically fab - the locations, art design, and quality of cinematography are wonderful - and a great sound track. The Alps look amazing. Acting is great too Jason Isaacs especially as the creepily charming and handsome Dr Heinrich Volmer omniscient and controlling like some Nazi doctor.  

Old fashioned creepy weirdness and hallucinogenic visual scares work well, but the thing is about an hour too long and the pseudo science preposterous. 

Enjoyable if you have time and like old fashioning creepy stuff.

6/10

Philly_Q

Brio said:

Ooh, looking forward to this.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/aug/10/fall-review-wildly-effective-survival-thriller-delivers-seat-edge-suspense

I read another review yesterday saying it doesn't work and is at least 30 minutes too long.  I'm sure the truth is somewhere inbetween.  The plot synopsis sounds like a variation on Frozen (no, not that one).

Brio

Darn. Now my chips are pissed on. Luckily I like vinegar. :-)

hollywoodrox

I just watched “ Beneath the 12 mile Reef “  starring Robert Wagner & Peter graves 
  It’s about sponge divers and was made in 1953. I remember watching a film like this with my grandad when I was small in the 70s, not sure if this was it or not. I thought the one I watched they might have been free diving .

anyway it was an excellent film , with rival families ,a Romeo and Juliet type romance and a great story  of trying to get that big haul . 

I would reccomend it to anyone and it’s free on YouTube 

Simonh

Hot seat, Mel Gibson and others, utterly unwatchable tosh. I barely made it past the first intro scene but persisted for another 5 minutes, something I bitterly regret.

dayshift with Jamie fox on Netflix, another hot mess but at least semi watchable.

Philly_Q

Valley of the Dead
Rubbish Spanish comedy-horror.

Office Invasion
Rubbish South African comedy-horror.

Day Shift
Rubbish Hollywood comedy-horror.

Shrews

Marnie

James Bond stars with the incredibly beautiful Tippi Hedren in a Hitchcock masterpiece. Forget the the poor script and awful-at-times dialogue and just admire how Hitchcock builds the tension, has us guessing to the end, and has us transfixed by Tippi's (Marnie's) mystery and vulnerability. 

8/10

DrCornelius

Nope

Interesting take on the sci-fi thriller.  I won’t spoil it for anyone but it’s a bit like a deeper , more thoughtful version of Cowboys and Aliens.

Warning - the backstory scene with the monkey is absolutely terrifying in case you were thinking of taking Grandma 

Devil#20

Cemetery Junction on Netflix. Some superb laugh out moments. Snork's tattoos were pure genius.