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I watched this last night, brilliant story, not much action but still watchable.
One of Adam Sandler's better movies. Seen it many times before but not for a couple of years. Mrs Haych wanted something easy watching while we had dinner so we put this on and it didn't disappoint.
Still as charming and funny as the first time I watched it, and quite a decent story for what it's worth.
Oh, and I never noticed the easter egg in the middle referencing another of my favourite comedy movies. Mind blown!
10/10 not sorry.
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
Bit of trading feedback here.
Aftersun (iPlayer) Divorced dad takes 11yo daughter on a holiday of a lifetime. Very poignant, superb acting and direction. You don't quite know where it's going, but the ending leaves you in no doubt. 9/10
Unsane
iPlayer
Shot on iPhone - actually it works - features a young lady (Claire Foy) whose on-edge life rapidly deteriorates into a fight to escape enforced mental health detention. It's a bit of a confused mess to be honest, essentially it's a stalker movie with a major riff around US private medical insurance racket.
Watchable but not really very credible.
5/10
Blue Hawaii
BBC iPlayer
Ludicous and tame Elvis vehicle which is just a vicarious holiday.
Elvis.. sorry the character "Chad", returns to Hawaii after two years in the army (get it) but doesn't want to work for his Dad's Pineapple juice business (hey what a rebel) so he has a go at being a tourist guide and ends up surrounded by beautiful women and girls much to the chagrin of his girlfriend. Angela Lansbury steals the show as his possessive, ambitious and nuts Mum who is convinced Elvis has been in a war.
Gorgeous-looking restoration, silly nonsense with truly terrible cheesy songs. A lovely MG. Hawaii looks amazing. I loved it!
8/10
Gosh, how lovely was Ingrid Bergman? Stole every scene she was in. As for the film, I love a bit of Hitchcock and this spy tale keeps the interest from start to finish, even if it's a bit of a dull ending.
But with Ingrid in it, who cares? 8/10
The History Boys
Well, I was a grammar school pupil from that era and found the whole tale improbable. Improbable dialogue, improbable students, improbable scenes, improbable story. The French lesson scene ridiculous. No kid I knew ever behaved like that and no doubt would have been punched if he did. The only thing probable was Richard Griffiths as a fondling homosexual teacher who liked touching up his boys (actually 18yo men) on the back of his motorbike.
Apparently his character of Hector was controversial but our school certainly had a similar character who was similarly seen as a bit of a joke rather than a serious concern (which of course he was, but back then times were different).
I saw this as a play at Birmingham Hippodrome and it was dire. This film was better, but still...
4.5/10 (many of the cast became characters in Gavin and Stacey. Not sure if they went to Oxford)
The Girl with a Bracelet
Film 4
In French
A beautiful but oddly diffident French teenager is charged with killing her best friend after a party. How can she be understood by the jury or her family if she reveals so little and offers no insight into her life or her relationship with the deceased?
It is a measured, thoughtful, subtle and psychologically interesting trial procedural, asking questions about what we expect a murderer or indeed an innocent girl to display when facing court.
Interesting and nicely played all round, but dissatisfying.
6/10
The Son (Shudder)
A heavily-pregnant woman escapes from a religious cult... nine years later she's living quietly under an assumed name, but her son is suddenly struck with a mysterious illness, and it seems only one thing will keep him alive... The plot here is familiar stuff, but it's pretty well done although it plays more like a psychological thriller than a supernatural horror. Reliable mid-budget star Emile Hirsch is pretty good as a sympathetic cop.
Hunted (Shudder)
A woman working in a strange town visits a bar where she unwisely hooks up with a stranger... the man and his accomplice let the woman out of their car, but then proceed to chase her through the forest. This Belgian/French/Irish co-production has very striking cinematography - the woman's red jacket and blonde hair always stand out glowingly against the misty greens and browns of the forest. There's definitely a Red Riding Hood thing going on, although it hardly sticks to the story. This is not amazing, but it goes pleasingly bonkers at the end.
8 Found Dead (Paramount+)
Two young-ish couples rent a house in the California desert for the weekend, but when they arrive - at separate times - they find an eccentric, slightly unnerving older couple are already in residence. This is short, and passes by very quickly without leaving much of an impression. The title kind of tells you where the story's heading, but really it's mostly talking. Probably best not to bother.
Penance Lane (Amazon Prime)
An ex-con going by the unlikely name of Crimson Matthews takes a job looking after an empty house in a small town. He happens to know there is a large sum of money hidden in the basement... but there are strange goings-on elsewhere in the house. This re-unites two of the stars of Rob Zombie's Halloween - Tyler Mane (who makes a surprisingly likeable lead) and Scout Taylor-Compton (who makes an extremely unlikely 19-year-old, and might as well not be in the film). Also featuring John Schneider from the Dukes of Hazzard... I fell asleep about a hundred times watching this, on three separate evenings, before eventually getting to the end. I shouldn't have bothered.
The Invitation (Netflix)
A young American woman does an online DNA test and finds she has posh British relatives, who invite her to a wedding - at New Carfax Abbey in Whitby, North Yorkshire... no prizes for guessing where this is heading, although that's not Whitby and that house is like no British stately home I've ever seen... Anyway, this starts quite well and looks like it's going to be a fun campy gorefest in the vein of Ready Or Not. Unfortunately it turns out to be mostly a tedious romance with a few jump scares. Sean Pertwee's in it, though.
This popped up on my Netflix suggestions so gave it a go.
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
Bit of trading feedback here.
A seriously good flick, not just for those interested in the franchise. It stands alone, and somehow the writers/directors found a way to make the human plot interesting and worthwhile.
I'm an easy target when it comes to time travel sci fi movies. I hadn't seen this and was persuaded by the other half, with no resistance I might add.
How this gets 7.8 on IMDb I will never know.
First you get the gimmick, the guy can go back to any point in his past and do it again, and again, and again.
The writers want to use in very twee ways to stop someone making a fool of themselves or to help a friend's play be a success.
What I see is a world where NOTHING MATTERS!
Nothing said cannot be rephrased, no failure cannot be reattempted ad infinitum, but also do whatever you want with zero consequence. This is like absolute power and the film totally ignores that.
It also totally ignores the fact that effectively you're immortal.
There are weird jumps from branch to branch, where changes were made that affected the "present".
In short it completely fucks itself and its rules repeatedly.
I knew it was coming, but when the credits popped Richard Curtis's name up it all made perfect sense.
Absolute garbage.
2/10.
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