What films have you watched recently?

Winny_Pooh

rze99 said:

North By Northwest

1959 Movie, BBC iPlayer (so no ad bollx)

Classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller with Cary Grant and Jaaaaames Maaason.. Advertising executive Roger Thornhill is mistaken for the mysterious Mr Kaplan by a ruthless espionage ring and ends up being pursued with intent to kill.


Utterly. Brilliant.

10 /10 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b025ydrv/north-by-northwest

Hmmpf, just like rear window, it feels dated. I'd give it 7/10 for historical curiosity.

breakstuff

Downrange, recommended by @Philly_Q a few weeks ago but finally got round to watching it. Six young adults break down in the middle of nowhere only to be picked off on by one by a sniper hidden in a tree. Some truly shocking acting as one would expect from a low budget job like this, but still highly enjoyable due to some decent practical effects. Not sure the ending is supposed to be laugh out loud funny, but I couldn't help myself.

Recommended so long as you keep your expectations reasonably low.

strumjoughlamps

IF - undoubtedly without question the greatest new film I have watched this year.. 10/10

rze99

strumjoughlamps said:

IF - undoubtedly without question the greatest new film I have watched this year.. 10/10

Because…….?

strumjoughlamps

rze99 said:

strumjoughlamps said:

IF - undoubtedly without question the greatest new film I have watched this year.. 10/10

Because…….?

Because it was really really REALLY good.

duotone

Just got home from the cinema after watching The Bikeriders, starring Austin Butler, Jodie Comer & Tom Hardy. I thoroughly enjoyed it and will be checking Spotify to see if they have the playlist which suited the film really well: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21454134/soundtrack/

8.5/10

rze99

PSA on BBCiPLayer

On the Waterfront
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b013cfmk/on-the-waterfront

Hard Day's Night.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074q9m/a-hard-days-night

Timcito

The Roaring Twenties. What a stonking film! It happened to be on the TV when I went into the kitchen for lunch, and I ended up watching the whole thing ...again! 

Offset

Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper (2015), Prime.

It's the early 1900s.  A young man is washed up on a beach dominated by a lighthouse sitting on top of the adjacent cliff.  He briefly glimses a young woman, but falls whilst trying to scale the cliff and blacks out again.  He comes to in the lighthouse after being carried there by the lighthouse keeper, who solemnly tells him to always keep a light burning.  Thereafter, things slowly become more mysterious and he finds himself confronted by seemingly supernatural events.

This is a low-budget horror and as such, my expectations were fairly low.  However, anything to do with Poe always attracts my attention so I cracked on with this.  Well... I loved it.  Yes, the lack of budget is obvious and some of the CGI (especially the background scenery in places) is a bit old-school.  However, there is a real sense of brooding menace and the use of dark, shadow and candlelight is very well done.  It's redolent in style of some of the older BBC Ghost Story For Christmas productions.  And...

...as the plot reveals itself, so does its' similarity to Carpenter's The Fog.

I'll admit I more or less guessed the twist/denouement a bit past half way but that in no way spoiled my enjoyment of it.  The acting was OK (but no more) but the overall package was, for me, thoroughly enjoyable.

A very pleasant surprise.

6/10.