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A Hitchcock classic and a regular watch here.
8/10 but a 10/10 if you have an unjaded kid of 8-12yrs old just getting into movies.
This was on one of my many, lengthy watch lists and since @Offset mentioned it earlier I thought I might as well watch it today.
Oh my giddy aunt, this is hard work. It's getting on for two hours but feels more like three, and yet almost nothing happens. It's so talky, just a load of nonsensical jabbering, and whenever the film threatens to take off into something exciting it almost immediately gives way to yet more portentous blether.
I agree that it is vaguely reminiscent of The Asphyx - it feels like a 2020s recreation of a 1970s film set in the 1900s. But oh my god, if arch ham John Rhys-Davies gives the most down-to-earth, relatable performance in a film you know you're struggling.
If you haven't already I'd recommend reading Lost Moon. It's Jim Lovell's account of the mission that the film was based on. It has quite a bit more technical detail but still manages to tell a compelling story.
And in case you thought I was being a little more tolerant/generous than the film deserved, I DID have a couple of glasses of plonk before settling down to watch it which did numb the pain :-)
Given I referenced it in a review earlier this week, I decided to settle down to watch it again last night.
Starring Robert Stephens, Robert Powell and Jane Lapotaire this is a classic Victorian-set Hammer-esque British film. Its' subject-matter is slightly off-kilter from the usual fare of this era however and centres on a theory held by the main protagonist (Stephens) that at the point of death, an 'asphyx' comes for that individual to take their soul (or something like that). He further conjectures that if the asphyx could be captured, that individual would remain immortal for as long as it remained trapped.
There are some fairly glaring holes in the plot but if you can effectively suspend your disbelief, it's a great romp. It has that nice 'feel' to it that all British horror films of this period possess, and there are good performances all round. It also has a nice sense of foreboding and I've always found there to be something slightly disturbing about it. An execution scene in particular is quite unnerving.
Sometimes films I first watched 40+ years ago disappoint many years later, but this one doesn't. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it again after a hiatus of some years. I guess nostalgia plays some part (in the opening scenes I spotted a white Volvo 121 identical to the one my Dad used to own) but it's an effective old-school horror movie (and 10x better than The Gates to which I compared it earlier in the week).
Moral: Immortality always has a price
7/10.
This seems to be the kind of cornball that I really enjoy.
There's 33 deleted scenes of varying lengths and some of them, when watched alone, really seem like they would massively improve the film. Might even raise it to 'just about worth your time'.
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Really enjoyed it, we all know most of the story and there's nothing new, but a great film 8/10
Romance set in Ireland starring Lindsay Lohan.
Daughter #2 was round for the evening and as she pays for all the streaming services we had to watch something she'd like. I didn't. 1/10 absolute tops.
The Outfit
2022 Movie Netflix
Mark Rylance stars as Leonard, an enigmatic English suit cutter in Chicago, formerly of Savile Row. His small tailor shop provides high end suits for the only people around who can afford them: a local mobster family with a vicious reputation and who use the back rooms of his shop as a messaging room, where the plot slowly develops.
Slow burner, but effective, rather like a stage play. The less you know about it the better.
Recommended, 7/10
Really enjoyed this. Completely terrifying in its believability of course, but really well paced, well acted and gripping piece of drama. Kirsten Dunst is brilliant as ever, and Jesse Plemmons manages to completely steal the one and only scene he is in.
8/10
Back to Black
Disappointing. Very superficial look at her tragic life and downfall, added absolutely nothing interesting to what anyone already knows about her life. The few marks I'd give it are for the lead actress who was fabulously convincing. By contrast, the fella who plays Blake Fielder-Civil is dreadful.
4/10
First time watch. I'd not heard of it before ???, but on my twitter feed today as its back in cinemas in autumn on a 10 yr anniversary. Thought id give it a go with a few hours to spare and space to crank the surround sound loud.
FAKING HELL!!!!
10/10. Ive not seen a better film. Deffo not a huge sci fi fan either. Thought id watched all the masterpieces of cinema. Good god its really good.
Jason Statham plays a former member of a hush-hush (so much so that even the CIA know almost nothing about them) national security team called The Beekeepers, who has retired to, er.... keep bees. Keep it low key, eh?
("There's a trace of the British Isles in your accent", says an FBI agent, just hours after the violent death of her mother.)
Anyway, Statham is out for revenge after an elderly friend has been robbed of her life savings by a very unlikely-looking scamming organisation which has connections in extremely high places but is apparently completely untraceable by the police or the FBI.
I can only imagine this is meant to be a comedy - especially judging by the characters of the "new" Beekeeper who attacks Statham at a petrol station, and the clownish South African security man with a false leg - but nobody seems to have told Statham. He can actually do comedy, but his character here is totally boring and humourless. Even the action scenes are complete shite.
I expect Jason Statham films to be disposable entertaining nonsense, but this is so utterly stupid it's almost beyond belief.
I just told my missus that I want to rewatch it in case I wasn't in right frame of mind the first time. I found it very slow paced (not necessarily a bad thing) and characters quite flat. It never got the momentum going, which I was surprised about.