Today's Movie

[Graham Breeze]

I thought it was a cracking film

Indisputably. A well made Hollywood film.

Under the Skin, which I have just seen (starring Scarlett Johansson), was described by The Daily Telegraph as "straightforwardly a masterpiece".

That may be pitching it a bit high but it is certainly a film like no other and one to linger in the memory although one must not miss the opening 5 minutes, the last couple of minutes are stunning and you need to be conscious of the film's title throughout the intermediate 100 minutes.

We who live near to the National Media Museum (in Bradford) are fortunate to have a cinema nearby that will show movies without regard to popular appeal and in perfect viewing conditions. Under the Skin yesterday was shown in the IMAX auditorium.

[Conor74]

Has anyone seen Blackfish?

Yeah, enjoyed it. I guess it shone a spotlight on something I never really thought about before, found it very watchable. Like those documentaries that tell an interesting story in a straightforward way, no need for too many reconstructions or use of cgi.

At the other end of the scale, saw World War Z.


Desperate nonsense. Truly desperate. Horribly clunky. Some inadvertent laugh out loud moments, like Brad Pitts phone going off or him standing on a can or broken glass every time he was told to be quiet.


Memorable for one of cinemas worst lines ever, "spines are divine but knees are just fine".

[Alf]

I can't think of another Chilean film I have seen but after watching Gloria (2013) I might check a few more out

[Graham Breeze]

Calvary: worth 100 mins of anyone's time. Very funny and very dark it left the Bradford Pictureville audience dumbstruck. Written and directed by "The Guard"'s John Michael McDonagh and again starring the brilliant Brendan Gleeson. Possibly overstuffed with rich characters set against a gorgeous Sligo landscape but a deliciously provocative script (which added one new word to my vocabulary, my having had a very sheltered upbringing and all).

And another film with a meaningful title.

[DazTheSlug]

finally got round to watching Hunger last night

deeply affecting
will stay with me
not entirely in a good way

[Conor74]

Nebraska.


Wonderful wonderful wonderful.


Forget Fincher or the Coens, Alexander Payne is the best director of our generation

[The devil's own]

finally got round to watching Hunger last night

deeply affecting
will stay with me
not entirely in a good way

Very, very good film. Though to this day I haven't found a film that has the staying power of Irreversible. Must be about 11 years since I first saw it, and it's still a harrowing image scorched onto my mind.

[Graham Breeze]

The Two Faces of January.

A well made Hitchcockian/Patricia Highsmith pastiche-or was it?- (even the soundtrack sounds (as soundtracks do) clichéd) that has been strangely over praised-perhaps reflecting the bulk of juvenile schlock that appears from Hollywood these days. A final gun chase in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul and a death bed confession? Come on!

[DazTheSlug]

see if anyone knows/can guess (no googling!) which film I watched last night based on the last line of the credits before the fiction disclaimer:

"No flies were hurt during the making of the movie."

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[Alf]

see if anyone knows/can guess (no googling!) which film I watched last night based on the last line of the credits before the fiction disclaimer:

"No flies were hurt during the making of the movie."

?

The Fly ?