The Movie Review Thread

[Hemi Makutu]

I recently enjoyed 'Hyde Park on Hudson' with Bill playing US Prez F.D.R. as a consumate politician,
while living with a domineering mother, lezzo-wife & secretary squeeze, he manages to fit in a fling
with his cute cousin, ironically when being visited by the British Royals,(they being no strangers to the cousin thing).

That got me to dig out a few other straight role flicks by Bill, the two where he plays a gangster boss,
'Mad Dog & Glory' - "..the expeditor of your dreams." & 'Passion Play' with a trippy/angelic story.
He played those villainous bastards so well, implacable.

And to 'The Razors Edge', an early one that got critically panned, of him doing the WW I meat-truck ( ambo) driver..
Its ok, he acts fine.& it holds its place in the sensitive conchie in wartime, war movie sub-genre..

Its not as bad as seeing Keanu Reeves in Dracula back in day,
& expecting him to say "Hey Drac-dude, where are the chicks?"
He was awful in that...

[Hemi Makutu]

A must see... J.B. plays Earl, an uptight suburbanite..

In..

'Neighbors'

-with Dan Aykroyd.. as Capt Vick..
" Put-the-coffee, back-in-the-cup.. or its pump-city, Earl!"

& Cathy Moriarty ( Mrs Jake Lamotta, in 'Raging Bull') - "Earl tried to pork me, Vick."

Like a funny nightmare.. & so early `80s.. def' not P.C...

[mossy1200]

http://www.flicks.co.nz/movie/ouija-origin-of-evil/

Ouija was a bit scary for me 8/10. I had my eyes closed in a few bits.

[Akzle]

Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
(or, Amelie, for the less french) ç'est un comédie, romance

did i mention french? it is. and that filthy native kind that sounds like they're talking dirty at you. :love:

fair warning, the cunt's 2 hours long. but it whiles it away not-un-shittily. the budget was 77 million francs, so about 12 million of the hollywood jew-petro-dollars.
is that big budget? i don't know. i would say they got value for money though.
soundtrack, while not memorable, was frog. and everyone loves an accordian.

the elfine lead was spot on, in elf-ishness.
teh plot... good. really. no great shakes, but plenty regular shakes. didn't quite end, which you would think they could manage, in two fucken hours.
had a lot of loose characters, which were neat, but didn't contribute a whole lot. perhaps that's just not-hollywood style?
i'd pick three 'main' ones. although more like 10 that were "featured".

the sfx - not abused. the comedies - playful.

mayhap not to be watched with the bros, (unless you're all metro, and don't have any other options) but could certainly be enjoyed with female company.

8.5/10

[Hemi Makutu]

Enjoyable, & well written/SFX'd - for a deliberately derivative story...

( def' '5th Element'/'Serenity' overtones, not that there's anything wrong with that).

& its funny, ( unlike too many lame po-faced 'Transformers' type shit) - yet not crass enough to turn off chicks,
with a bit of emotional involvement- plus - having believable female characters with good input,
& giving them a fair go, yes - even 'the green bitch' as Eddie Murphy would put it.

( yes, like in the original 'Star Trek', she gets thrown out into airless space, but here the Skipper saves her & still isn't shown getting a root)

[stjude]

It's Only the End of the World

it is the first movie i've seen by Xavier Dolan and i quite liked it. it shows how bad the relationships have gone in the family though they really try to be nice and happy. the actors play beautifully and 2 hours really worth it

[FlangMasterJ]

Saw Dr Strange on Thursday. Loved it, it's up there with Guardians of the Galaxy in it's completeness. Definitely go see it. 8.5/10

[mossy1200]

Finally went to Girl on the Train. Couldn't resist Emily any longer.

Was a good movie 8/10

Watched Invitation on dvd and that was good also 8/10

[HenryDorsetCase]

Yep, enjoyed it. 6.5/10.

I liked it a LOT. I was amazed by Chris Pine, and Jeff Bridges is always good. Really liked the end. Its in my top five films this year easy. 9/10

[HenryDorsetCase]

we rented the GHOSTBUSTERS reboot with Kirsten Wiig and Melissa McCarthy et al last night. The reviews, sadly, are right: this is a bad film. Not because they are women - I have a lot of time for Kirsen Wiig and McCarthy (C'mon, who doesnt love BRIDESMAIDS and THE HEAT with bonus Sandra Bullock) but this is..... flat. Great cast, stunning supporting actors (the guy who plays Jarrod in SILICON VALLEY) and Chris Hemsworth who gets all the good lines. Its just... not that well written or thought out.

In fact if you stick with it, most of the best jokes are in the out takes. Very disappointed 3/10.

[tri boy]

I liked it a LOT. I was amazed by Chris Pine, and Jeff Bridges is always good. Really liked the end. Its in my top five films this year easy. 9/10

+1 10 char char char

[Akzle]

colombiana

did enjoy. hardly going to win any awards for... anything.
except maybe some vag-trophy from womens-lib. - that's right folks, there's a female protagonist.

pretty typical action flick just with a few doses too muchwith the mellow shit. and features our very own clifford curtis! - playing a spic! (quite well, at that)

8.5/10 just for something different.

stickmen

gawd. anyone remember this?

utts sooo kuuewuuee.

8/10

there have been a few more but i cant even

[WristTwister]

One of those movies that gets you right in the feels. Where many movies in this genre tend to end with the death of someone (Shadowlands, A walk to remember, fault in our stars) this is pretty much where PS I love you starts. In that respect it reminds me more of Ghost than movies like The Notebook because we follow the life of the widow with a sense that her late husband is watching over her.

It's a nice movie to watch around the Christmas holidays as well and probably a good example of the genre for you guys. Solid acting from Hilary Swank ( I think she won an Oscar for Million Dollar Baby before this) and Gerard Butler's accent....

7/10


https://youtu.be/CZzW6_hR068

[Hemi Makutu]

[SIZE=4][FONT=georgia]One of those movies that gets you right in the feels. Where many movies in this genre tend to end with the death of someone...Solid acting from Hilary Swank ( I think she won an Oscar for Million Dollar Baby before this) 7/10

She died in the one that exploited her boyish looks to play a faux-boy in that lezzo/T.G. beat-down flick too, as I recall..

[WristTwister]

She died in the one that exploited her boyish looks to play a faux-boy in that lezzo/T.G. beat-down flick too, as I recall..

#spoilers

Million Dollar Baby - yeah it got heavy toward the end; however PS I Love You has a more optimistic ending because it's more about recovering from loss, not dwelling on it.

EDIT: Soz you were talking about Boys Don't Cry...

[Hemi Makutu]

#spoilers

Million Dollar Baby - yeah it got heavy toward the end; however PS I Love You has a more optimistic ending because it's more about recovering from loss, not dwelling on it.

EDIT: Soz you were talking about Boys Don't Cry...

Ai.. She took it whakatane-wise, in all of 'em you noted, kai pai..

[caspernz]

Fight scenes OTT. Not a bad story, predictable of course. Wife liked it, but I'd give it 3/10 at best.

[Hemi Makutu]

Fight scenes OTT. Not a bad story, predictable of course. Wife liked it, but I'd give it 3/10 at best.

The 1st one wasn't bad for 'a little punchy guy - who's a bit too good' movie, so how does the Scientology clown over do it in this one ?

[FlangMasterJ]

Definitely looking forward to this. The first one brings back a lot of memories.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsozpEE543w

[pritch]

Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
(or, Amelie, for the less french) ç'est un comédie, romance



I liked Amelie - and Audrey Tatou too.:innocent: That seems a long time ago?

Went to see "The Accountant" today. The plot isn't too obvious and there are minor twists at the end, some of which are less predicatble than others.
Lots of action with the apparent anomolies explained by frequent use of flashbacks, but the latter are not intrusive.

I burst out laughing at one point. Nobody else in the theatre laughed though so I'm not actually sure if it was meant to be a joke. On reflection though I don't think my mirth would have offended the director.

As an action movie an easy 9/10.

The reviews hereabout are interesting to read but I hate writing them. Too much like school.

Next week I'll go to "Hacksaw Ridge". I promise not to mention it here again though. :whistle:

[mossy1200]

Hacksaw Ridge.

Would be my favourite flick. 10/10

[Woodman]

Fight scenes OTT. Not a bad story, predictable of course. Wife liked it, but I'd give it 3/10 at best.

Yeah it was okay. Cruse still wrong for the part, but portrays Reachers personality pretty good considering he is a foot too short. I reckon they should do the Reacher movies like Batman or James Bond and change the lead actor from time to time.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Definitely looking forward to this. The first one brings back a lot of memories.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsozpEE543w

Which is precisely why there is no reason to make a sequel.

[pritch]

Yeah it was okay. Cruse still wrong for the part, but portrays Reachers personality pretty good considering he is a foot too short. I reckon they should do the Reacher movies like Batman or James Bond and change the lead actor from time to time.

"They" is a tricky concept in this case because Tom bought the movie rights to some of the books, so he alone says who gets to play Reacher in the movies of those books. How many books? I have no idea.

While watching the latest effort the thought occurred several times that he is already at the upper limit of the age required to play a convincing Reacher. (Well, almost convincing.) A short arsed geriatric Reacher would be too much of a stretch.

[Akzle]

dead in tombstone

brainless wiley wess' flick.
with machete.
some attentions have been given to "effects", which are neat, not overbearing, but i feel like it needed more. on account of it's otherwise fairly uninventive.

as mind-hole junk 8.5/10. as cinema....6.5

[FlangMasterJ]

Hacksaw Ridge.

Would be my favourite flick. 10/10

Saw it at the movies?

[mossy1200]

Saw it at the movies?

Yep. Readings has had $10 tickets for a while now so seen a few movies lately.

[FlangMasterJ]

Yep. Readings has had $10 tickets for a while now so seen a few movies lately.

I only asked because I was hoping there was a torrent out...... :shifty:


When I do go to the movies it has to be the deluxe lounge because I'm a magnet for seat kickers and fucking bag rustlers. I even had some cunt pushing my seat at The Embassy last week and there's a good two feet of leg room there.

[mossy1200]

I only asked because I was hoping there was a torrent out...... :shifty:


When I do go to the movies it has to be the deluxe lounge because I'm a magnet for seat kickers and fucking bag rustlers. I even had some cunt pushing my seat at The Embassy last week and there's a good two feet of leg room there.

Prob a good one to see big screen. Although I got stuck beside a women that really needed 2 seats. Must have been almost 200kg of lady. She had a guy but I couldn't see what he looked like. I couldn't see anything that direction.

[FlangMasterJ]

Prob a good one to see big screen. Although I got stuck beside a women that really needed 2 seats. Must have been almost 200kg of lady. She had a guy but I couldn't see what he looked like. I couldn't see anything that direction.

Hahaha I just think I hate people.

[pritch]

Prob a good one to see big screen. Although I got stuck beside a women that really needed 2 seats. Must have been almost 200kg of lady. She had a guy but I couldn't see what he looked like. I couldn't see anything that direction.

I do my movie watching in the morning if possible, generally very few other people in the theatre. Once I actually had a "private screening", so I've been spared the fat ladies and seat pushers. Long may it continue... Oh, and the seats cost $8.00, except the next one is free. :whistle:

[mossy1200]

I do my movie watching in the morning if possible, generally very few other people in the theatre. Once I actually had a "private screening", so I've been spared the fat ladies and seat pushers. Long may it continue... Oh, and the seats cost $8.00, except the next one is free. :whistle:

I stand up in the good bits when people seat push me.

[Jin]

Finding Dory - 5/10

Kids liked this sort of but didnt have the charm of the first one imo. Its not a bad movie but is a let down the story was not bad but they packed too much action into the movie it was stop and start no rhyme or reason to it either. Watch it youll know what i mean.

NB. no naked old men in this one so our resident goat lover can give it a miss.

[Akzle]

Control.

a sem-i-IRL account of the life and times of the lead singer of joy! division. I can't help but feel they lean it heavily toward the picture the MSM want painted. *insert jewspiracy here*

it's b&w. which adds neither art nor age nor authenticity to it. i kept thinking they might stitch some actual footage in, but they did not.
they DID however, stitch some actual tunage in - the music throughout is choice, but there's not enough, for 2 hours worth of film.

and for 2 hours of your life, you'd de better to dust off your LPs, warm up your valves, and rock the fuck out, than watch this shit.

5/10. pretty pointless. and 2 hours of it.

[Akzle]

fokk. im trynee remember what the films all were... anyway:

alpha dog

IRL story of rich white kids. put me in mind of bully and that other one...,
but... meh. reminded me a bit of my misspent youth, so wasn't all like "zomg" was more like "lol, yup"
course i never kidnapped and shot anyone's little brother. or had a three way in a pool.

so pretty meh. 6.5/10.

exit humanity

zombies in confederate murka, as far as i can work out. and if that's not a shitty enough premise, fuck-drunk camera guy.
0/10
<10:00

exit wounds

has this guy:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wy7z7lPAApo/S8aILBY4PAI/AAAAAAAAA6Y/oGKZFtGoLpQ/s400/steven-seagull.jpg

which should pretty much tell you the calibre of the thing.

mindless shit. 6/10

bullet to the head

sly stallone, and someone dosed him with the right shit, cos it's coherent sly rumble, rather than too-many-knocks-to-the-head mumble.
enjoyed the banter between him and the yella' fella. a shame they didn't play that up more.
a LOT of people get shot quite graphically. plus the usual stabbings, fisticuffs, splosms, but for all that it didn't feel like in-your-face action. they took a bit (just a bit) of time to add some kind of plot. however obvious.

7.5/10

[Akzle]

which puts me in mind of:
girl next door

this has stuck in my mind for days. the slutette... nomnomnom. the movie as a whole, i'd have to rewatch to give an accurate, but the fact that i remembered it says something. provisional 7.5/10


and re-watch i did. beautiful young people, lots of grins, few laffs.
treads the line well, it could have been too com, too rom, too srs, too jovial. but nae, just a great balance. pretty cool soundtrack too.

and srsly, that actress... the things i would do to her...(she has subsequently been voted sexiest woman alive, or some shit. blonde bombshell.:yeah:) i'm uprating. 8/10

[pritch]

So just in case anybody is contemplating a movie but can't decide which, I offer the following three rated as I found them:

Best but not by a lot- The Accountant
2nd- Hacksaw Ridge
3rd by a considerable margin- Jack Reacher

[HenryDorsetCase]

Control.

a sem-i-IRL account of the life and times of the lead singer of joy! division. I can't help but feel they lean it heavily toward the picture the MSM want painted. *insert jewspiracy here*

it's b&w. which adds neither art nor age nor authenticity to it. i kept thinking they might stitch some actual footage in, but they did not.
they DID however, stitch some actual tunage in - the music throughout is choice, but there's not enough, for 2 hours worth of film.

and for 2 hours of your life, you'd de better to dust off your LPs, warm up your valves, and rock the fuck out, than watch this shit.

5/10. pretty pointless. and 2 hours of it.

worth it for the cover of "Louie Louie" at the end.

and we see Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley too.

[HenryDorsetCase]

and re-watch i did. beautiful young people, lots of grins, few laffs.
treads the line well, it could have been too com, too rom, too srs, too jovial. but nae, just a great balance. pretty cool soundtrack too.

and srsly, that actress... the things i would do to her...(she has subsequently been voted sexiest woman alive, or some shit. blonde bombshell.:yeah:) i'm uprating. 8/10

Good lord, really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Cuthbert

[FlangMasterJ]

Good lord, really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Cuthbert

Back in the Old School days most likely.

[Akzle]

Good lord, really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Cuthbert

i don't understand the question.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1245/1386958399_4ba8b13bb5.jpg

http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/1400000/The-Girl-Next-Door-elisha-cuthbert-1412234-500-400.jpg

<img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQwNDA3ODc0M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzk5NzczMw@@._ V1_SY1000_CR0,0,673,1000_AL_.jpg" height="640">



https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=elisha,+girl+next+door,+stills

[Akzle]

worth it for the cover of "Louie Louie" at the end.

and we see Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley too.

yeah turns out it's based on the book his ex-bitch wrote... so no wonder it tows the public line.

and no. still would not recommend.

[mashman]

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=elisha,+girl+next+door,+stills

She has a bum where her chin should be. Only men, or ex-men, have bums on their chin.

[Akzle]

She has a bum where her chin should be. Only men, or ex-men, have bums on their chin.

to be honest... with the things i'm contemplating... her chin would be concealed behind my balls.

[Hemi Makutu]

She has a bum where her chin should be. Only men, or ex-men, have bums on their chin.


Even in your dreams..

[mashman]

Even in your dreams..

I've turned down better in both real life and dreams. Some things just don't work for me. Blondes being one and fake blondes with bum chins really hitting the nono mark quite spectacularly. I'm picky that way.

[mashman]

Watched RED again the other night. Gotta be the best Rom Com shootem up ever. Solid 10/10.

[Drew]

Watched RED again the other night. Gotta be the best Rom Com shootem up ever. Solid 10/10.

Willis does comedy quite well.

[mashman]

Arrival: 9/10. I can't quite put my finger on the why 9/10. It's slow and picks up a little pace at the end. I tried to draw parallels with other movies I've seen of a similar genre, but none of them fit. It certainly won't be everyone's cup of tea. It isn't overly taxing mentally and it certainly isn't action packed. It may well be because it was different. Dunno... just can't put my finger on it, but will add it to the collection when it comes out on VHS.

[BuzzardNZ]

Arrival: 9/10. I can't quite put my finger on the why 9/10. It's slow and picks up a little pace at the end. I tried to draw parallels with other movies I've seen of a similar genre, but none of them fit. It certainly won't be everyone's cup of tea. It isn't overly taxing mentally and it certainly isn't action packed. It may well be because it was different. Dunno... just can't put my finger on it, but will add it to the collection when it comes out on VHS.

Glad to hear the 9/10 as I'm going to see it tomorrow. I've also heard it's not your typical alien invasion flick, in that it's different
in some way. Anyway, here's hoping it's a goodún.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Glad to hear the 9/10 as I'm going to see it tomorrow. I've also heard it's not your typical alien invasion flick, in that it's different
in some way. Anyway, here's hoping it's a goodún.

reviews I have read are talking about a number of "adult"* themed science fiction films - this is kind of like CONTACT with Jodie Foster.

One I saw at the Film Festival which is absolutely brilliant is MIDNIGHT SPECIAL:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Special_(film)

DO SEE IT.

I went mainly for the Michael Shannon factor (he is my favourite male actor) and so good in everyting: check out 99 HOMES and/or BOARDWALK EMPIRE


*not that sort of "adult" you pervs.

[mashman]

Glad to hear the 9/10 as I'm going to see it tomorrow. I've also heard it's not your typical alien invasion flick, in that it's different
in some way. Anyway, here's hoping it's a goodún.

I need to watch it again. If I'd have wanted a piece of advice beforee watching it, I'd say: Ignore how slow it is and keep paying attention. Tricky where it's a slow and sort of uneventful build up. Hope you enjoy it.

[BuzzardNZ]

I need to watch it again. If I'd have wanted a piece of advice beforee watching it, I'd say: Ignore how slow it is and keep paying attention. Tricky where it's a slow and sort of uneventful build up. Hope you enjoy it.

Thanks, but I thought it was a bit of a let down.

Slow was right, found myself nodding off in parts!


5 / 10 from me.

[mashman]

Thanks, but I thought it was a bit of a let down.

Slow was right, found myself nodding off in parts!


5 / 10 from me.

:laugh: bad luck man.

[pritch]

Arrival: 9/10. I can't quite put my finger on the why 9/10. It's slow and picks up a little pace at the end. I tried to draw parallels with other movies I've seen of a similar genre, but none of them fit. It certainly won't be everyone's cup of tea. It isn't overly taxing mentally and it certainly isn't action packed. It may well be because it was different. Dunno... just can't put my finger on it, but will add it to the collection when it comes out on VHS.

I saw the trailer several times in the theatre and had just disregarded it. The guy that does movie reviews on TalkbackZB made favourable comments though. Still, I'll wait for it to come up somewhere for free.

Fantastic Beasts starts Thursday, that'll be different.

[Akzle]

flawless (2007)
Did enjoy, despite being not-my-genre.
it follows the vag, but the real winner is the Caine.
excellently, and hilariously, period. Swingin' soundtrack. pokes society a bit which i always enjoy (but may well go over old white folk)

8/10

[mashman]

I saw the trailer several times in the theatre and had just disregarded it. The guy that does movie reviews on TalkbackZB made favourable comments though. Still, I'll wait for it to come up somewhere for free.

Fantastic Beasts starts Thursday, that'll be different.


Yeah, I still can't put my finger on why I liked it so much, as slow movies generally drive me bonkers. Meh, 'orses for courses eh. Did the guy off the radio give a coherent reason for liking it? lol.

I need to go see Dr Strange next.

[HenryDorsetCase]

ARRIVAL.

Pretty good. I think anyone who raves about it has not seen much to compare it with ("adult thinking person's SF" - no splosions or alien invasion).

Amy Adams and Forest Whitaker and Renner are good but the standout is Amy Adams.

I liked it a lot - no spoilers but its not even the best SF film I have seen this year.

So yeah, you probably won't grab the squeaky voiced teen at Hoyts by the throat and demand your money and your two hours back. But if you think about it a lot you realise they havent dealt that well with the causality paradox.

Get MIDNIGHT SPECIAL for a brilliant underrated film with bonus Michael Shannon.

So, 7/10. MIDNIGHT SPECIAL > ARRIVAL

[pritch]

Yeah, Did the guy off the radio give a coherent reason for liking it?


Dunno I had to go to a meeting and only heard part of it, but that part was positive.

And thanks to whoever mentioned RED. I checked last night and there it was, had seen it before but still enjoyed it.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Dunno I had to go to a meeting and only heard part of it, but that part was positive.

And thanks to whoever mentioned RED. I checked last night and there it was, had seen it before but still enjoyed it.

worth it for Helen Mirren firing that .50 cal.

RED 2 not so good but okayish

[Crasherfromwayback]

Fucking great film. Go see it.

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[mashman]

Dr Strange 9/10. Great balance of components, but a couple of actors that I've never quite been fond off that knocked that final point off. Really enjoyed it. Best of the Marvel bunch so far for my dinero.

[Akzle]

Bangkok Dangerous

Seen it before. I don't remember it being so unmemorable... (Oh! the hilarity!)

Pretty sure Nicky Cage just wanted a holiday in Thailand and had to have something to write down so the expenses were deductible...
and the cunt just does not look comfortable behind a rifle.

Boring as shit action diluted with faux love interests (a deaf mute chemist and a club dancer... rly?) and just...// fuck it's not even worth disparaging

3/10

[R650R]

Suburban Mayhem 10/10... There's some seriously screwed up people in our world, especially in Oz, based on true story.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zab3TRjlxs

Hyena Road 8/10 good action flick based on true story also, some great loud annoy the neighbours extended shoot out scenes, good story slightly sad ending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi3sjMZ6cP0

[Drew]

Bad boy Bubby.

Great fucken film!

Been years since I first saw it. Way better the second time around.

[mashman]

They Live 5/10: Still waiting for something to happen and I finished watching it nearly 5 hours ago. For a different slant on the same concept watch Blade. Now that was a fuckin great movie. Once you've done that, never watch Blade 2 or 3.

[HenryDorsetCase]

STAR TREK: BEYOND

Well, the lesson here is to ignore fucking reviews, and follow your gut.

I didnt go see it on the big screen. First Star Trek film I think since INSURRECTION I didnt bother. I was put off by the "Justin Lin" factor and thought it would be really dumb and lame and pointless. I also read a Wil Wheaton review and thought "Meh". I also havent been entirely satisfied with previous JJ Abrams efforts. Plus, as a lifelong fan of TOS, the reboots just kind of felt wrong, or off, somehow.

Anyhoo...... this film is excellent. It is far and away the best of the reboot movies, the action is brilliant, the story is (fairly) cohesive and believable* and I finally have some respect for Chris Pine's Kirk. Zoe Saldana is excellent as always - she is good in everything.

9.7/10. Buying the DVD.


*there are some plot holes if you think about them, and I am a little troubled by one aspect of the plot involving around the main villain but I am very very happy overall.

[R650R]

The Shallows 8/10 Blake Lively on a rock and a big shark..... pretty good.... director could have been more shallow and showed off her fit body a bit more....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPOpE-_42as

[R650R]

Roommate Wanted 8/10 pretty damn good, TnA SWF catfight thriller.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msBhzlxAVWs

[OddDuck]

The Purge: Election

Good, not great. 7 / 10, where Purge: Anarchy would be a solid 8.

The Purge movies all have the same basic idea: an America with one night a year when all crime is legal. Costume up, rack the action on the assault rifle, go downtown and tear it up. Basically it's an ultra far right gun nut's wet dream. It might be chaotic, it might be sickening, but it tends to make a damn fine backdrop to an action movie.

The trouble is that it's a chaotic backdrop to an action movie... it's very difficult to keep a storyline tight. Anarchy used the chaos to advantage. Election's storyline gets fragmented. Shame, really.

They also don't take the chance to link up to the frankly gonzo goings-on in the real world. The storyline plays it very safe in terms of satire. If they'd had the balls to throw in a few Bush or Trump lookalikes then it could have been fucking great, but it just doesn't happen.

That said, if you can handle the carnival of violence, it's a decent watch. Probably best on a Friday night after a crap week at work.

[R650R]

War Dogs 8/10 pretty good comedy action flick based on true story.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwh9c_E3dJk

[Akzle]

How to Organise an Orgy in a Small Town... 10/10

This was funny as F&*K (sic), very clever and original humour and just the right amount of T&A.
Me and my lady were pissing ourselves watching this, highly recommended, just realised has the lover Katherine Isabelle in it too from 88.
Excellent actors all round too, played their parts very well.



...some movies can be watched, and enjoyed, by anyone. those movies, i consider to be well done, they're what becomes 'the classics'

other movies have a target audience. frequently i find that that audience will feel aligned with the protagonists, in this instance: sexually repressed white middle class people.

a few universal giggles to be had, and some half-attractive women, and old beard-face was good value, but he was pretty much their trump card, and so used sparingly.

so.... if you're as-described, you might be more inclined to this one, otherwise, give it a miss. it's an hour and half of mildly-paced, wannabe-risqué emotionally underdeveloped american adults who alternate between trying to hurt each other and shag each other.

this movie could have been so many things, but ultimately it didn't really manage to be any of them.

5.5/10

[R650R]

...some movies can be watched, and enjoyed, by anyone. those movies, i consider to be well done, they're what becomes 'the classics'

other movies have a target audience. frequently i find that that audience will feel need equal level of intellect of the protagonists, in this instance: sexually relaxed white middle class people.

a few universal giggles to be had, and some half-attractive men, and old beard-face was good value, but he was pretty much used sparingly.

5.5/10

Talk about over analyse... fixed that for you.
So if you like a film it means you are like the characters in the film? So what happens when a white person likes Once were warriors???? Or avatar? Or freaking Starwars lol.....
BTW your eeview sounds like you cut and pasted it from some neo liberal white movie review site like rotten tomatoes lol

[R650R]

Why have I not seen this awesomeness before, found out via a FB friend post.....

Quentin Tarantino involved in producing, has Michale Madsen (always plays bad guys well) and the very lovely Leonor Varela

Plenty of biker babe TnA spread throughout film 10/10... some slightly cheesy lines though at times but very good.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIYP7cTjIxw

[Akzle]

Talk about over analyse... fixed that for you.
So if you like a film it means you are like the characters in the film? So what happens when a white person likes Once were warriors???? Or avatar? Or freaking Starwars lol.....
BTW your eeview sounds like you cut and pasted it from some neo liberal white movie review site like rotten tomatoes lol

eat a bowl of cocks. i'm all original content ya poof (excepting the judicious application of meme for teh lulz).:motu: sexually relaxed? what fucking movie were you watching? (oh! the entendré)

and if you deign to READ, good movies transcend the characters, it's the shit ones that vibe with the similarly unwashed.

i suggest also, a looking-up-of-the-definition of "neo liberal" to be in order, for you.

[Akzle]

...some movies can be watched, and enjoyed, by anyone. those movies, i consider to be well done, they're what becomes 'the classics'

other movies have a target audience. frequently i find that that audience will feel need equal level of intellect of the protagonists, in this instance: sexually relaxed white middle class people.

a few universal giggles to be had, and some half-attractive men, and old beard-face was good value, but he was pretty much used sparingly.

5.5/10

also just thought i'd repost this, for you to read in the cold light of sobriety and see if you still think your clever.

[Akzle]

cop out

i don't even think brucewillisman is trying any more.
it's basically him and some retarded bill-cosby-wannabe-motherfucker, for 100 minutes of irrelevance.
if anything worthwhile happened it must have been while i was buffing my nails or snorting palm kernel.

2/10

[pete376403]

Underworld - Blood Wars. Usual vampire vs lycans but worth it to see Kate Beckinsdale in a very tight suit again. She asked aged remarkably well (either that or the Underworld franchise started while she was still at school)

[Akzle]

flipped (2010]
hell. this flick is PG and asomething of a love story, so you'll have to excuse the effeminate adjectives.

While the story is no great shakes, it is superlatively delivered, by everyone.
Set in 50s america (grounding it with the quaint ideas of then-educators, and the dawn of suburban hell) and following a handsome pair of kids who dance around their emotions in a pretty typical cat-and-mouse love game.
It's filmed as a first person narrative, well, ostensibly two, but there's enough there that it could be anyone's story,
It crammed a lot into it's 90 minutes, but it didn't feel rushed or even quick, which is fairly the hallmark of directorship.

It's a lovely film, and being PG, suitable for the fam, the protagonists being early-teens, I'd pick girls as young as 8-9 could enjoy, boys would be less likely to suffer it.

8.5/10. I will probably watch it again.

what the fuck cunt

[pritch]

When I used to read the film reviews in The Listener it struck me that to get a maximum five stars the movie had to be about four hours long, in black and white and made before 1950. It was a revelation to me when they gave the first "Star Wars" five stars. Most films that they considered brilliant I'd be inclined to pass on thanks. One of their reviews was a scornful "two hours gratuitous sex and violence". Much more my style.

Last night I was looking for something to watch and came across "Killer Elite" I didn't read the blurb, I chose it soley on the basis that I recognised Statham's face. I had been looking for something by Jean Reno and Netflix only seem to have 22 Bullets which I'd already seen. Reno has been in 90 odd movies, I'd have thought Netflix could manage more than one.

I'd been watching Killer Elite a while and the thought occurred that it was reminiscent of a book I'd read years ago by Ranulph Fiennes, The Feathermen. The movie is very different to the book but similarities kept occurring.

Reading the book had also been confusing because I had a previous book written by Fiennes about his experiences during the Dhofar rebellion and was starting on the basis that I was reading a factual account. This earlier book actually becomes part of the plot in The Feathermen/Killer Elite. The latter presents itself as fact but reads like rather far-fetched fiction. Today I see that when asked, Fiennes will neither confirm nor deny.

Anyhoo, once I stopped trying to work out what I was watching and just blobbed it, the movie became standard action pic fare. A team of assassins are hired by an Arab sheikh to kill a number of former SAS men who had been responsible for the death of the sheikh's sons, and to make the deaths appear accidental. The body count rises but not absurdly so. It's not great art but you shouldn't end up wishing you hadn't wasted about two hours of your life on it either.

[Akzle]

the answer man

contrived shit. i made it about half way through, but that was way, way too much.
it has the soundtrack of an 80's cartoon, a plot and script from some humorless valium-laden housewife, with nothing funny at all. ( tis described as rom com, and fails on both counts, probably)
it has that sheila from gilmore girls, which is the flick's sole redeeming feature, but she's playing a neurotic SWF, and the role/script hardly allows her to shine (or strip).

2/10

[R650R]

also just thought i'd repost this, for you to read in the cold light of sobriety and see if you still think your clever.

Trouble pulling out there... use a bit of lube and let it go.... ;) ;p ;)

[R650R]

Bad Moms 6/10 chick flick watchable with Mila Kunis, made my lady laugh and me too sometimes. Just watch the trailer that's most of the good bits....

Sully 10/10 The plane landing on the hudson river thing, definitely more drama than thriller but good alround.

[mossy1200]

Rogue 1

Not bad. Not brilliant.
Solid 8/10

[Akzle]

kicking the dog

highschool movies of the 80s: crackup
90s: acceptable,
highschool movies of the 2000s: shit.

low budget scata-frat-ological humors. few giggles to be had but pretty much a waste of time.

3/10

goon

remember that time you were looking for a french-canadian-hockey-fIghting-jewish-rom-com?

no? me neither. but this is it.

few laughs. and hockey fights.

3/10.

[mossy1200]

Im going to have a whinge.

Readings had $10.00 movie tickets but earthquake damage caused closure for a while.

Result The Embassy movie ticket price for Rogue 1 $24.00 (3d).

[Akzle]

killer elite (2011)

statham man and deniro and some other geezers doing stuff for 2 hours.

standard fare action shit, based on IRL story.
nothing to let it down except the guy on sound effects. find me the AR that sounds like a browning. 30 and i'll show you one that's about to fall apart. also providing long gun overwatch... standing.
yea fucken right.

9/10 for the genre, well delivered, car chases and biffo...

-edit-
clive owen and domnic purcell, would be the other draw cards.

and it has all my clichés and clive has a moustache.

[F5 Dave]

Im going to have a whinge.

Readings had $10.00 movie tickets but earthquake damage caused closure for a while.

Result The Embassy movie ticket price for Rogue 1 $24.00 (3d).
$20 at Lighthouse Petone and comfy couches.

As Iwas leaving Beardy was already boring his friends with some technical continuity issue which he will be spewing out on the internerd currently.

Fukim, I liked it , people take movies too seriously.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Watched this tonight. It's quite fucking good.

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[Virago]

Star Wars - Rogue One (or "Rouge One" as half of NZ spells it - perhaps a prequel to Moulin Rouge...?)

Essentially a stand-alone fill-in movie, it covers the time period between Revenge of the Sith and the original Star Wars. It revolves around the Rebel attempt to steal the plans of the almost completed Imperial Death Star. As such the overall plot outcome is just a little predictable - I mean, they must succeed, right?

It introduces a whole raft of brand-new characters, well played but not all of them fully engaging. This fresh face was necessary though, due to the difficulty in reviving 40 year-old characters in a believable fashion. Some roles were actually reprised - the Imperial Commander Tarkin (originally played by the long-since departed Peter Cushing), and also Princess Leia. Both were achieved using the latest GCI facial technology - which was well done but not really 100% successful, the faces looked just a very tiny bit faked and plastic.

This movie has a definite darker tone, and in my opinion not really suitable for small children - although parents are taking their kids to it in droves. There's very little in the way of (intentional) humour in this Star Wars movie. But there's certainly plenty of action.

I went along expecting to be disappointed, but left feeling pleasantly surprised. I'd give it a 7.5 out of 10.

[Kendog]

Star Wars - Rogue One (or "Rouge One" as half of NZ spells it - perhaps a prequel to Moulin Rouge...?)

I went along expecting to be disappointed, but left feeling pleasantly surprised. I'd give it a 7.5 out of 10.
That's how I felt.
I liked it overall, but the ending made the film. We all know what happens but it gave me chills, really well filmed.

[F5 Dave]

What do you mean? The Robut was hilarious.

[R650R]

Cartel Land 10/10 epic true story..... don't want to spoilt it so wont add any more comment at this stage, 99c rental on iTunes at moment.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC5bpPfltOI

[FlangMasterJ]

Watched The Town (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0840361/) last night. Another film that I hadn't got around to watching for some reason. It was very good. Ben Affleck is really coming into his own these days. Solid 8.5/10

Also watched The Accountant (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2140479/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1). Once again another solid flick with Ben Affleck. 7.5/10

[OddDuck]

The Shallows.

Lone surfer vs giant shark, within a stone's throw of safety. Very tight movie, small cast, small location, and they use absolutely everything. If you want to see resourceful - both the action on screen, and what they've done to make the movie - then see this. People have commented on how yum Blake Lively in a bikini is (and they're not wrong) but there aren't really any glamour shots in the movie, it looks like the director went to some trouble to deliberately avoid them to make the action stronger.

Solid 8 / 10, not quite the equal of Jaws despite the marketing, but still very good.

[Akzle]

transpecos 2016

all y'all that enjoy the not-thinking americos shit will dig it.

they actully list it as a thriller. i remain unthrilled.

three gringos on border patrol, while well acted, even well set, drag you through a pretty predictable story,
worse, you get it through the lens of a fuck-drunk camera guy. honestly, the filming ruined what little potential this movie had. which was slim as it basically seems like republican propaganda. (thaym maexicuns is terken aer jerbs! and drugs y'all!)

all the points are for the acting. everyone else involved can suck a fucken burrito.
5/10.

[mashman]

Star Trek - Beyond: 7.5/10. The weakest of the bunch so far. Still very watchable in many ways, but felt a little hurried and cobbled together in too many ways for my liking.

Star Wars - Rogue One: 9.5/10. Great film from start to finish and for me it's probably the best of the series. I doubt you'd have to have seen the rest of the films to enjoy this one, but it'd certainly help. Fine big screen movie.

[Drew]

The Gambler

Marky mark surprised me. He clearly prepped for a while before filming, and he plays the self loathing protagonist well.

Needs more boobs in it.

[Akzle]

the secret life of pets

ostensibly childrens'. being animated and shit.

but has elements of python (a psychotic bunny) and other hilarious shit (a poodle that listens to SOAD, ie) I dare say I would watch this again (with lés baung)
and since most of this pixar shit is flogging the same poor whorse, this one stands above...

7.5/10

Rock'n'Rolla

wannabe take-off of the lock-stock londonium-thug genre. I'm sure i've seen it before.
while not art, does tick enough bokes to see you to the end of the thing, though unlikely to be watched twice, or recommended to friends. a chortle or few. does thread artful elements, but they get drowned out in the beigery.
doesn't use much guns, instead street gangstas and implied violence (bonus point)

7/10

[pete376403]

The Hollow Point - USA / mexican border smuggling (NOT drugs!). Ian McShane as a tired old cop, Jim Belushi as one of the bad guys, John Leguizamo as the really bad guy. No sex, lots of violence.

[Akzle]

fletch lives

don't know how i've missed this for 3 decades.
late 80s comedy. clean humor and funny all the way through 9/10

the sweeney

pretty mindless POM action flick. good, though. 8/10

[FlangMasterJ]

Hell or High Water

I'm not sure why this is getting rave reviews. I found it lacking, uninspiring and pretty dull. Good acting by the cast but definitely overrated. 6/10

[Akzle]

infestation

The premise being
A slacker awakes to find himself weak and wrapped in a webbing; after realizing that the world has been taken over by giant alien insects, he wakes a ragtag group of strangers and together they fight for survival. ...should tell you whether it's going te be up your alley.

gratuitously C grade. with a capital C. every scene was overdone and contrived. every character a walking cliché.

I'm guessing they were angling for a sort of Starship Troopers vibe, and whether it was intentionally comical or not, i laffed more'n once, mostly at OTT injuries or deaths.

I'm fucking astounded they managed to make an hour and a half of it, but they did.

well played you low budget fokkers. well played.

9/10

[Akzle]

I know who killed me

meow. i saw it. and i read some reviews. and the reviews were universally negative. so i challenged myself to be bigger than the other meagre reviewers, to find the goodness in it.

but alas, even the mighty ax can only do so much, with so little.

featuring lindsay lohan, probably directed/produced by whoever was running her methodone clinic, given the... everything.

3 stripping scenes and a fuck one, and STILL no tits??! shame on everyone.

did some cutesy-artsy none-too-subtle "subconscious" imagery, which started out pretty trick, but the novelty wore off with overuse (~20 minutes) and blatancy (21 minutes) and by the full 110 it was just fucking laughable.

pretty hackneyed. it couldn't really decide what it was, some slash/gore, some cheesey horror, some almost genuine thriller, some drama(?) but all under an umbrella of shit.

if only lindsay had sold her drug-induced idea to some director with talent...and got her tits out, it could have been so much more.

3/10

[AllanB]

The Hateful Eight.

Excellent cast.

Nice imagery.

161 minute play time - a long movie. Often not a lot happening except imagery.


Good, yes.


BUT ..... I kept thinking that Tarantino is a bit overrated - he has this cult thing going on branching into mainstream interest but it's a wee bit same same.

Still - wouldn't it be great to be able to pop out a movie every few years knowing you'll make millions regardless of the subject matter or quality.


Django Unchained is a lot better. A lot better.


I give it bonus points for Curt Russell - He's bee non my TV and movies all my life and I'd have to say that age is sitting very well with him as a actor and his golden years are also his career's golden period. I'd like to see his skills pushed in a gritty emotional part.


So a Curt induced 7/10. It would be a 5 without him.

Tarantino groupies will disagree no doubt but I'd recommend you watch Clint Eastwoods Unforgiven over Hateful 8. Significantly better.

[HenryDorsetCase]

I give it bonus points for Curt Russell - He's bee non my TV and movies all my life and I'd have to say that age is sitting very well with him as a actor and his golden years are also his career's golden period. I'd like to see his skills pushed in a gritty emotional part.


So a Curt induced 7/10. It would be a 5 without him.

Tarantino groupies will disagree no doubt but I'd recommend you watch Clint Eastwoods Unforgiven over Hateful 8. Significantly better.

sometimes known as Kurt Russell also.

And his "golden period" IMO was working with John Carpenter in the 70's - his iconic roles were in THE THING and ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (and ESCAPE FROM LA) but especially BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA.

Re THE HATEFUL EIGHT. I really liked it, and the fact it was meant to be screened in Cinemascope (but cut down because there are like four Cinemascope theatres left in the world). DJANGO is a full-on actioner. I hated De Caprio in it, and in fact think THE HATEFUL EIGHT is way better - especially having re-watched both fairly recently.

Nothing beats PULP FICTION of course.

[Akzle]

in bruges

quite enjoyed, has those two famous guys in it, playing bri'ish hitmen loik, but that's kinda just a feature rather than the plot.

very comedy, and the more hilarious for an irish accent on Farrell.

"ooo loook day're fellmin' a mudgit!"

not GREAT anything, but will heartily appeal to a wide audience i should think
9.5/10

the bucket list
jack torrance and nelson mandela fatally in hospital, then decide they want to tick off their bucket list, handily facilitated by jack being über rich.

another of those films protagonist=audience. (old people.) to whom it may be more appealing.

not great at all.

4/10

[AllanB]

sometimes known as Kurt Russell also.

And his "golden period" IMO was working with John Carpenter in the 70's - his iconic roles were in THE THING and ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (and ESCAPE FROM LA) but especially BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA.

Re THE HATEFUL EIGHT. I really liked it, and the fact it was meant to be screened in Cinemascope (but cut down because there are like four Cinemascope theatres left in the world). DJANGO is a full-on actioner. I hated De Caprio in it, and in fact think THE HATEFUL EIGHT is way better - especially having re-watched both fairly recently.

Nothing beats PULP FICTION of course.

oops incorrect spelling - bit like spelling Cunt with a K.

Interesting - Both Kurt fans and differing opinions on his best work (I did like The Thing). And differing on the Quentin movies too. Plus I thought De Caprio played a most excellent Southern arsehole in DJango (the D is silent..).
Next you'll be telling me your Triumph is better than my Ducati :innocent:

[Drew]

in bruges

quite enjoyed, has those two famous guys in it, playing bri'ish hitmen loik, but that's kinda just a feature rather than the plot.

very comedy, and the more hilarious for an irish accent on Farrell.

"ooo loook day're fellmin' a mudgit!"

not GREAT anything, but will heartily appeal to a wide audience i should think
9.5/10


"The only thing that's gonna change about you, is you might become a bigger cunt. Or have more cunt kids".

[Akzle]

"The only thing that's gonna change about you, is you might become a bigger cunt. Or have more cunt kids".

you retract that!

[Drew]

you retract that!

You take that back. You take that back about my fucking cunt kids!

[Akzle]

live free or die

i'v said it before: "an american comedy, that is to say, not fucken funny"
dumb and dumber meets... something else. not a bad story but just really lacklustre, and dry, so dry. dryer than your nana's flogged old box.

not utter shit, but hardly worth the time

6.4/10

rambo (the new one...)

old sly back for round 4. quite "reds under the bed" and some very graphic landmines, .50cals, etc but probably on par for a modern "action" flick.
don't quite know what it had to do with tho rambo story. features a lot of drunk camera-guy. (TERMINABLY FUCKING ANNOYING)

enjoyed, though.
7.5/10

shoot the duke

it was written in english. by a german who couldn't speak english.
a bit smokin' aces, a bit lock stock. all in crap english with half-translated jokes.
and i dunno the fuckwit who goes to a shoot out in white fucken pants. but there was two of em!

pretty predictable, and kinda justa-nother-one-of-THEM-storys but worth a twirl.

7.5/10

[Akzle]

postal

unappologetically low brow, and low budget, and it's all the more brilliant for it.

there's no big names, no big effects, just a ridiculous plot and lots of cheap guns. tits, shootouts, ridiculousity.

a massive win.

9/10

[Akzle]

parental guidance
wholesome family flick that pokes modern tech, and PCisms, and modern ideas about parenting. humourous enough i'll call it funny. well put together and despite being anchored in Murka and baseball, will be pretty familiar story to any western society. suitable for ages 10-100.

8.5/10

[AllanB]

The Martian

Ridley Scott

Mr Scott redeems himself for that Prometheus movie. As a side note - big Alien fan here, and drop the bucks on the BlueRay Prometheus the day it came out (I avoid theaters in CHCH...). Visually impressive, but after many viewings ..... WTF is really going on there? I have theories as do many.


Anyway - The Martian.

Lots of accolades from the critics tends to put it on my watch later list but I'm a Matt Damon fan so I gave it a whirl last night.


Very good on my rating level. I very much enjoyed the movie - Matt continues to impress and aside from a handful of 'really moments' in the plot it very much works.

A feel good flick.

Good supporting cast in the limited screen time the supports get.

Watching it again this week before I return the disk.


Now I await the next 'Alien' movie he is releasing this year .....

[Paul in NZ]

Moana - bloody awesome - loved it.... Vicki cried... then fell asleed when it ended... sign of a great movie

[AllanB]

Deadpool. Watched again with my ladies.


Just watch it.


Excellent.

[Akzle]

Deadpool. Watched again with my ladies.


Just watch it.


Excellent.

rly bru?? .

[AllanB]

rly bru?? .

Yeah bro - really. Nothing wrong with reminding the uneducated masses :woohoo:

[Akzle]

Yeah bro - really. Nothing wrong with reminding the uneducated masses :woohoo:

it was the "excellent" part i was questioning.

my bro summed that movie up as "an hour and a half long dick-joke with no punchline"
apt.

[AllanB]

it was the "excellent" part i was questioning.

my bro summed that movie up as "an hour and a half long dick-joke with no punchline"
apt.

Each to their own - did you miss the bits and bobs pulled out of other movies? X-men in particular and I liked the final fight scene on the fallen ship out of The Avengers.

It's a action packed laugh a minute good way of spending an evening.

[Akzle]

Each to their own - did you miss the bits and bobs pulled out of other movies? X-men in particular and I liked the final fight scene on the fallen ship out of The Avengers.

It's a action packed laugh a minute good way of spending an evening.

yeah each to,

no. i find xmen intolerable shit.

[AllanB]

yeah each to,

no. i find xmen intolerable shit.

Hit Girl? Common, ya must have liked that :cool:

[Akzle]

Hit Girl? Common, ya must have liked that :cool:

imdb doesn't find? http://m.imdb.com/title/tt2651924/?ref_=fn_al_tt_7 ?
don't recall it..

[Akzle]

orright. it's not a movie, but i (and lés enfants) keep coming back to:
the animaniacs
produced by steven spielberg, and with an orchestral soundtrack. select cameos from actual famous people and humors that will frly right over kids but remind you of shit 20 years ago...
while somewhat dated in it's jibe, it's stil pretty funny.
the whole is about 90-something episodes long, a half dozen episode-lets within. it's a crying shame they didn't make more.

9/10 they just don't makem like they used to.


hardcore henry
watch it you faggots.

entirely FPS. and has the vibe of being directed by someone who's played too much playstation.
but it's still epic, and double-bonus-points for actually coming up with something different (yes, i know doom2k did an FPS scene, but this is THE WHOLE MOVIE)
will probably appeal to all you Marvel fan-bois.
but even as a standalone graphic action it wins.

some gun fuckups. some irrelevant shit (liek, "lookame, we got 144k$ worth of GPUs processing this shit, eat a dick pixar").

crank meets hobo meets bad boys, in russia.
and i would thoroughly cock the blondie.

9.5/10, highly impressed*
*may or may not have been viewed under the influence of vodka, caffeine, guarana, crazy-chineses-shit, and beersies.

the accountant

yeah. nah.
far too much with far-too-little.
and while he plays the aspie well, it just got a bit fucken long. and i found it thoroughly predictable (because i'm probably autistic? who knows)

6.5/10.

[R650R]

Snowden 8/10 If your already eyes open to mass surveillance and all the news stories at the time there's not much new info in the film.
Interesting story but expected bit more from calibre of Stone.
Good actors and lovely Shaileene Woodley mnake it very watchable.

[Akzle]

now you see me
quite good. bit light on actual-magic and conversely heavy on CGI-magic. not hugely inventive. but a reasonable effort at entertainment fram all concerned.
7/10


seven pounds

starts out trying to be weird. succeeds. continues.

not a story i'm familiar with, so bonus points for originality. double bonus points for jellyfish. well played by the players. unfortunately the camera guy only had two tricts up his sleeve: "narrow depth of field" and "gin for breakfast" the former was pretty well applied, if overdone,
the latter, as with so many fucken jew movies, is just fucken annoying, doubly so since it always seems to be in the quieter scenes.

so drunk camera guy: let-down number one.
let-down number two, was the txting while driving propaganda. go fuck yourself.

but at the end of it all, it even managed to get same eye-juice out of my perve-balls. it was touching. even if a bit predictable.

pretty win. except fuck the cunt that signed off on the drunk camera-guy thing.
sober camera-guy: 9/10
as is: 7.5/10

[R650R]

Highrise 10/10 Refreshingly different. Retro 70's feel to match the era the book was written in.

A dark twisted black comedy of a thriller. clockwork orange meets revoir dogs meets being john malcovivh....

Unpredictable and captivating. A good metaphor for failings of modern society too....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKPghZ5cc_E

[FlangMasterJ]

A Monster Calls (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3416532/)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Xbo-irtBA


Loved it. One of the best looking films I've seen in recent years. 8.5/10

[pritch]

Any movie about baseball can probably guarantee a minimum audience in the US of A. Here? Maybe not so much - but I needed something to fill in a couple of hours before hitting the hay and Clint Eastwood was in it so...

More than one movie has pissed me off lately because the characters are so starkly painted. The arseholes have no redeeming features, they are just total arseholes and there is one such in this. Well, a couple actually. Maybe the directors think their audience is completely stupid? The British are much better at character development.

The relationship between Eastwood's character and his daughter played by Amy Adams is similarly laid on too thick. Otherwise I guess Eastwood is more or less believable as an ageing baseball scout reluctant to concede his health is failing and he is about to lose his job. Eastman's little soliloquy while he's having a pee, or trying to, near the beginning of the movie is worth a careful listen, more especially if you are say, approaching retirement age?

The actual sporting detail of the story is similarly hero or zero, there is no middle ground, it's all or nothing. Life doesn't tend to be like that.

The movie has a happy ending of course. (No, not that sort.:devil2:)

It did fill a couple of hours or so and it wasn't a total failure so maybe a 6/10.

By the way, this was on Netflix. It'd be handy if people mentioned where they saw a movie in case there's a good one and we can know where to start looking?
Thanks in anticipation.

[Akzle]

By the way, this was on Netflix. It'd be handy if people mentioned where they saw a movie in case there's a good one and we can know where to start looking?
Thanks in anticipation.

the pirate bay / kickass torrents / any number of my close friends' and allies' jiggabyte towers.

[HenryDorsetCase]

the pirate bay

aka "Swedish" Netflicks

[FlangMasterJ]

yify movies is my go to. No bullshit, clear layout and 1080p or 720p.

[bogan]

yify movies is my go to. No bullshit, clear layout and 1080p or 720p.

You know the original yify got shut down a few years ago? quality and selection noticeably went downhill about that time, as the number of impersonators went up...

[Drew]

I can usually take or leave Matt Damon, so I wasn't expecting heaps from this film.

Turned out to be quite good I thought. Quite a few good one line laughs throughout.

7/10

Sling Blade

Reckon. Pretty good. Mmm-Hmmm.

8/10

[AllanB]

I can usually take or leave Matt Damon,

Watched the Bourne movies? Intelligent spy/action stuff - some great stunts.

I thought Elysium was good too.

[FlangMasterJ]

You know the original yify got shut down a few years ago? quality and selection noticeably went downhill about that time, as the number of impersonators went up...

Hadn't noticed any degradation in the quality. It's YTS now.

[Akzle]

there will be blood


fffffuuuuucccccckkkkk meeeeeee ccccuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnttttttt.

shit's fucken long.
only to be watched if you have some annual leave accrued.

it could well be three stories. fuck, for the length it, it may as well have been.

brilliantly played by everyone. and supreme artsy from the camera git. but fucking hell it's long.

A-double-plus for period an costume and engineering and language, and you'll have plenty of time to absorb it all, cos you'll be watching for half a fucken day.

reeeeeeeaaaaaalllllyyyyyyy not sure how to rate it. mostly, 9/10 for it's brilliance,
but it must necessarily lose 90 points, one for every minute too-fucken-long it is. and well over-soundtracked.
so -99/10.

[Drew]

That would make it -81/10 Rob.

[Akzle]

That would make it -81/10 Rob.


you forgot to carry the 1, and the adjustment factor of 11 kingfishers

[mossy1200]

Has anyone seen Split yet? I was thinking of going in the weekend.

[R650R]

The Idealist

Based on true story, B52 crashed in Greenmark near Thule airbase with 4 nukes on board, one ended up in ocean.
More drama than thriller but great 8/10 foreign language subtitled film with lots of real footage from the era mixed in.
Focuses on an investigative journalists (extinct species now) passion to find the truth.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08rItPDDHYQ

[FlangMasterJ]

Logan.

I never bothered to watch the previous Wolverine films because I heard they were shit but Logan was fucking awesome. 9/10

[Akzle]

the worlds fastest indian
finally got around to this. a shame they couldn't have found a kiwi for the lead as hopkins murdered the irish kiwi accent. a shame too our locals didn't get more screen time, but i suppose they were only ever billed because of that actors union harrumfing.

as to the actual movie: uneccesarily long but not in a painful way. i never knew the cunt so i can't say how true-to-life it all was. had it's comical bits but hardly breaking new ground (oh!)
if it was done a bit more kiwi it would have been spot on, i reckon.

6.5/10



idiocracy

predictably stupid. is it satire or prophecy? maybe both.
funny in that low brow way.

4.5/10

[pritch]

Back when the God daughter was a teenager I read about a book “Holes” by Louis Sachar and she got it as a present. Louis Sachar writes children’s books but Holes is about a juvenile offenders programme so is presumably aimed more at teens. It was, however, also reasonably popular with adults. I thought it a bit bleak in parts for a kid’s book, but good nonetheless.

The detention camp is called Green Lake although the water has long since dried up and the lake is now a parched desert. The boys are all given a shovel and each day they each have to dig a hole in the desert 5ft deep by 5ft diameter, the length of their shovels. (I still haven’t figured out how they managed to climb out of a five foot hole?) All of this is ostensibly to improve their character; there has to be more going on but that is not immediately apparent. There are natural occuring hazards such as rattle snakes and particularly aggressive lizards with a fatal bite. Oh, and there are a couple of old curses in play.

Last night I could find nothing I wanted to watch on TV so I switched to Netflix and there was Holes the movie. Hollywood had sweetened things a bit but otherwise it seemed true to the book and I enjoyed it. It should have been true to the book because Louis Sachar also wrote the screen play. (And co-wrote one of the songs.)

Some of the kids were new to acting but the adult characters were played by well known actors.

The movie was made in 2003. There's no nudity, sex, violence, or bad language. Other than that, it's OK. :whistle:

[Akzle]

shucks cunt. we'll make a critic of you yet.

[Akzle]

- bloody awesome - loved it.... Vicki cried... then fell asleed when it ended...

just like your sex life then?


BAZINGA

[HenryDorsetCase]

KUMIKO THE TREASURE HUNTER

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kumiko_the_treasure_hunter/


I really loved this. Wasnt expecting to (in our his n hers movie picks I picked STRANGE DAYS and SWMBO picked this). Young Japanese woman, obsessed with FARGO (the movie, not the place or the (excellent) TV series) goes to Wisconsin in mid winter to get the treasure Steve Buscemi's character buried in the movie.

Its basically a character study. Way better than my description makes it sound.

Do yourself a favour.

[pritch]

shucks cunt. we'll make a critic of you yet.

Drugs! I forgot - there's nothing about them either. :innocent:

[Akzle]

Drugs! I forgot - there's nothing about them either. :innocent:

and of course you just happened to remember that now :sherlock: :motu:

[Akzle]

red sands

actually rather enjoyed it. it's low budget. predictable and linear, and over uses cliché horror devices.
but it's got some neat camera work, creature, and artsy-ness.
a shame that "fuzzy" and "dark" were so prevalent, being clearer wouldn't have subtracted anything, but i guess shadows make up what budget doesn't cover...

not great, but solidly good.
8/10

[Akzle]

recoil

with acting heavy-weights with names like "stone cold" and "machete" this is pretty much exactly what you'd expect. an hour and a half of mindless shit.
and tits doesn't even get them out.

is what it is which is nothing great. 5/5

[R650R]

Sightseers, british black comedy, not too bad 7/10


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LirWZDDAtLE

[Akzle]

trainwreck: my life as an idiot


A dramatic comedy about a self-induced attention-deficit
disordered, learning disabled, Tourette's syndrome suffering,
balance impaired, alcoholic young man from the Upper East Side of
Manhattan and the gold-digging girl who inspires him to try to get
it together.

no faggots, this isn't my autobiography.

what it is, is a not very funny comedy, but a rather well played portrayal of addicts and misfits and mental disorder.
and stifler (a lá american pie) actually does it very well, and blondie mc tits grace kelly is equally great as the kept nympho ex-addict-ho.

everyone is beautifully cut, coiffed and shot (esp tits) and while the whole thing lacks much of a point, it's the journey not the destination, and other clichés.

actually quite ranking it. 8/10

-edit-
uprating. 8.5/10
it's stuck with me, and it really was brilliantly played.

[OddDuck]

Tell No One.

French, subtitles... OK I've lost at least half of you right there, which is a shame because it's actually pretty bloody good.

Man and wife are on romantic tryst when he gets knocked out and she gets brutally murdered. Eight years on, he's still walking wounded, going through the motions and not doing much more with his life. The cops want him for her murder but could never pin it on him. Two (more) bodies turn up at the site, the investigation gets reopened, then he gets an email. It's a link to a webcam, showing a public escalator somewhere. It could be anywhere. She walks into the frame, looks straight at the camera, walks out again...

It's the thriller that Hitchcock would make if he were alive and writing / directing in France, circa 2006. Highly enjoyable.

8.5 / 10

[Akzle]

the mechanic

it's statham-man. for a mere 1.5 hour.
but not only statham man. he gets some justin timberlake looking sidekick motherfucker.

quite enjoyable, all things considered. didn't feel the heavy hand of gunplay or biffo, and some great cinematography... i suppose that's the word, or imagery.
sure it's statham-man, and there's guns and splosms. but it wasn't gratuitous and didn't feel cheap far it.

8/10

[Drew]

the mechanic

it's statham-man. for a mere 1.5 hour.
but not only statham man. he gets some justin timberlake looking sidekick motherfucker.

quite enjoyable, all things considered. didn't feel the heavy hand of gunplay or biffo, and some great cinematography... i suppose that's the word, or imagery.
sure it's statham-man, and there's guns and splosms. but it wasn't gratuitous and didn't feel cheap far it.

8/10

I liked the movie, thought the guy playing the apprentice sucked.

[Akzle]

I liked the movie, thought the guy playing the apprentice sucked.

meh, he played the gay trouble yoof, alcoholic misfit wannabe well.

[pritch]

I wanted to see this when it was in the theatre a few months back but didn't get off my arse and go. So when I saw it listed on Apple I thought "stuff it" and and paid to watch it at home. My chairs are more comfortable anyway, but it'll probably be free to air somewhere any minute now.

For some years the Tory party in Britain has pursued an austerity programme. Some economists thought it was completely unnecessary because unlike Greece and others, Britain was not tied to the Euro. There was a lot of toughening up on benefits and people who were manifestly unable to work were forced to seek work. Failing to do so could mean the benefit was stopped. Reportedly there were cases where people actually did starve to death.

Ken Loach, the director, has a reputation for depicting "gritty social realism", this film is no exception. Loach, although he studied law at Oxford, has a body of work that does suggest he is a committed socialist, and he turned down an OBE.

"I Daniel Blake" portrays the experience of a sixty year old joiner who has never been out of work - until he suffers a heart attack. Unable to work he seeks a benefit.
At the benefit office he meets a young woman who has moved up north with her kids to avoid being put in a one room shelter for the homeless in London.

At this point I should mention that with the movie being set "up north" there are some Geordie accents and these can give some people trouble.

The movie basically follows the experiences of the pair as they try tp adjust to their new circumstances. It is laid on thick, but not too thick, for some people this was their reality. If you are a "right thinking man" you'll hate this. If you need movies with sex, drugs, and rock n roll, or happy endings (no, not that kind), you may not find much to enjoy. It is worth a watch though.

For some time I've wanted to watch "Breaking Bad" and I've just found out where I can watch it for now't. - provided I can watch it all in thirty days. By then GoT should be back?

[Akzle]

doghouse

the opening has promise, unfortunately it's not really enough to carry it through their interpretation of zombie-wimmen.
The problem. i reckon, is that they basically had a half dozen she-zombie costumes, and then extras, so they ended up over-using the 6, without developing them as charcters, and so missed the mark on both horde-mentality that zombies should have, and any depth they could have had in personalising them.

it's british, too, but not at all in the 28 days way. lads and pubs and fisticuffs. kindee in the vein of "the end of the world"
the lads do play it well, but at the end it's just genre-confused.
there's scant deaths (probably because they couldn't afford any more actors) and no guns.

not greata at all.
5.5/10

[Dadpole]

For some time I've wanted to watch "Breaking Bad" and I've just found out where I can watch it for now't. - provided I can watch it all in thirty days. By then GoT should be back?

Breaking Bad is great TV. By any standard - not just American benchmark. If you can get through the first episode, it will turn you into an addict.

I am currently half way through re-watching the whole series.

[FlangMasterJ]

Yep Breaking Bad is a 'must watch'. I'm currently watching True Detective season one here at work for the tenth time. Another 'must watch' .

[HenryDorsetCase]

Breaking Bad is great TV. By any standard - not just American benchmark. If you can get through the first episode, it will turn you into an addict.

I am currently half way through re-watching the whole series.

Yes

I met someone recently who had "watched the first few episodes but didnt get it and didnt like it". I judged them SO HARD

[pete376403]

John Wick 2. Not as good as the first movie. Shit loads of shootouts, fighting and general mayhem but story was pretty weak and the ending sets up for John Wick 3

[mossy1200]

I went to Ghost in the shell today just because Readings $10 tickets are on again and I was in the area.

It was ok but failed to deliver on story line and Scarlett has lost most of her sex appeal that she had a few years ago.

6-7/10 Average. Not poor and not great but watchable.

[Akzle]

reservation road

listed as thriller: it isn't.
and can anyone say dénouement?

while superbly acted by the main 3 (husband, wyf, daughter) and pretty well held up by the other 2 (lawyer and son), it's not hugely imaginitive in it's direction.
I think it does a brilliant job of portraying the tragedy, and the way in which different people try to cope, it's certainly kicks your emotion-balls. The mood's kept pretty taut throughout, except that dénouement thing, which didn't, it kindee just stopped.
which i guess is accurate enough of things like that, teh family will go on survivng and the world will continue, as per. and your window to it as an outsider will slide on past.

pretty good, wholly.
8.5/10

-edits- i see it's jennifer conelly as the lead-she. nevar forget ass-ta-ass.

[HenryDorsetCase]

-edits- i see it's jennifer conelly as the lead-she. nevar forget ass-ta-ass.

spectacular tits too.

[Akzle]

spectacular tits too.

possibly the first thing in this thread we can agree on

[HenryDorsetCase]

possibly the first thing in this thread we can agree on

true dat.

WOLFPACK.

Documentary about six brothers who were effectively kept shut in in their New York apartment by their parents and homeschooled. Their only outlet is movies and they re-enact their favourites in the apartment. I quite enjoyed it and wasnt expecting to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDbqcMfUdlI

that is the trailer.

Not my usual thing but an interesting watch so it gets 8/10. Its 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.

I loved them re-enacting the "brains detail" scene in PULP FICTION.

I'm a mushroom cloud layin' motherfucker, motherfucker. I'm super fly TNT

[Crasherfromwayback]

Watched this last night, and it's actually pretty good. Got a shit rating on RT...but there you go! Def worth a look. 7/10

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[R650R]

The King is Dead 8/10 aussie black comedy..... Sure everyones ahd feral neighbolurs at some stage....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvPrkfUgU-A

[Akzle]

the last castle

fffffuuuuuuuuuu...



huge implausabiltiy, coupled with two very, very average leads and a very, very beige morass.

shit's laid on thick, yank style thick.
liek, thicker than husabitch.

and the fucken thing's 2 hours long.

deffo not for me, and i cant think of anyone i'd recommend it to.
...so the lawyerjew might enjoy it.

3.5/10

[danchop]

Brimstone...first movie since Leaving las vegas ive bothered to watch more than once..

[Akzle]

Brimstone...first movie since Leaving las vegas ive bothered to watch more than once..

succinct as a motherfucker.




not very fucken useful. mind.

[Akzle]

john carter

ffuuuuucccckckkkkkkkk mmmmmmmooooooiiiiiieeeeeeeeee cccccaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnt.


took me four goes to get through the fucken thing. a) it's long (three times longer than it's shit ass story deserves) 2) it's mind numbingly shyte. a half hour will blunten any intellect you thought you had and then it's goodnight nurse.


i don't know what i should expect when grown ass adults dress up like fucken, galactic gladiators, but... more.


must necessarily get one million points for weapons, machines, alien animules, even the humanoid-aliens were orright. and dog.


but loses most of them for casting that concussed mouth breathing michael jackson (the white years) looking motherfucker as a lead. and casting the jew-nosed personality-devoid wench as the vag.

loses more for alien-nouns. like, fucken making up language when you're supposedly nativised.


and am i the only cunt, that waking up after tripping some balls about single-handedly saving two civilisations on mars and porking their princess, would think "jesus them good drugs"??
i mean, would your go-to be: "well that must really have happened, now i need to go back there"?
that's called chasing the dragon and you'll nevar catch it. (i tried)

it's on-par for intelligence with "the mummy" franchise. with a bit of avatar, some gladiator, a bit of stargate sg1, and a large steaming mug of horse diarrhoea. i don't think they could have put on a droller script if they tried.


utter, utter bollocks. with spectacular CG.
3.5/10

[R650R]

30 Minutes or Less 10/10 funny as feck........

Lots of original one liners, indian dude from parks n recreation is good.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWEcNbEDg_E

[Akzle]

national lampoon's dirty movie

i didn't realise the franchise continued for so long (2010) or that there were so many (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Lampoon_films)


...basically, if you can't read, this is the jokes thread in film format.

5/10 - i've heard most of them before, didn't really bring anything new to the table or deliver...anything. still humourous though, i guffawed once or twice.

[Akzle]

half broken things

i'm normally one for quicker gratification - not to be found here. howe'er it paces itself smartly.

three supremely unattractive psychotic white-folk play on each other, and those around them, to realise their own delusions.

now. i make that sound better than it is. cos it isn't great.
but it's orright. y'a meen guv'na?
it's set all quaint in the english countryside, but that's pretty irrelevant.

could be quietly enjoyed with the missus, maybe.

6/10

[Swoop]

This looks entertaining.
Deadpool moonlighting as a bodyguard...

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[R650R]

Bad Santa 2 8/10 fairly predictable but plenty of laughs and new lines/comments


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4e9jVRv6qg

[R650R]

Very good doco via youtube on titan missile silo accident in 1980


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGg477les2o

[Akzle]

hollywood adventure

it's chilese motherfuckers. you're going to want subs. (and if you get the ones i got, doubly funny because jokes are half-translated and they re-sub shit that's already spoken in english)

Action, Adventure, Comedy | 26 June 2015 (China)

A young man goes from China to Hollywood on short notice to find his girlfriend. He ends up connected with two others in his quest, which gets much more complicated than he envisioned.

it's funny, like, western-people funny. pretty neat, actually. and i'd cock the lead she.
and there's a dubstep ho-down.

7.5/10

ghost in the shell

matrix meets aeon flux meets blade runner meets fifth element meets robocop. and probably a few more besides.

spectacular visuals, which are pretty much played out by half-time. unthrilling story (see above), would totally give scajojo a mouthful, still. (contrary to mossy).

and long. or maybe it felt long (because i was sober??(i knw, ryt?))
pretty unremarkable really. maybe my standards are too high.
did rly enjoy the jap blend, though.

6/10

point break

pretty much forgotten it so pretty much arse. basically a bunch of free-balling cunts wanted to make a movie. and they did. has snowboarding and bikking and skydiving shit. which is all fokken neat, but does not a movie make.

loosely arranged around what, if you turn your head sideways and squint, could be mistaken for a plot.

cheese and cliché and poo everywhere.

4/10. generously.


boyka (undisputed 4)

rusky guy kicks the shit out of every cunt that pisses him off.

like a more modern, more russian, rocky.

rather watch the mma series. and i don't want to watch the mma series.

maybe a bit harsh. there was comedy and russians in it. but no great art.

5.5/10

[Akzle]

american beauty

watched it when it first came out.

have had two daughters since :D

still pretty cool. pretty well put together.

8.5/10

[Akzle]

dawn of the dead (the new one)

don't know why they plagarised the name, shit's not even similar.
another one i'd seen before but forgotten, and it is pretty forgettable.


classic-zombies meets...ehh, the 2000s.


am i in a bad mood or what?

6/10


AvP Requiem (that's alien vs predator for all you plebs)
carries the torch pretty well

7/10

[caspernz]

About the same as the first, funny enough, the crash'n'bash stuff is OTT, some neat cameos from a few big names. For me maybe 6/10

[Akzle]

About the same as the first, funny enough, the crash'n'bash stuff is OTT, some neat cameos from a few big names. For me maybe 6/10

i was wondering about that. haw did you rank the first one? is the second long? cos the first one was only-just acceptable.
was actually thinking of going to the cinema for it...

[caspernz]

i was wondering about that. haw did you rank the first one? is the second long? cos the first one was only-just acceptable.
was actually thinking of going to the cinema for it...

Much of a muchness actually. Number one would also get maybe 6/10 from me. Time is maybe hour and 45 min.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Much of a muchness actually. Number one would also get maybe 6/10 from me. Time is maybe hour and 45 min.

according to IMDB its 137 minutes. If you thought it was 105 minutes that means it had your attention and it didnt drag. Both are good things.

Ima off to le kinematik to see it. I liked the first one a lot.


NOCTURNAL ANIMALS.

This is a slow boiler. It has Michael Shannon who I would watch in anything, Jake Gyllenhall and Amy Adams who is pretty good in a "fuck is she crying AGAIN?" way.

Great writing/plotting, excellent ending. 8.5/10

[FlangMasterJ]

Guardians Vol.2 was hilarious. I'd say even better than the first which is a tall order. 8.5/10

[EJK]

Haven't posting much here lately so here I go.

Saw FF8 last week (The Fate of the Furious?). Reminded me of no-brain-all-for-fun-action Pierce Brosnan era 007 series. Quite entertaining really.

Good humor and action. Forget the plot and seriousness and just enjoy.

7/10.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Looking forward to seeing this.

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[mossy1200]

Looking forward to seeing this.



Looks good. One would assume 4th May same date as Aus. Strange that its been out since Feb in some countries.

[EJK]

Guardians Vol.2 was hilarious. I'd say even better than the first which is a tall order. 8.5/10

Went to see it last night. Great fun!! Definitely will watch it again.

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9/10

[Crasherfromwayback]

Looks good. One would assume 4th May same date as Aus. Strange that its been out since Feb in some countries.

Yeah bit of a pisser!

[HenryDorsetCase]

Yeah bit of a pisser!

JOHN WICK 2 is getting a kinematic release - next week I think.

[pritch]

Almost ashamed to admit this, but I went to Beauty And The Beast. Not my choice, I was with company. Wasn't told until I was in the theatre that there was a lot of singing. "Fuck that" I thought, this won't be anything like The Last Waltz. And it definitely wasn't.

So unless you have to score brownie points with the missus...

After the movie I came home and watched another episode of Breaking Bad. Big difference.

[Jin]

Watched the Lego batman movie with my boy. Got a good few laughs out of me worth seeing with the kids on a rainy day.

[mossy1200]

Yeah bit of a pisser!
Its screening now. I tried get ticket last night but was seats sold out.

[WNJ]

Went to see it last night. Great fun!! Definitely will watch it again.

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9/10

Agreed watched yesterday with my son, while my girls went to batman lego, which they throughly enjoyed by their accounts

[Crasherfromwayback]

Its screening now. I tried get ticket last night but was seats sold out.

Yeah. I live right next door to Readings and went to see, but like you said, crazy busy. Going to Lighthouse Cuba today to see it.

[Akzle]

We Own The Night

set in the second-best decade anyone alive remembers (The 80s)
and centering on clubs-drugs-and-the-mob...categorised under "crime drama" it's heavy on both.

impeccably dressed and suitably austere cast, also featuring the gorgeous Tits McLegsalot.

doesn't play shit up or down, some fleckless filmography (bot spoilt also by drunk-camera-guy on a few scenes)

also could to with tweake on the audio, as a lot of the cunts mumble.

and it's 2hrs long.

so 7/10, if they spoke clearly and didnt do that drunkcameraguy™ shit, and ditched 10-15 minutes it would be higher.

[mashman]

Transformers: The Last night. 3/10. I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time, splosions, fights and the odd cheesy one liner. The story was all over the place and annoyingly so. Nope. Save yer cash and watch it at a later date... best to watch when you're suffering from insomnia I would think.

[ellipsis]

Transformers: The Last night. 3/10. I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time, splosions, fights and the odd cheesy one liner. The story was all over the place and annoyingly so. Nope. Save yer cash and watch it at a later date... best to watch when you're suffering from insomnia I would think.

...yeah...was hoping that my child-streak would be piqued but it wasn't...great visuals and noise though...forgettable...in fact I have... I hope, Despicable Me 3, lives up to its preceding couple of movies...

[OddDuck]

McLaren.

Cars. Documentary. I still really enjoyed it, mostly because Donaldson seems to have made a deliberate choice to keep anything technical out of it and keep it 100% on the people and the spirit of the times. There's quite a back story to what went on with the formation of McLaren as a racing team and as a supercar maker, they cover a lot of ground fast through the documentary... purists would want more detail but the pacing is about right for a more general audience. Tastefully done re-enactments mix with archival footage and studio interviews. The interviewees in particular stand out, there are some very serious names turning up front and center.

One word of warning - there are a couple of deaths, one of McLaren's drivers and McLaren's own fatal accident. It's one thing to be shown some newspaper headlines or scene photos, another to have interviewees who were there recounting what they saw and how they still are about it. Donaldson doesn't dwell on it, but he doesn't shy away or cover it over either.

The whole thing is probably better if you're into things petrol, track and speed, so I'll split the ratings:

General audience: 7 / 10

Motorsport fans: 9 / 10

Well worth catching while it's still on at the movies.

[mashman]

...yeah...was hoping that my child-streak would be piqued but it wasn't...great visuals and noise though...forgettable...in fact I have... I hope, Despicable Me 3, lives up to its preceding couple of movies...

Aye, looking forward to Despicable Me too.

[Crasherfromwayback]

My Cousin Rachel is fucking great. I'd quite like to interfere with her.

[MD]

Transformers: The Last night. 3/10. I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time, splosions, fights and the odd cheesy one liner. The story was all over the place and annoyingly so. Nope. Save yer cash and watch it at a later date... best to watch when you're suffering from insomnia I would think.
Agreed. Want my money back. Knew it would the same old action stuff rehashed. Thought the likes of Anthony Hopkins would raise the bar.
Apes movie coming soon look good.

Wonder woman was well worth the perve. She's no hour glass sexy Linda Carter but she pulls it off. Good watch..the movie, not just Gal Gadot. Would be interesting if Linda was 25 years old again today and did that same film. I reckon she would have nailed it with the added super powers cleavage for good measure.

[OddDuck]

Sleepless - Jamie Foxx, Michelle Monaghan. 4 / 10.

Should've been a good Friday night actioner. Good cinematography, surprisingly good cast, lots of urgency. Unfortunately it's crap.

My doubts set in during the opening heist. Jamie and his mate take cover behind their car while three dudes with M-16s hose the vehicle down. Sirens approach, the dudes decide to leave, Jamie and mate jump back into bullet-riddled ride and take off. Engine's fine. Tyres are fine. Nobody notices anything on the freeway. Right... then it happens again, and again.

Icing sugar dusts stolen suit up to the shoulders as Jamie frantically bags white powder to fake a cocaine deal. Next scene, the suit's utterly pristine. Musta dusted up nice in the elevator I guess.

Jamie gets a stab wound when bad guys kidnap his son. Then there's a fight scene where he moves like a tiger. Fight scene over, he's hunched over and clutching his side... until the next fight scene, where once again he moves like a tiger. Normal: ouchie hunch. Fight: tiger. Basically three-quarters of the movie is like this.

Teargas floods an enclosed parking garage. Masks appear for about two minutes, then suddenly become completely optional for everyone, including the guy who'd fired the teargas everywhere. Just wander through the billowing mists, it'll be fine, unless a completely silent 2-tonne truck sneaks up on you at high speed and mashes you like a bug. It sounds ridiculous enough to be funny, handled right it could be funny, unfortunately here it's just bad direction.

There's good trash, then there's trash trash. This is the latter. I imagine Mr. Foxx and Ms. Monaghan are having some words with their agents about this one.

[OddDuck]

Zero Days - doco about the Stuxnet worm and the emergence of cyberwarfare.

Lots of talking heads, lots of archival footage and photos, a surprising amount of access to former heavyweights in the military or intelligence communities of the USA, Israel, and other countries. It tells the Stuxnet story well and then leads into an unknown future.

Bloody good. Also quite disturbing, in that the doco makes it quite clear that cyberweapons are now a thing and lots of people are working on them. 8 / 10.

[EJK]

A movie where they portrait nature of death and survival is more of enemy than Nazi Germans.

Brilliant film. Spitfire = OMFG AWESOME!!!!

9.5/10

[OddDuck]

Baby Driver.

Getaway driver tries to get out of doing jobs, ideally taking his girlfriend along for the ride... unfortunately his boss isn't keen on letting him go. Oh, and there's a raging nut job on the team, too.

Surprisingly violent - it's R13 but I reckon it's at least R16. Awesome soundtrack. The driving is of course excellent but it's the minor character work and unexpected plot zigzags where this movie really delivers.

Superior friday night popcorn flick. 8 / 10.

[Black Knight]

A movie where they portrait nature of death and survival is more of enemy than Nazi Germans.

Brilliant film. Spitfire = OMFG AWESOME!!!!

9.5/10

I hear IMAX is the only place to really watch it.

[EJK]

I hear IMAX is the only place to really watch it.

Sadly no IMAX in Christchurch :-(

[pritch]

I hear IMAX is the only place to really watch it.

Dunno why they filmed it like that when only a relatively few places in the world can do it justice: just one in NZ, only five in Oz apparently. Never seen a 75mm movie in IMax so I literally don't know what I'm missing.

Watched the old move "The Snow Goose" on YouTube the other day and noticed that Jenny Agutter was having a purple patch as an actress in the 70s, a busy girl. Next movie I watched "I start Counting", I was thinking she's put on weight but the aspect ratio of the film had been stretched. I'd rather have some blank screen than have the space filled by chunky chicks.

The Snow Goose version I saw appeared to have been heavily edited, The quailty was crap, but the price was right. "I Start Counting" is a 'who done it' of sorts. More of a who is doing it really. They say nothing ages like old movies and I certainly wouldn't argue with that on the evidence of this pair. There were a lot of familiar faces/voices that had me dusting off the memory banks trying to remember where I'd seen or heard them before.

Oh, and in case that all seems like a strange mental leap from "Dunkirk", it was mention of that movie that reminded me of The Snow Goose.

[Akzle]

oh so many to review. been lacking time, inclination, sobriety.

flowers of war
an unfortunate mash of two vastly different cine-cultures, fortunately largely ignorable, but they do let it down in more than a few places. (obviously i mean the whitey jewlywood bits)
good on the whole. not over-filmed or over-effected, pretty grim story.

8/10

spectre
daniel kwaaaag (more on him later)
long. as long as any bond. pwetty typical, really, no great... anything, and you kinda come to expect great something with modern flicks, but that kinda also ties it into the rest of the franchise, just formulaic.
fuck me i'm repeating myself, how droll.
hmmmmmmm
6/10

layercake
nau, i've seen this before. also daniel kwag, doesn't really stretch him as an actor...it's a bit liek classic euro-gangster (lock stock, boondock, snatch et al) but more stark.
pretty good value really.
7.5/10


ITHE MARTIAN sets the benchmark for that stuff now.

Also: you need to see THE MARTIAN. Thank me later. Its fashionable in some quarters to disparage Matt Damon but he is excellent if the script is good. And he is very good in this.
so i did. only cos the warehouse has 2 for 10 bucks.
...and it wasn't shit.
implausible, but not a shit movie. doesn't quite portray the whole "it took a few years" thing...but i don't know how they could have without making it too-long
7/10

there were others. a few really good ones that i thought "this could be longer" which not many movies get.
i lied. btw. i'm still drunk.

[Voltaire]

Dunkirk, IMAX. Fantastic. Best war movie I've seen. Going to search out my Airfix Spitfire and Me 109 kits tomorrow. I no longer have a He 111.

[OddDuck]

Headshot.

Indonesian martial arts flick, not bad at what it does but by no means a top example of the genre. Subtitles mostly with the occasional line in English. Enertaining enough if you like your fight flicks, 6.5 / 10.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Baby Driver.

Getaway driver tries to get out of doing jobs, ideally taking his girlfriend along for the ride... unfortunately his boss isn't keen on letting him go. Oh, and there's a raging nut job on the team, too.

Surprisingly violent - it's R13 but I reckon it's at least R16. Awesome soundtrack. The driving is of course excellent but it's the minor character work and unexpected plot zigzags where this movie really delivers.

Superior friday night popcorn flick. 8 / 10.

I thought this would be better than it was. It was pretty conflicted in my view - most of the issues were with the script. It was trying to be Pulp Fiction but with cars. It failed. I particularly disliked the girlfriend. Kevin Spacey phoned it in, in the "Oh yeah I was pretty good in THE USUAL SUSPECTS and MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL so I dont need to do much here" kind of way. Mr Baby was just an annoying millennial.

Star of the show the first six minutes.

Even Jon Hamm didnt save it.

Over rated, over hyped. 6/10

[FlangMasterJ]

Not a film but the series Ozark is fucking great. Ged it!

[MD]

A movie where they portrait nature of death and survival is more of enemy than Nazi Germans.

Brilliant film. Spitfire = OMFG AWESOME!!!!

9.5/10
It was a good movie but for me I found I came away a bit underwhelmed. Maybe too much hype beforehand. To your point it was an interesting ploy to never show a German soldier or face. Maybe trying to be PC and not offend anyone but as you say, probably more to make the point that it was all about survival, not fighting the Germans.

Another Director might have done a better job of those special moments, the emotional times that pull at your heartstrings and leave the audience close to tears. Seemed like opportunities missed to me. Yeah the flotilla arriving was a crescendo moment but was downplayed and should have been where the audiences emotions peaked. Instead it was only given a few seconds really and lets move on to the next scene please.

Still some magical scenes with the Spitfire. Could have watched heaps more of those shots like looking down from above the plane as it soared at such great speed along the beach.

I'd say Private Ryan and Hacksaw Ridge were better WWII movies by far.

[Dadpole]

Not a film but the series Ozark is fucking great. Ged it!

I agree. It goes a little flat in the middle but is worth the watch.

Series 3 of Narcos is out next month. If you have not watched series 1 & 2 then check it out. We all know how it ends but the story and cast made it brilliant viewing. A bonus was the free Spanish lessons thrown in.

[BuzzardNZ]

Series 3 of Narcos is out next month. If you have not watched series 1 & 2 then check it out. We all know how it ends but the story and cast made it brilliant viewing. A bonus was the free Spanish lessons thrown in.

I agree about Narcos, best tv I've watched in ages.

[R650R]

Atomic Blonde 10/10 Well worth cost of cinema ticket, killer 80's soundtrack and a couple of ladies that are easy on the eyes.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIUube1pSC0

[Akzle]

Season of the witch
Not bad. Not good. The sheila plays it well but the whole thing's just not my vibe, man. Having teh famouses doesn't even help.
Some cool sceneage (mostly shot in bulgaria or some other god forsaken place in middle-yurp.) And it doesn't force/try to take itself srsly.
I can't even pinpoint what lets it down so much, it's got the roughings of a good flick, but... CGI witch story.. probably.

6/10 time filler.

Conjuring
Taku matamua is getting into these kinds of shit. fuck if I know why. I know I went through a horror/slasher/... phase when I was young. This one's not bad. Not high art, nice to see ye-oldie time cameras (i'm like that) and it's pretty true to period with the whole.
Unfortunately falls into that jump-scare trap of the genre: relying on darkness and BOO to create the "atmosphere" didn't really leave a lasting impression, and pretty cliché with teh whole "witches haunting shit" thing. Pretty well acted all 'round, always impressed by chillens who take these kind of roles.

7/10

Insidious
Similar vein to the above, but genuinely low budget (1.5 mil) and for that budget it does well. but for a movie... meh. Blatantly leaves it open for a sequel (boo, hiss!). And does feel cheap, but that's not a huge detractor. pretty obvious and pretty linear.

6.5/10


Guardians of The Galaxy Vol.2
and so with the first: also with the long-ness. it feels like a lot of fluff between punch lines. it could have happily lost 20 minutes.
easily good. fair shy of great.
doesn't really move anything anywhere (i hear they're doing a trilogy) - i mean yes, stuff happens, but it's playing the same characters as the first, and, liek.. meh

half-a-point-less-than-the-first/10 - i would still see the 3rd.


Assassin Next Door
Set in jewgoslavia or there abouts. it's not so much a movie, rather: a film. If that's too ambiguous for you: don't see it looking for entertainment. Though fiction, it's too IRL for that. It's also mostly in moonspeak.
It doesn't appear high budget, but it's pretty well finished. Certainly not going into the annals of filmature, but there's worse things to do with your time.

7/10

The Girl Who Played with Fire
Did rather enjoy. It's also in foreign-talk. Bonus some softcore girl-on-girl. While it doesn't offer any great surprises on the cat-and-cat-and-mouse-and-the-guy-helping-the-mouse theme, it's well put, and well played, and doesn't have the opportunity to hide behind effects or A-listers. i'd tap it.

7.5/10

[Berries]

Assassin Next Door
Set in jewgoslavia or there abouts. it's not so much a movie, rather: a film. If that's too ambiguous for you: don't see it looking for entertainment. Though fiction, it's too IRL for that. It's also mostly in moonspeak.
It doesn't appear high budget, but it's pretty well finished. Certainly not going into the annals of filmature, but there's worse things to do with your time.

7/10
A fictional film made with a low budget? Excellent review, will look out for it.

[mashman]

The Dark Tower. 6.5/10. All a little predictable, but not an overly bad movie even though I felt like I'd seen it before in slightly different guises. Wouldn't recommend for the big screen, but t'would be more suited to a quick Saturday night no brainer rental at 95 minutes.

[pritch]

The Girl Who Played with Fire
Did rather enjoy. It's also in foreign-talk. Bonus some softcore girl-on-girl. While it doesn't offer any great surprises on the cat-and-cat-and-mouse-and-the-guy-helping-the-mouse theme, it's well put, and well played, and doesn't have the opportunity to hide behind effects or A-listers. i'd tap it.

7.5/10

The Millennium series:

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played With Fire
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest

Having read the books and seen the Swedish movies first, I prefer the original Swedish version of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" to the Hollywood version. The third book in the series and the movie thereof, "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest" is my pick of the bunch. "Tattoo" stands alone as a story but "Hornets Nest" follows on from "The Girl Who Played With Fire" so it's better to watch those in order.

Subsequently there has been a fourth book. When the author Stieg Larsson died, he did not leave a will so everything went to his family. His long term partner got nowt. Unsurprisingly she was pissed off. She had a laptop containing an unfinished fourth book though and in due course she approached a friend of Larsson's to finish that book, this became "The Girl In The Spiders Web". If the Swedes haven't made a movie of that book yet they may have a problem, the actor who plays Blomqvist the main male character in the series, died a few months ago.

Reportedly there is now a fifth book but as yet I haven't read that. Something to look forward to, but Akzle, check out "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest" it's well worth a look.

All three are available on Netflix for those that have it.

[R650R]

The Millennium series:

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played With Fire
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest

Having read the books and seen the Swedish movies first, I prefer the original Swedish version of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" to the Hollywood version. The third book in the series and the movie thereof, "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest" is my pick of the bunch. "Tattoo" stands alone as a story but "Hornets Nest" follows on from "The Girl Who Played With Fire" so it's better to watch those in order.

Subsequently there has been a fourth book. When the author Stieg Larsson died, he did not leave a will so everything went to his family. His long term partner got nowt. Unsurprisingly she was pissed off. She had a laptop containing an unfinished fourth book though and in due course she approached a friend of Larsson's to finish that book, this became "The Girl In The Spiders Web". If the Swedes haven't made a movie of that book yet they may have a problem, the actor who plays Blomqvist the main male character in the series, died a few months ago.

Reportedly there is now a fifth book but as yet I haven't read that. Something to look forward to, but Akzle, check out "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest" it's well worth a look.

All three are available on Netflix for those that have it.

Just to add to that, the whole series is based on real life events. Stieg was a pretty heavy investigative journalists but the stuff he uncovered and the people he would expose would be a death sentence if published as fact. But the "fiction" stuff is so much better story. I bought one of his non fiction books and it was the worst driest unreadable slow garbage I have ever struggled to read, despite the massive scandels and stuff exposed withen.
Great films, Naomi Rapace was the best and excellent actor.

[AllanB]

I purchased the books - all three ages ago. Really struggled with the first, found it highly over rated and did not both with the others. In fact I added them to the work book swap.

And, yes, I very much enjoy my reading. I just did not get into it.

Movie was pretty good.

[pritch]

I have been told by someone that was defeated by Dragon Tattoo that there were just too many characters. I had trouble understanding what was going on in the beginning but it soon became clear.

Some bilingual Swedish readers apparently complain about the English translation. They feel the language in the English version has been made "prettier" than the original Swedish.

[Drew]

Watched 'the accountant' last night.

I was quite impressed. Closest thing to acting I've seen from Afleck.

[OddDuck]

Friday night, gassed out after a hard week at work, didn't want to be challenged in any way... The Mummy with Tom Cruise? Yeah, it'll be shit but why not.

Aside from the plane crash it's all pretty forgettable but a very special mention needs to be made of Sofia Boutella. Gawd damn. The ownage-of-every-scene is truly something to behold. Oh and even zombied up and grey and sorta rotten she's still really, really ridiculously good-looking.

Otherwise the flick is a disaster, everything about it is a step down from the Brendan Fraser / Rachael Weisz cheesetastic clichefest masterpiece from more than a decade ago.

[tri boy]

Pay attention to Peaky Blinders series on netflix.
That is all.

[Dadpole]

Peaky Blinders might appeal. It certainly didn't to me and SWMBO after the first two episodes. It struck me as an American 'Sopranos' chucked into northern England with a scribbled note saying "Make it glossy and the punters will overlook the rest"

Things to look forward to:

Red Dwarf series 12 in October.
Detectorists series 3 sometime over our Summer - If you don't know it, have a look. Hold judgement until episode 2. Then it will drag you into its own little world.

[Akzle]

Red Dwarf series 12 in October.
.

almost worth getting a tv for. that shit's funny as fuck

-edit-
HLYFKNSHT they're making more! since fucken 2009. how do i not know about this??

time for some piracy methinks.

[Dadpole]

time for some piracy methinks.

Aargh me hearty. 'Tis the way a true scallywag acquires his viewing booty....

[Akzle]

Ex Machina.

i'm not sure how many times i could watch this before i find it boring. 4, or whatever the fuck i'm at now, isn't it, though.

every watch throws up some niggle that i hadn't perceived before.
it's superling in it's atmosphere, delivery, cinematography. just. fuken baws.
oh and it was written/directed/had the strong hand of alex garland. the cunt that wrote "the beach" - not the gay ass dickaprio movie: the book. ftw!

[AllanB]

Ex Machina.

i'm not sure how many times i could watch this before i find it boring. 4, or whatever the fuck i'm at now, isn't it, though.

You just keep watching it for the nudes.

Must watch again.

[Akzle]

You just keep watching it for the nudes.

Must watch again.

:psst: there's free porn on the intertubes y'know

[Dadpole]

I have been watching Norsemen. Now I am hanging out for series 2. Think of Monty Python joins the Vikings....

[Crasherfromwayback]

Def looking forward to this puppy!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2798920/videoplayer/vi2690824473?ref_=tt_ov_vi

[OddDuck]

The Brave One.

It's from 2007 but the style and the pacing feels much earlier, like a contemporary to the Dirty Harry movies. It's deliberately slow, takes its time telling the story, and uses no fancy tricks whatever when the action erupts. The Punisher (but with Jodie Foster) this is not; there's a bit more going on here in terms of being human.

Intelligent, involving, and achieves everything it sets out to do. 9 / 10.

[Akzle]

Baby Driver.

Getaway driver tries to get out of doing jobs, ideally taking his girlfriend along for the ride... unfortunately his boss isn't keen on letting him go. Oh, and there's a raging nut job on the team, too.

Surprisingly violent - it's R13 but I reckon it's at least R16. Awesome soundtrack. The driving is of course excellent but it's the minor character work and unexpected plot zigzags where this movie really delivers.

Superior friday night popcorn flick. 8 / 10.

pretty fucken meh. soundtrack didn't grab me, like they were trying to cram too much in, and the levels poorly mastered.

how you make a subby b4 drift like a rwd? (slick tyres, but...)

filming was nothing ground breaking, characters all cut and paste, plot clichéd,
acting was good. quite good, from, like, 3 of them, and the rest were filler (sorry kev)

not far above very-average
5.5/10

[FlangMasterJ]

Blade Runner 2049 - Awesome sequel. 8.5/10 Go see it.

[Akzle]

Blade Runner 2049 - Awesome sequel. 8.5/10 Go see it.

big call, big call.

[Drew]

Hell or high water.

I thought it was really good.

[Laava]

El Bar on netflix. Finally a movie that can keep ones attention...

[Black Knight]

I have been watching Queen of the South on the Sky boxset channel-they have screened series 1&2 so far.If you are into drug cartel movies,this is the one,makes Sicario look like a kids movie.I love narco themed movies.

[pritch]

Blade Runner 2049 - Awesome sequel. 8.5/10 Go see it.

This has been variously reviewed. Got a rave from someone I follow on social media but the reviewer at the 'The Spectator' slammed it and was then herself rubbished for doing so. On balance I think the Spectator reviewer was just trying to make a name for herself so I will try and catch the movie next week.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Hell or high water.

I thought it was really good.

And you are correct.