This is the story of Nate Foster, an FBI agent who goes deep undercover within a white-supremacy group in order to bring down the organization from the inside. Daniel Radcliffe is always going to struggle with miscasting comments from critics in his career simply because of his stature and that he used to be Harry Potter. I was determined to give the guy a fair hearing when heard he was going to play this role and believe me i tried but there is no way at any stage of this film did I believe 1. he was in the FBI and 2. he was a white supremacist . It's not a terrible performance , in fact he does quite well but he just doesn't have the face for the role . The closest comparison to this miscasting I can give is when Elijah Wood played a football Hooligan in the terrible film Green Street . While Imperium is nowhere near as bad as that film it is dull and that's not is excusable for film with this subject matter. Give this a miss and watch American History X instead.
Can't believe they've made a film about the tramp and his stupid cat that hang about Covent Garden. Proper annoys me that bloke.
I read his book and found it pretty endearing but a girl I know works for the magazine he sells and another homeless charity, she has a heart of gold patience of a saint but dislikes him hugely.
Which is a shame because I really like Bob the cat
Can't believe they've made a film about the tramp and his stupid cat that hang about Covent Garden. Proper annoys me that bloke.
I read his book and found it pretty endearing but a girl I know works for the magazine he sells and another homeless charity, she has a heart of gold patience of a saint but dislikes him hugely.
Which is a shame because I really like Bob the cat
He's a knob head. Loudly tutts and grumbles when you walk over him and his mates stupid rainbow chalk drawings on the pavement that wash off after about 3 hours. Pisses me off.
Can't believe they've made a film about the tramp and his stupid cat that hang about Covent Garden. Proper annoys me that bloke.
I read his book and found it pretty endearing but a girl I know works for the magazine he sells and another homeless charity, she has a heart of gold patience of a saint but dislikes him hugely.
Which is a shame because I really like Bob the cat
He's a knob head. Loudly tutts and grumbles when you walk over him and his mates stupid rainbow chalk drawings on the pavement that wash off after about 3 hours. Pisses me off.
I'm an Executive Producer on that film!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's the best selling non fiction book of our generation Gary!
Dr. Strange ... I really enjoyed this, brilliant special effects, good storyline and actors. Be careful not to miss the two mid and post-credit scenes.
To say this film is weird is an understatement. I don't think I have seen anything quite like Swiss Army Man and that's not necessarily a bad thing . It's the story of a man who is stranded alone on a deserted island who , while making one last attempt at escape finds a dead body washed up on shore. The body turns out to be useful in so many ways. While I don't profess to really understanding what was going on in this movie there is no denying it's entertainment value. I'm not a fan of Daniel Radcliffe but this is the best thing he has done in my opinion and he's playing a dead man! Paul Dano is excellent too. Although this isn't an out an out comedy ( I think) it did make me laugh at times and it's also sad in places. I've seen this film get rave reviews from some critics which I can't quite agree with it's still worth watching just for the novelty value.
Can't believe they've made a film about the tramp and his stupid cat that hang about Covent Garden. Proper annoys me that bloke.
I read his book and found it pretty endearing but a girl I know works for the magazine he sells and another homeless charity, she has a heart of gold patience of a saint but dislikes him hugely.
Which is a shame because I really like Bob the cat
He's a knob head. Loudly tutts and grumbles when you walk over him and his mates stupid rainbow chalk drawings on the pavement that wash off after about 3 hours. Pisses me off.
I'm an Executive Producer on that film!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's the best selling non fiction book of our generation Gary!
I'm visualising the scene in kill your friends when James corden gets brutally murdered for asking who writes Paul Wellers songs
Nerve is about an unadventurous girl who decides to take part in an online game that involves completing challenges and dares to increase her popularity and add to her bank balance but as you would expect not everything goes to plan. Before I start to criticise this film too much it's true to say that I'm not the kind of person this is aimed at. What I mean is i'm probably 25 years too old to really enjoy something like this. It's incredibly dumb. The story is so far fetched and unrealistic that you just don't buy into what you are watching. It seams to be set in a neon lit world where everyone is 20 years old and where no internet connection is lost , nothing buffers and camera phones are conveniently aimed on every scene but the biggest problem with this is that it's not gritty enough. I wanted see a game like Jigsaw would play in the Saw films but instead we see a tepid watered down version and that just bored me. Unless you 18 years old give this a miss. The best thing about Nerve is the soundtrack .
The Accountant is decent, and the portrayal of a protagonist with Asperger's (in a relatively high-functioning form) is actually pretty accurate if a little simplified; as an autistic person myself it's nice (if sadly a little rare) to see a depiction of an autistic that isn't either Sheldon Cooper or the Rain Man. The performances are good in general albeit the ''twist'' is not actually all that shocking and it feels a little hollow in the end in that very little has actually happened or changed.
Nerve is about an unadventurous girl who decides to take part in an online game that involves completing challenges and dares to increase her popularity and add to her bank balance but as you would expect not everything goes to plan. Before I start to criticise this film too much it's true to say that I'm not the kind of person this is aimed at. What I mean is i'm probably 25 years too old to really enjoy something like this. It's incredibly dumb. The story is so far fetched and unrealistic that you just don't buy into what you are watching. It seams to be set in a neon lit world where everyone is 20 years old and where no internet connection is lost , nothing buffers and camera phones are conveniently aimed on every scene but the biggest problem with this is that it's not gritty enough. I wanted see a game like Jigsaw would play in the Saw films but instead we see a tepid watered down version and that just bored me. Unless you 18 years old give this a miss. The best thing about Nerve is the soundtrack .
Bone Tomahawk. Fantastic film. Very, very well done. Looks great, excellent cast all on top form and about as dark as a western is likely to get. I heard it described as a twisted version of The Searchers which is fair (but far less epic).
I wouldn't advise watching it on your own before going to bed though. That wasn't a good idea.
Went to see the arrival, not your usual America v aliens shoot 'em up, some will find it a bit dull if you're after a action movie, I found it compelling and wanted to know what was going to happen next.
Went to see the arrival, not your usual America v aliens shoot 'em up, some will find it a bit dull if you're after a action movie, I found it compelling and wanted to know what was going to happen next.
7.5 out of 10
I thought it was well made and acted etc. but not really my cup of tea, films that play around with the chronological order of events are not my thing though I did like the idea as an idea, just not in execution.
Wasn't expecting much and I was pleasantly suprised with what I was treated to. It follows a mildly predictable plot but is smoothly acted and Sly glues it together while letting Michael B Jordan take centre stage. Tony Bellew plays himself
Saw Dr Strange on the weekend. Loved it. Admittedly I am a Marvel fan but I think this would apply to non fans too. I was a bit unsure from the trailers but it was great, a fantastic cast with performances to match and the effects really do feel like you've dropped acid before going in to watch. 8/10
Went to see the arrival, not your usual America v aliens shoot 'em up, some will find it a bit dull if you're after a action movie, I found it compelling and wanted to know what was going to happen next.
7.5 out of 10
I thought it was well made and acted etc. but not really my cup of tea, films that play around with the chronological order of events are not my thing though I did like the idea as an idea, just not in execution.
Love him or hate him Ricky Gervais has come a long way since the last time we saw David Brent . I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to bring back such an iconic comic character but I needn't have been concerned. Brent is back and with the cringe factor turned up to 11. This is set 12 years after The Office and Brent is working for a toiletries company but his dream is to go on the road with his band "Foregone Conclusion" and that's exactly what he does. The problem is that nobody in the band particularly likes him. The first half hour of this film I was with the rest of the people around Brent in not liking him and thinking what an idiot he was but Gervais is superb in turning those feeling around, The longer the film went on , I stopped laughing at him and began laughing with him and even found myself really liking David Brent. The music is hilarious but strangely catchy and in the end I became a fan of band but more so the lead singer. Brent is Back. I loved this film.
Love him or hate him Ricky Gervais has come a long way since the last time we saw David Brent . I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to bring back such an iconic comic character but I needn't have been concerned. Brent is back and with the cringe factor turned up to 11. This is set 12 years after The Office and Brent is working for a toiletries company but his dream is to go on the road with his band "Foregone Conclusion" and that's exactly what he does. The problem is that nobody in the band particularly likes him. The first half hour of this film I was with the rest of the people around Brent in not liking him and thinking what an idiot he was but Gervais is superb in turning those feeling around, The longer the film went on , I stopped laughing at him and began laughing with him and even found myself really liking David Brent. The music is hilarious but strangely catchy and in the end I became a fan of band but more so the lead singer. Brent is Back. I loved this film.
Love him or hate him Ricky Gervais has come a long way since the last time we saw David Brent . I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to bring back such an iconic comic character but I needn't have been concerned. Brent is back and with the cringe factor turned up to 11. This is set 12 years after The Office and Brent is working for a toiletries company but his dream is to go on the road with his band "Foregone Conclusion" and that's exactly what he does. The problem is that nobody in the band particularly likes him. The first half hour of this film I was with the rest of the people around Brent in not liking him and thinking what an idiot he was but Gervais is superb in turning those feeling around, The longer the film went on , I stopped laughing at him and began laughing with him and even found myself really liking David Brent. The music is hilarious but strangely catchy and in the end I became a fan of band but more so the lead singer. Brent is Back. I loved this film.
Also seen War Dogs this week, decent. Not a comedy but couldn't help laugh every time Jonah Hill done that stupid laugh. Heavily fictionalised but still a good watch.
A glamorous, successful but unhappy gallery owner (Amy Adams), whose marriage is unravelling, receives, completely out of the blue, a draft manuscript of a novel from her ex-husband (Jake Gyllenhaal), the man she left nearly twenty years ago. Her reading of it stirs up all sorts of memories, regret and anguish and the film then switches between these and the story in the novel, a savage revenge thriller involving psychopathic rednecks.
Nocturnal Animals has been very well received critically and has garnered a number of five-star reviews. Personally, I found it pretentious, distasteful and over-stylised; despite the talented leads, a poor and self-indulgent film - 4/10.
Sounds very much like Ford's previous film A Single Man.
A Single Man was arguably self-indulgent, and veered towards being overly stylised, but I argue against it being either pretentious or poor, and cannot see anything distasteful about it.
Saw Sully this week. Absolutely loved it, but I've always been fascinated by that story anyway
Same here. How the fcuk he done it I'll never ever get my head around it. Hero.
Didn't really get Sully. They had to work so hard to invent conflict that didn't exist, and the ending made me laugh out loud! I'd have preferred to watch a documentary, but I suppose we'd never get that level of special effects and performance in the cockpit.
Nerve is about an unadventurous girl who decides to take part in an online game that involves completing challenges and dares to increase her popularity and add to her bank balance but as you would expect not everything goes to plan. Before I start to criticise this film too much it's true to say that I'm not the kind of person this is aimed at. What I mean is i'm probably 25 years too old to really enjoy something like this. It's incredibly dumb. The story is so far fetched and unrealistic that you just don't buy into what you are watching. It seams to be set in a neon lit world where everyone is 20 years old and where no internet connection is lost , nothing buffers and camera phones are conveniently aimed on every scene but the biggest problem with this is that it's not gritty enough. I wanted see a game like Jigsaw would play in the Saw films but instead we see a tepid watered down version and that just bored me. Unless you 18 years old give this a miss. The best thing about Nerve is the soundtrack .
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Imperium
This is the story of Nate Foster, an FBI agent who goes deep undercover within a white-supremacy group in order to bring down the organization from the inside.
Daniel Radcliffe is always going to struggle with miscasting comments from critics in his career simply because of his stature and that he used to be Harry Potter. I was determined to give the guy a fair hearing when heard he was going to play this role and believe me i tried but there is no way at any stage of this film did I believe 1. he was in the FBI and 2. he was a white supremacist . It's not a terrible performance , in fact he does quite well but he just doesn't have the face for the role .
The closest comparison to this miscasting I can give is when Elijah Wood played a football Hooligan in the terrible film Green Street .
While Imperium is nowhere near as bad as that film it is dull and that's not is excusable for film with this subject matter. Give this a miss and watch American History X instead.
5 out of 10
Which is a shame because I really like Bob the cat
8.5/10
Swiss Army Man
To say this film is weird is an understatement. I don't think I have seen anything quite like Swiss Army Man and that's not necessarily a bad thing .
It's the story of a man who is stranded alone on a deserted island who , while making one last attempt at escape finds a dead body washed up on shore. The body turns out to be useful in so many ways.
While I don't profess to really understanding what was going on in this movie there is no denying it's entertainment value. I'm not a fan of Daniel Radcliffe but this is the best thing he has done in my opinion and he's playing a dead man!
Paul Dano is excellent too.
Although this isn't an out an out comedy ( I think) it did make me laugh at times and it's also sad in places. I've seen this film get rave reviews from some critics which I can't quite agree with it's still worth watching just for the novelty value.
6 out of 10
Nerve is about an unadventurous girl who decides to take part in an online game that involves completing challenges and dares to increase her popularity and add to her bank balance but as you would expect not everything goes to plan.
Before I start to criticise this film too much it's true to say that I'm not the kind of person this is aimed at. What I mean is i'm probably 25 years too old to really enjoy something like this.
It's incredibly dumb. The story is so far fetched and unrealistic that you just don't buy into what you are watching. It seams to be set in a neon lit world where everyone is 20 years old and where no internet connection is lost , nothing buffers and camera phones are conveniently aimed on every scene but the biggest problem with this is that it's not gritty enough. I wanted see a game like Jigsaw would play in the Saw films but instead we see a tepid watered down version and that just bored me. Unless you 18 years old give this a miss.
The best thing about Nerve is the soundtrack .
4 out of 10
7/10
I wouldn't advise watching it on your own before going to bed though. That wasn't a good idea.
7.5 out of 10
Wasn't expecting much and I was pleasantly suprised with what I was treated to. It follows a mildly predictable plot but is smoothly acted and Sly glues it together while letting Michael B Jordan take centre stage. Tony Bellew plays himself
8/10
1) Arrival - Excellent 8/10
2) The light between the oceans - Excellent 8/10
3) Nocturnal whatever's - what a load of toilet 1/10
Love him or hate him Ricky Gervais has come a long way since the last time we saw David Brent .
I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to bring back such an iconic comic character but I needn't have been concerned. Brent is back and with the cringe factor turned up to 11.
This is set 12 years after The Office and Brent is working for a toiletries company but his dream is to go on the road with his band "Foregone Conclusion" and that's exactly what he does. The problem is that nobody in the band particularly likes him.
The first half hour of this film I was with the rest of the people around Brent in not liking him and thinking what an idiot he was but Gervais is superb in turning those feeling around, The longer the film went on , I stopped laughing at him and began laughing with him and even found myself really liking David Brent.
The music is hilarious but strangely catchy and in the end I became a fan of band but more so the lead singer.
Brent is Back. I loved this film.
9 out of 10
Not a comedy but couldn't help laugh every time Jonah Hill done that stupid laugh.
Heavily fictionalised but still a good watch.