Bloody brilliant, very clear axe being ground and done very well. I couldn't work out where I'd seen the lead actor before and after spending most of the film thinking it must be a really old version of the guy who played Michael in Alan Partridge it clicked. I'd seen him compère a couple of times at comedy clubs and very good he was too.
It's quite an emotional watch, and the director does a brilliant job of telling the way things can be, a huge dollop of poetic licence included but I really enjoyed it as a body of work. Made my wife cry her eyes out, I must have had some grit in my eye at the end!
Logan 7/10
Good film, but flipping mental. I'm not an expert on marvel films or x men but I like Hugh Jackman as the Wolverine character and he does his usual bit and does it well. Patrick Stewart is brilliant but Stephen Merchant was, well I'm not sure if he was really good or awkwardly terrible. The time lines of the x men films bend my head and whilst it was a good way for Jackman to retire from the character it left me with a few questions. Solid 7 out of ten
A streetcat called Bob 6/10 (bob the cat 10/10)
A by the numbers effort, I liked the book but having encountered the man it concerns and been told by a very kind hearted lady friend of mine he is the only person she dislikes (she works for the big issue and a homeless charity) it made my mind up a bit about the protagonist. Thought the cat was brilliant as was Joanne Froggatt, who is always excellent but the film as a whole was like watching a montage. It gets a 6 for the cat and Joanne Froggatt. And to be fair to him Luke Treadaway is good too but the film is just a bit bleurgh
Going to see Logan then Skull Island for my birthday. It will bring back memories of going to the flicks in my childhood and there being two films in the programme. The last time I tried this, with The Martian and some other film, the cinema caught fire. Wish me better luck today.
Skull Island is the best Kong film since the first one. Samuel L Jackson does what SLJ does, but nobody does it better. The rest of the cast are at least OK, some better. Obviously it's full of SFX but it doesn't look like SFX, which is what the trailer for Tom Cruise's The Mummy does.
Logan is the best super-hero film I've seen in a long time, maybe the best ever. Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart give great performances. The violence is nasty and vicious, the way it should do when showing twelve inches of metal being stuck in someone's head.
Set against a prominent and beautiful Montana backdrop, this comprises three essentially unrelated tales of women struggling (variously) with loneliness, unhappy marriage and male neediness. Laura Dern is a small town lawyer troubled by a deranged client (Jared Harris), Michelle Williams is a businesswoman trying to build a perfect rural home in order to underpin her ailing marriage and Lily Gladstone is a lonely rancher who becomes infatuated with an evening-class teacher, Kristen Stewart. The director's approach is understated and minimalist, to say the least, but this is a quietly poignant and engaging film, albeit one that didn't quite meet my expectations, given that it won the Best Film Award at last year's London Film Festival - 7/10.
The Assignment. Got to hand it to Sigourney Weaver, she handles lengthy dialogue very well. Michelle Rodriguez is pretty cool in this film. It wont appeal to everyone, but Im giving it a 7/10. Also released as The Tomboy.
Saw The lost city of Z yesterday. Well written, well acted, good photography and interesting story. Lacked something though as in the end I didn't care what happened to the central character. Glad I saw it as a free preview as if I'd paid for it I'd have felt I didn't get my full moneys worth. Synopsis - Percy Fawcett has a family history (unspecified) that limits his career in the army in the early 1900s. Is invited to survey unknown Bolivia by the Royal Geographic Society so as to stop war between Bolivia and Brazil over rubber. Explores Amazonia, has exciting adventures. Finds tantalising clues to a lost civilisation. Returns to London where he is laughed at over his feeling there is a civilisation that predates the west. Goes back with a useless member of the RGS, fails again to find Z. On his return useless bloke threatens to sue him. WW1 breaks out he goes to war. After war goes back to seek Z with oldest son more adventures. Fin. 6/10 I think.
@iainment , I too saw this yesterday as a preview, and you've got it spot on. I eventually lost interest in the obsessive central character. Anyone who swaps mosquitos, heat and hostile tribes for Sienna Miller must have a screw loose.
Logan. Impressive film, but I was kind of thrown a little by Patrick Stewart's fuck infested dialogue, seemed out of character. However, I really enjoyed it and it was a fitting finale to the Wolverine. 7.5/10
Saw Lost City of Z at Glasgow Film Festival a month ago. Similar impression to those above -in fact, I fell asleep at one point. Think it suffered from being a true story and also not enough content / emphasis on the wife's relationship with the RGS.
Saw The Salesman on Monday. (£7 a head for films on Mondays at Greenwich Picturehouse. So a good cheap night out.) A good film. Well made, interesting story, well plotted, good acting and a fascinating insight into modern life in Iran. I didn't know anything of the plot when I went and was hooked early on. Go and see it. 7/10.
'Get out'. Wouldn't usually watch something in the horror genre but glad I did. Horror comedy is more accurate. Definitely thought provoking. Watched a lot if it through my fingers admittedly. Black boyfriend meets white parents, with a few twists. I cringed a lot at what I thought was just clumsy efforts to portray racist parents. But then the twists kick in and it wasn't the film I was first thinking.
Saw "Elle" last night, French with sub-titles. Ostensibly about the rape of the main character but a lot more texture. Some very amusing moments. Very French. Recommend it if language films don't put you off.
Life. Decent, silly, mildly surprising, fairly ballsy, but mostly predictable sci-fi horror. Doesn't add anything new to the Alien sun-genre but the quality of the cast and (most of) the effects carry it through.
Saw "Elle" last night, French with sub-titles. Ostensibly about the rape of the main character but a lot more texture. Some very amusing moments. Very French. Recommend it if language films don't put you off.
I watched it as well but to be fair I thought it just dragged on and on and on......decent acting but as boring as batshit after the first 40 minutes. 5/10
Saw "Elle" last night, French with sub-titles. Ostensibly about the rape of the main character but a lot more texture. Some very amusing moments. Very French. Recommend it if language films don't put you off.
I watched it as well but to be fair I thought it just dragged on and on and on......decent acting but as boring as batshit after the first 40 minutes. 5/10
It was reviewed on Newsnight last week & one critic (a women) said that the basis of the film is that the main character basically initiates being raped, both by her partner & by the intruder. Pretty strong stuff.
Watched Patriots Day and Miss Sloane. Both were fantastic.
Wish Patriots Day had been released in China. Friday Night Lights (the TV series), Lone Survivor and Deepwater Horizon were all directed/created by Peter Berg and I loved them all. I'd been looking forward to Patriots Day since the release of the trailer and I finally got to watch it last weekend. It was surprisingly intense and also very touching. Part of if reminded me of Friday Night Lights. Best film I've seen for a while. 9/10
Miss Sloane is a fast-paced political drama and it shows what a talented actress Jessica Chastain is. I loved her in Zero Dark Thirty, The Debt and The Help. This time she did very well in playing Miss Sloane, an ambitious, confident, smart, cool but also cruel lobbyist. Not everyone will like this film but I enjoyed it. 8/10
Saw "Elle" last night, French with sub-titles. Ostensibly about the rape of the main character but a lot more texture. Some very amusing moments. Very French. Recommend it if language films don't put you off.
I watched it as well but to be fair I thought it just dragged on and on and on......decent acting but as boring as batshit after the first 40 minutes. 5/10
It was reviewed on Newsnight last week & one critic (a women) said that the basis of the film is that the main character basically initiates being raped, both by her partner & by the intruder. Pretty strong stuff.
I watched about 40 minutes of it. I didn't like it at all. Thought the storyline was terrible and difficult/bizarre to watch.
Life. Decent, silly, mildly surprising, fairly ballsy, but mostly predictable sci-fi horror. Doesn't add anything new to the Alien sun-genre but the quality of the cast and (most of) the effects carry it through.
Just got back from Life. Really enjoyed it, as did the missus who's not the biggest si-fi fan. Very good looking film and the cinematography, especially them careering around inside was excellent. They've really cracked this looking weightless thing. Thought it ramped up the tension very well and didn't have to resort to 'in your face' gore or throwing in multiple buses to do so.
Both leads play it really well but having also seen Rebecca Ferguson recently in Girl On The Train she seems to be a real star in the making. And she's not too shabby to look at for a couple of hours either.
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Collide. Plenty of action but very predictable with good offbeat cameos from Ben Kingsley and Anthony Hopkins 6/10
Infiltrator. Loved this one, if you like Bryan Cranston, you will like this. 7.5/10
I Daniel Blake 9/10
Bloody brilliant, very clear axe being ground and done very well. I couldn't work out where I'd seen the lead actor before and after spending most of the film thinking it must be a really old version of the guy who played Michael in Alan Partridge it clicked. I'd seen him compère a couple of times at comedy clubs and very good he was too.
It's quite an emotional watch, and the director does a brilliant job of telling the way things can be, a huge dollop of poetic licence included but I really enjoyed it as a body of work. Made my wife cry her eyes out, I must have had some grit in my eye at the end!
Logan 7/10
Good film, but flipping mental. I'm not an expert on marvel films or x men but I like Hugh Jackman as the Wolverine character and he does his usual bit and does it well. Patrick Stewart is brilliant but Stephen Merchant was, well I'm not sure if he was really good or awkwardly terrible. The time lines of the x men films bend my head and whilst it was a good way for Jackman to retire from the character it left me with a few questions. Solid 7 out of ten
A streetcat called Bob 6/10 (bob the cat 10/10)
A by the numbers effort, I liked the book but having encountered the man it concerns and been told by a very kind hearted lady friend of mine he is the only person she dislikes (she works for the big issue and a homeless charity) it made my mind up a bit about the protagonist. Thought the cat was brilliant as was Joanne Froggatt, who is always excellent but the film as a whole was like watching a montage. It gets a 6 for the cat and Joanne Froggatt. And to be fair to him Luke Treadaway is good too but the film is just a bit bleurgh
Good story but incredibly slow. Went to see it on a wet Sunday afternoon, maybe wasn't in the mood, dunno.
Logan is the best super-hero film I've seen in a long time, maybe the best ever. Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart give great performances. The violence is nasty and vicious, the way it should do when showing twelve inches of metal being stuck in someone's head.
I struggled at first, but by the end was almost in tears. Amazing bit of film making.
Was massively hyped up for it, 17 years of Hugh Jackman's Wolverine came to an end.
It was good, just not as good as I hoped.
The little girl in it is brilliant. Stephen Merchant, well I was pleased when he stopped being in it.
Probably say 6/10
Set against a prominent and beautiful Montana backdrop, this comprises three essentially unrelated tales of women struggling (variously) with loneliness, unhappy marriage and male neediness. Laura Dern is a small town lawyer troubled by a deranged client (Jared Harris), Michelle Williams is a businesswoman trying to build a perfect rural home in order to underpin her ailing marriage and Lily Gladstone is a lonely rancher who becomes infatuated with an evening-class teacher, Kristen Stewart. The director's approach is understated and minimalist, to say the least, but this is a quietly poignant and engaging film, albeit one that didn't quite meet my expectations, given that it won the Best Film Award at last year's London Film Festival - 7/10.
Well written, well acted, good photography and interesting story.
Lacked something though as in the end I didn't care what happened to the central character.
Glad I saw it as a free preview as if I'd paid for it I'd have felt I didn't get my full moneys worth.
Synopsis - Percy Fawcett has a family history (unspecified) that limits his career in the army in the early 1900s. Is invited to survey unknown Bolivia by the Royal Geographic Society so as to stop war between Bolivia and Brazil over rubber. Explores Amazonia, has exciting adventures. Finds tantalising clues to a lost civilisation. Returns to London where he is laughed at over his feeling there is a civilisation that predates the west. Goes back with a useless member of the RGS, fails again to find Z. On his return useless bloke threatens to sue him. WW1 breaks out he goes to war.
After war goes back to seek Z with oldest son more adventures.
Fin.
6/10 I think.
I eventually lost interest in the obsessive central character. Anyone who swaps mosquitos, heat and hostile tribes for Sienna Miller must have a screw loose.
A good film. Well made, interesting story, well plotted, good acting and a fascinating insight into modern life in Iran.
I didn't know anything of the plot when I went and was hooked early on.
Go and see it.
7/10.
Wish Patriots Day had been released in China. Friday Night Lights (the TV series), Lone Survivor and Deepwater Horizon were all directed/created by Peter Berg and I loved them all. I'd been looking forward to Patriots Day since the release of the trailer and I finally got to watch it last weekend. It was surprisingly intense and also very touching. Part of if reminded me of Friday Night Lights. Best film I've seen for a while. 9/10
Miss Sloane is a fast-paced political drama and it shows what a talented actress Jessica Chastain is. I loved her in Zero Dark Thirty, The Debt and The Help. This time she did very well in playing Miss Sloane, an ambitious, confident, smart, cool but also cruel lobbyist. Not everyone will like this film but I enjoyed it. 8/10
Both leads play it really well but having also seen Rebecca Ferguson recently in Girl On The Train she seems to be a real star in the making. And she's not too shabby to look at for a couple of hours either.