Latest Films

The Outfit - recently added to Netflix but believe it’s a couple years old. Quite a stylish twisty little film. Mark Rylance is excellent.

7.5/10

ForeverAddickted said:

Just watched... "Still - A Michael J Fox Movie"... its on AppleTV

Basically a Documentary that combines both his career as an actor, and his battle with Parkinson's

Really good viewing

Wish it wasn’t on Apple.
I have the book.
But I’m too scared to read it 😞

ForeverAddickted said:

KBslittlesis said:

ForeverAddickted said:

Just watched... "Still - A Michael J Fox Movie"... its on AppleTV

Basically a Documentary that combines both his career as an actor, and his battle with Parkinson's

Really good viewing

Wish it wasn’t on Apple.
I have the book.
But I’m too scared to read it 😞

Its not really a Sob Story type of Documentary

He's had 30 (?) years to reflect on the illness, but seems to take it all in its stride to be fair

That makes me feel a bit better.
But guilty for being a complete coward when he clearly is not.
Thanks FA x

IdleHans said:

Jessie said:

American Fiction. Interesting angle, funny in bits and overall a pleasant watch. 7.5/10

Agree with this except I think I'd give it an 8. Wasn't expecting to enjoy it as much as I did, which always helps, but an enjoyable watch. Not a comedy per se but made me laugh more than most 'comedies' tend to, and the story was decent with enough threads to keep me interested. You can see what's coming to an extent but the fun is in how it's going to play out. Interesting ending(s) too. The time passed very quickly. 

The book it's based on, Erasure by Percival Everett, is really great. Me and my partner had a feature script loosely based on the book that we almost definitely can't do anything with now, but I'm happy that they did the book justice with American Fiction. Thought Jeffrey Wright was perfectly cast, especially.

One for the fans I guess,, Bob Marley one love, plenty of music we liked it a lot.

Am I the only one that’s watched All of us strangers?

Some film trivia. The waterfront at Charlton was recently turned into the waterfront of New York for a scene for the new 'A quiet place'

We watched a decent film on Netflix last night called Black and Blue. A New Orleans wpc witnessing cops killing a drug lord and then trying to pin it on her.

Once you get to the incident it is quite gripping

valleynick66 said:

Wicked Little Letters with Olivia Colman. 

Very funny. Typical quaint British comedy. 

Expect it will be a TV film come Christmas but worth a watch. 

Saw it today - very enjoyable. An easy film to watch.

hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

valleynick66 said:

Wicked Little Letters with Olivia Colman. 

Very funny. Typical quaint British comedy. 

Expect it will be a TV film come Christmas but worth a watch. 

Saw it today - very enjoyable. An easy film to watch.

Likewise, saw it today and enjoyed it. Shame it has attracted a load of criticism for being "historically inaccurate" - loads moaning about the casting of an asian actress to play the policewoman.....

thenewbie said:

supaclive said:

The Iron Claw

Now as you may know, I'm in the industry and went to see this last night.

Zac Efron is really a rather good actor.  It's a brutal film.  I loved it.

I researched having watched and there's been some poetic license applied - mainly because the family curse is beyond belief.

Watch it.

Efron is astounding as is his father in the film, played by Holt Mcallanny.

I believe they actually ended up taking several characters/people out of the script because it would just seem too unbelievable for one family to be THAT unfortunate.... except that they actually were.

We watched it last night, it was brutal! Couldn't belive how the guy who plays lip in the US version of shameless and Carmy in The Bear bulked himself up for his role.but also, Zac Efron, holy shit that guy must have been living off dumbells and pure protein. 

Holt McAllany was also brilliant ably assisted by the always excellent Maura Tierney. 

It isn't a nice film, its a dark, tragic, bleak film but a great story told in a very refreshing un-hollywood way. 

Clem_Snide said:

hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

valleynick66 said:

Wicked Little Letters with Olivia Colman. 

Very funny. Typical quaint British comedy. 

Expect it will be a TV film come Christmas but worth a watch. 

Saw it today - very enjoyable. An easy film to watch.

Likewise, saw it today and enjoyed it. Shame it has attracted a load of criticism for being "historically inaccurate" - loads moaning about the casting of an asian actress to play the policewoman.....

There is a lot of debate over this. Plenty of historical inaccuracies in loads of films.

Holdovers - don’t bother / waste of time and full of cliches. 

American Fiction - highly recommended/ very enjoyable and full of cliches. Deliberately 😉