What's the last or current Movie you Watched ?

[slimjim]

Lou (2022)


No YTube trailer due to age of actor but basic plot is:

A massive storm rages. A young girl is kidnapped. Her mother, with no other option, teams up with the mysterious older woman next door to pursue the kidnapper a journey into the wilderness that will test their limits and expose dark and shocking secrets from their pasts.

Good Luck To You Leo Grande was highlighted as a rare role for an older female as a sexy lead. Well Allison Janney, C.J. from The West Wing, was born in 1959 the same year as Emma Thompson and here she channels Liam Neelson; Arnie & Stallone. Sure it may be formulaic and predictable and have a silly plot, but this refreshingly female-centric action thriller is a break from the usual fodder as she kicks ass.

 

[Shelter]

Lou (2022)


No YTube trailer due to age of actor but basic plot is:

A massive storm rages. A young girl is kidnapped. Her mother, with no other option, teams up with the mysterious older woman next door to pursue the kidnapper a journey into the wilderness that will test their limits and expose dark and shocking secrets from their pasts.

Good Luck To You Leo Grande was highlighted as a rare role for an older female as a sexy lead. Well Allison Janney, C.J. from The West Wing, was born in 1959 the same year as Emma Thompson and here she channels Liam Neelson; Arnie & Stallone. Sure it may be formulaic and predictable and have a silly plot, but this refreshingly female-centric action thriller is a break from the usual fodder as she kicks ass.

And again I must say that we will have the same sense of taste in connection with movies!

 

[korners]

"As bestas", a very emotional drama with an excellent script and an excellent performance.

 

[slimjim]

I also watched 'til the end....not because of the story, which made no sense and was full of holes left unexplained...

The only reason for watching The Menu is called Nicholas Hoult...no need to say that ALL his movies come to my watch list

Well you would have enjoyed this afternoons matinee then, with a lot of shirtless Nux the Warboy?....

 

[slimjim]

Get the pizza; get the cold beers get the large bag/box of M&M's and get the big drum of popcorn - it's 2 hrs of Gerard Bulter & Gary Oldman ( and everybody else) SHOUTING...... and it's pure escapist fun. Hooo Raaaa!!!! ( what ever the fuck that actually means?)

 

[Shelter]

Get the pizza; get the cold beers get the large bag/box of M&M's and get the big drum of popcorn - it's 2 hrs of Gerard Bulter & Gary Oldman ( and everybody else) SHOUTING...... and it's pure escapist fun. Hooo Raaaa!!!! ( what ever the fuck that actually means?)

I'll get the pizza, the cold beer and all the other things and then we'll watch it this evening!!!

 

[Shelter]

HUNTER KILLER
Down-to-earth guys, cool action! Good entertainment. Gerard Butler completely in his element.
Two hours which have not been lost! Slimjim - thanks for the advice.

 

[slimjim]

HUNTER KILLER
Down-to-earth guys, cool action! Good entertainment. Gerard Butler completely in his element.
Two hours which have not been lost! Slimjim - thanks for the advice.

Well I picked this one for tonight..... and it would be an understatement to say it is a polar opposite to Hunter Killer. The movie database site keywords are "Drama/Fantasy/Horror" and it sure is a psychological creepy movie. Written and directed by Alex Garland (The Beach; 28 Days Later; Ex Machina)

I cannot say too much about the plot but it centres around Harper (Jessie Buckley) who following a tragedy goes for a short break in the country to try and heal. She is met and shown around the house she's renting by the odd owner and begins to settle in, going for a walk in the countryside.... then it get's a little surreal. She visits the local church and it gets a little weirder and then to the pub... weirder still... and then... and then..... this is tricky, it's not that I don't want to give any more of the plot away it's more that I can't be totally sure WTF was going on. I have a reasonable idea what was happening but I would need to watch it again to get some clarity.... thing is I'm not sure I want to. Maybe by the morning I will have processed it?

If you fancy giving it a watch be prepared for some beautifully filmed countryside and greenery; an atmospheric soundtrack as well as some uncomfortable and disturbing imagery. Rory Kinnear also stars (and that is an understatement)

It is worth watching - but maybe just the once.

 

[ILuv2rim]

i just watched a movie called---LOVE IN COUNTRY--

A film that honors LGBT veterans and all Americans serving in the military. The story centers on Ian Alexander and Johnny Reese, two Army Rangers who have fallen in love amidst the horrors of the Vietnam War. Their bond makes them unstoppable on the battlefield. When the deranged Captain Heinrick leads them on a particularly risky mission, Ian and Reese must survive and still accomplish the mission.

theres only few scenes of two guys kissing and making out a little--but this is back in the early days around vietnam war---something happens that brings these two together--it really doesnt go into much detail about that---wonder if theirs a book and it has it in there--- but this movie mainly portrays how seriously gays werent allowed in military--even though thousands then joined and fought and died for their country-- but their tribute is never mentioned just because gay--


the acting is ok not the best in the world but its worth watching at least once

 

[slimjim]

Classic & classy cold war thriller... What to say? - Spielberg directing Tom Hanks; Mark Rylance & Alan Alda with a witty Coen Bros script and beautiful Thomas Newman score.

.... and nowhere near as weird as last nights movie

 

[Shelter]

A film from 2019: CROWN VIC
Nearly two hours full of action.
CROWN VIC takes us on one memorable night in the life of veteran patrol officer Ray Mandel and his trainee, ambitious rookie cop Nick Holland in LAPD's Olympic Division. With two cop killers on the loose and hunting for more targets, Mandel and Holland must contend with a city about to boil over, as well as Jack VanZandt, an unhinged rogue cop out for payback running wild in their patrol zone. As the night wears on, Mandel finds himself in a desperate race against the clock to find a missing girl as he and Holland prowl the dangerous streets of LA in their police car, protected by only a few thin sheets of metal and glass.
Not a film for an Oscar but every minute worth watching.

 

[slimjim]

So on paper this has everything you want. The "Moustache" is back; it's a Christie who-dunnit; it's set on the Nile. I watched this last night and I'm late posting about it as I was undewhelmed by it, dull is another word that fits. I stuck with it to the end but nearly didn't and I think maybe the reason I kept going was the nostalgia and the landscapes (I did the Nile cruise; Luxor & Abu Simbel a few years back). I would have been happy if 95% of the cast had been eaten by nile crocodiles in the first 15 mins (especially Russel Brand of course) and the rest had been a travelogue - "The Moustache goes on holiday" - I mean it has it's own backstory from 1914 at the beginning of the movie.

 

[Shelter]

"I would have been happy if 95% of the cast had been eaten by nile crocodiles in the first 15 mins"

Now I know hyper-accurate what I'll never want to watch!

 

[slimjim]

Bob Hoskins; Cathy Tyson & Michael Caine in an 80's classic - perfect for an afternoon matinee

 

[slimjim]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

And it's a Bob Hoskins double-bill with this cracker ..... duelling ducks!!

 

[topdog]

Romeo & Juliet (1968)
For Valentine's Day the Criterion Collection has released a new transfer and restoration of Franco Zeferelli's Romeo & Juliet on BluRay HD. Aside from Zeferelli's top notch production (it won Oscars for cinematography and costumes), he revolutionized the property by casting age appropriate actors as the young lovers. I have enjoyed a DVD copy of this for years, but it was clearly an old print and a bit faded. This new version brings it back in all it's original roadshow glory (complete with intermission). This is probably the best Shakespeare adaptation on film.

 

[jhtw]

the new ant man, very disappointing

 

[Shelter]

the new ant man, very disappointing

Thank you for your warning!

 

[slimjim]

Trespass Against Us. (No clip due to age of actors)

Set amongst a group of irish travellers it deals with family bonds; religion and criminality. It was okay but only okay, the cast - headed by Brendan Gleeson; Michael Fassbender; Lyndsey Marshall; Rory Kinnear and pretty much non-speaking throughout Barry Keoghan were fine but they weren't enough. It was almost as if it couldn't decide on being a Ken Loach/Shane Meadows style social commentary on traveller-folk or having a lighthearted loveable rogues play cat and mouse with the police narrative and in the end it missed both targets.

 

[slimjim]

The Forgiven (2022). (No clip due to age of actor)

Written and directed by John Michael MacDonagh this tells the story of a group of ghastly over-priveliged white folk who are invited to a party hosted at the desert villa of a couple (Matt Smith & Caled Landry Jones) but there is a tragic incident for one couple on their way there (Ralph Fiennes & Jessica Chastain) and ultimately Ralph Fiennes' character has to journey into the desert for atonement and to make amends. So we have the contrast between the hedonistic partying and the local way of life as well as moralising on good; evil & redemption. And I must say the time spent with Ralph out among the desert is preferable to the time spent with the annoying westeners! It also stars Alex Jennings; Said Taghmaouli & Abbey Lee amongst others and they are all fine. It's beautifully filmed and the Morrocco landscapes are well used.... I just wish we had spent more time there than at the villa.


Side note - Why are there so many movies recently with a basic idea of isolating several individuals and/or couples? We have Death On The Nile ( boat); Glass Onion: Knives Out (private island); Old (private beach); The Menu (private island); Bullet Train; Triangle Of Sadness (boat and beach); See How They Run (theatre) and to a lesser extent Empire Of Light (cinema).... maybe Hollywood has a "cost of filming crisis" and has realised how much such as the 007 movies costs to move the cast & crew between London; Paris; Johannesburg; Moscow; Nassau; New York etc etc