Films

Anyone been to the Kubrick exhibition?, It looks great -
https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/stanley-kubrick-the-exhibition

Anyone see Their Finest last night? Best film I've seen this year, funny and sad and amazing period detail.

Gemma Arterton recruits faded matinee idol Bill Nighy to make a morale-boosting Dunkirk film in 1940. Pitch perfect.

Watched Minding the Gap on your recommendation and loved it. I skated through my adolescent years and beyond so didn't need much persuading. Thanks for pointing me in that direction.

Another vote for Minding the Gap, heartfelt stories and the skate scenes were great to watch.

So who's gonna watch The Painted Bird?

Think i'll be saving my pocket money for It pt 2 and the Joker, i'll wait until it's on ITV2...

Finally got round to watching Spideyman: spideyverse. It’s fucking great.

Went to a double bill of It and It 2 last night. It 2 was just a boring mess and seeing it straight after It made it even clearer how bad it was.

In other news Pain and Glory is fantastic

Should I not re-watch It(pt1) before It(pt2)?
Or skip It 2 until it's in Film4?

I liked the last iteration (no pun intended) and have been keen on this one.

It 2 was just a boring mess and seeing it straight after It made it even clearer how bad it was.

I seem to remember that being the case with the original as well.

Spy kids one: So bad it's good.

The intentionally bad CGI cracked up my son, the naked gun style jokes cracked up all of us.

I'd maybe skip It 2... depends if you've got an evening you'd like to kill.

I spent a good amount of the film marvelling in how my friend across the aisle and 2 rows ahead managed to rustle his bag of popcorn so loudly that I could hear him and then secondly that he was still chomping his way through the popcorn a good 2 hours into the film.

I think about an hour of this film could've been cut and we'd have been left with something a lot better.

'Good Time' with yer man from the shiny wampyre fillums. well worth a purchase.

Watched it last year - really good.

It’s still on Netflix for those with an account...

Wow, but John Wick 3 is rubbish, isn't it?

Start, Middle, End.

All rubbish.

Rub.

Ish.

Stolen from Twitter: the New Statesman on the Downton film. Brilliantly savage.

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Guardian Top 100 films of this century has Paddington 2 above Requiem For A Dream:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/13/100-best-films-movies-of-the-21st-century

Yeah, because it's fucking great

There are some baffling choices on that list, I've not seen Borat since I was a teenager but can't imagine it holds up too well...
Lots of of stuff I've not seen that I want to check out now though.

I'm visiting my brother tonight, he's really keen to go and see the new It film. Will I be totally lost if I've not seen the previous one? I'm not expecting to massively enjoy it anyway so maybe I'm not that bothered.

^ CGI bollocks no?

We watched The Ritual on Nutflix yesterday - don't bother, utter scutter

It 2 - fine without seeing 1 I reckon, (kids fight a clown daemon, best it but don't kill it)

But if you can not see It2, probably for the best (it's shitter than the 1st part)

I'm going to try and steer him away from seeing it tonight I reckon! I don't see him very often, I'd rather talk to him than get spooked by some nob head clown.

https://youtu.be/C7kbVvpOGdQ

New Jurassic World short film (9mins) that's pretty neat.
Setting a scene for a dinosaur populated earth.

Honeyland is excellent.

You might not think you need to see a documentary about a middle aged beekeeper in mountainous North Macedonia, but you'd be missing out.

Not having seen either film or read the books, but considering it’s a Stephen King book based horror film - you are gonna be ok

That was fun.