Films

If we are going back to Dances with Wolves, we may as well mention the Dead Man and Tombstone.

Fuck the two Tarantino efforts though.

TBF I've probably only watched it once when I was too young too appreciate it, much like a full susser of the time.

Open Range is a great western with a lovely romance thrown in.

Admittedly needed youtube for a bit of explanation for Arrival

I did the same and was not aware of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis prior to this movie.

It's the film that made making Western's OK again and won a boat load of oscars, definitely has a place in Western hall of fame

On the subject of good westerns

I love “the quick and the dead”

It’s a bit gimmicky but Sam raimi enthusiasts will get a lot from it.

Cracking cast too

I learned from that film that if you someone gets shot you can actually see all the way through their body.

Yeah, maybe a long and slack before it's time film.

Arrival - Amazing
Sicario - Cracker
Enemy - thought it was absolutely shite
Prisoners - Another cracker and I advent seen the last one.

Watched moxie on Netflix. super woke teen thing but got me right in the almost feels. Not sure it was the intention but the fact that I thought the nothing but a nice guy love interest was about to turn bad at some point may have been a glimpse into no tall men.

I urge you to watch Incendies ,It is fantastic.

Saw Promising Young Woman last night, topical, very good, could have been better but had me gripped all the way through.

I watched Black Power: A British Story of Resistance last night. It's a pretty well made documentary and it made me realise how little I actually knew about the Black Power movement in the UK. It's recent history but I'd barely heard of any of the people or organisations involved. I guess I was too busy learning about the corn laws and Chartism in history at school.
It's free to watch on the BBC for the next year I think.

I remember watching a good documentary about Michael de Freitas a while back, not sure if it was BBC. The Windrush Chronicles are worth a look too.

I've been going through the Kurosawas again. We just re-watched Yojimbo - is there any purer pleasure than the first 30 minutes of that film before it gets Real? - anyway we ended up googling a few people and that 6'8" dude, the guy with the hammer, is still alive, 102 years old, and 100% a problem every single one of us is going to have to deal with sooner or later.

Tsunagorô Rashômon: absolute boss.

They Live -Now on netflix.

Nice! I haven't seen it in years.

Anyone looking for a proper hnnnng horror experience should check out "honeydew".

It's still pissing straight into my mind.

Godzilla vs Kong is a lot of fun.

How important is having seen previous instalments?
I saw Kong Skull island when it was new, and haven't seen Godzilla KoM

Not important at all.

Absolutely shitacious weather up here in Edinburgh today after a gorgeous sunny day yesterday, so a pretty varied film day was just the ticket

Life of Brian
Lost in Translation
Arrival

Run - on Netflix.
Misery with Munchausens by proxy.
It's ok

The Nice Guys - I think I liked it, was light hearted fun
The Life of David Gale - Interesting premise, liked it but for watching young Spacey by sleazy made me uncomfortable given all the allegations against him

watching the trailer for Dune again and noticed they refer to a "Crusade" rather than "Jihad", which smacks of annoying levels of Jesuswashing. Wonder what other inconvenient terms they'll dispense with in service of not upsetting middle america?

dissapointing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xhJrPXop4