Films

Zola - excellent. Apparently based on a series of tweets which admittedly doesn't sound promising. It looked great and some really good sound design. Maybe not one to watch with your mum though.

Lamb - Film of the year.

yes, quite enjoyed that.

I really enjoyed Lamb, definitely a contender for my favourite of the year. A24 have been knocking out some absolute blinders!

The French Dispatch

Wes Anderson's homage to Wes Anderson, in a film that is more Wes Anderson than the original Wes Anderson himself.

I feel I'm not getting it.

I thought the same. Easily my least favourite of his films.

Riders For Justice

Danish film about chance, stolen bicycles and probabilities. Hilarious, moving and violent. Film of the year.

We saw West Side Story today, it was ok but I was hoping for a more radical update along the lines of Baz Lhurmann. In hindsight that was unrealistic, Speilburger does what he does.

The Power Of The Dog on Netflix is well worth seeing, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons are all superb.

Seeing trailers for West Side Story atm doesn't make me want to see it but does make me really really want to see the 1960s version again. I haven't seen it in decades but my parents were fans so I saw it whenever it was on TV as a kid. They also loved popular opera so I also have strong memories of Bernstein conducting Carreras and Te Kanawa, but don't think I need to see that again.

Sorry no. I could not take cumberbatch seriously as a tough cowboy, he was terrible

For some reason I watched the new Home Alone (Home Sweet Home Alone) on Disney+

Epic shower of shit, has zero charm, no sympathy for the defacto Culkin, nonsense story and total goggins.
Not worth any investment of time.
Aisling Bea is in it (briefly) and does an English accent. Well, English for 70% of a sentence, then the old brogue creeps in.

Only believable as an American, kung-fu time wizard. I've not seen it yet but am planning to, maybe he's just portraying a realistic cowboy, which were pretty weedy fellas eating beans and herding cattle.

I kinda want to see it. I read a review that said they couldn't take him seriously until they realised it's the character that's putting on the cowboy act so it's meant to not sit quite right. Sounds like mental gymnastics to suspend disbelief.

I love a good retro Christmas film, me, but so many of the greats are either heartbreakingly sad or massively racist, so it's difficult to really feel the christmas spirit while they're on.

The Bishop's Wife is an exception. It's proper feel good fare and I fully recommend it - Cary Grant plays a sleazy angel hitting on / helping the dignified and uptight Bishop David Niven's wife, played by the doll-faced Loretta Young. If you're a Cary Grant fan and you've not bothered with it, Christmas is an excellent time to put it on. Some great early animation / practical effects too.

It's up for free on Prime Video.

Nice I like the sound of that, don't think I've ever seen it

Moved around some shit so I could sneak out for first time in 10 days for a break from sorting out new house to watch the new spiderman in a morning screening on my jacks.

scored a ticket from odeon for a bargainous £6 so was pretty excited.

family of 8 walked in during the opening scene (after what felt like 2 hours of previews) slammed themselves into the middle of about 15 people who had all clearly left a big open gap in the middle for social distancing.

the "adults" of the family then hurr durred their way through the film talking over every single line of dialogue when it was quiet and announcing out loud the thing that was happening on the screen whenever anything remotely spoilery happened ruining any kind of gravitas the scene might have had and shouting very obviously fake "WHOA" sounds more than Bill s preston esquire and Ted theodore logan to pretend their tiny minds were being blown.

Robert Eggers new one - Looks great
https://youtu.be/eg8DHWkrCP8

I've not seen the Bishop's wife either.. I lasted precisely 28 minutes watching Power of the Dog.. Awful.. It all looked far too clean and fresh faced. BC really is a ghastly ham.
I'm going to rewatch Warren Oates westerns over Christmas. Wife be damned.

Wife be damned

Oh is that a good one?

Cage playing Cage
https://youtu.be/uan7h_cHib8

Reminds me of JCVD, which was quite a good watch in my memory.

Came to post this. Looks amazing. This made me watch ‘The Last Duel’ last night. Shame it totally bombed. Thought it was really good.

Clifford the Big Red Dog - somehow even worse than you might have expected from a Jack Whitehall and John Cleese movie.

I was expecting it to be shit based on the big red dog part, didn't realise they were in it.