Films

Berberian Sound Studio - starts out well, and the premise is strong, but it fumbles the ball part way through and makes some fairly dodgy stylistic choices towards the end. Toby Jones is great as a hapless introvert surrounded by crazy Italians. Really wanted to like it but it just didn't gel in the end.

Yeah fell apart near the end. I did love the first 2/3rd the way they used sound and also vintage audio / tape recorders...

#design geek

Toby Jones is excellent in this, caught it the other night:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pmcs6/The_Painted_Veil/

Just watched Premium Rush properly for the first time, haha, cheese on a stick.

Finally watched the hunger games. great Saturday might mong out material I thought

Watched a movie called Submarine on LoveFilm today, really cute... Worth a look...

^ yeah, great film Paddy Considine is ace in it

Watched a movie called Submarine on LoveFilm today, really cute... Worth a look...

Well up on my list of favourite films. Thanks for the reminder, a perfect film for your Nexus whilst travelling.

Mud. Great slow film, stunning performances from the two young guys. Highly recommended

I'm gonna have to go and thank you for that. That's coming from someone who generally hates matthew mcconaughey's goddamned cuboid face! Well worth it's time. Fire's up every memory cell of what it was like as a dirty 13 year old exploring my neighborhoods nooks and crannies.

^ Great film... Don't watch Contracted... I started, I couldn't stop... Incredible that people will fund this rubbish...

The Innocents this afternoon. Very chilling, great ending.

"It was just the wind, my dear..."

I'm quite glad I was kind of dragged along to see Hunger Games 2. I didn't see the first one as I was being my usual, "oh if everyone loves it, it must be shit" self, and my secondary, "I saw the movie it's based on so it can fuck off" self.

I don't know how the first one stacks up to Battle Royale, I'm not really that bothered, but the back story, as to why there's the Hunger Games is much better than Battle Royale's. After some background reading on what was missed from the books, it seems there's a couple of things that are referenced but never explained, but forgetting those, it's a pretty good film. Just a bit soft around the edges to make it a 12A.

Jennifer Lawrence cannot act for shit though and Woody Harrelson was underused.

she looks good though

Muscle Shoals - was a great film but totally fucking RUINED ending - Alicia Keys - WTF?!! I mean, why???!?! They just spent the WHOLE film giving you snippets of the most earthy, down and dirty funky soul goodness, and they they end with her doing her fake impression of a soul singer - I wasn't the only person in the audience to audibly mutter 'what the fuck is she doing on this?'

Dude, do you even spoiler alert?

Verbal Kint is Keyser Söze.

Dude, do you even spoiler alert?

there is no plot, you know that right?!

Darth Vader is a replicant...

she looks good though
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I didn't pay to go see her in it because she can act.

I didn't think she was that attractive either.

Blue Is The Warmest Colour.

That the two leads are women doesn't really matter, you're not thinking about that, it's about falling in love and being monstrously hurt and it's brilliantly done, so much of it is completely natural and unstaged and honest ( a lot was extemporised) and heart-breaking. It's graphic, I can't think of a film where soixante-neuf has been shown so explicitly, but other domestic scenes are just as graphic and revealing- like eating a meal. One scene set around a meal is very revealing and painful. Adèle Exarchopoulos is a revelation, you totally forget she's acting and three hours passes very quickly. It's her film really, it's her story, the timescale was confusing until I read the director said it's set over thirty years but he didn't want the characters to look aged. It's a film Hollywood would never make, that's for sure. It grants the audience too much credit to be an American film. It's never judgemental, the film doesn't take sides, there's no villain or hero, it just tells a story incredibly well. The early bar scene is wonderful, you fall in love at the same time as Adele, stolen glances and lingering gazes- for instance when they're in the park early on the director shows a glimpse of Emma's armpit as Adele stares at it with a carnal fixation, I don't think there are any shots from Emma's POV. This film blew me away, it was an emotional voyage, one of the films of the year.

any stabbing or future robots?

They'll be in the sequel.

Blue Is The Warmest Colour.

That the two leads are women doesn't really matter, you're not thinking about that, it's about falling in love and being monstrously hurt and it's brilliantly done, so much of it is completely natural and unstaged and honest ( a lot was extemporised) and heart-breaking. It's graphic, I can't think of a film where soixante-neuf has been shown so explicitly, but other domestic scenes are just as graphic and revealing- like eating a meal. One scene set around a meal is very revealing and painful. Adèle Exarchopoulos is a revelation, you totally forget she's acting and three hours passes very quickly. It's her film really, it's her story, the timescale was confusing until I read the director said it's set over thirty years but he didn't want the characters to look aged. It's a film Hollywood would never make, that's for sure. It grants the audience too much credit to be an American film. It's never judgemental, the film doesn't take sides, there's no villain or hero, it just tells a story incredibly well. The early bar scene is wonderful, you fall in love at the same time as Adele, stolen glances and lingering gazes- for instance when they're in the park early on the director shows a glimpse of Emma's armpit as Adele stares at it with a carnal fixation, I don't think there are any shots from Emma's POV. This film blew me away, it was an emotional voyage, one of the films of the year.

Saw it a couple of nights ago, your review has helped me with it. I didn't understand the need for the explicitness and thought it unnecessary, but your mention of the home scenes sort of brings it together. The awakening and falling in love was the best part the rest was a little lost on me... ...

If you've recently been head over heels in love while someone falls out of love with you you'll be seared by this film, it's excoriating. Doubts were raised about the authenticity of lesbian sex but I know next to nothing about that so it didn't matter. I know about taking people for granted in relationships and how they can stale with routine and neglect until they explode in tears and pain. There were scenes in the graphic novel that don't appear, maybe in the director's cut next year, God knows how long that will be!

The Terminator was on ITV last night, absolutely amazing performance by Harrison Ford