Films

All the ghibli stuff is awesome.

The wee man is addicted to Nausicaa - Valley of the winds. (studio ghibli animation)

Actually very good, so is Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle and My Neighbour Totoro.

There are so many more to love, check out Lupin III

All the ghibli stuff is awesome.

GBH was awesome

GBH was awesome

GBH FILM TRAILER - YouTube

they're still going?

White House down is the new the wire. Cancel your weekend plans.

The new what? I must have missed it.

White House down is the new the wire. Cancel your weekend plans.

How does it compare to olympus has fallen?

I saw Under the Skin last night. I think it's one of the best things I've seen. It's such an interesting clash between realism and complete psychedelia/surrealism. Scarlett Johansson may completely lack moral fibre, but she is an excellent actor and totally alluring. And totally starkers and looks amazing.

There were also some genuinely hilarious and touching scenes (Tommy Cooper with beans and egg on toast), probably the most harrowing scene I've seen on film (the beach) and some properly chilling ones (the skin).

Seriously, go and see it, and see it at the cinema. At the very least you'll disagree completely and hate it, I think it's impossible to be ambivalent about it.

***Europa Report

Disappointing but not bollocks, shit ending, awful acting, but space aliens, distant planets, found footage, worth an hour and a half of your time if you're into that sort of thing

Great interview with Scarlett here about it, and the reaction of the critics at Cannes:
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/16/scarlett-johansson-interview-middle-ground-under-the-skin-sodastream

Finally got around to watching part 2 of Nymphomaniac, I loved it... It's a compelling story about sexual addiction and our right to do whatever the fuck we feel like with our own bodies... I thought Charlotte Gaisnbourg was fantastic in it, Shia Labouef's accent, whatever it was, was atrocious... Jamie Bell was also very good...

Definitely worth a watch but not a movie for prudes or the squeamish...

I saw Under the Skin last night. I think it's one of the best things I've seen. It's such an interesting clash between realism and complete psychedelia/surrealism. Scarlett Johansson may completely lack moral fibre, but she is an excellent actor and totally alluring. And totally starkers and looks amazing.

There were also some genuinely hilarious and touching scenes (Tommy Cooper with beans and egg on toast), probably the most harrowing scene I've seen on film (the beach) and some properly chilling ones (the skin).

Seriously, go and see it, and see it at the cinema. At the very least you'll disagree completely and hate it, I think it's impossible to be ambivalent about it.

Can't wait to see this. Sounds amazing from your description and what I've read elsewhere. Great to see somebody doing something so completely off the wall in a sea of prescriptive moviemaking.

Finally got around to watching part 2 of Nymphomaniac, I loved it... It's a compelling story about sexual addiction and our right to do whatever the fuck we feel like with our own bodies... I thought Charlotte Gaisnbourg was fantastic in it, Shia Labouef's accent, whatever it was, was atrocious... Jamie Bell was also very good...

Definitely worth a watch but not a movie for prudes or the squeamish...

That's me out then, I'm very conservative about these kind of things.

But will it put us all off sex? That's the question. It sounds like literal anti-porn ;)

OK OK I will watch it...somehow it's not in the Belfast cinemas! Me wonders why... now to find two whole evenings and a willing victim.

Agree about Under the Skin, it has stayed with me since I saw it. Incredible

Great interview with Scarlett here about it, and the reaction of the critics at Cannes:
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/16/scarlett-johansson-interview-middle-ground-under-the-skin-sodastream

There's a good interview with Jonathan Glazer on The Guardian too which should be easy to find from there which is worth reading. It would be interesting to know what Scarlett made of Glasgow and how she coped with picking up genuine strangers in a van, some of that must have been a bit odd to say the least.

There is so much possible subtext to the film as well, and none of it at all overt. There are plenty of comparisons to films I've never heard of, but it reminded me a lot of that French short film everyone posted on Facebook a few months ago, oppressed majority, with its reversal of gender roles. I'll find that and post it when I'm not on my phone.

Without giving too much away, what it says about men's/women's comfort zones in certain situations, and the assumptions of vulnerability we have regarding gender are really interesting.

Saw Under the Skin last weekend, part of a shared birthday trip out. Dark, stylish, weird. Powerful insights into male/female conventions, vulnerability, what it is to be human.

The beach scene was possibly the most disturbing part - as Mrs Ludd said afterwards, you kind of wanted to see something in the credits like "No small children were harmed in the making of this film."

That was fucking horrific. I had to keep reminding myself it hadn't actually happened!

Under the skin just saw it, good show. Not entirely convinced of change in character in second half so now I may get have to read the book. Convincing acting and great visuals of nature, beautiful visual pairing of pollen and something else (can't say else spoiler) near the end.

Under the Skin was amazing. Differs quite a bit from the novel but this is neither positive or negative. The stand out feature for me is the soundtrack.

in the diary. we get things later in redneckville

The soundtrack absolutely transformed some scenes into something completely other worldy, as if the visuals were not stunning enough

holy shitaru!