Review the last film you watched

[Looper]

Churchill

Turgid affair with grindingly predictable script.

Reasonable performances from the leads but they cannot win the battle against screenwriters/scriptwriters who should be thrown out of a C47 over Normandy without parachutes.

4/10

[david44]

Churchill

Turgid affair with grindingly predictable script.

Reasonable performances from the leads but they cannot win the battle against screenwriters/scriptwriters who should be thrown out of a C47 over Normandy without parachutes.

4/10

Agreed there are many finer works on the topic from The Gathering Storm to the Battle of Britain

[tomcat]

...Three Billboards Outside Ebbing...superb performance by Oscar-winning Frances McDormand...kudos also to Sam Rockwell who perfectly captured a stereotypical Missouri denizen. This time I agree with the media hype: very entertaining film, though definitely not a comedy as described in a number of reviews...9/10

[Looper]

^Great movie. Movie of the year for me. I watched a screener which was a mistake. Will have to watch it again in HD. Far better than the light-weight gimmicky Shape of Water.

[tomcat]

...^agree: nothing memorable about The Shape of Water at all...

[Looper]

I Tonya

Quite a good fun true story caper yarn about the famous hobbling of Nancy Kerrigan.

The true to life nature of the movie's character depictions is revealed at the end with some footage of the actual people, who seem to be every bit as hilariously awful as the film would have us believe.

7.7/10 for me

[david44]

I liked the shape of water had a lovely retro feel with little known cast. 8/10
Just rewatched original Colditz Story 9/10 old B+w but iconic
Billboards next no spoilers please

[Looper]

^If you are in the mood David you can see Sally Hawkins getting wet again in

Paddington 2

Another charming re-imagining of Paddington Bear from darkest Peru with a wily Hugh Grant playing the hilariously camp stage-darling villain this time.

7.8/10

But Sally's lovely snuggle-puppies remain safely under wraps this time, sadly!

[Looper]

Star Wars - The Last Jedi

A little bit more philosophically thought provoking than previous episodes which augurs well and offers 'hope' for the franchise.

Keeps the Force and the Darkside balls juggling nicely with the main characters motives.

Does not quite pack the fun-punch that The Force Awakens did.

7.6/10

[OhOh]

A small meteorite hits the earth. An army couple, a grunt and a now top biologist are separated as the grunt goes off to war a doesn't return.

All previous attempts for entry into what has become a sealed area due to "disturbances" have failed

What to do to solve the growing problem. Of course, an all female group. Five go in, one comes out...........

6/10

[Looper]

The Florida Project

Raw and visceral study of the lives of an irresponsible single mother and her child living in motels near Disneyland.

The kid's performance is unusually natural, almost as if she is not really acting a lot of the time. Willem Dafoe is great as the struggling motel manager with a heart.

They are not comparable in any way but I will remember this $2M low budget movie longer than I will remember the $200M Star Wars episode I watched on Friday.

8.2/10

[tomcat]

Absolute trash... best to avoid

...disagree: not fabulous, but it held my attention...7/10...

[fishlocker]

Why diffficult to start some new thread? Have you lost or tis mmeeeee

[david44]

3 Billboards goodish cast , plot ok, with a few twists 7/10

Not sure I'd re watch

[cyrille]

The Florida Project

Raw and visceral study of the lives of an irresponsible single mother and her child living in motels near Disneyland.

It's all subjective of course, but I'm puzzled about how you could consider this film 'raw and visceral' when to me it seemed pretty much nothing happened for 90% of the film except the kids playing around.

OK so they were clearly deprived, but what was raw and visceral about it?

I don't even think those qualities were being aimed for.

Secondly, the mother simply had nobody to turn to for financial help. She's reduced to prostitution by this to support her kids. To call this simply irresponsibility seems wide of the mark. There's nothing raw and visceral about how this is presented either. On the contrary, her fleeting time spent with johns in their cars is presented as routine, and a necessary last resort. In fact so little time is spent on this that it seems no more or less 'irresponsible' than if she were really selling fake perfume as she pretends to be.

I'll give the film credit in that it's one of those movies which, about a month after I watched it, still resonates with the issues it raised. This is largely I think because it raises the issues in a very 'everyday' way. The polar opposite of 'raw and visceral'.

That was my take, anyway.

I'll up my initial 4/10 to a 6.

[Davis Knowlton]

^I thought it was boring, and generally tedious/horrible.

[kmart]

^If you are in the mood David you can see Sally Hawkins getting wet again in

Paddington 2

Another charming re-imagining of Paddington Bear from darkest Peru with a wily Hugh Grant playing the hilariously camp stage-darling villain this time.

7.8/10

But Sally's lovely snuggle-puppies remain safely under wraps this time, sadly!

Yep. Great kid's film. Grant is good as the campy luvvie-thespian villain. Hawkins also good as usual, though playing a 'normal person' for a change.

The real stand-out is the animation and brilliant visuals. Excellent family fayre.

[cyrille]

^I thought it was boring, and generally tedious/horrible.

Incredibly slow...agreed.

If I hadn't given up on the academy awards years ago I'd be bemused by Defoe's nomination.

[DJ Pat]

The Shape Of Water - Got as far as the creature emerging from the black lagoon, then thought ''this is nonsense''

[kmart]

The Shape Of Water - Got as far as the creature emerging from the black lagoon, then thought ''this is nonsense''

Mibbe if it had come out shooting two Uzi's at the same time, and escaped in a helicopter.?

[Looper]

She's reduced to prostitution by this to support her kids. To call this simply irresponsibility seems wide of the mark.

When I said irresponsible I was not referring to her money-making activities but her attitude towards raising her child. Letting a kid run wild with no discipline and setting a bad example by not attempting to hide her own bad behaviour.

OK so they were clearly deprived, but what was raw and visceral about it?

I meant visceral in the sense that it evoked a raw reaction in me like I was watching an unfolding trainwreck and almost dreading to see what was going to happen in the next scene.

It was not a movie where I found myself checking the time while watching.

[OhOh]

...disagree: not fabulous, but it held my attention...7/10...

His post has disappeared. He wouldn't be clearing house, would he?

[klong toey]

Vase de Noces ,watched it the other night bloody odd movie but stoker might enjoy it.

[Looper]

A Ghost Story

I like to give these experimental movies a chance but I must be getting unadventurous, or else this movie is just not that good.

I has an interesting texture at times but some of the scenes drag on forever with literally nothing happening except maybe the camera moving slowly.

It is virtually dialogue free except for some occasional mumbling and an insufferable droning pseudo-philosophical monologue at a party from some ginger bald git in dungarees.

The significance of the seemingly circular time travel of the story arc was a bit lost on me too.

Ho hum

5.1/10

Davis - fair warning - do not attempt to watch this movie!

[Troy]

I found a dvd film version of the tv series The Take, with Tom Hardy. London criminal world with Freddy Jackson going further and further off the rails. Kept me engaged throughout....