messi11 Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 The Banshees of Inisherin- Really enjoyed this odd film. Filming location on point with great scenery. Funny dialogue. Nice unique story. Love how the Irish swear. 7/10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Pierre ou, Les Ambiguïtés (Leo Carax) - An alternate longer TV version of Pola X, I haven't seen the original but had read that this extended cut is much better, albeit only available as a rip from the original tevelvision broadcast at the moment. I liked it a lot, one of my favorite films I've watched this year, gripping mystery that isn't predictable, with some good performances, has an almost gothic/ghost story feel at times, based on Herman Melville's novel Pierre; or, The Ambiguities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 26, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 26, 2022 Just watched the Del Toro Pinocchio. Pretty good, but hard to know who it's aimed at. It would probably scare the living daylights out of most kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCDAN Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 I’ve just finished Pinocchio as well and thought it was fantastic. Some of the voice acting was superb and the themes of life and death went far deeper than I was expecting. The star of show is of course the amazing stop motion, it’s some of the best I’ve seen to be fair. Aside from a couple of songs that didn’t really hit the mark and maybe as Mike said above there isn’t a clear target audience, it’s certainly not a kids movie and is actually quite weird in general but I would expect nothing less from Del Toro, I think it’s great he was allowed to make it exactly how he wanted without a box ticking exercise going on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Watched the live action Aladdin yesterday, not a fan of Robin Williams or Will Smith so I don’t have that whole never be as good without Robin Williams baggage. It was OK. Faithful to the original. Last night I rewatched Goodfellas, it remains one of the best films ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 27, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 27, 2022 11 hours ago, AVFCDAN said: a couple of songs that didn’t really hit the mark I thought the songs were a real weak point, nothing remotely memorable. The Disney version may have been bland, but we all remember "There are no strings on me", "Give a little whistle", "When you wish upon a star", etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted December 27, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 27, 2022 Reading the above I assumed this was the Tom Hanks Pinocchio film being discussed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadlyDirk Posted December 28, 2022 Author Share Posted December 28, 2022 On 25/12/2022 at 20:55, messi11 said: The Banshees of Inisherin- Really enjoyed this odd film. Filming location on point with great scenery. Funny dialogue. Nice unique story. Love how the Irish swear. 7/10 Enjoyed this too. The two main leads where impeccable as usual but also gave weight and more reason as to why Barry Keoghan is such a rising star - he was superb. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 We watched “Old” last night. Easy watching and fairly good. It’s about a beach that has a weird natural phenomenon where people age dramatically faster, like 50 years in a day. Silly but somehow watchable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 (edited) The Innocents (Eskil Vogt) - Entertaining, but not easy watch as a few unsettling scenes. Edited December 28, 2022 by useless 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Also watched 'Russian Lullabies' by Nobuhiko Obayashi, five Russian families were given a camera to record their daily life then Obayashi edited the footage in his style and provided some narration which gave it a sort of feel good 'slice of life' element to it, from 1993, so interesting to watch after watching TraumaZone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Weird: The Al Yankovic Story was great fun. Typically of Yankovic, it’s a parody of biographical movies, with very little truth about Yankovic in it Daniel Radcliffe plays the lead well (although his singing was dubbed over by Yankovic) with tongue firmly in cheek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 (edited) The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg) - Atmospheric with a gothic feel set in haunted hotel, enjoyed it. Edited December 29, 2022 by useless 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talldarkandransome Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Every so often I'll find a utterly crap looking film to watch. The latest was Sea Beast on prime video. Dreadful in every possible way, like a syfy channel b movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Tollbooth with Michael Smiley. An excellent way to pass 80 odd minutes. The lady cop was quite the hottie too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMelvillan Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 On 21/12/2022 at 13:06, PieFacE said: Watched The Triangle of Sadness the other day and loved it. Very good film. Bit slow going to begin with but worth sticking with. Bonkers film loved it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Jingle all the way is on. My daughter loves this but for every second of it she loves, I hate it tenfold. Amongst the worst films ever made. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted December 30, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 30, 2022 Just watched Witness for the Prosecution (1957). Had never heard of it before today which surprises me considering who was involved with it. Really, really good, if you like Anatomy of a Murder, you’ll probably like this. Although the very ending lets it down - Spoiler Too much happens in the last couple of minutes. Have the reveal of the wife throwing the case, him actually being the murderer, then end it. Would have been perfect (and apparently was the original ending before Christie changed it). The other woman being brought in, the wife then killing him…too silly and unnecessary. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 30, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 30, 2022 Just rewatched Tarkovsky's "Mirror". Serious contender for my all-time favourite film (Note to 'Sight and Sound' critics: THAT is how you make an arthouse movie). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepyvillian Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Just watched Medieval on Netflix. Always liked Ben Foster. It was okay, I've seen a lot worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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