Films you've watched recently.

[Tangled up in Blue]

Finally caught up with Speven Soderberg's 2011 Contagion yesterday.It's a powerful film well acted and directed.What's amazing I think is how much they got right rather than what they got wrong.

 

[Mad Cyril]

The dig - Netflix. Dramatised telling of the discovery of the Anglo Saxon treasure hoard at Sutton Hoo. Stars Ralph Finnes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James. Really good watch 8/10.

5/10 for me.

Thought it was a bit crap.

 

[RHB]

5/10 for me.

Thought it was a bit crap.

The film managed scores of 87% from the critics and 79% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. Mind you, each to their own.

 

[kaymac]

We watched it last night too. Really enjoyed it. We also visited Sutton Hoo a few years ago, fascinating place.

Never seen the relics retrieved or visited the site, been on the ‘must do’ list for ages.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Saw Orson Welles' Othello again last night.Wonderful cinematic experience.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Saw Oliver's Othello again last night with a young Maggie Smith and Frank Finlay.Rather better than I'd remembered.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

I didn't watch it when it was on this week, again, BUT read that The Wild Bunch is 50 years old now.
An epic film imo, and one that spawned lots of mercenary, against the odds type of modern movie, crossing over from traditional soft story Westerns like Magnificent 7 towards the Vietnam era type.

 

[Napster]

Officer and a Gentleman. Despite the sappy ending, it's a decent film

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Saw Mrs Lowry & Son earlier.Excellent British film with Vanessa Redgrave and Timothy Spall at the top of their game.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Saw Roger Corman's Masque of the Red Death again with Vincent Price earlier.Great fun and a superior horror flic.Nicholas Roeg's first film behind the camera too I believe.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I didn't watch it when it was on this week, again, BUT read that The Wild Bunch is 50 years old now.
An epic film imo, and one that spawned lots of mercenary, against the odds type of modern movie, crossing over from traditional soft story Westerns like Magnificent 7 towards the Vietnam era type.

Love The Wild Bunch.Epic Western.
See Silence of the lambs is 30 years old now too.

The Silence of the Lambs at 30: a landmark thriller of horror and humanity

Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins gave indelible performances in the Oscar-sweeping adaptation of Thomas Harris’s terrifying novel

www.theguardian.com

Remember seeing it in a W/E cinema the first Saturday night it opened.Electrifying atmosphere.

 

[Swiss Tony]

Watched The 39 steps with Kenneth More really enjoyed it,KM really was a fine actor.

 

[Benfleet A1]

The latest Terminator film. Utter gash, don't bother.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Moneyball.

Pretty good, 7.5/10

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Another vote for Paul Greengrass's News of the World with Tom Hanks.(Though I'm sure it's a much better watch at the cinema than on Netflix). Saw PG say in tv interview that Hanks "is the James Stewart of our generation." He may well be right.High praise indeed.

 

[united we stand]

Love The Wild Bunch.Epic Western.
See Silence of the lambs is 30 years old now too.

The Silence of the Lambs at 30: a landmark thriller of horror and humanity

Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins gave indelible performances in the Oscar-sweeping adaptation of Thomas Harris’s terrifying novel

www.theguardian.com

Remember seeing it in a W/E cinema the first Saturday night it opened.Electrifying atmosphere.

What’s the longest amount of time you have gone without watching a film?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

What’s the longest amount of time you have gone without watching a film?

Ha! Remember the cinemas were closed here during the first lockdown (as in the UK) last year but fortunately I've got quite a large DVD collection.

 

[united we stand]

Ha! Remember the cinemas were closed here during the first lockdown (as in the UK) last year but fortunately I've got quite a large DVD collection.

I imagine “quite “ is an understatement

 

[Swiss Tony]

Ha! Remember the cinemas were closed here during the first lockdown (as in the UK) last year but fortunately I've got quite a large DVD collection.

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None of the under counter stuff i hope.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I imagine “quite “ is an understatement

Indeed.(Iknow I've got getting on for 4,000 CD's my JB7 tells me that.Unfortunately I don't have the time/energy to count the DVDs).

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None of the under counter stuff i hope.

Not my scene.