What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

Oh yeah, I knew you meant MB but... I just don't know what it is NOW. The corn exchange was gutted three or four years ago to make way for a new era of identikit health food shops. The surrounding shops have been less affected outwardly, but I don't know what has replaced 'Movie Boulevard', which I know went a couple of years ago (I think?)

aah right.

[Slippery Jack]

Originally Posted by Demdike

Tiresome, uneventful drivel, swooned over by the critics. I couldn't wait to get rid of my two disc Sainsbury's exclusive dvd.

I was expecting and hoping for greatness, how wrong was i?

I enjoy Cold War thrillers as well.

Wow! I'm with the critics then. I couldn't get enough of it. So many great little character moments packed into the running time, all performed to perfection by the ensemble cast. Would've liked a bit more time with Toby Jones' Alleline though, especially as we never saw his fall from grace at the end. Superb production design, unfussy in the detail in the way some period dramas get bogged down by. And all directed with Alfredson's (and/or his cinematographer's) extrordinary eye for slick shot composition. Can't wait to see what he does next . . .

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Slippery Jack

Wow! I'm with the critics then. I couldn't get enough of it. So many great little character moments packed into the running time, all performed to perfection by the ensemble cast. Would've liked a bit more time with Toby Jones' Alleline though, especially as we never saw his fall from grace at the end. Superb production design, unfussy in the detail in the way some period dramas get bogged down by. And all directed with Alfredson's (and/or his cinematographer's) extrordinary eye for slick shot composition. Can't wait to see what he does next . . .

Towards the end of last year i started buying as many Cold War thrillers as i could and really got into them - The Ipcress File, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Scorpio, Funeral in Berlin, Billion Dollar Brain to name but a few.

I was really looking forward to Tinker Tailor... and ended up so disappointed.

[JoshuaKaitlyn]

Day off work, had nothing else to do so sat down with a few movies I haven't seen before.
First off was:
Caligula (1979) the uncut version: not one to watch if your expecting company! Although the missus did pop in and rolled her eyes! (Although she dosent share my interest in movies she knows I'll collect and watch almost anything!)
McBain (1991) Enjoyed this one although I thought it was older at least mid eighties!
Satans Baby Doll (1982) This belongs in the pile of WTF did I just watch? A case of judgeing the book by its cover! I was waiting for a really cool red Satan to appear! All I got was possession, masturbation, lesbianism, revenge and drug abuse.............Some would say it wasn't a complete waste of 74 minutes then!

[keirarts]

Malcom x.

Still a classic (imo) and looks a treat on blu-ray. A Real epic that deals with the subject matter very even handedly and ends up being one of my favourite spike lee joints. Certainly up there with do the right thing and clockers.

[Wes]

Originally Posted by keirarts

Malcom x.

Still a classic (imo) and looks a treat on blu-ray. A Real epic that deals with the subject matter very even handedly and ends up being one of my favourite spike lee joints. Certainly up there with do the right thing and clockers.

Yep, I saw it again recently after finishing Malcom's book and it has aged very well...

[Wes]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

Oh yeah, I knew you meant MB but... I just don't know what it is NOW. The corn exchange was gutted three or four years ago to make way for a new era of identikit health food shops...

I remember that corn exchange... I haven't been in Leeds since the 90's but I still have a fantastic psychedelic colored Spacemen 3 LP I picked up in a cool record store in Leeds...

[Slippery Jack]

Originally Posted by Demdike

Towards the end of last year i started buying as many Cold War thrillers as i could and really got into them - The Ipcress File, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Scorpio, Funeral in Berlin, Billion Dollar Brain to name but a few.

I was really looking forward to Tinker Tailor... and ended up so disappointed.

Love Ipcress and Billion Dollar Brain (the latter so bonkers! A superb antidote to the dull as hell Feneral in Berlin)! I didn't go in expecting something in a similar mold, having watched the tv series for the first time only recently, so maybe that's why I wasn't left disappointed . . .

[Rik]

Killer Joe-Excellent film by William Freidkin and a career best performance from Matthew McConaughey as the sadistic titular Killer Joe. Not as violent as I was expecting and when it ended I rather oddly fancied a KFC

[Slippery Jack]

Originally Posted by Rik

Not as violent as I was expecting and when it ended I rather oddly fancied a KFC

The press were served KFC at some of the critics screenings . . .