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[Smokinrav]

Yesterday

3.5 of 5 stars

Just one little thing. It's hard to get past one little thing about this movie. Little. Yeah right....

Really enjoyed almost everything about this film. It was quite funny start to finish, the music is obviously awesome, the Indian kid can fucking sing baby.
Jack (Himesh Patel) is a failed small time singer/songwriter. A power outage (?!?!) across the globe causes Jack to have a bike accident and when he wakes, everyone has forgotten The Beatles and other pop culture icons.

Really? A power outage? The laziness in this conceptualization can't be overstated. I mean FFS, how about a massive coronal ejection or something? I've got to move on, cuz I really liked everything else about the film.

Anyway, jack begins the process of remembering the Beatles catalog, and the writing is clever and at times hilarious. He catches on and becomes a big star overnight, yet is filled with conflict over the "plagiarism"
Lily James is brilliant as the love interest. I think I love her. Such understated beauty.
I really liked this movie.

Except one little thing....

 

[Smokinrav]

Anna

3.5 of 5 stars

This movie follows the life of a poor, impossibly beautiful Russian woman (Sasha Luss) as she's recruited into the KGB before and during the end of the cold war.
The way she's found by the KGB is also dubious, but you can suspend disbelief in this case. She's a brilliant spy student and soon becomes a top assassin posing as a, what else?, supermodel in France, where she carries out missions for her aging female handler.
The movies uses a LOT of time shifting, but it actually works, as Anna tries to complete her goal of being independent from the forces that have controlled her entire life including spies from both sides.
The pacing of the movie is great, the women are beautiful, there's tons of killings, not a lot of gore.
My biggest problem are the two fight scenes. As if a 100lb woman with a supermodel body is capable of taking down literally dozens of full grown men in a brawl.
Anyway, it's worth a watch. Both movies are. It wasn't a wasted afternoon today.

 

[TSS]

A western film by Tarantino. I'm not so into western film, but this one and The Hateful Eight must be some of the best I have ever seen. And I pretty much like all Tarantino's movie. Beautiful landscape, violent and many funny comments by the actors.

10/10

 

[HG]

Chopper...(8/10)

Eric Bana was perfect in this...

 

[Bongo bill]

Chopper...(8/10)

Eric Bana was perfect in this...

One of the best films ever made

 

[HG]

Its a great film for sure, the colours/tones are perfect...

 

[HG]

My link was the full film/movie incase anyone fancies watching it...

 

[Jon E(vil)]

Lady Snowblood. 1973. Japan.
7/10
A major influence for the KILL BILL films. The story itself is simple enough and follows what is now standard fare for these types of films. There is alot of gushing blood and the odd limb being cut off, but none of the lengthy fight scenes in the K.B. series.
Iv haven't watched the K.B. films for years and have no intention to, but i couldn't help but see the influence that it had.

 

[Smokinrav]

Love both of the movies above

 

[Jon E(vil)]

Hellboy. 2019.
4/10
Curiosity was the reason i watched this. Was it as awful as the hype suggested when it was released?.
No, not really.
It was gorey with alot of swearing and the film itself was OK. Maybe a bit long. It wasn't worse than the first two films which aren't masterpieces by any stretch of the imagination. The ensuing 'drama' with the director and the producer/studio clouded the whole thing. The run time is two hours, i lasted 1 hour before hitting the FF button.
Yet another sad example of a director who has made a couple of classic horrors not given the reins to create what might have been a decent movie.

 

[Tooly]

 

[Humungus]

Rocket Man 4/10 I expected camp but it went a bit too far into the rainbow zone for me,I also thought it would be more of a movie than a musical your mom will love it.

 

[Preacher]

 

[Jon E(vil)]

The remains of the day. 1993.
6/10.
A slow drama about love lost. A butler (Anthony Hopkins) and the Housekeeper (Emma Thompson) meet for a time. She leaves and he goes to see her about retaining the position.
Most the film is told in flashbacks and although its slightly suggested that they like each other his stiffness means it will never happen. Interesting film with good performances from both. Not an easy watch in so far as it was rather slow and clocked in at just over two hours. But a interesting drama given the South Korean ones iv watched tend to push things a bit farther.

 

[Jon E(vil)]

Uzumaki. (Spiral) 2000. Japan.
6/10
A surreal and pretty strange film about a people in a town who slowly become 'obsessed' with spiral patterns.
It has elements of horror to it with some of the death scenes, but the film is hard to watch because it never explains anything.
This doesn't mean it's shit. It fits with what some asian cinema does.
Interesting visuals but a little frustrating.

 

[Bongo bill]

 

[Jon E(vil)]

Tunnel. 2016. South Korea.
10/10
A well crafted drama about a man trapped inside in a collapsed tunnel. The only action scenes takes place within the first 40 mins with the fim having a 2 hour run time. From there it adds the elements of media and government and there efforts to help(?). There are some twists in the film which fit nicely and and in the typical S.K. way really drive home the human factor.
Overall it reminded me of Daylight from 1996 with Stallone. But he was going in as a rescuer to get people, this was really the opposite with a way better story.

 

[Leech_Zombie]

The Atticus Institute

 

[Mickey]

I fucking love this movie.

 

[Bongo bill]

Old but absolutely fucking brilliant