What was the last film you watched?

[ian]

Lucy. Scarlett does her affectless thing (which she does very well) as she gets smarter than a TI 9000 calculator that's been plugged into the National Grid. OTT Korean gangsters. Guns galore. Nature film interludes that I suspect were a piss-take. Short and snappily edited (pay attention, directors). Wasn't sure where it was really going, ended up a bit Matrix-lite. Modestly entertaining, but I left with a feeling that it could have been better if it had pushed a bit more. I also have a theory that you can dress up any old cod-science by getting Morgan Freeman to solemnly explain it. I mutate your neutrinos.

[Riggers]

I've got A Bittersweet Life I can always watch again tonight perhaps, but last night re-watched Hangover.

Great stuff.

[LEE]

Calvary

Thoroughly enjoyable and dark.

Especially loved Dylan Moran playing the part of Dylan Moran ".....it's very expensive".

[Steph]

Shame, the Australian one.

Gang rape as a sport. Victim blaming as a culture. A perennial favourite of mine, if that is the right word. A worthy, well-written and bloody painful film.

[Jaded]

No Country for Old Men.

I think the bumming was cut out of our version.

[T42]

Finally, after giving it a miss 25 years ago, The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover.  The trailer on a VHS tape we borrowed made it look like low comedy.

Excellent.

[rogerzilla]

Drowning By Numbers (Peter Greenaway's other "accessible" film) is my favourite although there is no decent DVD version; the Australian DVD that you can buy is pretty poor quality.  It's basically a surreal retelling of the Three Billy Goats Gruff in a sexual context.

[spindrift]

Grand Central.

 Tahar Rahim and Léa Seydoux meet and have urgent, wordless sex, the factory siren goes off, that's it. So bad I thought it was a parody of French films. Really awful, terrible and tawdry and dull and pointless.

[Jakob]

Captain America: Winter Soldier.

I missed this in the cinemas, so only got to watch it now and really enjoyed it.  It's been a long time since I worked on a movie that I actually enjoyed watching .

[tiermat]

Godzilla, the 1998 one. Sky were, obviously, having a monsters from the deep day on Sunday as it was followed by Pacific Rim, which I didn't get to see as I went scrumping.

[geraldc]

Lucy. Really enjoyed it. Very much like when you've smoked too much of something you shouldn't have and can now see through space and time.

[spindrift]

Morgan Freeman has given up, he just rolls up in films and speaks with great authority then buggers off with his cheque. There's a theory every time he staggers onto a film set and magisterially utters exposition he gets another freckle. In Lucy he's the brainiest scientist in the world on lithium, the same role in that Godawful Tom Cruise film with her off Mrs Thatcher.

he should do a film with Tom hardy and Bruce Willis.

[Pickled Onion]

Non-Stop

Absolute ridiculous pile of crap, just stupid, stupid from start to finish. Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, what were they thinking accepting this? There's also Michelle Dockery who kept forgetting she's supposed to be from Leeds or somewhere and dropping out of the accent, and several other decent actors totally wasted.

Apparently, when you put an airliner into a dive, everyone hits the ceiling, then when you level off at 8000 ft a gun (but nothing else) will rise up off the floor and float. Etc, etc.

[geraldc]

Gravity.

Really enjoyed it. Amazing special effects.

[mattc]

Scott Pilgrim vs The World

WHY oh why did noone tell me about this?!? It's fantastic. Clever and hilarious, not what I'd expected at all.

I'd have trimmed the fight scenes down a bit (yes I know they were funny, and had all those Nintendo references etc). But I say that about almost everything made in the 21stC ...

[red marley]

Pride. Warm hearted and defiantly proud of political struggle, identity politics and trade unionism.

Despite the outcome of the miners' strike, ultimately uplifting. I think I had something in my eye for about 90 minutes.

[mrcharly-YHT]

Pride. Warm hearted and defiantly proud of political struggle, identity politics and trade unionism.

Despite the outcome of the miners' strike, ultimately uplifting. I think I had something in my eye for about 90 minutes.

Ditto

Special screenings in York. Not a dry eye in the house.

Funniest moment wasn't a quip in the film. 'twas when Bronski Beat started playing. A guy behind me burst out clapping with a squeal of delight until his partner shushed him. I guess it brought back memories.

Being an uneducated Australian Oik in Australia in 1985, I had no idea until the end of the film that it was all based on history, that the march at the end really took place.

[Wascally Weasel]

I saw “Before the Devil knows you’re dead” over the weekend.

It’s been sitting on my ‘to watch’ shelf for some time.  The trailers for it that I saw tried to imply it was a heist film (and yes, the film does revolve around the planning and consequences of a heist gone awry) but it’s much more about the people, families and their disintegration (and destruction). It makes for some relentlessly grim viewing.

I thought it was very good but I couldn’t pause it for fear of not being able to start watching again (never saw the second half of ‘There will be blood’ because it was too depressing to start watching after stopping for a loo break).

[red marley]

Pride. Warm hearted and defiantly proud of political struggle, identity politics and trade unionism.

Despite the outcome of the miners' strike, ultimately uplifting. I think I had something in my eye for about 90 minutes.

Ditto

Special screenings in York. Not a dry eye in the house.

Funniest moment wasn't a quip in the film. 'twas when Bronski Beat started playing. A guy behind me burst out clapping with a squeal of delight until his partner shushed him. I guess it brought back memories.

Being an uneducated Australian Oik in Australia in 1985, I had no idea until the end of the film that it was all based on history, that the march at the end really took place.

A similar thing happened in our showing when Bronski Beat appeared. Lovely moment.

The film had special resonance for me as I was involved in collections in Bristol and delivery of food and Christmas presents to Penrhiwceiber during the strike, a village not dissimilar to that in the film. Seeing what happened during and after the strike of 84/85 was a very significant part of my political education.

[tiermat]

Pride. Warm hearted and defiantly proud of political struggle, identity politics and trade unionism.

Despite the outcome of the miners' strike, ultimately uplifting. I think I had something in my eye for about 90 minutes.

Ditto

Special screenings in York. Not a dry eye in the house.

Funniest moment wasn't a quip in the film. 'twas when Bronski Beat started playing. A guy behind me burst out clapping with a squeal of delight until his partner shushed him. I guess it brought back memories.

Being an uneducated Australian Oik in Australia in 1985, I had no idea until the end of the film that it was all based on history, that the march at the end really took place.

A similar thing happened in our showing when Bronski Beat appeared. Lovely moment.

The film had special resonance for me as I was involved in collections in Bristol and delivery of food and Christmas presents to Penrhiwceiber during the strike, a village not dissimilar to that in the film. Seeing what happened during and after the strike of 84/85 was a very significant part of my political education.

Having read the reviews on here and on IMDB I will have to go and see this.

One minor niggle with the IMDB reviews, though.  There is most definitely more than one move about the miners strike that is good, Brassed Off being way better than Billy Elliot.  Then again that review is done by a Leftpondian.

[Wascally Weasel]

Pride. Warm hearted and defiantly proud of political struggle, identity politics and trade unionism.

Despite the outcome of the miners' strike, ultimately uplifting. I think I had something in my eye for about 90 minutes.

Ditto

Special screenings in York. Not a dry eye in the house.

Funniest moment wasn't a quip in the film. 'twas when Bronski Beat started playing. A guy behind me burst out clapping with a squeal of delight until his partner shushed him. I guess it brought back memories.

Being an uneducated Australian Oik in Australia in 1985, I had no idea until the end of the film that it was all based on history, that the march at the end really took place.

A similar thing happened in our showing when Bronski Beat appeared. Lovely moment.

The film had special resonance for me as I was involved in collections in Bristol and delivery of food and Christmas presents to Penrhiwceiber during the strike, a village not dissimilar to that in the film. Seeing what happened during and after the strike of 84/85 was a very significant part of my political education.

Having read the reviews on here and on IMDB I will have to go and see this.

One minor niggle with the IMDB reviews, though.  There is most definitely more than one move about the miners strike that is good, Brassed Off being way better than Billy Elliot.  Then again that review is done by a Leftpondian.

The (excellent) Antonia Bird film 'Face' also references it.

[mrcharly-YHT]

There is most definitely more than one move about the miners strike that is good, Brassed Off being way better than Billy Elliot.  Then again that review is done by a Leftpondian.

Brassed off has some of the greatest acting I've ever seen, from Stephen Tompkinson and Pete Postlethwaite.

[Wascally Weasel]

Last night I watched ‘Tender Mercies’, a sadly bittersweet film starring Robert Duvall about a washed up alcoholic Country singer who finds himself at the end of the road at a lonely motel, out in rural Texas.

It’s an oddly little known film, despite it garnering Robert Duvall an Oscar (I think he’s been nominated for something like six but that’s the one he was awarded it for).  Duvall sings on the film, pretty good Country voice too (he wrote most of the songs as well).  He apparently spent a  lot of time researching the character both to get the right accent and singing style.

Great film but that’s two fairly downbeat films in a row so I think I’ll go for something a little more cheerful next time.

[tiermat]

The Fault In Our Stars.

I was put onto this by TLD.

WOW.

Just WOW

[spindrift]

What's wrong with taking a girl to the Anne Frank Museum on a first date?