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- Sun Mar 04, 2018 9:40 pm
- Forum: Film Discussion
- Topic: Game Night
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3274
Re: Game Night
Laughed out loud a ridiculous amount of times during this, which is the best you can hope for from a comedy. It's certainly funnier than something that's by the screenwriter of The Country Bears and Herbie Fully Loaded has any right being. Definitely impressed by Rachel McAdams knack for comedy shin...
- Sat Mar 03, 2018 11:41 am
- Forum: Film Discussion
- Topic: You Were Never Really Here
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3158
Re: You Were Never Really Here
Lynne Ramsay returns to feature filmmaking after a six year absence with a lean and brutal adaptation of the novella by Jonathan Ames. Joe is a damaged man scarred by childhood abuse and wartime trauma. He also makes his living as an enforcer, rescuing girls kidnapped and sold into prostitution ring...
- Fri Feb 23, 2018 3:11 pm
- Forum: Film Discussion
- Topic: Sweet Country
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2366
Sweet Country
With Sweet Country, the indigenous Australian director Warwick Thornton delivers a potent and poetic western that looks at the impact of white colonisation of Aboriginal land. When Sam Kelly, an Aboriginal worker on the land of the devoutly religious Fred Smith, kills a white man in self-defence, he...
- Sat Feb 10, 2018 11:13 am
- Forum: Film Discussion
- Topic: Black Panther
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3786
Black Panther
The ridiculously talented Ryan Coogler helms a supremely confident blockbuster with his third feature Black Panther. The story of African prince T'Challa who becomes king of Wakanda after the death of his father while also inheriting the mantle of Black Panther, protector of his people. The fate of ...
- Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:04 am
- Forum: Film Discussion
- Topic: Loveless
- Replies: 0
- Views: 705
Loveless
Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev's follow-up to the extraordinary Leviathan (winner of Best Film at 2014's LFF) is an even more bleak and unforgiving depiction of life in contemporary Russia. Boris and Zhenya are a couple going through a bitter divorce, more concerned with making a fresh start wi...
- Sat Feb 03, 2018 9:02 pm
- Forum: Film Discussion
- Topic: Lady Bird
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3922
Lady Bird
Lady Bird, the directorial debut of actress Greta Gerwig, is the semi-autobiographical story of a teenager growing up in Sacremento California in 2002. 17 year old Lady Bird (real name Christine) is longing to get away from her home town and her slightly overbearing mother to a New York college, des...
- Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:06 pm
- Forum: Film Discussion
- Topic: Downsizing
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1040
Downsizing
Sideways director Alexander Payne returns with an ambitious sci-fi satire that tackles the possible solution for a dying world. In Norway a group of scientists discover the ability to shrink people down to several inches, believing that this will result in less overcrowding and a smaller amount of w...
- Fri Jan 19, 2018 8:00 am
- Forum: Film Discussion
- Topic: The Commuter
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4937
Re: The Commuter
Spent the majority of this incredibly daft but moderately entertaining Neeson/Collet-Serra New York set thriller distracted by the sheer amount of Brit actors playing Neeson's fellow commuters (ooh look it's Andy Nyman, that's Clem Fandango/Ash Tyler from Star Trek Discovery, and now there's Lady Ma...
- Tue Jan 16, 2018 12:25 am
- Forum: Film Discussion
- Topic: The Shape of Water
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5111
Re: The Shape of Water
Yes. I probably should have gone to see this again.The Sparrow wrote:kevinknapman wrote: I'm guessing because if the time you posted this, you decided to see The Commuter?
- Mon Jan 15, 2018 8:27 pm
- Forum: Film Discussion
- Topic: The Shape of Water
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5111
The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro returns with a gorgeous romantic fantasy that marries golden age Hollywood escapism with a Cold War B-movie creature feature which results in a wonderfully strange, endlessly dazzling and decidedly adult fairytale. Eliza is a mute musical loving cleaner who works in top secret gov...