Film

[nukeabuse]

Soft & quiet - a group of women meet up for a community meeting, tension and bad events escalate from there, v good if not subtle about it's message.

Infinity pool - sci-fi kinda body horror directed by cronenberg' son, strongly influence by his dad style which is no bad thing.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Watched The French Dispatch tonight. I dislike as many of Anderson's films as I like, but this one went down well. A little too busy in places, especially after smoking, but overall great fun. And Léa Seydoux as dreamy and flaithiúlach of flesh as ever.

[StoutAndAle]

I watched "The Banshees of Inisherin" the other night.

Colin Farrell is exceptional but overall I felt fairly underwhelmed by the film as a whole. There's a few great scenes and some lovely one-liners but, in my arrogant opinion, it was a bit uneven.

The cinematography is excellent. The whole thing looks like a high-end marketing campaign for the west of Ireland.

[Eoin McLove]

Fuck man, that was my fear from looking at the ads. I felt the same about that God awful pile of crap, Calvary. Gleason was brilliant, and every single other actor in it, along with the entire bullshit story, was an embarrassment. Looked lovely, that was about it.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

There is no comparison between it and Calvary. Different folk will pick out different preferred performances (my top pick wouldn't be Farrell, for example) but truth is the performances across the board in Banshees, even if you don't like the story or other aspects, are all excellent. Which, you're right, was not the case with Calvary. Forget about Calvary.

[Eoin McLove]

I will never forget about Calvary. Never. Mark my words.

[StoutAndAle]

There is no comparison between it and Calvary. Different folk will pick out different preferred performances (my top pick wouldn't be Farrell, for example) but truth is the performances across the board in Banshees, even if you don't like the story or other aspects, are all excellent. Which, you're right, was not the case with Calvary. Forget about Calvary.

That's true - every performance is on point. I just singled out Colin Farrell because he was so good in it.

I didn't like "Calvary" much either.

I just looked up Martin McDonagh's filmography. I can't say that I've fully enjoyed any of his movies - "Three Billboards..." being about the best.

[blessed1]

I thought Calvary was quite good when I saw it. I must give it another watch and see if it's as bad as ye are all saying.

[ldj]

Banshees was good, but it kind of reminded me of Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in that it's mostly carried by the performances than a story or plot.

While he's obviously not trying to make that sort of film anymore, he'd be hard pushed to beat In Bruges for me.

[open face surgery]

Ya, I think In Bruges was his best. Kerry Condon is my pick of the performances from Banshees.

[jobrok1]

Fully agree with everything said above about Banshees.
Great performances, cinematography, etc. Shitty overall story.

And yes! Condon was the stand out actor in the film.
If anything, hopefully she'll get a lot more decent roles becouse of Banshees.

Every time I see her in something... Better Call Saul, Ray Donovan, etc... I still can't get this out of my head, though. 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Well, I loved both Banshees and The Quiet Girl so much, I ended up writing an aul essay on parallels between Dominic and Cáit, for anyone interested:

Edit: I'll post the link again when the editor fixes the errors introduced when they were "modifying" the text.

[blessed1]

Watched Starship Troopers last night again. Hadn't seen it in years. For a film that was made in 1997 it still holds up really Well. The effects are class and it feels like a companion piece to Robocop.

[blessed1]

Well, I loved both Banshees and The Quiet Girl so much, I ended up writing an aul essay on parallels between Dominic and Cáit, for anyone interested:
https://www.popmatters.com/quiet-girl-banshees-inisherin-incel

I haven't watched Quiet Girl yet but I have it downloaded and you just reminded me I need to watch it so I'll give that a read once I have.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Just noticing a load of typos the editor introduced along the way, so hopefully they'll be fixed before you get round to it!

And, yeah, Starship Troopers is still class, watched it again a couple of years ago.