Film

[Eoin McLove]

Blades of Glory!

[Scáthach]

Saw a very good biopic of Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) recently, Love and Mercy. It focuses on 2 periods in his life, the mid 60s, around the time of Pet Sounds and Smile. And also the mid 80s when he starts to get his life back together. The younger Wilson is played by Paul Dano, who is a dead ringer for him. The later years are done with John Cusack. If you have an interest in the above mentioned albums, or rock and pop history in general it's well worth a watch. If you can't stand the (early) Beach Boys, stay well away.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Paul Dano's performance is exceptional, and it's an excellent film, highly recommended as above. I do feel Cusack wasn't the best casting, but it's a small criticism.

[Scáthach]

Yeah I did think Cusack was a strange choice but he nailed Wilson's mannerisms. The arms down by the sides, the fingers fidgeting and so on. Lovely film all the same.

[StoutAndAle]

Watched "Extraction" - not bad - better than a lot of the action movies coming out now. Anyone else think that David Harbour was a dead ringer Walter Sobchak when he was sat at the kitchen table with his sunglasses on chatting to Chris Hemsworth?

Also watched "The Gentlemen" - main cast are class especially Hugh Grant. Charlie Hunnam needs to find an accent coach though. In "Sons of Anarchy" he sounded like a English lad doing an American twang. In this film he sounds like a deaf American trying to be a Geordie. The story is much like any other Guy Ritchie film that I've seen. Fast paced dialogue - with a bit too much casual comedy racism (we get it, Guy - you're edgy), flashy visuals and a plot that makes no fucking sense after 25 minutes. Still enjoyed it though.

Regarding "Love & Mercy" - decent movie but I don't understand why Paul Dano couldn't play Brian Wilson all the way through it. The physical difference between the two actors is a bit jarring. John Cusack is a great actor but Dano was well up to the task.

And as for "I Went Down" - one of the greats.

[Cosmic_Equilibrium]

It's not strictly a film, more a TV docudrama, but I've been watching Longitude again which came out in 2000 and still stands up today as one of the best period drama/documentaries ever made. It tells the stories of John Harrison, who solved the problem of longitude at sea (and in doing so laid the grounds for modern shipping trade, basically) and Rupert Gould who restored his timekeepers in the 1930s.

It's just superb, and I think it's on Youtube for free. Three hours long, split into two parts, but riveting.

[Carnage]

Watched Do The Right Thing for the first time earlier. Much better than I expected, though pretty amateurish in spots. Much as I enjoyed Rosie Perez jiggling around in the opening credits (and she looked fucking savage, to be fair), it didn't have anything to do with the film other than an excuse to play Fight The Power in full. Odd.

[Slaughterday]

Watched Possessor, the latest one from David Cronenberg's son, Brandon Cronenberg. Good flick. Some nice body horror sequences, definitely has his own flair as a director while paying homage to his family lineage.

[Snare]

Just watching Bowfinger for the first time in years, the road crossing scene is still one if the funniest things ever 

[Pedrito]

Rewatched Dredd last night. Ultraviolent perfection.

[Nail_Bombed]

Rewatched Dredd last night. Ultraviolent perfection.

Why they still haven't made a sequel yet is beyond me.

[Pedrito]

It was all set up for another couple of films. The look, everything, perfect. Maybe it dodn´t do as well as they thought it would?

[Carnage]

That's it, it wasn't a big box office draw. There's an animated series in the works with Urban voicing him, and I know he's keen to do another or make a TV series, but whether that's a go, I don't know. Great film though, even if it is a bit close to The Raid.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

For the first time in the longest time, watched 12 Monkeys again last night. A very timely watch in current global circumstances! It's  no Brazil, but I absolutely loved it as a teen and can confirm I still do now.

[blessed1]

It was all set up for another couple of films. The look, everything, perfect. Maybe it dodn´t do as well as they thought it would?

Was that not released only in 3d in the cinemas?
I think that's the reason it didn't do that good.
Class film.