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Tried to listen to (I really love myself lot's. I bet you do too) Russel Crowe being interviewed about it. He described it as an "Epic". Fell asleep shortly after that. Rain, Animals, Big boat, The end...
Bit like a German porn movie then.
 
Just back from seeing Noah.

What a complete unmitigated, hopeless POS.

Worst flick I've seen for ages. About twice too long with a plot that meanders to nowhere. The Ents showed up dressed in rocks & I think I saw Steve Carell in the wet multitude. I swear time stopped during this film. Russell Crowe must cringe every time he thinks about it.

I feel violated, like I was robbed of my money & my time. If I hadn't been with my kids I'd have walked out. My son was ready to bail, my daughter insisted we wait to see if there were any giraffes as she felt that might in some small way redeem it.

She likes giraffes. There weren't any.

Very strong avoid.

Wow, what a waste of time.

Makes one wonder why they bother making such tripe.

Thanks for the heads up on Animal House by the way, at least you know what you're getting with a film like that. Love the scene when the dude rides his motorbike up the stairs :D
 
John Belushi RIP
 
Tonight. 11:15pm - 1:30am Channel 4

No Country for Old Men

A great flick with a great cast. Javier Bardem is chillingly terrifying, a convincing Kelly McDonald is a long way from Glasgow, Tommy Lee Jones plays the world weary sheriff who has seen too much, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Barry Corbin all dish up excellent performances.

No Country for Old Men (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The film premiered in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival on May 19.[4] Among its four 2007 Academy Awards were Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay, allowing the Coen brothers to join five previous directors honored three times for a single film.[5][6] In addition, the film won three British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) including Best Director,[7] and two Golden Globes.[8] The American Film Institute listed it as an AFI Movie of the Year,[9] and the National Board of Review selected the film as the best of 2007.[10]


No Country for Old Men
  • Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (2007)
  • US
  • 117 min
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Reviewed By Jamie Russell 5 out of 5

There's a lot of money being chased in this masterful, multi-faceted thriller from the Coen brothers, but it's not really what's at stake.

Set in Texas in 1980, it begins with Vietnam War veteran Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) stumbling across a desert drug deal gone wrong and escaping with a suitcase containing $2 million. A game of cat and mouse ensues, as Moss is pursued by a ruthless assassin armed with a cattle stun gun (Javier Bardem), various Mexican drug dealers and an ageing police sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones), whose despairing take on the state of America provides the movie's moral heart.

Adapting Cormac McCarthy's terse noir novel for the screen, the Coens deliver a complex, utterly riveting thriller that's also a philosophical meditation on the inexorable nature of fate. They also succeed in marrying the writer's apocalyptic sense of social breakdown with their own blackly comic sensibility. The result is a terrific crime movie that bears comparison with their other career high points, Blood Simple and Fargo.
 
Tonight. 11:15pm - 1:30am Channel 4

No Country for Old Men

A great flick with a great cast. Javier Bardem is chillingly terrifying, a convincing Kelly McDonald is a long way from Glasgow, Tommy Lee Jones plays the world weary sheriff who has seen too much, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Barry Corbin all dish up excellent performances.

Good Coen Bros movie but lacks the relief of the humour in Fargo for me. I have always wondered how Anton Chigurh's radio tracker managed to pick up the sender with the money when it was stuck inside a metal airconditioning duct which must be one of the best earthed faraday cage RF screens ever. :p
 
The Guard, starring Brendan Gleeson is the best film I've seen for a few months. Not brand new though (2011, I think). Highest grossing Irish film for years, i read, and although quite dark it me laugh more than once.
 
The Grand Budapest Hotel
 
The Guard, starring Brendan Gleeson is the best film I've seen for a few months. Not brand new though (2011, I think). Highest grossing Irish film for years, i read, and although quite dark it me laugh more than once.

That was on TV the other night. Missed it.
 
Good Coen Bros movie but lacks the relief of the humour in Fargo for me. I have always wondered how Anton Chigurh's radio tracker managed to pick up the sender with the money when it was stuck inside a metal airconditioning duct which must be one of the best earthed faraday cage RF screens ever. :p

Oh it is there alright, just at a different and very dark level. Tommy Lee Jones does some cracking deadpan delivery but the one that stands out for me is this:

"If I don’t come back, tell my mother I love her.”

“Your mother’s dead ,Llewellyn. ”

“Then I’ll tell her myself.”
 
philomena.

watched it the other night and did not think I would like it.

I was wrong. (And so are a number of nuns!!)
 
The King of Comedy

Tonight. Channel 4
19.04.14
12:15am - 2am
  • Martin Scorsese (1983)
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Reviewed By Andrew Collins

5 out of 5 stars

Though a box-office failure, this black comedy is now considered by many to be Martin Scorsese's unsung masterpiece. Of all the director's outings with sparring partner Robert De Niro, it's the strangest.

De Niro plays Rupert Pupkin, an aspiring stand-up comedian and stalker-in-waiting who dreams of fronting his own TV show, rehearses for this moment of glory in his mother's basement and spends half his life waiting, symbolically, in reception. It's a powerful, complex performance, one that carries the story from farce into tragedy with ease, and keeps us on his side.

Jerry Lewis is magnificent as the chilly old pro and chat-show king Jerry Langford, and Scorsese gives us another New York, the cruel but bewitching network TV capital of America. Pupkin's catchphrase remains immortal: "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime."

The King of Comedy - Rotten Tomatoes
 
5 Star, 99% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Tonight
10:30pm - 1:15am
ITV4

L.A. Confidential - Rotten Tomatoes

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L.A. Confidential (1997)

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99 Average Rating: 8.6/10
Reviews Counted: 85
Fresh: 84 | Rotten: 1

Taut pacing, brilliantly dense writing and Oscar-worthy acting combine to produce a smart, popcorn-friendly thrill ride.
audience
94 liked it

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Based on the best-selling novel by James Ellroy and directed by Curtis Hanson, this award-winning crime drama explores both the dark side of the Los Angeles police force and Southern California's criminal underbelly in the early '50s, when Hollywood was still seen as America's capital of sophistication, glitter, and glamour.

Dudley Smith (James Cromwell) is the head of the LAPD and is loyal to his officers and eager to turn a blind eye to violence or corruption within his department, as long as it's the "bad guys" who are getting hurt. Bud White (Russell Crowe) is a police detective whose violent and cynical nature is often at war with his basic sense of decency and justice. Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) is a beat cop-turned-detective whose strict by-the-book philosophy and willingness to blow the whistle on other officers is balanced by a shrewd and opportunistic understanding of the internal politics of the department. And Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) is a flashy "Hollywood" detective who serves as technical advisor for the TV series Badge of Honor. He is also in cahoots with Sid Hudgeons (Danny DeVito), publisher of the scandal sheet Hush Hush, who throws kickbacks to Vincennes in exchange for being brought along when showbiz figures get busted.

White, Exley, and Vincennes find themselves drawn into a tangled and sticky web of violence and betrayal following a multiple murder at a coffee shop that is believed to be part of an effort by Mickey Cohen (Paul Guilfoyle) to consolidate his hold on organized crime in L.A. This lead appears to be connected to the discovery of a bizarre pornography and call-girl ring operated by Pierce Patchett (David Strathairn), whose women are given plastic surgery so that they more closely resemble well-known movie stars. White's role in the investigation is complicated when he falls for Lynn Bracken (Kim Basinger), one of Patchett's prostitutes, who is the spitting image of Veronica Lake.

L.A. Confidential was nominated for nine Academy Awards and netted two, with Brian Helgeland honored for Best Adapted Screenplay, and Kim Basinger taking home a statuette as Best Supporting Actress.
 
TRUE ROMANCE A Tarrantino film

Patricia Arquette
Christian Slater
Brad Pitt
Christopher Walken
Gary Oldman
 
Tonight. 11:15pm - 1:30am Channel 4

No Country for Old Men

A great flick with a great cast. Javier Bardem is chillingly terrifying, a convincing Kelly McDonald is a long way from Glasgow, Tommy Lee Jones plays the world weary sheriff who has seen too much, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Barry Corbin all dish up excellent performances.

No Country for Old Men (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The film premiered in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival on May 19.[4] Among its four 2007 Academy Awards were Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay, allowing the Coen brothers to join five previous directors honored three times for a single film.[5][6] In addition, the film won three British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) including Best Director,[7] and two Golden Globes.[8] The American Film Institute listed it as an AFI Movie of the Year,[9] and the National Board of Review selected the film as the best of 2007.[10]

No Country for Old Men

I watched that tonight! Pointless and pretentious imho.
 
A Rather English Marriage, starring the brilliant Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay and Joanna Lumley. LINK.

Can't think how many times I've watched it.

I suppose an added attraction for me is that I know people who are just like (or a mix of) the three main characters. That aside, it's a fantastic thing to watch.

That moment when Reggie (Albert Finney) fumbles with, and then removes Liz's (Joanna Lumley's) bra is priceless. And then they get it on - "Ooh, Reggie, it's Huge!" :D




Presumed Innocent (Harrison Ford and the beautiful Greta Scacchi) is also worth viewing. LINK.




The Boy in Striped Pyjama's is a film that will always stick in my mind. Thankfully, days from a different world. LINK.
 
Tonight Film4
1:15am - 3:30am

American Graffiti
George Lucas (1973)
  • US
  • 107 min
  • Reviewed By Alan Jones
  • 5 out of 5

A summer night in the lives of a group of small-town Californian teenagers following their graduation from high school in 1962 is brilliantly captured by director George Lucas in this classic coming-of-age saga based on his own youthful exploits.

This movie virtually invented juke-box nostalgia and the wall-to-wall golden-oldies soundtrack is a perfect complement to the sharp and tender comedy, engagingly played out by the likes of Richard Dreyfuss and Ronny (Ron) Howard, two of a number of future stars in the cast. Wonderfully evoking the feel and spirit of the era, this is one of those rare movies you live through rather than watch.



http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/american_graffiti/
American Graffiti (1973)

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95 Average Rating: 8.4/10
Reviews Counted: 42
Fresh: 40 | Rotten: 2

One of the most influential of all teen films, American Graffiti is a funny, nostalgic, and bittersweet look at a group of recent high school grads' last days of innocence.

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An all time classic. Not forgetting Harrison Ford as Bob Falfa the stetson wearing drag racer.
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We watched Captain Phillips (Tom Hanks) on Sunday Evening - a great film :thumb:.
 
Tonight
10:35pm - 12:35am
ITV, STV


Senna

Reviewed By Terry Staunton 4 out of 5

In the years leading up to his tragic death at the San Marino Grand Prix in 1994, Ayrton Senna established himself as one of Formula One's most brilliant, daring and controversial drivers. A three-times world champion, the volatile Brazilian was a hero in his homeland, and his ruthlessness behind the wheel, not to mention his spiky challenges to the politics of the racing world, grabbed headlines beyond the chequered flag.

Director Asif Kapadia's powerful and engrossing documentary, wholly assembled from thrilling archive footage with new voiceovers from several leading F1 figures, paints a portrait of a determined and deeply spiritual man. His notorious clashes both on and off the track with arch rival Alain Prost give the chronological telling of the story added bite, resulting in a fascinating biography that will appeal to more than just fans of fast cars.
 

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