Book of Eli - Denzel Washington - took two attempts to watch it all the way through - a bit of a duff Mad Max type film. Watchable. 4/10

 

Green Zone - Matt Damon - enjoyed it, always like films based out in Middle East, etc. 7/10

 

Planet 51 - was enjoying it til I nodded off, kids liked it - must be good. 6/10

 

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - see above - 6/10

 

Good Will Hunting - Matt Damon/Robin Williams - look, there was fook all else on this Saturday just gone, never seen it before - quite enjoyed - the scene were Robin Williams was going on about his late wife farting in bed had me in tears - half decent. Oh, and Minnie Driver looked far better than I can ever remember. 7/10

 

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - its Swedish so no famous actors/actresses - great thriller - didn't bother me that it was in subtitles great revenge scene on the pervy Probation Officer- looking forward to the 2nd in the trilogy in the next week or so - well worth the watch and highly recommended. 9/10

 

That's me, Jonathan Woss, over and out.

Lady Bird. That's getting filed under time I'm never getting back. 

How that got so much praise and Oscar nods is a shitting mystery to me. 

Been watching a lot of stuff the last couple of weeks with Billy Bob in

Goliath , as recommended on here and some movies

Mrs  says what is your favourite Billy Bob film?

absolute no brainer 

Bad Santa !!!!!!

did some netfix , find out there  is a bad santa 2222222

check it out

i was crying 10 mins in , probably pissed myself .but that is funny as fuck

got to buy it on DVD as i couldnt hear half of it for laughing

 

if u aint laffing u aint living

Number one target -  6/10. Could and should have been much better given the storyline they had to work with. Passes a couple of hours though 

On 17/07/2020 at 16:03, Casino said:

should I track any more down

I'm even tempted by the Cantona one that Mr pink recommended

i like counter reviews to that kinda stuff , read an amazing one once about kes, cant find it now , but it made me laugh.. about it being like being beaten over the head .. making him (the reviewer) more tory . and hes taking about having to watch it in a cinema for school in the 80s so hes like 12 . :lol:

all or nothing , but thats mike leigh .. 

a taste of honey from ages ago  . 

them bill naughton ones filmed in bolton...

the one with james mason and her from straw dogs (paul mccartney does the music, i think), and the other one with hayley mills and her dad. 

i saw some war film about navaho speakers being shuttled about as radio men for brigades in the pacific in ww2.. think nic cage were the main guy. pretty good, but thin red line and saving private ryan came out around the same time, so ..

 

The Lincoln Lawyer

Decent 7/10

On 12/07/2020 at 12:15, ZicoKelly said:

JoJo Rabbit is good

The guy who plays Hitler is very funny

8/10

If you like that and you aint seen them before, try hunt for the wilderpeople and whst we do in the shadows. Same bloke.

 

10 hours ago, Rudy said:

The Lincoln Lawyer

Decent 7/10

 

Watched Killer Joe recently. MM was excellent in it.  

10 hours ago, peelyfeet said:

If you like that and you aint seen them before, try hunt for the wilderpeople and whst we do in the shadows.

 

Both great. He also had a good cameo in the marvel movie he directed, Thor Ragnarok.

19 hours ago, Rudy said:

The Lincoln Lawyer

Decent 7/10

Great timing!

Greyhound .

Made for apple tv so not as dark as Das Boot but fairly straightforward telling of the grim reality of being the hunted of North Atlantic Convoys.

15 minutes ago, green genie said:

Greyhound .

Made for apple tv so not as dark as Das Boot but fairly straightforward telling of the grim reality of being the hunted of North Atlantic Convoys.

Tom Hanks , Stephen Graham, Apple’s money.
 

Sold. 

On 28/07/2020 at 06:03, Rudy said:

The Lincoln Lawyer

Decent 7/10

Cheers pal. I reckon your rating was bang on. Enjoyed it.

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/889dqa/four-lions-making-of-oral-history-trivia

Seems older than 10 years, Four Lions. Took me a few watches to really appreciate this I remember actually hating it first time, after being a massive fan of Brass Eye, The Day Today and (some not all) Jam. 

"With the greatest of respect Faisal your dad eats newspaper" fucking hell superb.

Just finished watching Rise Of The Footsoldier, which is loosely based on the Rettenden Range Rover murders in early December 1995. 

Overall not a bad film and although it has a better cast (Sean Bean, Tom Wilkinson etc), a lot better than Essex Boys or its sequels.

Next I think a bit of classic 70s cannibalsploitation with Joe D'Amato (Of Anthropophagus, Absurd and Porno Holocaust infamy) and his 1977 classic Emmanuelle And The Last Cannibal. 

A very funny Silence Of The Lambs parody I found a few months ago...

 

Train to Busan - Never had a zombie film leave me with a lump in my throat before.

Reet good. Not quite as good as Snowpiercer though (the original one not the remake which will undoubtedly be shit)

Train to Busan is excellent.

Over the last fortnight I've been ploughing through the Star Wars movies on Disney+

New Hope - 8/10

Empire - 10/10

Jedi 7/10

Phantom Menace 6/10

Clones 7/10

Revenge 9/10

Solo 8/10

Rogue One 9/10

Force Awakens 7/10

Last Jedi 9/10

Rise of Skywalker 7/10

Went to watch Aliens on sky on demand the film know comes with a warning that it might offend people due to outdated  cultural stereotypes ?

Fucking Aliens must of seen the film 20 time’s can’t think of anything in it unless its stereotyping all Aliens as killers 

Edited August 3, 20205 yr by Farnywhite

7 minutes ago, Farnywhite said:

Went to watch Aliens on sky on demand the film know comes with a warning that it might offend people due to outdated  cultural stereotypes ?

Fucking Aliens must of seen the film 20 time’s can’t think of anything in it unless its stereotyping all Aliens as killers 

Careful now

Hey Vasquez, you ever been mistaken for a man?

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

True story about a literary forger

Well worth a watch

Richard E Grant does good

8/10

Fancied The Lighthouse for ages

Got round to it last night

Half the time i couldn't understand what they were saying, the other half had no idea what was going on

I like weird but this was proper arthouse wank

2/10

Then Mid90s tonight, coming of age type thing, written and directed by Jonah Hill

Much better 

8/10

Lighthouse is superb. Arty yes, but properly engaging nonetheless. Willem Defoe is an absolute master.

7 minutes ago, Kane57 said:

Lighthouse is superb. Arty yes, but properly engaging nonetheless. Willem Defoe is an absolute master.

See that's now two films I've watched him in where I've turned off half way through

The other being Antichrist

Subtitles might've been helpful

Well Lars von Trier is hardly known for his films being accessible. Antichrist is a strange one.

I've watched a ton of Hammer films this past week, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires being especially shit.

Hammer = ingrid pitt