djchump wrote:

Wookienopants wrote:

The Lost City

Channing Tatum and Sandy B star in a fun comedy that's perfectly cast and quite enjoyable. Passed a slow afternoon

Aye, it’s exactly as fun as a Bullock/Tatum adventure romcom sounds - I love Tatum’s schtick so had several huge laughs through the film. Decent support from Radcliffe and Pitt, clearly enjoying themselves:-)

Same, Tatum seems to have really carved out a nice niche for himself as the handsome muscular idiot.

Need to do a watched dump tomoz.

Got Robocop 35th Anniversary 4k viewing at Leeds Vue this Sunday then Top Gun: Maverick at Bradford Imax Saturday after. What a time to be alive!

Cape Fear

Use a pen, sideshow Bob.

Aye I booked a couple of weeks ago as soon as it got announced for my local IMAX. Love the TG, just slightly disappointed they didn't double feature and show the OG beforehand.

38. The Big Short
Can't believe I waited so long to watch this. Fantastic telling off the 2008 economic collapse, why it happened, what caused it and who profited. Funny, smart, informative and brilliantly put together. 10

39. Dune
Woah. Truly epic, visually stunning and flew past. Could've watched another hour of this easily. 10

davyK wrote:

Follow the The Big Short with Margin Call @gremill

Cheers. Although it's Spacey, so I might not.

Juggernaut starts off looking like a Brit 70s disaster movie. But it's much better than that. Set on an ocean liner in the North Atlantic with 7 bombs planted with a ransom demand. It's kind of downbeat in it's portrayal but it's really watchable.

Richard Harris, Anthony Hopkins and Omar Sharif are the big names, but I have never watched a film with more Brit "that guys" than I have ever seen on one place. I've seen faces from Carry On through to Star Wars in this and they are all brilliant. There are other bonuses like the guy who played the Southern Sheriff in Live and Let Die as one of the passengers. There is some light comic relief - things like deck games in bad weather and the idea of trying to eat on the rolling seas. The comedy is anchored by Roy Kinnear as entertainment officer who veers from clown to dry wit.

The tension builds really well when Harris and his team (including David Hemmings) start trying to defuse the bombs and the ending is a true classic moment that I won't spoil.

32. Calibre - 8

Went back and finished this tense drama. Glad I did. One of Netflix best of recent years.

56. Meek’s Cutoff
The sense of impending doom is all consuming in this slow paced western but ultimately it was too plodding to really keep me interested despite being wonderfully shot. [5]

63. Spoorlos (The Vanishing)
A solid little thriller that tells it's story in a different way than many of these sorts of things. Although I was fully gripped throughout it did stay with me afterwards.
[7]

57. Everything Everywhere All at Once
I managed to avoid most of the detail about this going in and so glad I did. I loved pretty much everything about it. Excellent performances all round, full of style and clever flourishes, technically accomplished and bloody funny to boot. It's got real heart too and managed what could have been overly saccharine elements with just the right balance. A few moments towards the end really hit me but admittedly partly because they were reminders of things going on in my own life. I always find that a mark of a great film. A wonderful experience. [9]

Also... 57 fucking fims already?!

Come at me bro!

Helps that my gf works arvos out of the house now so if I'm at home off shift I gotta spend that time watching my spooky/violent/weird stuff. Has forced me to watch more things. I'll be away for almost a month in June though so you can catch up then

I recently watched Dune on Prime and Intruder on Shudder.

I knew very little of Dune - haven't read the books or seen the Lynch effort - but that's a great way to start a trilogy. Might even venture to the cinema for the next one.

Agreed with your spoiler, it works so much better going against expectations like that. The child actors were fantastic, too. Although one scene did make me squirm, can probably guess which.