FTOF Posted June 9, 2020 Report Share Posted June 9, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Bud the Baker said: I see the Kenneth Branagh directed eponymous fillum of Eoin Colfer's first Artemis Fowl novel is about to be released after a decade or so of "development hell" - the book series which began 5 years after the Harry Potter novels to which it will undoubtedly be compared - I read both series with my children back in the day and found Artemis far more interesting. Artemis is not magical himself although he is acutely aware of magical characters and species, he is a far darker persona than HP more Batman than Superman - the books were described by the author as "Die Hard with faeries"! There are 8 novels in the series so lotsa moolah to made, will they catch on? * https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/movies/artemis-fowl-preview-does-kenneth-branaghs-sprite-fight-adaptation-have-the-magic-to-be-the-next-harry-potter/ar-BB15c4Yv?ocid=spartanntp * Double checked before posting and found out there was a 9th novel released last year focussing on Beckett & Myles, younger twin siblings of Artemis. Looks good. Never really liked the Harry Potter films for some reason. Edited June 9, 2020 by FTOF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted August 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2020 (edited) The English language remake (starring George Clooney) of Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris is on't telly this weekend - Sky TV/Sony Movies/Channel 320 - 6:55 Saturday night. Basically it's about people going mad on a spaceship, and while none of us SF snobs will admit it's as good as the original, the script remains largely unchanged and it's made with a substantial budget well worth a watch if you want a change from Cowboys & Indians in space fodder I'd recommend it - having said all this the fillum was a flop at the Box Office. Original https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/?ref_=tt_sims_tt Remake https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307479/?ref_=rvi_tt Edited August 9, 2020 by Bud the Baker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted August 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 @Eric Arthur Blair 30 years old today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 1 minute ago, Bud the Baker said: @Eric Arthur Blair 30 years old today! Well down the list. Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway all superior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted August 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 10 minutes ago, Eric Arthur Blair said: Well down the list. Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway all superior. Never been able to watch The Elephant Man - too sqeamish. Never understood why WaH is relatively poorly regarded Great cast including Hollywood royalty (Cage, Dern, Ladd & Rossellini) & fine supporting actors like Willem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton & my fave Freddie "Eyebrows" Jones - which all add to the, erm, gumbo that is a Lynch movie. Good & varied soundtrack touching all bases from my birthday brother Elvis-P to Nazi Poster Boy Richard Strauss. What can be more cinematographic than a road movie & part of Lynch's attraction is his commitment to the fillum/story. An homage to The Wizard of Oz You're correct BV is better but WaH is no turkey. & who can resist a happy ending? As I say it prob'ly suffers from being the follow up to BV but I likes it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TPAFKATS Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 Nicholas Cage is being lined up to play the tiger king guy in movie adaptation. Seems made for that role from what I've read and heard about the real guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted August 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 4 hours ago, TPAFKATS said: Nicholas Cage is being lined up to play the tiger king guy in movie adaptation. Seems made for that role from what I've read and heard about the real guy. Never heard of it before but then I lead a kinda sheltered, old fashioned life. Erm, well I guess it'll certainly be a cult fillum... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALBIONSAINT Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 6 hours ago, TPAFKATS said: Nicholas Cage is being lined up to play the tiger king guy in movie adaptation. Seems made for that role from what I've read and heard about the real guy. Hope It’s better than his performance in the remake of the Wicker man. Very poor indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 4 hours ago, ALBIONSAINT said: Hope It’s better than his performance in the remake of the Wicker man. Very poor indeed. I disagree. His performance in that was amazing. The energy! He poured heart and soul into it, Was on fire from the start, though he was pretty burned out by the final reel... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari A mesmerist uses a somnambulist to commit murders. Sleep(walk) well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted August 18, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 (edited) Much prefer the original version of The Wicker Man (a real cult fillum). I'm tempted to print a picture of Ms. Ekland's DerryAir (Oh Danny Boy ) but apparently a body double was used. Edited August 18, 2020 by Bud the Baker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabuddies Posted August 18, 2020 Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 22 hours ago, ALBIONSAINT said: Hope It’s better than his performance in the remake of the Wicker man. Very poor indeed. Why stop at The Wicker Man? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted September 8, 2020 Report Share Posted September 8, 2020 I suspect this will be an excellent, entertaining and yet very intense movIe. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/sep/07/one-night-in-miami-review-regina-king I saw the play a couple of years ago and found it very moving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted October 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2020 I'm not really a fan of the Bond movie franchise, I haven't seen a Bond movie since the final, arthritic Roger Moore effort, A View to a Kill, but the decision to delay it's release has been the final straw for Cineworld which is "temporarily" closing all 127 or 128 cinemas in the UK. This will be a significant blow for the 5,500 employees whose jobs are currently under threat - I fear that not all the jobs/venues will re-open when we emerge from the other side of the Covid tunnel. The world takeover by online giants will inevitably prosper... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted October 5, 2020 Report Share Posted October 5, 2020 (edited) Went to see... “Capital in the Twenty first Century” last week. A France\NZ attempt at making Thomas Picketty’s dense book on the subject accessible. it’s kinda entertaining, loads of graphics, side jokes, eloquent talking heads. I was nudged for snoring at one point. His book is about 600 pages. His ideas are also big. if you’ve read (or tried to) read the book, you’ll think the film is superficial, repeating the important reality that capital is accumulating in a few hands (or faceless corporations) and impoverishing the many... as it has before in history. it doesn’t offer any of Picketty’s suggestions about how we can change or effect a better method to come into being. so it’s a kinda superficial French/kiwi well-meaning cartoon. i don’t think it’ll become Cult. Edited October 5, 2020 by antrin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted October 9, 2020 Report Share Posted October 9, 2020 (edited) If you were a fan of Aaron Sorkin’s West Wing (Or even Money Ball, the Social Network, Steve Jobs....) then you’ll really enjoy The Trial of the Chicago 7. Court room based, but also showing some of the police brutalities in Chicago, his dialogue and the story is energy is bloody brilliant. I’d read a Lacklustre review in The Guardian after buying tickets so was a disappointed. (I like Sorkin). The review must’ve been written by a teenager, wit no idea of the big thing about? The film opens with Lyndon Johnson’s war drive that made Harold Wilson contemplate cosnscription and sending UK yoof over to Vietnam. There were protests. Here’s a verse from a song of the time... “Lyndon Johnson told a nation have no fear of escalation I am trying everyone to please! Though it isn’t really war I’m sending 50,000 more to help save Vietnam from Vietnamese...” I don’t usually like Sacha Baron Cohen, but he is a stand-out, here. Eddie Redmayne and Mark Rylance are also part of a stellar cast. Edited October 9, 2020 by antrin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted October 9, 2020 Report Share Posted October 9, 2020 And, last night, another less than perfect fillum. On the Rocks - a thing made for Bill Murray to be Bill Murray kinda showing off. VERY rich people with hardly anything to worry about, worrying a little till they reach an end point which shows there never was anything to worry about. Slight was The Boss’s word for it. And mine, too. A pleasant enough hour and a bit, but slow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted October 11, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 (edited) Currently watching The Blue Dahlia featuring Alan Ladd & Veronica Lake which now carries a warning due to Jazz being played on a jukebox being referred to as "monkey music". On a different note (sic) I love noir and this is one of my faves but just watching it must be the equivalent of smoking 3 cigarettes! Edited October 11, 2020 by Bud the Baker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALBIONSAINT Posted October 15, 2020 Report Share Posted October 15, 2020 Watched this on Amazon prime, brilliant film based on a true story. The link below is the full movie on YouTube, looks like fairly decent quality. Gives a good insight into the brutality of the Nazi regime on there own troops. Well worth a watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted October 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2020 (edited) Absolutely pishing down here in Ayr so I'm indoors watching a little noir gem The Captive City starring the improbably handsome John Forsythe on one of the minor Sky channels... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044476/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Like ALBIONSAINTs post above this is based on a true story.... Edited October 26, 2020 by Bud the Baker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted October 26, 2020 Report Share Posted October 26, 2020 Other movies seen during London Film Festival in the last few weeks: Undine. (German with subtitles) Guy falls in love with problematic half-fish woman. It's ... ok. Based on a German myth.. Not really worth getting out of bed for. Kajillionaire (US Independent) Loopy daughter of loopy parents - poor white trash grifters - has her eyes opened to there maybe being a different way of living by a Mexican immigrant. Fun, interesting and enjoyable. Ammonite: UK I had to see this as it's about a working class star - Mary Anning, a hero of mine. She was probably the first paleontologist (She could never be recognised nor rightly rewarded due to being a woman and of the lower orders) to extract and understand fossil specimens from the cliffs where she lived at Lyme Regis. She sold the stuff to tourists and collectors. She discovered ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs... dead interesting, eh? They've not managed to make a great gripping movie/story of this, despite it having wonderful (female ) actors. They had to make up something, I guess - but didnae try hard enough and disappointed me. It'll win BAFTA approval for the acting. Better than just ok... just... Nomadland: US Produced and starring Frances McDormand (3 Billboards outside Ebbings... Fargo and other good Coen stuff). It's about the actual real community of poorish white (mainly) Americans and their itinerant lifestyle, following the seasons for work or warmth who live in their vans, dormobiles etc. They meet, split and meet up... down the road again.. Apart from McDormand I think there's only one other actual actor - the rest are real people. It' s beautifully filmed, interesting and sweeps you along. Making that lifestyle APPEAR attractive but still showing some of its hardships. No great story development: though there kinda is one, it's slight. McDormand could get another Oscar for this. Well worth seeing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billyg Posted October 26, 2020 Report Share Posted October 26, 2020 Watched "An Inspector Calls" last week , gripping , yet it all takes place in one house ! Scotsman Alistair Sim was a wonderful actor ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted October 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2020 (edited) 43 minutes ago, Yflab said: Billy, you may be interested in watching the remake done in 2015 which gets good rating of 7.7 in IMDb. Stars include Ken Stott and Miranda Richardson. Not seen it myself, but think I will add it to the list. It is a good version too - David Thewlis plays role of The Inspector that Alistair Sim did in the 50s version. Although principally recognized as a comic actor Sim's serious work was often underrated. Edited October 26, 2020 by Bud the Baker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted November 6, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2020 New documentary on the troubled life of Lady Day coming soon on Amazon & iTunes... https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/06/billie-holiday-documentary-lost-tapes-racism-in-united-states Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted December 1, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2020 The Glass Man, a fillum, starring wur ain James Cosmo is available on "digital formats" from Dec 7 after 9 years of dispute over ownership rights. The Glass Man review – lo-fi Brit horror still full of chills | Film | The Guardian The Glass Man (2011) - IMDb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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