faraway saint Posted February 18, 2021 Report Share Posted February 18, 2021 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Bud the Baker said: I'll book the ambulances... The forum racist can come, with all his "family". aliases. Edited February 18, 2021 by faraway saint Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted February 23, 2021 Report Share Posted February 23, 2021 On Film 4 tonight at 9.00pm Shallow Grave. Definitely a Cult Fillum! Trainspotting's precursor by Danny Boyle. A thrilling and blackly amusing tale about (not particularly loveable )cool kids in a posh flat in the New Town of Embra. Quite gripping at the time. I loved it - cheaply made but it has claustrophobia as an extra character almost... Rotten Tomatoes had yet to understand #cool# . Shallow Grave (1995) - Rotten Tomatoes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted February 23, 2021 Report Share Posted February 23, 2021 3 hours ago, antrin said: On Film 4 tonight at 9.00pm Shallow Grave. Definitely a Cult Fillum! Trainspotting's precursor by Danny Boyle. A thrilling and blackly amusing tale about (not particularly loveable )cool kids in a posh flat in the New Town of Embra. Quite gripping at the time. I loved it - cheaply made but it has claustrophobia as an extra character almost... Rotten Tomatoes had yet to understand #cool# . Shallow Grave (1995) - Rotten Tomatoes Yes, it is an excellent film. Wee gingey bawbag Colin McCredie is probably at the sleepless night stage at the prospect of the saintees winning on Sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALBIONSAINT Posted February 23, 2021 Report Share Posted February 23, 2021 On 2/18/2021 at 7:19 PM, eastlandssaint said: Would have been a video nasty back in the day 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted February 23, 2021 Report Share Posted February 23, 2021 (edited) Well... I never....! an interesting factoid about Shallow Grave that I hadn’t known... Locations in the film include: Flat 6 North East Circus Place, New Town, Edinburgh Hospital scenes were filmed at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, Renfrewshire The dance scene was filmed at the Townhouse Hotel, 54 West George Street, near George Square in Glasgow (From Wiki.) i didn’t watch shallow grave this evening. wanted to catch up on something (from iPlayer) whose ideas sounded good... 2015’s Tomorrowland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrowland_(film) it looked quite amazing in an unsurprisingly bland Disney way. Great actors with little to actually act. corny, but I stuck with it for the visuals, when I could have been more productively employed washing my hair... a “good for young teens” movie, is my guess. occasionally witty. Edited February 23, 2021 by antrin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted February 23, 2021 Report Share Posted February 23, 2021 The hospital was built most probably after you moved to Essex (now London). Anyone who has walked down the long elevated corridors at the RAH would have recognised the location instantly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted February 24, 2021 Report Share Posted February 24, 2021 9 hours ago, Eric Arthur Blair said: The hospital was built most probably after you moved to Essex (now London). Anyone who has walked down the long elevated corridors at the RAH would have recognised the location instantly. I have never moved to Essex! I’m a Londoner, remember? (though Essex may soon be a temporary shift...) “Anyone who has walked down the long elevated corridors at the RAH would have recognised the location instantly.” I did a lot of that at the end of 2018. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted February 24, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2021 16 hours ago, antrin said: Hospital scenes were filmed at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, Renfrewshire The old hospital? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted February 24, 2021 Report Share Posted February 24, 2021 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Bud the Baker said: The old hospital? Doubt it. That would then be the RAI Infirmary. I guess that's a word that has pejorative in some way or hurtful connotations and is thus no longer used... ETA I had to have a look... "hospital is a building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying usually has a staff of doctors and nurses to aid in the treatment of patients while infirmary is a place where sick or injured people are cared for, especially a small hospital; sickhouse." So hospitals actively seek to get folk better, whist an infirmary just gives them a bed and a few meals but little proactive, positive care? Edited February 24, 2021 by antrin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted March 1, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2021 (edited) Anyone who likes a weepie could do worse than this currently on Film4...... Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) - IMDb What might give it cult status is the soundtrack Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) - Soundtracks - IMDb Edited March 1, 2021 by Bud the Baker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted March 23, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 If Devil Girl From Mars (1954) is not a Cult Fillum then it should be..... It's about an uptight, leather-clad female alien, armed with a ray gun and accompanied by a menacing robot who comes to Earth to collect Earth's men as breeding stock. Devil Girl from Mars (1954) - IMDb Featuring wur ain Sophie Stewart as the Devil Girl & John Laurie, photo from his earlier days when he was a noted Shakesperean ackt-or... SEE RANK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted March 23, 2021 Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 Saw a utterly brilliant fillum on BBC4 on Saturday night. Knew nothing about it. So a really pleasant surprise. BBC iPlayer - Land of Mine Set in Denmark end of WWII. Looked beautiful and builds brilliantly. Just checked - it got 92% on Rotten Tomatoes. Land of Mine (2015) - Rotten Tomatoes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted April 11, 2021 Report Share Posted April 11, 2021 (edited) On 10/26/2020 at 1:06 PM, antrin said: 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. This won a lot of stuff this evening at the BAFTAs. I usually carp on about not knowing where a story’s going, what does our hero want, is it an interesting plot/storyline... and this fails on these - yet it is a movie that sticks around in the mind, Well worthy of its BAFTAs. Edited April 11, 2021 by antrin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted April 12, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 11 hours ago, antrin said: This won a lot of stuff this evening at the BAFTAs. I usually carp on about not knowing where a story’s going, what does our hero want, is it an interesting plot/storyline... and this fails on these - yet it is a movie that sticks around in the mind, Well worthy of its BAFTAs. The Grapes of Wrath for a new millennium - makes me want to cry... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted April 12, 2021 Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 7 hours ago, Bud the Baker said: The Grapes of Wrath for a new millennium - makes me want to cry... Aye, but.... Difference here is that Steinbeck had them chasing a goal - California and a new successful life (hopefully). These poor buggers are just in ever-decreasing circles till their time runs out - or their money. Or they hit another big bump (metaphorically, medically or mechanically) on the American Way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted April 16, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2021 So this is how it all began... Human cells grown in monkey embryos triggers 'Pandora's box' ethical concerns | Science & Tech News | Sky News Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted April 29, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 An old disparaging review of Citizen Kane has been discovered which has spoiled it's 100% rating on Movie Site Rotten Tomatoes, the new top rated fillum on the site is Paddington2! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted April 30, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2021 (edited) On 10/26/2020 at 1:06 PM, antrin said: 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. Yup plus another two too... ************** Watched Neil Jordan's The Crying Deal and discovered this in the Goofs section of IMDB... Quote Audio/visual unsynchronised In Balbriggan County, Dublin, a Northern Ireland Railways GM locomotive 113 passes in the background, pulling a passenger train. It makes the sound of a British Rail HST railcar set, which is quite different. The sound effect is also too short; most of the train passes silently. Would it be too corny to suggest that "two too" would also be a delightfully onomatopoeic in this instance? Edited April 30, 2021 by Bud the Baker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 30, 2021 Report Share Posted April 30, 2021 Here is the review I posted on P&B.Nomadland (2020)Now I like slow movies. Even the ones that move along, glacier-like I can find satisfying.However (puffs cheeks and exhales slowly), woman who worked for company which has closed their manufacturing plant moves around the country in a van which is also her home. She takes menial jobs and forms fleeting relationships with strangers, some of whom are also nomadic and she bumps into them at the next parking lot along the way.That's it, there's nothing deeper. It's more like a documentary as McDormand and Strathairn (the pimp in LA Confidential and Carmela's bit of fluff in the Sopranos) seem to be the only actors; almost every other cast member "plays" someone with their own given name.Best Picture, Director and Best Actress Oscars? Emperor's New Clothes time again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted April 30, 2021 Report Share Posted April 30, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, Bud the Baker said: Yup plus another two too... ************** Watched Neil Jordan's The Crying Deal and discovered this in the Goofs section of IMDB... Would it be too corny to suggest that "two too" would also be a delightfully onomatopoeic in this instance? Talking about "Goofs section"... Crying GAME? Also if you're really going down the Tutu road, night I suggest this movie? And for me Nomadland still shines out as being the most interesting fillum I've seen this year. It's a different way of storytelling, there are always infinite options on the roads those characters were travelling and we don't need to have a formulaic resolution imposed on any of that. I remember being annoyed and frustrated by a few of Tarantino's attempts at storytelling, but they, too, were well-executed with sometimes no satisfactory resolution. And... OK - doubtless there were usually more fireworks and amusement from Tarantino, but we don't always need that to be our staple diet. That, too, can get tiresome. Frances McDormand was the right choice. Edited April 30, 2021 by antrin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALBIONSAINT Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 Watched this for the first time in a while on Netflix the other night. Absolutely panned by the critics but I like it. Definitely cult film zone. Tarantino influence on Eli Roth is blatant however, blood, gore and violence galore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted October 7, 2021 Report Share Posted October 7, 2021 Had a REALLY enjoyable evening on Monday watching Not a Time to Die - the latest Bond fillum, if you’ve been isolating… It ripped entertainingly along till the usual bit towards the end where Bond has to destroy a… yawn… massive concrete baddies hideaway to save the world. That bit was too samey. And tame. otherwise.. a fun 2h 43 minutes of hokum. (I saw it on IMAX, so the visuals were stunning, but the action was fun anyway, the plot both interesting and topical and a few reasonably funny bits punctuate the “serious” story.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted October 8, 2021 Report Share Posted October 8, 2021 PS The baddie didn’t come across as evil for me. Just severely constipated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanleySaint Posted October 9, 2021 Report Share Posted October 9, 2021 Saw it last night, rip roaring action from start to finish, fitting end to Craig's tenure which I have enjoyed enormously. Who's next then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted October 9, 2021 Report Share Posted October 9, 2021 5 minutes ago, StanleySaint said: Saw it last night, rip roaring action from start to finish, fitting end to Craig's tenure which I have enjoyed enormously. Who's next then? Aye, Craig has certainly maintained the standard, if not bettered, of the previous Bond actors. Must get this booked, not seen/heard a bad review to date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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