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Post by patricklondon on Dec 23, 2019 14:58:11 GMT
Questa, if you get the chance, you'd get a good sense of Brenda Blethyn's range if you can get to see her in the movies "Secrets and Lies" and "Little Voice". I agree, it's a surprise to realise just how different some character actors can be when themselves. I didn't know that about Bill Maynard ("Greengrass"), since somewhat scruffy working-class characters were rather his stock in trade (try Googling him as Selwyn Froggitt). My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 23, 2019 16:58:32 GMT
Secrets and Lies is the movie that made her famous in France.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 29, 2019 4:54:03 GMT
So I went back a couple of pages in What is the Last Movie You Saw because I remembered some chat about the Downton Abbey movie. lugg asked me if I had seen it. Looking back I see that for whatever idiotic reason I addressed her as Bjd when answering and just now noticed it. Sorry, Lugg! I did know it was you & apparently had some kind of brain slippage. I haven't seen the Downton Abbey movie yet and yes, I know it has awful reviews. But I consider the series just wonderful entertainment and allowed myself to be emotionally manipulated by it, plus I adored the clothes. I expect the movie to fill the same bill. Anyway, back to the present ~ my neighbor said that if I was a fan of the tv series, that I should see the movie. I dialed it up on my handy-dandy laptop amd wallowed in it, dreadful directing and all. I'm laying the rather jerky flow and somewhat uncommitted acting at the door of the director, although the script writer should be locked up until he or she learns how to write conversation that sounds like people talking. Still, the whole syrupy thing, complete with pat solutions and happy endings for almost all, seduced me by the end and provided exactly the experience I wished to have.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 29, 2019 9:33:45 GMT
It's fine, I completely understand (altho I've never watched Downton) after all...I watch Doctor Who after all....
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Post by lugg on Dec 29, 2019 11:33:00 GMT
Haha Bixa " brain slippage" I must remember that phrase, I will use it often ! Glad you enjoyed Downton.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 6, 2020 4:26:09 GMT
Okay, y'all mock me if you must, but I just watched Peanut Butter Falcon and thoroughly enjoyed it. This kind of movie must be approached with a certain willingness to be emotionally manipulated, but really, it was made with such a light, deft touch that I was happy to give myself over to it. If you're ready for an honest-to-goodness feelgood movie, go watch this one. Also, the sound track is fabulous.
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Post by rikita on Jan 12, 2020 22:57:40 GMT
looks like a movie i'd enjoy. unfortunately, the only movies i have time for, it seems, are movies i can watch with a. we watched monsters inc. the other day, but almost had to stop it, as she found it scary (a year or two ago, she wouldn't have found it scary at all) ...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 13, 2020 2:25:41 GMT
Rikita, Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 96%. After I read your comment, I tried to remember what in the movie might make it inappropriate for someone Agnes's age, & all I could think of was that there was actually more violence than I'd wanted to witness. Then, out of curiosity I looked it up and was amazed to find there are sites that rate movies not just for kids, but for more sensitive adults. If you're curious, here are two where you can put in the name of a movie to see how it's rated. The first one is child-specific & I guess the second one is for everyone ~ kids-in-mind.com/p/peanut-butter-falcon-parents-guide-movie-review-rating.htm and www.pluggedin.com/movie-reviews/the-peanut-butter-falcon-2019/
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Post by rikita on Jan 17, 2020 21:59:41 GMT
i suppose in this case, the issue wouldn't be so much violence, unless it is actually scary, but that she might just not find it very interesting, as i suppose the story is more about things that interest grown ups ... that is the thing with ratings, at times, they might say what age a child can watch a movie without getting scared, but it doesn't say if they can actually understand the story ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 25, 2020 16:52:32 GMT
Sunshine on Leith is one of the most peculiar movies that I have seen in a long time. The cast is appealing, but really, a musical about veterans from Afghanistan in Edinburgh? The songs are awful and just the fact that it is full of songs makes it awful.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 25, 2020 17:31:16 GMT
Well, I like it....
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 25, 2020 17:54:11 GMT
Oh, I saw that most British audiences appreciated it, but that it was not released in most of the world. That's totally fine, because not every movie should be exported, no matter what country it is from. (Many people don't know this since we seem completely inundated by American movies, but only about 30% of American movies are shown in other countries, except direct-to-video.)
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Post by lugg on Jan 25, 2020 18:09:32 GMT
NOOOO - Sunshine on the Leith is wonderful and the music ...it's the Proclaimers
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 26, 2020 4:47:37 GMT
just the fact that it is full of songs makes it awful I rushed out and had a very large tattoo of this put on my chest, plus took down all the pictures and the throw pillows in my house so I could replace them with crewel, cross-stitch, trapunto, etc. works featuring that sentence.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 26, 2020 12:22:14 GMT
If you don't like films full of songs why watch it?!
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 1, 2020 17:59:16 GMT
I rarely go hunting around my video box for all of the possibilities, but I must say that the Saturday Night Live show with Adam Driver at the end of January was absolutely one of the best ever.
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Post by rikita on Feb 13, 2020 21:19:53 GMT
currently often watching a swiss late night show via youtube to practice understanding swiss german ... else, watched a movie with agnes yesterday, she chose the garfield movie, though we'd both seen it before. she likes it and laughs a lot. a couple of weeks ago we watched the peanuts movie, which she also finds amusing ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 16, 2020 7:35:28 GMT
I came across Steel Country / A Dark Place by accident on one of my cable channels, and I have to admit that it is the most amazing and unexpected performance that I have ever seen by Andrew Scott. Small town sanitation worker in Pennsylvania?
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Post by spaceneedle on Feb 16, 2020 10:03:19 GMT
I came across Steel Country / A Dark Place by accident on one of my cable channels, and I have to admit that it is the most amazing and unexpected performances that I have ever seen by Andrew Scott. Small town sanitation worker in Pennsylvania? Andrew Scott is a great actor. Love him in Fleabag.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 16, 2020 10:54:22 GMT
Yes, I know that Andrew Scott is excellent -- not only in Fleabag but also in Sherlock among others. But in this movie, he is surprising and different.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 16, 2020 16:10:00 GMT
Looks powerful, harrowing even.
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Post by rikita on Feb 16, 2020 16:23:54 GMT
started watching "chilling adventures of sabrina" recently, needed a few episodes to get into it, but now really enjoying it ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 16, 2020 16:40:39 GMT
Looks powerful, harrowing even. And yet it was never released anywhere.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 16, 2020 16:59:43 GMT
Bizarre! I saw on the video that it's won at least two awards in the UK, plus Andrew Scott is really hot right now. The video also says "in select cinemas & on demand from 19 April". That was back in March of last year. The trailer has 362,734 views to date, so people aren't unaware the movie exists. You were lucky to come across it!
pee ess ~ just checked & it is available as a p*rate m*vie.
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Post by rikita on Mar 7, 2020 22:56:18 GMT
just finished watching "the tale"
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 8, 2020 4:41:40 GMT
I'm assuming you watched that without Agnes, right?
Words cannot express how much I hate myself for binging through Poldark. I have two or three episodes left in season five, but why couldn't I have paced myself?
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Post by rikita on Mar 8, 2020 22:37:21 GMT
yeah, watched it in the evening when she was already in bed ...
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Post by Kimby on Mar 14, 2020 4:18:12 GMT
We just watched The Insult, filmed in Lebanese with subtitles. Extremely well-acted, and a gripping tale of a dispute between a Lebanese man and a Palestinian man, both too proud and angry to apologize. Events escalate and there’s a trial and an appeal in which I found the lawyers’ arguments enlightening as to the friction between the Lebanese and the Palestinians who uneasily share the country. www.imdb.com/video/vi2847848473
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 14, 2020 5:51:06 GMT
Yes, that was an excellent movie.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 15, 2020 17:55:07 GMT
Last night I watched Captain Fantastic on Netflix and thoroughly enjoyed it. Jeff wandered into the room when it had been on for half and joined me. The last few weeks I've been working my way through the Studio Ghibli cartoons and Jeff isnt a huge fan...but I had a rest from cartoons...he liked my choice yesterday.
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