Want some off the radar indie films?

Frank - Bizarre but brilliant

Cheap Thrills - You just want to see how far they'll go for cash

Tyrannosaur - Very hard watch and brutal

Dead Mans Shoes -

Sid and Nancy - Been rereleased in the cinemas for the anniversary

American Mary - Just watch it. Not going to ruin it

SCUM - Ray Winstons first film at the tender age of 19 about a british boarstal. Savage story

Starred up - Prison Flick

Searching for Sugarman - Good doco

Beneath the Surface - Good doco about my mate from the UK; big wave surfer Andrew Cotton searching for a spot in Ireland

Yeah harsh film with a rough ending. Tyrannosaur and Harry Brown are like that. One watch only because it takes too much energy to get through from the bleakness. Great films, just hard going

Bad boy bubby

1080p Version is up on Kodi.

Not that I use that sort of thing.

Definitely not worth paying for. It is seriously odd and not really in a good way

Definitely different though

Both don't work onscreen for me. Trying to take a graphic novel and putting it to film in that style is too ambitious which can be be both bad and amazing if pulled off. Unfortunately; watchmen, sin city, preacher etc just don't do them justice. I have some hope for Y: The last man.

Killing joke and the dark knight were pretty great animations of the graphic novels though. Killing joke has to be the darkest joker/batman novel ever

"Graphic Novel" was coined by the comic fan and aficionado;Richard Kyle in an essay in 1964. Not movie code for comics at all.

Whether you use the term comics, graphic novels or albums. None are incorrect. Tomato, tomato

I'd love it if they had a go at adapting "The Boys" to cellular film. Garth Ennis is the man. Just a shame that Preacher didn't live up to my expectations. Apart from Arseface and Cassidy, I thought they casted it all wrong

Certainly agree with you there. Wonder why Clive Owen didn't take up the role again. I'm a fan of Brolin but he went the wrong direction with this for sure

No I listen to lots of podcasts at work on all sorts of things.

I see Steve Dillon died today. Bummer

Yeah he was never my favourite but what he did in Hellblazer I liked. He was only 54 too.

Films! That's where we were.

Watched lights out last night

Absolute tosh of a horror flick. 3/10

I listen to so many different types of podcasts. Some are quite good, some I'll listen to one and move on. Comics and history is one, talking comics is another. Stuff you should know is good too. I'm pretty sure the stuff that was about the terms albums or graphic novels or comic books were in an actual book club podcast and not a comic one; but I'm sure Kevin Smith was involved so I can't remember. History of Batman was quite good

I listen to a lot of audio dramas too like We're Alive which is awesome and Serial.

No sure if you're android or apple (I'm apple), but let me wade through all my shit (I have 250+ subscriptions) and weed out the good ones for you. I listen too some awesome film review ones too with Kermode and Mayo being my favourite one.

I want to read some more with Darrick Robertson illustrating. Love his art style. I've been told Transmetropolitan is a good one. Have you read it? You know of any more he did?

Sorry Dave for us hijacking your film thread mate.

You should read the short story it's based from. And I mean it is a real short story.

Great in its own way that something so short provokes so much thought; but the film takes all of it and makes it a great flick.

Enjoy guys

Trainspotting 2:

It's fantastic to have a true sequel and wanting to catch up with characters you gave a shit about 20 years ago.

It's poignant about reaching middle age and wondering what the fuck went wrong.

It's lovely that you get to see Spuds journey on becoming a better person for his ex wife and kid.

Begbie and Sick Boy, harsh and villainous as ever.

Side note: I'm English and could have done with some subtitles at times. The Scottish accent is thick as molasses

Fuck remakes and reboots. I want to see what these characters have been up to.

Now let's have a bit more of that.

I want to see what Jack Burton has been up to the last thirty years

Yeah I wouldn't bother with aggregator site scores such as Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB. They're pretty much worthless. Conflicting directors or films end up with high high scores or low low scores resulting in an average.

This what you're referring to I think has something to do with the facebook group to bring down the scores of Black Panther and (some of) these people are counteracting the scores. Add to the hype of the recent news of the "this film is only for black people," resulting in the fake social media posts where white people have been posting fake pictures of white girls getting bottled at the cinema saying "get the fxxk out, this here is a black movie," is all adding fuel to the sad fire.

Pretty sad really and people don't have lives evidently.

I'm over superhero films myself. It's saturated and I like the ones that have a genuine different take. That's why I hold Logan in high regard.

Dr mark Kermode sums it up pretty well......

Darkest Hour.

Outstanding performance by Gary Oldman. Acting through prosthetics apparently is super hard and he shines through it. He does a great job of being Winston Churchill without trying to imitate his voice. Surely a long time coming Oscar for him.

The film itself was good, although coming from the UKL and knowing the history behind it, it felt too juxtaposition told for my liking. "We have to inform so and so, the head of such department who did this and that." Felt shoehorned in. Almost expected someone to break the 4th wall to explain it. Probably explains why the UK critics had a more Luke warm response than the rest of the world.

And don't get me started on the impromptu cabinet meeting on the tube. The creators said that it was a scene with an element of truth. So not true at all then.

Not bad, but not without it's flaws

7/10

Yeah it was a mess. It didn’t know where it wanted to go.

It had the same feeling like 3 billboards but at least you felt like you were in safe hands with 3 billboards. It was like the director didn’t have a clue.

Shit film

That’s a pretty big spoiler right there.

What a cock

Hmmm.

Yeah na, I don’t know what places you’ve read things, but if what you’ve read said that multiple characters die then that’s well shit.

I haven’t read or heard any reviews that even hint at characters dying. They’ve all danced around anything major. I had a hunch that they did but just a hunch.

Saying that all the characters died is a fucking big spoiler. I don’t care if you didn’t say who and it hasn’t even been out a week.

Yup. What a fucking bellend.

Solo isn't bad at all.

Fun for sure but unnecessary. No sense of jeopardy throughout. With the Lando spin off in the works and what they're setting up for the cameo in the future is unsure.

No doubt Disney are milking the Star Wars universe. Just hope that it doesn't get saturated like Marvel/DC and making them for the sake of making them. Obi Wan, Darth Maul, Lando, Boba Fett and other films are already in the pipeline, who knows how many more.

I expect the fella who has a death sentence on 12 systems will get one too if they can make a dollar out of it lol.

I was worried about the casting of Ehrenreich and Glover for Solo and Lando but I thought they were good.

But yeah good fun. Entertaining. Better than The Last Jedi that's for sure.

7/10

If you look at the issues he had with the production, I’m surprised it came out as well as it did. There was so much rewriting and reshooting going on.

As for the lighting, you’re not the only one to say this. Mine was okay and not too dark. One reason that has been said as to why some places play it and looks dark and others looks fine is because they haven’t changed the lens from the 3D. 3D lenses create light loss and non-3D films can still be run through them, but light loss is still occurs.

Some cinemas will switch the lenses out depending on whether it’s 2D or 3D being shown, but some others just don’t bother.

I watched this at home last night. If this was a standalone film I think it’s pretty good but falls flat a bit as a sequel. Feels a bit old too. Like it should’ve been released 10 years ago.

Isle of Dogs

Not a big fan of stop motion (never really have been) but I thought this was awesome. I’ve had this since it came out but never could bring myself to watch it. I’m so glad I did.

A strange little tale where all dogs in Japan are banished to Trash Island because of Snout Fever and Dog Flu and a little kid goes over to try and find his lost dog and it unfolds from there.

Directed by Wes Anderson with an all star cast or more like an ensemble cast featuring Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Scarlett Johansson, Harvey Keitel, Francis McDormand, Leiv Schrieber, Bob Balaban, F. Murray Abraham, Tilde Swinton, Ken Watanabe and Angelica Huston.

Typical eclectic Wes Anderson style and the animation very much in the same style as Fantastic Mr Fox. All the cast are great at putting life and character into their doggy avatars and if you liked The Royal Tenenbaums, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom, Life Aquatic and The Darjeeling Limited, I think you’ll enjoy this film a lot.

Anderson’s films not to everyone’s tastes however being that “Marmite” Director so if you didn’t like his previous efforts, I suspect this’ll fall flat for you.

But for me a solid 4.5/5 FFC

Summer of ‘84

Film set in the summer of 1984 (obvs) that follows a group of 15 yr old mates in a sleepy little town where kids from 12-16 have been going missing. The officials come out saying there’s an official serial killer on the loose and the central kid in the film believes it’s his cop neighbour.

Not a bad film if you can’t find something to watch. I was pleasantly surprised and found it fun. When they go bowling there’s a few vids in the background and the elusive Polybius is there with an “out of order” sign which I thought was a cool little touch.

It’s obviously got inspiration from all the usual suspects ( stranger things, etc) but I thought it was alright.

7/10

I love the retro film nights. Gives me a chance to see flicks that I was too young to get into the cinema for when they were released.

Looking forward to Predator, Robocop and Terminator

https://www.eventcinemas.co.nz/EventsFestivals/RetroSessions

The Predator.

Shane Black’s (Hawkins from the original) attempt at a part reboot, part sequel falls flat. Bigtime.

The characters don’t gel and the running jokes miss their mark every time. The action is nothing special.

To be fair with all the shite since the original like AVP and AVP: Requiem and Predators, my hopes weren’t high anyway.

It’s a shame though because Shane Black has done some great films in the past and known for his snappy dialogue, but falls well short of the mark here. So if you’re expecting Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Nice Guys or Iron Man 3 calibre; you won’t find it here.

Shane Black said he was going for “a close encounters/E.T. vibe.” I didn’t get that at all apart from the kids all out on Halloween.

The only joke I thought had some fun to it was the debate on why it’s called predator and not a hunter. That’s a throwback to what the original was going to be called. But not many people would get that anyway.

And Predator dogs? Really?

6/10. That’s being generous.

Yeah it’s a good film. Have you seen Unfriended?

It’s weird because it feels like it shouldn’t work but it just does somehow.

Evident that the found footage genre of film has evolved. It needed to as well as it got stale as all hell.

I think the thumbs down was for the spoiler more than anything. Who gives a shit about thumbs down anyway?

This film was a hard watch for me and Michelle. Bit too close to home for us. Had me in tears a couple times.

Great debut from Bradley Cooper though. He’s got talent.

Seen “The Irishman” twice now. Once on the small screen and once on the big screen. Definitely better on the small screen to handle the hefty 3.5 hour runtime and you can have a break etc. And it’s not really too much of a cinematic experience so you don’t miss much. Needed to be cut back to at least 2.45 hours.

Weakest of the “Goodfellas Trilogy” for sure but still good.

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