Giles

saw this last night at the AFI Silver:



Stone Roses: Made of Stone

JimRochester

42 - 4/5 a little melodramatic in the first half but a good movie
The Sessions - 3.5/5 Helen Hunt nice and naked. A good movie with humor but uncomfortable to watch at times due to his disability
Lockdown - 2/5 at least Maggie grace was playing an age appropriate victim thsi time instead of 17 like in the Taken series
Lay The favorite - 2/5 not a great movie made from a great book

inri222

Fixed

RichC2

Rebecca Hall had an excellent body in that movie. But yeah, not a very good movie, at all.

JimRochester

This Is The End Funny funny movie.

inri222

Nobody Else But You (Poupoupidou) - 3.5/5

A French author of pulp crime novels travels to a small town on the French-Swiss border to hear the reading of his uncle's will. While there the body of a local celebrity is found by the police and declared a suicide. Looking for ideas to use for his next novel he investigates the death and starts to doubt that it was a suicide. Nice little modern noir with touches of the Coen brothers starts off great but loses steam in the second half.

Jack Straw

Parkland - (running time 93 minutes) I am a Kennedy assassination buff and enjoyed what little was presented. Wished it had run another 20-30 minutes.

JimRochester

Thor 4/5

nasesco417

The Frozen Ground - a by the numbers formulaic serial killer movie based on real life serial killer Richard Henson. A surprisingly solid performance by Nick Cage, and a solid as usual performance by John Cusack as Henson

Why So Blu?

The Forgiveness of Blood. Powerful stuff. Was from the same dude that did Maria Full of Grace, which I still haven't seen.

asianxcore

Angst (1983)

DJariya

Thor: The Dark World

The Colony (DVD)

Before Midnight (DVD)

asianxcore

No One Lives (2012)

I wish the last 45 minutes were as fun as the first.

hanshotfirst1138

I suppose she's the favorite you want to lay then .

This Means War- A true by-committee piece of filmmaking without an original frame in it, a waste of three talented stars. Here's some romance, here's some Spielberg domestic drama, he's some action from a 90's Bond movie shot by James Cameron's old cinematographer, here's the audience falling asleep. Technically impressive, but soulless as a robot. Forgettable at best.

Patriot Games- Fairly classy Tom Clancy adaptation with cool action sequences and nice sense of place. Some good set pieces and cool hardware, though what was cutting edge in 1992 looks fairly archaic now. Good performances, though the cartoonish villains are cliched as hell, nice FX and action sequences, a studio-imposed ending is really a bit much. As far as Hollywood action thrillers go, pretty good.

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence- An utterly fascinating blend of Spielberg and Kubrick, two filmmakers with diametrically opposed aesthetics and worldviews. Visually stunning, uneven, and frequently brilliant, and always interesting look at a peculiar collaboration.

Oliver and Company- Classic Disney flick, produced during a transitional period, apparently used quite a bit of then-revolutionary CG. Cute characters, great musical numbers, lots of fun.

islandclaws

Wake In Fright (1971) - 4.5/5

Incredible Aussie flick, directed by Ted Kotcheff, about a small-town schoolteacher who stops off in the town of 'Yabba for a night before heading to Sydney to catch a flight. Except the local folk, and their friendly, beer-guzzling ways, keep him entrenched there for much longer. There's this great sinister undercurrent running throughout, constantly causing you to think something insane is about to happen. It's a fantastic study of characters, excess, depravity, and isolation.

EddieMoney

A Good Day to Die Hard - 3/5
Red Dawn - 3.5/5 (don't get the hate for this)

hanshotfirst1138

Which Red Dawn?

EddieMoney

The new one, actually. I thought it was a pretty solid remake.

writer106

Death Proof 3/5

Hazel Motes

Sex, Lies & Videotape-Steven Soderbergh 4.5/5
Something Wild-Jonathan Demme 4/5
Ministry of Fear-Fritz Lang 4/5
Stoker-Park Chan-wook 4/5
Quadrille-Sacha Guitry 3.5/5
Upstream Colour-Shane Carruth 4/5
Design For Living-Ernst Lubitsch 4.5/5
Fear and Desire-Stanley Kubrick 3/5
The Americanization of Emily-Arthur Hiller 4/5
About Time-Richard Curtis 4/5
Dallas Buyers Club-Jean-Marc Vallée 4/5

inri222

Ugetsu - 5/5

Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece of Japanese cinema is a supernatural tale about two men during wartime who are led astray by greed and ambition. In their persuits they abandon their wives causing trajedy to befall on them and their families. Top notch acting, direction, camera work and just about everything makes this one of the greatest films ever made.

Why So Blu?

Rock N Rolla

The Hobbit EE

james2025a

Last night i watched Machete Kills (Horrible horrible movie), Elysium (Enjoyable, but not highly original) and Valkyrie (Seen it before and i enjoy it).

Giles

well since last Thursday I've seen:

07 - Nebraska
07 - Stranger at the Lake
08 - Jake Squared
08 - Charlie Countryman
09 - Philomena
09 - At Middleton
09 - The Face of Love
11 - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey / 182min extended version
12 - Dallas Buyer's Club
12 - Thor: The Dark World / 3D/Dolby Atmos
13 - Frances Ha

today:
Blue is the Warmest Color
The Boat that Rocked
Wings of Life

hanshotfirst1138

Do you ever sleep?!