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Post by HalcyonDaze on Apr 15, 2023 21:50:40 GMT -5
I want to see Polite Society, but so far it is only listed at the crap cinema chains and not anywhere else. So will probably wait til it is streaming
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Apr 15, 2023 22:44:29 GMT -5
I’ve watched a couple of recorded movies lately. The Queen was awful. Jackie, about Jacqueline Kennedy in the aftermath of JFK’s assassination, was quite good, but did she really talk like that?
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Post by scrubb on Apr 15, 2023 23:00:41 GMT -5
I saw Women Talking last week. Thought it was excellent. I really like Jessie Buckley.
Before seeing it I wondered why there were no nominations for any of the actors, and although I think both Jessie Buckley and Judith Ivey were great candidates for Supporting Actress, it really was such an ensemble piece that no one had a particularly large role.
In fact, Frances McDormnd was probably on screen for about 2 minutes, total. They were a good 2 minutes, though!
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Post by Liiisa on Apr 19, 2023 20:24:25 GMT -5
"Moonfall," which was incredibly INCREDIBLY stupid. So stupid! So bad! Such idiocy! Incredible! But it was fun. But WOW so stupid
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Apr 20, 2023 3:10:03 GMT -5
Finally watched the Social Network. Not a fan of Zuckerberg if he is like he was portrayed, although those twin brothers are far worse. Talk about entitled.
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Post by wombatrois on Apr 24, 2023 6:18:59 GMT -5
Everything Everywhere All at Once OMG I saw this last week. There was an introduction by the Daniels which may have influenced my opinion, but this seemed like an expensive geeky third year film student film to me. The production quality was obvs. great, but seriously?
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Post by Liiisa on Apr 24, 2023 11:29:36 GMT -5
Opinions are divided!
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Post by scrubb on Apr 24, 2023 21:21:06 GMT -5
Yeah, some people (like wombatrois) are wrong. 😉
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Post by tucano on May 8, 2023 15:19:33 GMT -5
1917. I don't usually like war films but it's very striking.
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Post by Phar Lap on Jun 1, 2023 19:21:46 GMT -5
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. “In India, we have a saying: 'Everything will be alright in the end.' So if it's not alright, it is not yet the end."
I bought a few films, this is one of them. Always good for lifting one’s spirits. Maggie Smith is brilliant as always.
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Post by sophie on Jun 13, 2023 23:21:15 GMT -5
Based on a friend’s recommendation, I watched ‘Bright Shiny People’ on Prime. It raises some very scary stuff about power and evangelical cults and homeschooling.
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Post by Phar Lap on Jun 19, 2023 3:17:59 GMT -5
The Magic of Belle Isle is one of those feel good movies which you can’t help liking. Starring Morgan Freeman as a retired and wheelchair bound writer who moves into a fairly remote village where he meets a single mother of three girls. A friendship springs up between the crusty old writer and the youngest daughter. This is one of the films I purchased. Recommended.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 29, 2023 16:47:43 GMT -5
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Post by tzarine on Aug 7, 2023 20:03:37 GMT -5
watching the mcfayden pride & prejudice light fun
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Post by Queen on Aug 8, 2023 3:10:30 GMT -5
Going to see Barbie on Thursday...
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Post by tucano on Aug 8, 2023 5:38:23 GMT -5
Going to see Barbie on Thursday... We need a photo of you dressed all in pink for the screening.
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Post by Queen on Aug 8, 2023 5:53:59 GMT -5
Going to see Barbie on Thursday... We need a photo of you dressed all in pink for the screening. Watch this space.
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Post by lillielangtry on Aug 8, 2023 5:56:43 GMT -5
I saw Barbie on Sunday!
I enjoyed it. I was not a Barbie fan as a kid so don't have the emotional connection that some seem to, but it was fun.
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Post by Queen on Aug 8, 2023 6:33:26 GMT -5
I wasn't a Barbie fan, and I never had one - my mum though she was too sexualized, and doesn't like all the plastic.
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Post by lillielangtry on Aug 8, 2023 7:53:43 GMT -5
I was a My Little Pony girl...
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Post by tucano on Aug 8, 2023 8:02:53 GMT -5
Me too, lillie. That and Care Bears.
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Post by lillielangtry on Aug 8, 2023 8:43:23 GMT -5
Me too, lillie. That and Care Bears. I'm told the Care Bears film was my first trip to the cinema (1985). I was scared. (Nothing changes - I'm still a wimp about onscreen stuff now!)
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Post by tucano on Aug 19, 2023 11:56:54 GMT -5
Against my better judgement and because of the good reviews, I saw the Barbie movie.
It passed two hours OK, but I didn't love it. The attention to detail in the creation of Barbieland was great, but too much pink for me.
I did like America Ferrera though and would like to see her in more films.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 19, 2023 17:25:46 GMT -5
Finally watched the Social Network. Not a fan of Zuckerberg if he is like he was portrayed, although those twin brothers are far worse. Talk about entitled. the winklevi totally crack me up the elite colleges are totally like that visually sumptious bout a young girl into a yoshiwara brothel & the oi ran she becomes sakuran
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Aug 19, 2023 21:45:00 GMT -5
The Barbie movie, with a 9-year-old. I’m hoping a few of the things I found funny went over her head! One thing I will dispute: my doll-owning years were pre-Barbie, but they weren’t baby dolls, more like little girls that could walk, and closed their eyes when they were laid down. But overall, very clever.
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 27, 2023 19:06:52 GMT -5
lol since I now have seen this a second time unbeknownst to me when it was suggested (again), I'll just copy what I said in 2019:
Never Look Away" ("Werk Ohne Autor" in original German).
REALLY GOOD film about a young artist who grows up under the Nazis & then is in art school in East Germany and Dusseldorf... amazing stuff about how ones experiences inform ones ideas. Really really recommend.
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 29, 2023 18:37:25 GMT -5
"Oppenheimer," which you all have probably already seen. Well worth all the hoo-ra about it; now I want to take physics.
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Post by tinaja on Jan 1, 2024 13:49:45 GMT -5
Finally An Affair to Remember with Carry Grant and Deborah Kerr. Highly referenced in Sleepless in Seattle. So now I get it. Really the last scene made the movie.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 7, 2024 21:25:37 GMT -5
"Touchez Pas au Grisbi," a famous French gangster movie from the mid-50s. I thought it was absolutely great - I'd watch it again just for the visuals, which were gorgeous. Lots of beautiful ironwork in old Paris apartment buildings and 1950s sports cars. With a very young Jeanne Moreau.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jan 13, 2024 4:54:45 GMT -5
The Imitation Game. Excellent biography of Alan Turing. So sad, the reason he died, but at the time, nobody knew about the gift he gave the world.
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