I’ll watch her in anything but Anja Taylor Joy surviving 5 minutes in a post apocalyptic outback is going to take some serious suspension of the old disbelief mechanism.
Yep …saw this one a while ago. Heavy stuff but it was a good one
Just watched The Way last night. 2010 film so many of you will have seen it. Worth a look if you haven’t. SBSOD and Prime.
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Martin Sheen and James Nesbitt on El Camino?
Yes, that’s the one.
My boss just did that walk this year. He did a shorter version of it. He loved it.
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There’s a documentary about Sterling Hayden called Pharos of Chaos. It’s from his later years when he’d gone all Hemingway - see The Long Goodbye.
He’s living on a boat, struggling with alcoholism and obvious mental illness, and presents as one of the most eccentric personalities you could imagine.
I’d recommend it as a document of some of the larger-than-life characters that once populated Hollywood.
Also, Hayden was in one of my favourite westerns, Johnny Guitar. Mercedes McCambridge plays the villain in that one and produces a memorably spiteful and demented performance.
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I’ve been punishing myself with the Twilight movies on late night tv.
They are astoundingly bad, and yet I can’t look away.
A 12yo girl’s fantasy that no one along the chain thought to incinerate.
It was published!
160million copies sold in 37 languages!
Film rights were picked up!
Actors, directors, producers gave it the green light!
Sequels were made!
And now, I’d imagine, it’s an embarrassment to all involved.
The author has an estimated net worth on $120million.
What is wrong with the world?
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That sounds very interesting, I’ll have to track I’d down and watch it
I accidentally watched some the other night to see Team Edward sparkling in the sunshine and Team Jacob all pecs and abs with zero charisma or acting ability, both fawning over the monotone depressed Bella…three totally unlikable characters. The worse part is I remember their names
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I started watching the first one when it first came out for rental as my (then) young daughter and (ex) wife wanted to watch it.
(I had a mild level of interest as I will admit to enjoying the likes of Buffy, Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles and the Blade & Underworld movies).
Found it incredibly slow but stuck with it right up to the point where the farking vampire glittered in the sunshine.
That was it…everyone knows that vampires either turn to dust or explode into flames when in full sunlight.
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Family Switch
Timeless tradition of freaky fridayish theme where a family all switch bodies/ spirits. They must try to best deal with eachothers issues for the next 72 hours.
Lots of funnies in a feel good movie.
7/10
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When I think Nepal/Mt Everest/Himalayas I think of Walhalla
A remote Victorian town with just 20 permanent residents will star in a major Hollywood movie.
In a letter sent out to residents and business owners, Servo Productions announced star actor Liam Neeson and his crew will be heading to Walhalla to film Ice Road 2: Road to the Sky in January.
The blockbuster is the sequel to the 2021 film The Ice Road
The production crew plan to convert Walhalla’s Star Hotel and surrounds into a marketplace that mirrors Kodari, Nepal.
WOW WEE MIGHT GET BT AS AN EXTRA
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Vengeance on Netflix was pretty good.
Directorial debut by BJ Novak.
Was thought provoking in a deliberate method without spelling out what they were trying to say. I dunno - I suck at reviews.
Had some amazing dialogue throughout which left you genuinely surprised it got to the point it did from
where it started.
Just a good movie and a lot more engineered and thought out compared to the standard dribble cookie cutter approaches you find out there currently.
get on it.
8/10
A bit if a feelgood film from the UK. The Lancashire market town of Burnley to be precise. That’s about 20miles north of Manchester… Pennines country. Northern England to its warm soul.
Based on real life, though Netflix hams it up a tad. But worth watching, particularly if you’re an old Def Lepperd fan 
“monsternado“ amazing! Sharknado was way better
Saw this trailer this morning. Timely to say the least. Looks a bit bang bang kapow from the trailer but they’d be looking to get a blockbuster audience in obviously. Hoping for another smart, nuanced and entertaining Garland film. Texas and California united? Hmmm
a24 does some interesting stuff, not neccessarily always good but certainly a bit off the beaten path
Profile. A good but not great UK film based on a true story. Worth a watch though … was a nightmare period of our times back then in Syria and Da’ish
Basically a journo looking to bag a big story and future goes online to expose a terrorist ISIS recruiter through FB. And gets sucked right in.
Shazad Latif … he’s an excellent actor who plied his trade via the BBC Spooks series and thereafter Star Trek. Valene Kane pulls off a difficult role as the struggling and chaotic journalist.
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