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Casting knew her strengths.
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Just watched Good Time.
The Safdie Bros. have a big future ahead of them.
Robert Pattinson was excellent.
Loved Ready Player One
A Quiet Place. Would recommend.
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Mollyâs Game was good. But like almost all movies these days 20-30 min too long.
Spanish Film Festival is on and Iâve pencilled in 6 movies. One today, 3 tomorrow and 2 Monday. Luckily not many go the two hours.
First one was AbracadabraâŠsomething the Poms and Yanks donât seem able to pull off. Maribel VertĂș (the hornbag from Y Tu Mama) is Carmen, married to Carlos, whoâs a ratbag. Film starts with The family going to the nephewâs wedding right in the middle of the Cup Final. Real playing Barça and right when the priest calls for any opposition to the wedding, Barça through the f**king midget (as he calls him) scores the winner.
An apprentice hypnotist at the reception hypnotises Carlos, and the spirit of a spree killer enters his body, improving Carlosâs behaviour and attitude to his family, but so do the killerâs psychiatric problems.
Lots of humour, bit of mild horror, good fun! And Maribel is still guapa.
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Watched Three billboards outside ebbing on plane on way home.
What an absolute load of meaningless boring twaddle.
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How the hell did that win academy awards. It annoys me this morning how boring that movie was
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It certainly doesnât follow the Hollywood formula.
Maybe some people just like good acting and pithy story-line over formulaic pulp.
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I thought 3 billboards was excellent.
3 of the best actors getting around and they each gave amazing performances.
Boring? It had death, sucide, rape, police brutality, racism, revenge. I thought it was drama at its best.
I mean the last 10 mins of woodys character was sweat, funny and brutal. How can you think that was boring.
Havenât seen a good movie since atomic blonde, wtf movie scene?
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It was boring and everyone in it looked bored. She should have won academy award for angriest woman who swears the most. Rockwell looked bored. Harrelsons Mrs looked bored.
Only thing I liked was Rockwells character arc, that took a good turn. Otherwise meh. Maybe Iâd just heard all the hype and was anticipting greatness.
Two more rippers today, and a third Sting-type film that was pretty good, but easily #4 in priorities.
First was Sin Rodeos (sounds like a pron-western) but means Without Boundaries and is listed as No Filter.
Again stars Maribel VerdĂș as Paz, a 40-ish advertising exec who has a deadbeat âartistâ husband, a layabout amateur pr0n-star stepson, a sleazy boss who inherited from his late dad and only employs girls he wants bang, a sister who adds a new dimension to âcrazy cat ladyâ, an ex whoâs getting henpecked by his bride-to-be and a neighbour whoâs been off his tree since 1992 and throws noisy parties upstairs. For some reason, sheâs prone to anxiety attacks and her doctor only wants to prescribe more meds. She sees an ad for an Indian healer who gives her a potion, that when she drinks it, she starts telling people what she really thinks.
I loved itâŠhilarious, but with a serious side. Itâll come to the arthouse cinemas and well worth seeing. 11/10.
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Second one was Es Por Tu Bien (Itâs for your own good) and has three brothers-in-law who each have one daughter who falls for guys their fathers think are totally unsuited for their darling daughters. They group as the Supercuñados (super b-i-lâs) and determine to get rid of the beaus.
One is a Venezuelan anarchist who turns up at the wedding and she dumps the groom.
The second is an Argentinian photographer of the female form who was a schoolmate of the father.
And the third is a troubled youth who hasnât got over the death of his grandfather and the girl sacrifices a chance for a music scholarship at the Reina Sofia Conservatory.
Some very amusing incidents but with a serious overtones. If it was filmed here or the US, the SJWâs on Twitter would go ape droppings, but Iâm not sure the French or Spanish care too much for the bleaters. Thereâs nothing offensive, but it could be construed as insensitive to people who think they have problems.
I didnât recognise many here, except for Javier CĂĄmara whoâs in a few Almodovars and has recently been in Truman with Ricardo DarĂn, and Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
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Third one was more of a grifter movie, called OperaciĂłn Concha - Operation Goldenshell. Set in San Sebastian and based around cinema, a movie has been cancelled and the key people decide to scam funding out of a rich Mexican woman by making up a double for a famous Latino action star.
I missed a little bit due to desperate need for a wee and I suspect that bit was important.
The issue throughout was whoâs scamming whom.
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The Death of Stalin this arvo. No subtitles - all in English with American (Steve Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor) and English (Michael Palin, Jason Isaacs, Andrea Riseborough and others) portraying Members of the Politburo at the time of Stalinâs death.
Beria thinks heâs taking over but Buscemi as Khruschchev thinks not. Rather amusing the way people are getting shot on a whim. Iâm not the greatest fan of Russians so I thought the whole thing was hilarious.
Waiting for another Spanish one or two now.
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Just finished watching Get Out. Kooky concept.
Liked it a lot.