#221

Do you have a laptop? We’re just watching stuff using my laptop with an hdmi cable plugging it into the TV. Bit faffy but we only have an old console and there’s no app on that.

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#222

Genuinely had no idea there was another way than this, lol. I’m such a luddite.

#223

I think Mubi has apps on current gen consoles, we only have a doddery old Xbox 360 tho.

(You can also get it as an add-on to Prime and get it through their apps, but it didn’t look like the £1 deal was redeemable through that)

#224

yep, I’ve been using it on the ps4

#225

Ah right, don’t have a console but connecting my laptop only takes 2 mins.

#226

Yeah I can completely see that! Weirdly the mystery also kinda had elements of like a Jonathan Creek episode or is that just me? That’s not a negative btw, just yeah.

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#227

I have and assume I still can do mubi on my PS3

No disney app though

#228

Yeah I’ve been using Mubi on my telly which has a Roku box. Just gets added as another ‘app’ alongside iPlayer/Netflix/etc. Works pretty well.

#229

On Friday we watched Porco Rosso, old favouite of mine, first time Her Indoors watching it. Both enjoyed a lot.

On Saturday we watched Call Me By Your Name. I absolutely love it, Her Indoors never seen it before. Watching it with a person who you really hope likes it made me realise it could stand to lose about 20 mins of running time. Still bloody love it though, and she liked it a lot as well, so that’s a relief. Always fucking love how well the Sufjan songs work in the film. The entire soundtrack is amazing; the piano score, the 80s synth songs, the ambient noise of the Italian countryside, it all sounds incredible. Big part of why I can just stick this film on and sit in it for two hours like a lovely warm bath.

Was going to make it a triple bill of films set in Italy on Sunday but I found out my Roman Holiday dvd is at my mum’s house so we watched Pirates Of The Caribbean instead (but I did make a lasagne so how’s that for keeping the Italian vibes alive). All the others are trash, but the original one is good clean fun for all the family. All the actors hamming it up, the balls to the wall score, the ott set design that jumps off the screen. And the pirate ship battles look genuinely incredible, did they actually float ships around and smash them up? Because it fucking looks like they did.

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#230

I remember being mega excited for Pirates of the Caribbean as a kid (partly because it’s pretty much a film adaptation of Monkey Island, and iirc had its origins in that concept?). It’d be interesting to revisit because, yeah, it definitely fell victim to a franchise fatigue that has kind of tainted my original memory of it.

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#231

The Melville retrospective is great

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#232

Watched The Seventh Victim yesterday. Weird film about a woman trying to find her sister who has gone missing and has links to a Satanic cult. More noiry than horror but some great scenes

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#233

I always thought it was a good thing in the first Pirates of the Caribbean film that Jack Davenport’s character gets treated respectfully and gets a dignified moment at the end rather than just making him a total moron/arsehole like so many ‘obviously not going to get the woman/man’ people in love triangles. Of course the sequels fucked that up anyway but they don’t exist.

#234

the mubi selection on amazon prime is different - it has a larger (presumably stuff they’ve shown before) and they don’t expire daily

#235

first pirates of the caribbean is great

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#236

they also have this on the Mubi site but you need to pay for rentals

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#237

what the fuck is this

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#238

JT plays an ex sniper with PTSD or something, he also narrates the film (possibly as his soldier character, never really been sure), then this happens without really any explanation. It’s a weird film.

#239

the rock, sarah michelle gellar, justin timberlake AND mandy moore?

well that’s my evening sorted

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#240

Also has Sean William Scott playing two people.