Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - forget about Mandy, this is the Nicolas Cage comeback performance we needed

Roma was beautiful. Wonderfully shot. Heart breaking and heart warming. I hope the leading actress wins all the awards that she’s nominated for. She’s amazing.

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Going to see this at Curzon tonight. Couldn’t face the thought of watching this terrible film on Netflix.

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Really don’t know how I feel about recreation’s of terrorist events that occurred in recent memory:

I think films about real life events are fair game, but something puts me off here. Is it the way they’re emphasising the thriller elements? The mother and baby hiding in the cupboard felt horrible.

Lovers of the Arctic Circle - just brilliant proper engrossing

Pottersville - utterly bizarre

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Meant to watch this last Christmas but didn’t get around to it. Will I this year…

Its on Netflix. I honestly cant say if to or not. It isnt good

I loved Lovers of the Arctic Circle- all the things I love about cinema. Poetic and playful.

Just came back from Roma at the cinema. I thought it was very good but not quite the instant classic it’s made out to be. Some of the cinematography is utterly gorgeous though.

I think 120 BPM is still my favourite this year.

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Yeah agreed 100% (same on Roma too)

They announced the longlists for a few Oscar categories, including Foreign Film and Original Song:

Colombia, “Birds of Passage”
Denmark, “The Guilty”
Germany, “Never Look Away”
Japan, “Shoplifters”
Kazakhstan, “Ayka”
Lebanon, “Capernaum”
Mexico, “Roma”
Poland, “Cold War”
South Korea, “Burning”

“When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” from “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”
“Treasure” from “Beautiful Boy”
“All The Stars” from “Black Panther”
“Revelation” from “Boy Erased”
“Girl In The Movies” from “Dumplin’”
“We Won’t Move” from “The Hate U Give”
“The Place Where Lost Things Go” from “Mary Poppins Returns”
“Trip A Little Light Fantastic” from “Mary Poppins Returns”
“Keep Reachin’” from “Quincy”
“I’ll Fight” from “RBG”
“A Place Called Slaughter Race” from “Ralph Breaks the Internet”
“OYAHYTT” from “Sorry to Bother You”
“Shallow” from “A Star Is Born”
“Suspirium” from “Suspiria”
“The Big Unknown” from “Widows”

Hoping we get Kendrick Lamar, Thom Yorke and the Buster Scruggs song all nominated

Unless one of those Poppins songs turns out to be extremely popular then Shallow is easily taking this.

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Yeah probably. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s EGOT bid is foiled again!

Trailer for the new Richard Linklater film. I love the book it’s based on but the release date has been pushed back twice before now so I’m worried they did that because it’s lousy and Annapurna didn’t want another dud on their hands just yet.

I’d agree but Flight 93 was excellent

Yeah Lovers of the Arctic Circle is wonderful. Was on Mubi recently but think it has dropped off now, will have to hunt it down for a rewatch.

The Pixar short film Bao which they showed before Incredibles 2 is available to watch online for a week

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Aye thats where I saw it

The bit were she feeds him extra stuffing is too precious.

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yeah i thought it was great. funniest thing i’ve seen in a cinema in ages.

one of those films you instantly want to watch again right after it finished.

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