My one criticism of the soundtrack, they should have gone with the I Might Be Wrong version of True Love Waits

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Applies to Radiohead as well tbf

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Got an adversion to mega twangy acoustic guitars being pounded so going to have to disagree with u both sorry

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Bait is proper fucking amazing

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What a film

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Brilliant documentary. Worth a look. (I saw it tonight.)

How are you guys watching Bait?

You can rent it off Amazon

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Are you shoveling sand to live, or living to shovel sand?

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Was supposed to see Waves but ended up seeing Just Mercy instead. Nothing we haven’t seen before but very solid indeed, some cracking performances. Michael B Jordan is beautiful.

It’s also going to be in Odeon’s for one night only on Feb 6, not sure why (maybe BAFTA related?)

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This made me laugh

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Just Mercy - Pretty average/bad tbh. There’s an inherent flaw with giving real-life saints biopics and that is the fact that there is nothing the actor can do with them beyond earnestness. Michael B Jordan is given an absolutely thankless task and sinks a bit as a result IMO. It’s got a very unearned execution scene which felt kind of borderline throwaway and the whole thing suffers from it’s length but still leaves you thinking that the characters were underdeveloped. Not great, not absolutely awful but definitely not great IMO.

Also on BFI Player which you can get a 14 day free trial of/is only £4.99 a month cancel anytime.

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Whoa

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Read the book recently and had no idea there was a film. Going to follow this up. :+1:

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Watched Philadelphia for the first time last night. Remarkable.
Really miss Jonathan Demme.
All those lovely close-ups and that Maria Callas scene - woah

The main guy in Thunder Road really cant fake cry

Uncut Gems seems to have only been on for 6 days here ugh, not gonna make it. Stupid fucking January