#341

Fopp is doing a two for £20 sale on Criterion DVDs but I can’t decide which two to get at the moment - maybe It Happened One Night and Grey Gardens.

Saw Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon. Delightfully daft, if you liked the first one you’ll like this.

#342

FYI - For Sama is on Channel 4 on 26th October

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#343

Grey Gardens was rrally underwhelming I thought (sorry)

#344

Surely you buy the Criterion Collector’s edition of Shsun the Sheep: Farmageddon. Those extras are gonna be wild

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#345

Watched ‘mother!’ last night, which I veered between liking the audacity of and being annoyed by the self indulgentness of

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#346

Completely out of the loop with films this year, tried to catch up a bit this weekend:

Lion King - what’s the point
Toy Story 4 - Excellent but still the weakest of the bunch
Lego Movie 2 - Decent but not a patch on the first
Fighting with my Family - Brilliant?! Even made me well up at one stage. Didn’t expect much from it at all.

Got Booksmart, The Kid Who Would Be King and Aladdin (I know) ready to watch.

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#347

$1.6 billion

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#348

I know but they could’ve done something with it, not just a shot for shot remake. I’m sure it’ll seem great in comparison once I’ve watched Aladdin

#349

(Aladdin is better)

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#350

Yay!

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#351

Watched Ad Astra
Really liked some of the action sequences moon pirates, killer monkeys and the bit where he accidentally kills the entire crew :smiley:
rest of it was pretty boring though. kind of feel like the moody lonely man on a spaceship trope is an albatross around the neck of sci-fi cinema as a whole

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#352

to expand on this, I was really thrilled by some of the risks it took and the incredible ramping up of absurdity – I just wish it amounted to more than, to me, an artist expostulating on the nature of being an artist and all that. It’s not so much the theme itself – I will say that I liked the focus on the artist’s “muse” and I guess the toxic nature of this kind of relationship; though it sometimes veered more towards feeling like a big famous film director complaining / marvelling at how much “plebs” obsess over celebrity or whatever – as the fact that there was all this outrageous strangeness that was reduced down to a bit of a heavy-handed single meaning.

#353

Mother! is basically Chef’s Kiss: The Movie

#354

Best thing about mother! is how much it wound people up (not you @manches but you reminded me of it). I think it was gloriously daft and it knew it. Saying that though, I have a thing about filns where stuff is going on beyond the protagonists control and the bits where Jennifer Lawrence at the opening stages of the house ‘party’ got me really on edge

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#355

Watched a quite lovely film called The Lunchbox this afternoon. It’s only on iPlayer for one more day unfortunately so watch it quick if you want to watch a quite lovely film

#356

The party was one of the bits I really liked, the whole sink thing

#357

I really liked mother! It was like a horrible anxiety induced nightmare (maybe liked is the wrong word)

But it was a really unsettling horror movie, for me

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#358

Oh man when I saw that in the cinema it proper got me. Just get off it!

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#359

Official Secrets - It doesn’t exist but it’s pretty good. Doesn’t try and shy away from it’s influences and the performances are solid enough (even Keira Knightley!). Lot’s of shouting in a newsroom and journalists going on about how important they are and that but I am into that kind of film and this is a decent version of one.

The Peanut Butter Falcon - This really surprised me. It’s utterly charming, it could so easily have been dowrnright offensive frankly but it is just very, very lovely. This is the first time I’ve ever seen Shia fucking LaBeouf actually putting in a performance in a film instead of just being Shia fucking LaBeouf and he was really very good. Shit-tonne of unexpected people in this as well, don’t know how they got Jon Bernthal to sign on for a completely silent, nothing role. Mick Foley and Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts being in it was very thrilling to me as well. At it’s heart it’s just a very lovely buddy movie that seemed very genuine and very heartfelt to me. Loved it.

The Shaun the Sheep Movie: FARMAGEDDON - Not as good as the first Shaun the Sheep Movie but still had plenty of chuckles, it’s telling that they all came when the film was grounded in the village and centred around on slapstick, goofy capers with the locals. Once it got into sci-fi territory it was distinctly less charming and funny. Also, there was no point where a sheep dressed as a person and then a person fancied them so that was disappointing.

#360

Is a good actor in quite a lot of stuff

Does this in American Honey