#263

Yep. That bad.

#264

Happy to report it is still very much 10/10

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#265

Giving The Painted Bird a go. I have heard it is fun.

#266

Bad

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#267

Cuties

You’ll all be stunned to learn that the people kicking off about this online are all full of shit. Anyway it was pretty good, though maybe the ending is a little pat.

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#268

The Chloe Zhao (director of The Rider) film Nomadland won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival - the last three winners were Joker, Roma and The Shape of Water so if there is an Oscars next year it could be a major player

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#269

Finally watched The Day Shall Come. Not great really is it. Didnt feel like morris translated well to american office kinda humour in a way that armando has done. It felt really short as well, bet there’s a chunk of a better film on the cutting room floor.

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#270

Another film that made a splash at Venice (from the director of White God) has been picked up by Netflix

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#271

remember when netflix was dvds you had to post back

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#272

Although I love the man, it came across in a Q&A for this that he had over-researched everything, if that’s something that can be done? He spent years on it, meeting hundreds of people, analysing every aspect of real case studies. Which is all good stuff but I’m not sure it being a comedy is the best way to get that across.

In Four Lions the humour and drama are integrated, whereas here they feel weirdly separate. So its attempts to be funny prevent it from being a drama, but it’s perhaps too dramatic and complex to be a comedy. It sits in between, and without memorable jokes, it’s all a bit in one ear and out the other.

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#273

Yeah totally agree. Even the one interview i saw on ch4 news he came across quite ranty about the FBI and their secret programs. The film is just so slapstick that the attempts to say that it’s true-ish or close enough just come across a bit disingenuous.

#274

it still is!

#275

The Rider really blew me away, looking forward to this one

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#276

Is Spider-Verse a perfect film? Yes.

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#277

Netflix will probably market this with something along the lines of “the only Pieces of a Woman you’ll want to watch are the tits.”

#278

has anyone bought any tickets online via Picturehouse yet? Their seat selection system seems atrocious to me - it regularly won’t let me select seats for “distancing reasons”, even though I’ve chosen seats that clearly have enough of a gap between them and the next occupied seat :angry:

#279

I haven’t had any issues so far, though that might just be because usually I’ve been the first person to book a seat for said film!

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#280

I think the rows that they’ve automatically blocked out to allow front-to-back distancing is confusing the system, it must assume there are going to be people sitting in them . Can’t make sense of it otherwise

#281

Yeah, I actually liked the film a lot more than other people did - but the elephant in the room is that the backstory and all the research is way more interesting, and the film doesn’t quite do justice to all of what went into it.

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#282

Watched Catfight. Thought it was pretty bad