Excellent film
Watched Lenny (1974) not as good as All That Jazz, felt quite slow in parts. Hoffman was good.
Liked The Drama, but couldnāt help but feel its premise didnāt quite stretch to a feature film. It felt like something Curb would do. Found myself looking at my watch, figuratively speaking, after about 40 minutes. It had its moments though, and a few laughs. Not a patch on Dream Scenario.
Weāre putting on a Brazilian season in May at the NFT - Brazil On Film - and Iāve already earmarked doing an all dayer on the 23rd, comprising 4 films:
Chuck Billy and the Marvellous Guava Tree
Bye Bye Brazil
City of God
Mars One
Itās a really great line-up throughout the month. Some wonderful gems.
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I watched Back to the Future for the first time
Watched Drop Dead Gorgeous last night, why did no-one tell me how good this is? One of those films with an almost unbelievable density of jokes.
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And, what did you think?
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Better than I expected
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Scream 7 is terrible. Worst reveals of Ghostface theyāve ever done
Hoppers is fun! Actually belly laughed multiple times. Well done all.
Barely watched any films this year, think I did too many last year. Been trying to catch up on series andā¦life.
Watching A Town Called Panic again right now though because why not. 5/5, 10/10, zero notes. Joy.
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If you havenāt seen the ~half-hour shorts, Iād really recommend those too. They might actually be my favourites of all the Panique stuff.
A new one just got funded as well!
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Twinless is really great. Funny, emotional and fucked up.
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Saw Project Ken in Space last night at the cinema with the 12yo
Didnāt expect it to be such a kidās movie ā¦ pretty schmaltzy but Gosling charms his way through it I guess
The 12yo enjoyed it but I think she still prefers Interstellar & Arrival for her existential space/alien kicks
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I just watched Wasteman
I thought this was brilliant. The main appeal of the film are the two main actors. I have seen a lot of films with David Jonsson (although he hasnāt been in many, to be fair - the only one I havenāt seen is Bonhoeffer) and he is great in this too. He is so versatile and I think Iāve signed up to watch everything heās in. I hadnāt seen Tom Blyth in anything before (unless you count his role as āferal childā in Ridley Scottās boring Robin Hood film and I thought he was fantastic in this as well.
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Iāve always had an irrational hatred of Chicken Run. Decided to watch it again last night. First time in about 20+ years.
Itās okay.
Youāve really turned around on that thing
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Watched Crime 101 last night, felt like more fun than it should have been given that Iām not massively into the cast and that it feels like the director watched Heat maybe three or four times a day during the making of it.
Not normally a fan of Ruffalo, but I did enjoy how his physical inspiration in this seemed to be Columbo.
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Cool film
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Anyway, laying aside my One Battle After Another 4/5 controversy, I also watched
The Running Man 2025 and really enjoyed it. Itās a dumb fun 80s style action film with nothing much to say but it doesnāt matter. Never seen the Arnie one or read the story, mind.
Weapons - properly amazingly great film. Just perfect stuff.
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