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Another Layla watcher in the chat here, I get the criticism of the relationship between the two leads but I quite liked what overall seemed to be a slightly more clever and thoughtful look at identity, gender, sexuality and culture. That said I would have liked a bit more exploration of Laylaās background and their relationship with their family as it felt like a lot of it was only hinted at.
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Best: High and Low
Worst: Dawn of the Dead but tbh I enjoyed them all. Gladiator wasnāt as enjoyable as I remember but still very enjoyable overall
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Here is so boring, fucking hell
Watched the Tom Cruise sci-fi Oblivion (2013) last night
There really was a period where
[details=āspoilerā]everyone in a space film was a clone[/details] wasnāt there? That got pretty tired, pretty quickly
Odd film. Teeters on the cusp of being interesting in places but despite (or maybe because of) Cruise & Morgan Freeman + big budget art direction it seems like itās a bit unfinished
Sci-fi in the 2010s seems a little out of place tbh
Olga Kurylenko sure is Tomās beautiful wife though
Last night I followed up my Friday watch of Crimson Tide with a rewatch of another Tony Scott/Gene Hackman combo, Enemy of the State.
Itās not as good. Scott has picked up the frenetic editing thing that heād keep up for the rest of his career, where every transition is about 4,000 cuts and zooms in 1.5 seconds to a drum and bass soundtrack, which is less cool than it sounds. Hackman should have had the Voight role too, and while I like Regina King normally, sheās given the very 90s thriller role of āwoman who for some reason canāt comprehend the severity of the situation and as a result is behaving infuriatinglyā.
But itās still decent and has one of the all-time great āzoom, enhanceā sequences put to film.
My next stop on the late-era Hackman express will be Runaway Jury.
Oh, and my MMOTM was in Gladiator II when the gladiators set sail on the high Colosseum seas, shark infestation and all.
Really? itās one of my favourite Pavement songs
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All We Imagine as Light - very good film
Wicked: actually very good
Only pulled out of the fantasy by Ariana and Ethan interacting which made me go eww. Otherwise she was great though!
Songs were banging, great vocals. Cynthia kills it on Defying Gravity
Nice visuals, especially Jonathan Bailey
The Robbie Williams monkey film trailer preceded the film so when the monkey guard appeared for the first time i whispered āitās Robbie Williamsā to my best mate and we were both uncontrollably silent laughing
Too long though and i did not care about the animals
We did not find out if her pussy was green, assume theyāre saving that for the sequel
4/5
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Really enjoyed Sword of Trust tonight - only seen two Lynn Shelton films but they were both ace. Canāt believe she only started working as a writer director in her thirties and did what she did in such a tragically short amount of time. Clear talent
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Baby Assassins Nice Days. These films donāt seem to gaining any traction in the UK at all, donāt know why someone like Third Window hasnāt picked them up, but I am going to keep banging the drum for them. This is the third outing for teenage slacker assassins Chisato and Mahiro, who this time are in the beach resort of Miyazaki where a rogue freelancer interferes with their hit and things threaten to spiral out of control. I thought the second film leant a little too much into the domestic comedy side of the franchise, but taking the girls out of Tokyo and their apartment swings the pendulum firmly back towards action. This has some of the best choreographed fights in the series, and some real visceral oooh I felt that one on one moments. Thereās some entertaining additions to the supporting cast, one subplot that is surely taking the piss out of John Wickās increasingly convoluted lore, Mahiro spends most of the final act wearing a Fugazi shirt, and Saori Izawa proved again that she should be one of the biggest action stars on the planet. What more can we ask for?
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Watched some of that the 355 cause it was on, couldnāt be arsed to see it through. The definition of perfunctory and charmless.
watched 16 films in november, 11 of 'em at the cinema.
best: soundtrack to a coup dāetat (new release) and threads (tv film,1984)
worst: piece by piece i paraphrase- āand the us military jets flew overhead when i was a kid, it was cool and the us military jets flew overhead when i was an adult, it was cool, reminded me of when i was a kidā 
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knocking on helenās door- pharrell- i paraphase again āiām ready now (to get married)ā. presumptuous, arrogant
movie moment of the month: soundtrack to a coup dāetat closeup of dizzy gillespie? blowing, but they mute it, leaving the sound to imagination after showing the military-industrial fuckery. sight and (lack of) sound. apparently just audio is the best medium to take in stories, this moment flipped that
Ghostlight - real-life family play a family unit torn by a recent bereavement, only for the father of the family to end up in an amateur production of Romeo and Juliet, where life soon begins to imitate art. Very very good.
DƬdi (å¼å¼) - Taiwanese-American teenager in 2008 navigates hormones, Facebook, bullies, AOL messenger and the difficult feeling of loving your family even if you feel distant from them. Very well played despite the twee soundtrack (Iām a Cuckoo shudder)
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Been wanting to see this forever and now itās out but not for very long. How wordy is it, and how much of it is in English / Dutch / other languages? Not sure whether to seek out an English subs screening or not
Watched Nuevo Orden (New Order) because I couldnāt remember whether Iād watched it before I kind of get what it was aiming for but I almost thought it was a bit too nihilistic to the point that any commentary on the actual subjects the film was trying to explore (inequality, repression, authoritarianism) were sort of being submerged beneath the violence.
Iāll also admit being a touch cynical about a film that is at least partially about class struggle basically showing most if not all of the participants essentially abandoning any wider cause and being entirely consumed by resentment and/or self enrichment.
tbf its not one you can easily forget 
(I thought it was gross)
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She was great. She came to Glasgow Film Fest the first year I volunteered there (with Your Sisterās Sister in 2011) and was so lovely to everyone. She also directed loads of good TV eps. Such a loss.