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TST Film Review Thread

Out of interest, what do you mean by this?

Granted, I wasn’t really looking for this sort of thing, and Ibrahim was also the only actor I wasn’t previously familiar with out of the main four (I knew Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan, and while I didn’t immediately know the actress who played Joyce, I definitely recognised her face, even if I couldn’t think for the life of me where I knew her from), but I didn’t think the film emphasised or mentioned any kind of “ethnic” aspect to that character at all, if that’s what you’re referring to. It just seemed to treat him as another member of the gang!
In the book, Ibrahim (played by Ben Kingsley) is from Egypt and looks the part. Ben Kingsley is from Yorkshire and white.

Ben Kingsley won an Oscar for playing Mahatma Gandhi, in the film Gandhi. Ben Kingsley is from Yorkshire and is white, and famously browned up for the role.
 
Anyhow, Thursday Murder Club was alright but some amazingly skewed morality come the end.

Helen Mirren lets an actual gangster go free. Whilst helping have an immigrant who was forced to work under duress by a gang master arrested for murder. And forces a husband into a murder/suicide with his ill wife.
 
I enjoyed the Thursday Murder Club, I felt it captured the essence of the characters and the book, although will have to re-read as I couldn’t remember a thing about the ending and watching it last night had me scratching my head! Nothing particularly cinematic about it, but a nice easy home watch to pass an evening.
 
Saw The Roses today which was lots of fun and very sweary.

Also got to see Jaws on the big screen for the first time to mark the 50th anniversary of its release.
 
Just came back from seeing the new Darren Aranofsky film Caught Stealing starring Austin Butler.

Pretty good film, really captured the scuzzyness of the late 90s New York.

For amusement parks showing up in films fans there's a scene at Coney Island and they even re-added the old wooden coaster Thunderbolt into the background, which was standing sbno at the time the film was set before it was demolished in 2000.
 
Just been to see Honey Don't by Ethan Cohen and Tricia Cooke.

Sort of a modern hard boiled detective story with PI played by Margaret Qualley investigates a prospective clients death. Whilst Chris Evans crooked reverend may know something about. Charlie Day was good as the local police detective as well.

Had plenty of spinning plates and good scenes (Evans is having a lot of fun) but it doesn't all hang together as well as you'd hope.
 
However if you'd prefer a different Stephen King film also starring Mark Hamill we've always got The Walk coming out in a few weeks time.

Just been to see The Long Walk.

Thought it was great, totally gripping throughout.

Simple enough concept in a dystopian future 50 young men (one from each state) have volunteered for The Long Walk, the prize for the winner is a massive cash prize and a wish for anything they want. For the 49 losers when they drop below 3 mph and their alloted warnings they are shot on site.

Loved the camaraderie between the walkers as we learn their stories and reasons for being there.

Mark Hamill is great as The Major who oversees the contest.

Definitely recommend seeing this.
 
I've just seen One Battle After Another.
It was extremely tense in places, with great cinematography, which elevated certain scenes a lot.
Sean Penn is incredible in this. To be honest, his performance is one of my favourites ever.
Although the first 30 minutes are a little incoherent, this is a brilliant film.
8.9/10.
 
I've just seen One Battle After Another.
It was extremely tense in places, with great cinematography, which elevated certain scenes a lot.
Sean Penn is incredible in this. To be honest, his performance is one of my favourites ever.
Although the first 30 minutes are a little incoherent, this is a brilliant film.
8.9/10.
I'd second this, its a real instant classic of a movie.
 
Went to see The Smashing Machine earlier.

Directed by Benny Safdie and starring Dwayne Johnson.

The film follows the career of MMA/UFC fighter Mark Kerr from 1997 to 2000 as he grapples both inside and outside of the ring/octagon.

Features a career best turn from Johnson as he reunites with Jungle Cruise co-star Emily Blunt.

I'd quite seriously at the time enjoyed their double act in that enough to say they should star together in films based on all the Disney attractions. But here they again are great together as a couple.

In an interesting bit of casting UFC star Ryan Bader is cast as Mark Colewell who is a fellow MMA fighter as well as Kerrs friend and trainer. Bader is great in the role bringing more reality to the film.

It's more a movie about what sports does to its competitors than a sports movie, I thought it was really good and that central trio really drive the film forward.
 
Saw Tron Ares today.

The third film in the series which started way back in 1982. The first belated sequel Tron Legacy came out in 2010 and whilst I enjoyed it its lasting legacy was definitely the Daft Punk soundtrack. Apparently they were close to getting the follow up into production until Disney shelved it after Tomorrowland bombed at the box office.

So 15 years later a new Tron film has released basically hand waving, and very briefly referring to the lack of returning characters from Legacy.

The main driver of the film is two competing tech companies searching for permanence code that would allow for the designs brought out of the grid into the real world to survive for longer than 29 minutes.

Into this comes Jared Letos programme Ares who wants more than just taking commands and completing tasks.

Whilst the themes they bring into this and the ideas are really intriguing to me as an actual plot they don't really emphasise all this enough and it feels lacking.

Design wise the film looks great, the digital worlds and realised really well, and seeing Tron vehicles in a real world setting look amazing. Though again in parts it feels like a missed opportunity.

Overall I did enjoy the film.

They definitely had the right idea to get NIN to do the soundtrack which is fantastic.
 
Saw the film I Swear today.

Starting in the early 80s John Davidson is a regular Scottish school boy until he developed tourettes syndrome.

After this opening act it them jumps to the mid 90s with a now adult John still trying to cope with his condition.

Great performances from both actors who portrayed John, along with Maxine Peake and Peter Mullan.

An amazing film that flips from being funny, harrowing, sad, and uplifting.
 
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