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Post by geometryman on Oct 10, 2020 16:44:08 GMT
Forgot to mention when I watched it the other day: Enola Holmes. This is brilliant. The eponymous character is the little sister of Sherlock and Mycroft. It's clever and witty, the main characters are very good and Helena Bonham Carter is wonderful. It's got Henry Cavill as Sherlock for the eye-candy. And the plot is fantastic. But be warned, there's a lot of breaking of the Fourth Wall so if you hate that, don't watch this film. I've watched this now and found it very enjoyable, and I think the breaking of the Fourth Wall actually enhances it. I noticed quite a few familiar faces popping up as lesser characters.
I note this was based on the first of 6 Enola Holmes novels, so there could be more films to come.
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Post by Miranda on Oct 10, 2020 16:50:50 GMT
Netflix has indicated they want to make more. But they got roasted on Twitter for saying they were going to shift the focus more onto Henry Cavill. Not a popular idea!
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Post by Delia on Nov 22, 2020 22:42:08 GMT
Only just got around to seeing "The Life of Pi" which we had bought on DVD a while ago. Enjoyed it, but felt it could be rather Marmite to some.
Wonderful CGI brings animals to life, and there is an awful lot of being at sea, which could make some feel somewhat seasick, but a most interesting story and an unusual film. Only you, can make up your own mind about it!!
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Post by geometryman on Dec 12, 2020 9:43:56 GMT
Misbehaviour Watched this the other day and thought it was pretty good. It's a fact-based drama about the disruption of the televised 1970 Miss World contest by the emerging Women's Lib movement. The cast is packed with familiar faces - Keira Knightley, Jessie Buckley, Keeley Hawes, Lesley Manville, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ruby Bentall (Verity in Poldark), Phyllis Logan. It's showing next weekend on Sky Cinema Premiere, Sunday 20 Dec 10.15am plus many repeats: www.radiotimes.com/film/hc2qf9/misbehaviour/ |
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Post by profbooboo on Dec 12, 2020 22:06:13 GMT
The Hill
This is on at 22:55 BBC2. I watched it about 3days ago and thought it was very good.
It stars Sean Connery, Ian Bannen, Ian Hendry and Harry Andrews. Andrews, Hendry and Bannen are guards who look after soldiers sent to them who've been court maritaled. Bannen isn't to bad but Andrews and Hendry are vicious and make the soldiers climb this big hill made of sand and stone boulders in the yard in the blazing sun.
I think it was directed by Sidney Lumet who also directed Connery and Banned in The Offence, which I mentioned on the Sean Connery In Memoriam thread, that's another good film.
Also honourable mention of Michael Redgrave who also has a small role as the doctor.
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Post by beverley61 on Jan 20, 2021 12:52:38 GMT
Just seen "Emma" which is a comical version of the famous Jane Austen book. Very well done, with gorgeous costumes and sumptuous settings in some stately homes, but mainly, wonderfully acted out by a good cast including the hilarious Miranda Hart and the droll, understated acting of Bill Nighy. The young lead actors do a great job, and the story rolls along with many laughs along the way, which of course is led by Jane Austens clever observations on the way that class and wealth were the main drivers of society in those days. (And probably still are!) Very well worth seeing, and a lot of fun. Just watched this last night - DVD was £3 in Morrison's. Very good, a fresh new take on the whole thing, everyone was excellent. Beautiful scenery, fantastic costumes and for once the men looked more uncomfortable than the women with those awful collars. Really made you realise how small Emma's Highbury world was. |
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Post by beverley61 on Jan 30, 2022 19:34:35 GMT
This is a don't bother review on Belfast, the Kenneth Branagh film.
I'm sure it will win awards because it's that kind of artsy film, but it's tripe overall. Some good acting by the people playing Branagh's mum and dad, but the plot is full of holes. The style switches and is inconsistent, like a bad imitation of Cinema Paradiso.
We have a father who owes money to bookmakers and the tax man. However he has a top of the range TV, Radio and music system. They're too skint for Christmas, yet young Ken still gets Meccano and Star Trek suit (were they available). We're told there's lots of unemployment, yet his father is a master joiner during the building boom of the late 60s. Let's be honest even bad joiners get work. The sweet shop on the corner is vandalised because the owners are Catholic,yet they're called Stewart??!!! The family accept a lift from soldiers during a riot. Branagh is 9 and his 13 year old female cousin tries to recruit him into a 'gang'. Then we see him marching with the B specials!!. As if there was that kind of equality and diversity in the 60s, to let a 13 year old girl on a march. His dad gets work near London but can afford to fly home every two weeks. I don't think so. There was only BA flying into Belfast then and they only went from Heathrow and it cost a fortune.
It's like he wanted to put in everything, just everything. The area he lived in isn't really caught up in any serious trouble until the 70s and nobody, nobody would have let there 9 year old boy outside during a riot.
Oh and he goes to a mixed school. Really, in that part of Belfast. Oh wait, hang on, it's a trope to allow his little self to ask whether he'll ever be able to go out with a Catholic girl.
I could go on, because there is more. I won't.
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Post by Miranda on Jan 30, 2022 19:46:11 GMT
You'd think he would be more careful seeing as he comes from an Irish heritage himself.
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Post by beverley61 on Jan 30, 2022 21:57:55 GMT
Well he left when he was 9 and had lessons in received English pronunciation at school. His father actually had a successful company.
So I get that he would have some childhood memories, but I think he's just thrown anything about NI in there.
Some of the things are just standard anywhere in the UK. Like his father is finding it hard to find work, his grandparents are skint but both families have telephones. This is 1968. I went to school in the 70s and half my friends didn't have house phones. Most had TVs in the 60s but a lot of them were rented. It's just where are they getting the money for all of this and all his mum's clothes if his dad owes the bookies and the tax man.
Why haven't the bookies come and taken the TV?
Then of course he has the UDA or someone similar but not named come and threaten them for protection money. Why, apparently they don't have any?
It's just a trifle of all the tropes. His dad is offered a great job near London with a house for them. So that must be a managerial post or foreman or something- not just a joiner on a building site.
Why couldn't he do a film of his relatively happy childhood in Belfast where his gran takes him to the cinema and theatre and starts off his love of film combined with his dad getting a great new job and them ending up being one of the migrant Irish families that rarely go back.
Also escaping the troubles that hadn't really become that bad before they left. You know a couple of things but just a worry in the background.
I wonder if his cousin in the film is a real person and minds that she is portrayed as a 13 year old recruiter for the UDA?
I won't be surprised if it wins something.
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Post by beverley61 on Apr 26, 2022 20:10:18 GMT
Went to see Operation Mincemeat on cheap Tuesday at Empire.
It's well done, nicely filmed. A bit of a fictional romance and a couple of unlikely sex scenes- that seemed unnecessary but hey ho, they may have been true.
Had an air of Foyle's War about it.
Worth a watch.
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Post by Miranda on Apr 26, 2022 20:48:59 GMT
Was that the one where the War Office used a dead body with fake papers to mislead the Germans on plans for D Day?
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Post by linseed on Apr 26, 2022 20:54:57 GMT
Yes it was
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Post by Miranda on Apr 26, 2022 21:58:02 GMT
There was a B&W film made of it, wasn't there?
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Post by beverley61 on Apr 27, 2022 11:50:44 GMT
Yes, wasn't it The Man who Never Was or is that another variant. Anyway this sticks more to the truth and there is no American help. Anyway if you're not going to the cinema watch out for it coming to a screen near you in a few months time.
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Post by geometryman on Jun 20, 2023 15:07:40 GMT
Misbehaviour Watched this the other day and thought it was pretty good. It's a fact-based drama about the disruption of the televised 1970 Miss World contest by the emerging Women's Lib movement. The cast is packed with familiar faces - Keira Knightley, Jessie Buckley, Keeley Hawes, Lesley Manville, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ruby Bentall (Verity in Poldark), Phyllis Logan. It's showing next weekend on Sky Cinema Premiere, Sunday 20 Dec 10.15am plus many repeats: www.radiotimes.com/film/hc2qf9/misbehaviour/On BBC1 this Saturday 24 June, 10.20pm - 12 midnight. |
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Anymore to come?
