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Post by geometryman on Nov 5, 2017 0:38:23 GMT
I've only seen The Lion in Winter once, in the cinema when originally released, and was very impressed. It made an interesting comparison with (and I thought was better than) Becket a few years before, in which Henry II at a much earlier stage in his life was again played by Peter O'Toole.
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Post by profbooboo on Nov 26, 2017 0:10:40 GMT
Left this a bit late but BBC2 tonight (Sat 25th/Sun26th) has Chances Are on with Cybil Shepherd, Ryan ONeil and Robert Downey Jr. It's a bit weird if you really stop and think about it to hard but I like it and it's funny.
Shepherd's husband is killed and goes to heaven, they don't inject him with a memory drug so when he's reincarnated as Robert Downey Jr he gets flashback to his previous life. Downey Jr is at college or a college librarian and likes a girl, they go out and she takes him home to meet her mother who is Shepard! He starts to get dejavu, knowing who the man in a painting is when he shouldn't know and starts to freak out. He then starts an affair with Shephard because although it's the body of Downey Jr it's the mind and memory of her dead husband. Obviously the girl has eccentially become his daughter so he's pushing her away.
As I say, don't look too closely, but it's a good film.
Also Hearts and Souls with Downey Jr is great...but another time in that onem
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2017 22:26:27 GMT
Strongly recommend "Senna" the movie , what a biography !
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2018 20:21:22 GMT
Watched a nice film today, The Hundred Foot Journey with Helen Mirren and Om Puri. No car chases, no swearing, no SFX just a really good story.
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Post by thecleaner on Jan 14, 2018 11:29:32 GMT
Couple of great films on tonight (14th Jan) both on BBC2.
6:20 Mr Holmes starring Ian McKellen as SH.
10:00 The Water Diviner starring Russell Crowe and the lovely Olga Kurylenko.
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Post by profbooboo on Nov 3, 2018 14:31:11 GMT
Truly, Madly, Deeply is on BBC2 at 9pm tonight.
A lovely film, with Juliet Stevenson playing Nina and Alan Rickman as her dead partner come back to haunt her. It's one of my favourite films.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2018 14:44:57 GMT
One of my favourite films too but I cry through most of it ! I’m recording it.
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Post by profbooboo on Nov 3, 2018 17:37:30 GMT
I know what you mean. It's heart Breaking when Nina is alone playing the piano and then you hear the cello and she turns round and sees Jamie. Stevenson is amazing in that scene, and throughout, but that scene is something else.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2018 23:08:43 GMT
Alan Rickman was lovely 😍
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Post by cakewalk on Nov 4, 2018 0:13:54 GMT
Watched this (again) this evening. Wonderful film.
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Post by profbooboo on Nov 24, 2018 20:53:05 GMT
Cold In July is on BBC2 at 11:30pm.
Michael.C hall plays a guy who life is turned upside down after tackling an intruder.
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Post by profbooboo on Dec 2, 2018 0:16:15 GMT
I mentioned this on the advert thread but I recommend Planes, Trains and Automobiles. It's not a new film but it's so good. Two guys heading home for the holidays, it's not Christmas but Thanksgiving, but still perfect for this time of the year.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2019 19:02:59 GMT
If, and I mean if, you can get past the constant swearing, you can bear to watch 3 Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri, you might be pleasantly surprised. My son had the dvd ,when we stayed at Christmas, DIL said we wouldn't like it, but to be honest I really enjoyed it. SO well acted. Just an ambiguous ending.
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Post by profbooboo on Jan 8, 2019 21:53:44 GMT
I've recently watched Sparrows Can't Sing, not a new film, early 60s I think, but very enjoyable. It stars Barbara Windsor who's living with a bus driver but whos husband James Booth is returning from sea. The area has seen lots of changes, old houses have been knocked down and there's a new tower block.
It was co-written by Stephen 'Blakey' Lewis who also makes an appearance as does Bob Grant also from On The Buses. There's also appareances by Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce, Rory Kinnear and Murray Melvin (A Taste Of Honey...and Bilis Manger in Torchwood!)
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Post by thecleaner on Jan 9, 2019 10:12:19 GMT
I've recently watched Sparrows Can't Sing, not a new film, early 60s I think, but very enjoyable. It stars Barbara Windsor who's living with a bus driver but whos husband James Booth is returning from sea. The area has seen lots of changes, old houses have been knocked down and there's a new tower block. It was co-written by Stephen 'Blakey' Lewis who also makes an appearance as does Bob Grant also from On The Buses. There's also appareances by Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce, Rory Kinnear and Murray Melvin (A Taste Of Honey...and Bilis Manger in Torchwood!) Don’t forget Arthur Mullard....what a film this is, I love it...full of real gangsters and they say the Krays, who when they had the premier, afterwards they went to one of their clubs and when it was released in the USA, they had to put subtitles on it. Love Babs walk/run too. |
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