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Amy

Painful but honest film about the brilliant singer/songwriter made from home movies, interviews and live footage that exposes the real horrors of sudden fame and exactly how it destroys.   More importantly, it is shown from the perspective of the artist, which is rare for a music documentary.   Amy Winehouse's extraordinarily mature phrasing and lyrics belied her age, chaotic life and addictive personality, and we see clearly that a talent of her caliber rarely comes along; As pointed out in the film, Winehouse was such a developed and natural jazz musician "she had the stylings of a 65-year-old jazz singer who knew the ropes up and down".   Illuminating and tragic, Amy is hard to watch but consequently all the more important.







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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote SteveG Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 17 2015 at 14:33
Walk of Shame on HBO.
I thought this underrated movie would be a bomb, but it was genuinely funny without being corny. Go figure.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Toaster Mantis Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 17 2015 at 14:33
Originally posted by mithrandir mithrandir wrote:

The Raid: Redemption - total video game movie, I do appreciate the minimal plot and straight into the action within 5 minutes, the choreographed fighting was impressive, really no different than Kung Fu movies of the past just more modern and slick, lot of cool tense moments too, by the end it was all getting a little tedious but I really enjoyed it, 7/10


I still need to watch this. It's amazing how much better stunt choreography Asian action movies have over their Western counterparts of comparable budget.
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Very dark comedy satirizing the British military alliance with the United States focusing on the planning of either the Afghanistan or Iraq war, which is which is left unclear by the script. The lion's share of the satire focusing on how many of the important decisions are either made by spin doctors or with a motivation to "keep up the appearances" above any practical concerns. It's pretty funny if you follow UK/US politics, many of the subplots refer to specific British political scandals, though since the plot is rather complex viewers who don't keep tabs on that stuff will be left in the dark very quickly.


Haven't read the comic it's based on, but I enjoyed how the action uses a lot of comic book visual tricks in the film medium. Not a new classic considering that not-quite-once-in-a-lifetime cast or anything, but it's a very entertaining sideways look at the "old veterans forced into service again" subgenre.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote dr wu23 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2015 at 10:17
Fairly straight ahead family drama with Duvall as a judge who kills a man accidentally in a car accident and Downey as the estranged son who comes home to his small Indiana home town to defend him. Duvall and Downey are  good but the film is  predictable.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Toaster Mantis Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2015 at 10:54
I can't see the image. I think IMDB don't allow other sites to link to their pics in general.


Edited by Toaster Mantis - July 26 2015 at 10:58
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote dr wu23 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2015 at 12:08
Originally posted by Toaster Mantis Toaster Mantis wrote:

I can't see the image. I think IMDB don't allow other sites to link to their pics in general.
Thanks for the heads up...fixed it.
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Ant-Man.

A usual Marvel entry at around two hours in length. Two quick references to the Marvel Universe were made but it stood pretty much on it's own. I like Paul Rudd, and like Mark Ruffalo he brings a bit of an everyman flavour to the character he plays. The story is typical MU stuff. Evil mad man uses technology meant for good as his evil device. I'd give it a 6.5 as an introduction to yet another MU hero with hopes that they expand on the idea and develop a more compelling story for the sequel.


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Ruffalo has a really impressive range
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Most recently, I saw...Rifftrax Live: Sharknado 2. It was a lot of fun, as expected, though comparing it to former Rifftrax Live events I've been to, it wasn't QUITE as funny as the showing of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians or Night of the Living Dead. Lots of laughs, though, and the short at the beginning was great.
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Lenny

Luminous and soulful doc-style recreation of Lenny Bruce's life as a comic bustling in NYC jazz and strip clubs as he rises to cult status and eventually destruction, Dustin Hoffman providing the agony of one of the great figures of the 1960s who, along with Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee, defined those mercurial and breakout times.  Lenny Bruce's story is sad to be sure.   Worse, it is tragic.   Recommended.
 
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Honestly, one of the best films I've seen for a long time - one of those films so good, the Oscar nominations completely bypass it. An innocent priest told he is to be killed in 7 days in revenge for a parishoner's abuse as a child. The premise being nobody would raise an eyebrow at the killing of an abusing priest, but an innocent one...

Watch it.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote ole-the-first Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2015 at 04:25
^Yup, I was impressed by Calvary a lot. The best Irish film of all time perhaps?Smile
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The man behind Pusher, Bronson and Drive turns his attention to the viking age resulting in one of the most unique sword-and-sandal epics I've ever seen. Imagine the barbaric existential mysticism aspect of the first Conan movie from 1982 turned up to 11, with very little dialogue or narrative structure, and you have a good idea of what you're in store for.

Instead of a typical historical action movie, it's more of a bloody metaphorical journey operating on dream logic into the spiritual struggle between Germanic Paganism and Christianity. There's also quite a few direct references to Werner Herzog's conquistador biopic Aguirre the Wrath of God, and for that matter the fighting choreography is more similar to old samurai movies than to anything to come out of the Occidental film industry in a long while.

It's a quite divisive movie, but I really liked it. Also, is it just me or is the main character meant to be interpreted by the audience as secretly being the one-eyed war-god Odin in the guise of a mortal? You need to know your Norse mythology in order to pick up on all the allusions, so maybe that was lost on audiences outside of Scandinavia...


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote mithrandir Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2015 at 22:18
The Raid 2 - I actually liked this one way better than the first, much better story, with more ups and downs tempering the nonstop action allowing you can actually get to know the characters a little better, of course the fight scenes were still abundant and OTT, but they at least seemed to have more impact 8.5/10
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Jim Garten Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2015 at 02:45
Coincidence - saw this one a couple of days ago & I agree - way better than Raid 1. Better storylines, character development (not just the good guys either) cinematography stunning in places (the fishing scene was beautifully shot), choreography of the fight scenes was jaw dropping - yes, I am using a lot of superlatives, but I think The Raid 2 is a martial arts film for people who don't think they like martial arts films. Loved it.

A solid 9/10 from me.

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Muppets Most Wanted - I still love the muppets cause Im a manchild 7/10

Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead - supposed to be like Mad Max meets the Zombie Apocalypse, sounds better than it was, I wish the Max elements were more prominent, but a few things were cool, others were typical 5.5/10

Solomon Kane - I actually liked this, despite being slim on the source material, it was a pretty straight forward Swords & Sorcery action romp, 7/10
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dayvenkirq Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2015 at 17:54
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.

Eh, ... so stale. Action, humor success rate ~= 50%, and a dull plot. Give it up, Tom.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Toaster Mantis Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 21 2015 at 14:58

British comedy about a dysfunctional lower-class family trying to make it in the restauration business, without really getting anywhere. It's not quite as bleak I had thought, but still quite realistic. I loved how well it captures the entire "the 1980s are over and we don't know what to do" vibe the beginning of the 1990s had. Also, their sarcastic introverted moody teenage daughter reminds me a lot of one of my exes in both appearance and personality (who however didn't have her rather peculiar sexual preferences and thankfully was not a bulimic), which is rather uncanny. Probably exactly what she was like back in high school.


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Fantastic Four(Reboot)
Complete and utter trash. Don't waste a dime watching or time discussing this failed attempt to bolster the weakest Marvel entry ever. Don't expect a sequel unless they need a tax write-off.
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