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I am just half way through my first ever Star Wars movie. Still undecided.

 

Try the "Machete Order".

 

 

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The Founder (via Amazon Prime)

 

I was aware of the story before seeing the film and had expected that I might not get "involved" but it held my interest.

 

Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Linda Cardellini, B.J. Novak, Laura Dern

 

2016: Run time: 1 hour 55 minutes.

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The tomorrow War

 

I was really looking forward to this and its fine. Think Edge of Tomorrow but without the charisma of the main stars and any sort of logic.

 

Decent budget though... just stupid.

 

I do think I'm getting too old for movies, last one I enjoyed was The Mitchells vs

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The Ice Road (Via Amazon Prime)

 

An explosion in a remote diamond mine traps men underground with limited air. Their only hope of escape lies in the delivery of rescue equipment by way of the hazardous, and now closed for the season, ice road.

 

Liam Neeson, Marcus Thomas, Laurence Fishburne, Amber Midthunder, Benjamin Walker, Holt McCallany

 

Released: 2021. Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes.

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Adult Life Skills (Netflix)

 

A pre-Doctor Jodie Whittaker stars as Anna, who is rapidly approaching her 30th birthday, but stuck in a dead-end job and living in a shed at the bottom of her mum's garden. There she makes films starring thumb people whilst mourning for her deceased twin brother.

 

Although billed as a comedy/drama, this barely raises a smile and is more of a quirky drama/meditation on grief. Well made and acted, but something of a drag.

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Tomorrrows War (Amazon)

 

Chris Pratt is a US Army Vet who is now a school science teacher gets drafted into a war taking place 30 years in the future where aliens are decimating the human population.

 

While quite a long film, it was quite entertaining and it took a while for the Aliens to be seen which adds to the suspense, nice few plot developments as the film goes on and worth watching

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Palm Springs (2020), which I think is on Amazon Prime but I watched via... other means

 

Romcom; basically a modern Groundhog Day. Nyles (Andy Samberg) has been trapped reliving the same wedding day for a friend-of-his-girlfriend's for Lord knows how long, but certainly long enough to know exactly what's going to happen on the dancefloor at every moment--when that person will move, when that person will put their drink down, when that one will fall over. As soon as he falls asleep, he wakes up on the same morning again. On one of these many nights he hooks up with sister-of-the-bride Sarah (Cristin Milioti) and... accidentally gets her pulled into the time loop as well. Which she's not thrilled by. There's also someone (J. K. Simmons) stalking Nyles and, y'know, murdering him with an arrow.

 

 

It's brilliant. Hilarious and heartbreaking, it has a veneer of cynicism and nihilism overlaying a deeply vulnerable heart. Samberg is always brilliant (I do love me some Brooklyn 99) and he's perfect for the role here. There's some great set piece moments, some real character moments, and a lot of laughs. Thoroughly recommended, worth making the effort to seek it out.

 

Also watched Synchronic (2020) with Anthony Mackie and and Jamie Dornan recently. Two paramedics in a city where a new drug is leading to bizarre occurrences; turns out taking it temporarily sends you back in time. Definitely more on the indie side of things, an interesting use of 90 minutes if not an essential viewing, but the two lead performances are great, as is the soundtrack. Better than a lot of options if you're short of things to watch, but not as essential as Palm Springs IMHO.

 

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Argo (Recorded ages ago from Sky Movies)

 

 

Dramatisation of the the true story of how 6 Americans who managed to take shelter in the Canadian Embassy in Iran after their own was stormed were rescued by the creation of a fake movie that they had to pretend to be the crew for.

 

Been meaning to watch this for a while. I can remember the movie (actually a proposed adaptation of Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light) being announced, and thinking that the plans sounded way OTT (the sets were to become a theme park) and, having read the book which isn't very straight-forward, wondering how they thought this would succeed. Seems like Zelazny's loss was the CIA's gain. Whilst not a 100% accurate account, the film is a tense and gripping thriller. Well worth a look.

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Midsommar (Netflix)

 

Bunch of Americans played by one American (Chidi from The Good Place), one Irish and two English actors head to a commune in Sweden for a special midsummer festival.

 

Virgin died during my first attempt to watch this, so a break of weeks until I had time for the rest of the film probably didn't help the slow build up of dread that the director was constructing. It's beautifully shot and quite unsettling, but the characters aren't sympathetic and, as I suspected from the trailer, it's basically a sunnier version of a cult British horror.

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Argo (Recorded ages ago from Sky Movies)

 

 

Dramatisation of the the true story of how 6 Americans who managed to take shelter in the Canadian Embassy in Iran after their own was stormed were rescued by the creation of a fake movie that they had to pretend to be the crew for.

 

Been meaning to watch this for a while. I can remember the movie (actually a proposed adaptation of Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light) being announced, and thinking that the plans sounded way OTT (the sets were to become a theme park) and, having read the book which isn't very straight-forward, wondering how they thought this would succeed. Seems like Zelazny's loss was the CIA's gain. Whilst not a 100% accurate account, the film is a tense and gripping thriller. Well worth a look.

 

Based on this post I decided to watch this movie last night. I really enjoyed it.

 

Thanks @LeMarchand for the post!

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Midsommar (Netflix)

 

Virgin died during my first attempt to watch this

 

That's a commitment to the horror genre you don't often see.

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A Quiet Place Part II

 

 

I aren't usually a fan or a sequel, however this was good. It looks like they have left the door open for Part 3.

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Palm Springs (Amazon Prime) Two people experience the same day over and over.

 

2020. Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes.

 

Spooky, just finished watching The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (Amazon Prime) where two people experience the same day over and over. Quite nicely done and enjoyed by the family.

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Shadow in the Cloud (Amazon Prime)

 

 

In WW2 a young woman carrying a mysterious box catches a lift on a military transport, but something else has also stowed on board...

 

Very much a film of two parts: The OTT action movie of the trailer is the second part, whilst the opening is pretty much "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" set in a gun turret and could almost have been a radio drama. I did enjoy both parts, though I'm not sure that they mesh well.

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The Red Sea Diving Resort (Netflix)

 

"Inspired by" real life events. With things getting precarious in their own country, many Ethiopian Jews decide that it is time to strike out for Jerusalem. A Mossad team manages to extract a group of 174 but only as far as Sudan, where the group are "hidden" in a refugee camp. The team's leader comes up with a cunning plan to get the group out: Lease an abandoned resort and use it as a front; its seaside location will enable the Israelis to extract the Ethiopians by sea. Although the plan is almost thrown of course by the arrival of actual tourists it succeeds, and they realise that this will be the perfect cover - there are still many, many more in need of passage to Israel...

 

With a setup like that, this sounds like it should be Hotel Rwanda meets Argo. Unfortunately it all feels quite flat. We never really get to know anyone apart from Ari, the team leader. Although one of the guys seems to have some past with Ari, the other two are interchangeable and I'd have been sure that Haley Bennett was only there as eye candy had it not been for the end credits pictures showing a female member of the team. Plus Michael Kenneth Williams as the guy who leads the Ethiopian Jews gets very little to do. Not awful, but a bit of a missed opportunity.

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Willy's Wonderland

 

Nicolas Cage is silent loner type on a roadtrip when his car is damaged.

To pay for the repairs he agrees to spend the night cleaning out an old children's playhouse.

Playhouse turns out to be full of satanically possesed animatronic creatures intent on eating all the tasty human flesh they can get.

 

It's silly, gory, magnificently shot and has a decent soundtrack. Proper B-Movie stuff and we loved it!

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The Iceman

 

The story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man. When finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife nor daughters had any clue about his real profession.

 

I enjoyed it - Mrs FN-GM (not quite married though!) didn't seem keen.

 

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