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Films

I watched Collide the other night. Good old fashioned action film about a drugs heist. Plenty of car chases and shooting, no brainer story line and easy to watch.
 
I watched Miller's Crossing last night. A brilliant Coen Brothers take on the gangster movie. Quality cast, including Gabriel Byrne, Tom Finney, Marcia Gay Harden and John Polito.
Definately recommended
 
I don't go to the cinema so most of my recommendations are old (and may have been covered on here already)

The Big Short

If people like documentaries;
How to make money selling drugs
The smartest guys in the room
The House we live in
 
Mrs wishes us to go see Moonlight this evening. Such good reviews and teh Best Film Oscar - that according to Mark Kermode is - for a change - totally merited
 
I'm not sure I would be going to watch a film purely on the recommendation of Kermode. He is a long way up himself in terms of films to like. The more obscure, the more arthouse, the more unwatchable etc the better. By all accounts it is very good though.

On the subject of Kermode, I was at an event a couple of months and didn't know many people there. I was talking to someone I didn't know and another person burst into our conversation and they started chatting. It came about that both were on the board of the Tyneside Cinema, an independent and art house cinema in Newcastle. Great, I thought, a chance to break the ice and join in. "So are you followers of the Church of Wittertainment?" I asked. All went quiet, tumbleweed blew past. "Wittertainment" I repeated. Still nothing. I started to flush and then explained. They knew nothing about it. I didn't know whether to feel foolish or condemn them for their lack of knowledge considering their roles.
 
The Accountant with Ben Affleck - 4/10, thought it would be better, seemed promising enough but got pretty silly as it went along tbh, save your money.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
I'm not sure I would be going to watch a film purely on the recommendation of Kermode. He is a long way up himself in terms of films to like. The more obscure, the more arthouse, the more unwatchable etc the better. By all accounts it is very good though.

On the subject of Kermode, I was at an event a couple of months and didn't know many people there. I was talking to someone I didn't know and another person burst into our conversation and they started chatting. It came about that both were on the board of the Tyneside Cinema, an independent and art house cinema in Newcastle. Great, I thought, a chance to break the ice and join in. "So are you followers of the Church of Wittertainment?" I asked. All went quiet, tumbleweed blew past. "Wittertainment" I repeated. Still nothing. I started to flush and then explained. They knew nothing about it. I didn't know whether to feel foolish or condemn them for their lack of knowledge considering their roles.
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I'm a Wittertainer 😁
I generally find his reviews are pretty much spot on, I also use Rotten Tomatoes a lot to hunt out hidden gems.
 
I do enjoy a Kermode rant but I take his reviews based on knowing what he generally does and does not like. I can decipher what is truly awful and what is just not to his taste. I can also tell what I would like or not even if he oozes over it. I'm sure that is the same with most people and most reviewers. The bloke who covers Kermode when he is on holiday, I really can't bear. He really does take reviewing to the nth degree and removes all joy from a film.

Hello to David Morrisey.
 
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