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No doubt everyone has already seen it but Taxi Driver just popped up on Netflix.

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No doubt everyone has already seen it but Taxi Driver just popped up on Netflix.

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The worst person in the world.

No one gets shot in the face, which is the mark of a good film, and people talk to each other all the way through but it's bearable, all the same.

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Supernova:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11169050/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Not uplifting but very well done. I do like Tucci in anything though.
I agree, the Italian travel / food series he did on HBO was extremely pleasant, stress free entertainment.

No doubt everyone has already seen it but Taxi Driver just popped up on Netflix.

If anyone hasn't seen it, where have you been? One of the most memorable, impactful movies ever made, in my humble opinion. De Niro gives arguably his best performance ever.

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If anyone hasn't seen it, where have you been?

You talkin' to me?

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If anyone hasn't seen it, where have you been?

You talkin' to me?

I don't see anyone else in here...

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I agree, the Italian travel / food series he did on HBO was extremely pleasant, stress free entertainment.

Season two is on the way! His book, Taste was ok but a few things made me question it a bit. Sticky toffee pudding as a Christmas Day British thing? It's nice, but no.

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I second the recommendations for both Supernova and Worst Person in the World.

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Really loved We're All Going To The World's Fair:

https://player.bfi.org.uk/rentals/film/watch-were-all-going-to-the-worlds-fair-2021-online (or Apple TV, Prime Video or wherever you get your movies, etc. etc.)

The blurbs for it tend to give the impression that it's going to be a micro-budget inventive "found footage" type shocker a la Blair Witch Project, and, though I'm very up for that, what you get is something much stranger and more wonderful.

There are multiple points where you can see a particular development coming, go "oh yeah, I see where this is going" and then it ... doesn't.

I'm not even sure it's a horror movie (as opposed to a very creepy art movie), though it's very much engaging with horror and has a kind of wave-particle superposition about whether it's a horror movie or something else.

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I agree, the Italian travel / food series he did on HBO was extremely pleasant, stress free entertainment.

Season two is on the way!

Only in the US  I thought?

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That was the same with the first season as well. It'll make it's way here.

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I agree, the Italian travel / food series he did on HBO was extremely pleasant, stress free entertainment.

Season two is on the way!

Only in the US  I thought?

Series 1 is on iPlayer at the moment. I enjoyed it for all the same reasons, but flippin ‘eck I just wish he had more to say about the food and wine he tasted than “Oh my God!”.  I found myself shouting at the tele “C’mon Stan, tell us what it tastes like!!”

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Everything Everywhere All at Once - Christopher Nolan meets Stanley Kubrick meets Jackie Chan? Comedy, drama, action movie, surrealist trip with pathos and poignancy. Those familiar with Michelle Yeoh's work will enjoy her tongue in cheeky nods to her back catalogue. There's also an ongoing homage to Ratatouille. On one level it's a chaotic film with so many ideas & images thrown into it (including butt plugs!) that it could have been a complete mess but somehow it manages to be both entertaining and existential. One of the best films I've seen in a while. Well worth a watch.

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I agree, the Italian travel / food series he did on HBO was extremely pleasant, stress free entertainment.

Season two is on the way!

Only in the US  I thought?

Series 1 is on iPlayer at the moment. I enjoyed it for all the same reasons, but flippin ‘eck I just wish he had more to say about the food and wine he tasted than “Oh my God!”.  I found myself shouting at the tele “C’mon Stan, tell us what it tastes like!!”

I suppose so, but so much great Italian food is so simple, (eg: the courgette pasta dish, or prosciutto) you can have a pretty good guess, and he is certainly curious, enthusiastic, and really, really, enjoying himself.

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Everything Everywhere All at Once - Christopher Nolan meets Stanley Kubrick meets Jackie Chan? Comedy, drama, action movie, surrealist trip with pathos and poignancy. Those familiar with Michelle Yeoh's work will enjoy her tongue in cheeky nods to her back catalogue. There's also an ongoing homage to Ratatouille. On one level it's a chaotic film with so many ideas & images thrown into it (including butt plugs!) that it could have been a complete mess but somehow it manages to be both entertaining and existential. One of the best films I've seen in a while. Well worth a watch.

Great review, looking forward to seeing it.

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Another oldie that younger readers might have missed on BBC4 The Graduate .
Dustin Hoffman as a dissaffected college graduate who embarks on a. Ill advised affair with the bitter and alcoholic Anne Bancroft.
 Worth seeing for the magnificent Bancroft.

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Munich on Netflix. Standard Brit flick spy drama type stuff, but very watchable saying that. Generates a remarkable amount of tension given that if you don't already know what happens you've been lobotomized. Jeremy Irons, and the guy who's in 1917 act very well in it. I really liked it overall.

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That'd be Munich Edge of War...? Not the 2005 Spielberg movie...

Everything everywhere sounds like a good option to take the youth this half term.

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That'd be Munich Edge of War...? Not the 2005 Spielberg movie...

Indeed, the 2021 Netflix film. Apologies I was too lazy to type the full title and thought it'd be obvious from the review. It's good, watch it.

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Shout out for Manhunt on Netflix.

Found it as was idly searching for John Woo (balletic ultraviolence specialist - Hard Boiled, Face:Off, Mission Impossible 3 etc etc) films.

Takes a while to get going, but before you know it people are jumping out of second floor windows on motorbikes, jumping off the bikes while firing a 9mm automatic in both hands and then landing perfectly on the ground!

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Nobody. You might enjoy it if you can stomach Better Call Saul as a retired tough guy and won't be put off by a down market John Wick storyline. As you might tell, I wasn't psyched.

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Nobody. You might enjoy it if you can stomach Better Call Saul as a retired tough guy and won't be put off by a down market John Wick storyline. As you might tell, I wasn't psyched.

That didn't make sense to me, is Nobody the title of a movie?

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Nobody:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7888964/

Nobody. You might enjoy it if you can stomach Better Call Saul Bob Odenkirk as a retired tough guy and won't be put off by a down market John Wick storyline. As you might tell, I wasn't psyched.

Better?  :)

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I thought the film 'Nobody' was superb. Some excellent, physical feeling action scenes, fairly nonsensical plot, nice turn from Christopher Lloyd... All in all good 'popcorn munching' fun times.

I re-watched Collateral last night. Michael Mann really is a different class of director. Want to get my hands on the directors cut of his Miami Vice (2006?) film as I think I've only seen the feature length release but i'm not sure if it is on any of the streamers.

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I am a massive Mann fan too. Heat is currently on Netflix, and I think Amazon Prime too. Think one of them is the Director's Cut as well.

 

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