Anatomy of a fall - is really good.Usual disclaimer bc no one gets shot in the face but I've got Jew-Twitter for that, fortunately.
Quote from: Mike Highbury on December 31, 2023, 06:37:12 pmAnatomy of a fall - is really good.Usual disclaimer bc no one gets shot in the face but I've got Jew-Twitter for that, fortunately.I googled Anatomy of a fall and it does sound good -thanks.I also googled your second sentence to try and understand because that sentence went totally over my head. I failed even with google. I guess it would be tedious for you to explain, but I'm intrigued.
Quote from: Mike Highbury on December 31, 2023, 06:37:12 pmAnatomy of a fall - is really good. Usual disclaimer bc no one gets shot in the face but I've got Jew-Twitter for that, fortunately.I also googled your second sentence to try and understand because that sentence went totally over my head. I failed even with google. I guess it would be tedious for you to explain, but I'm intrigued.
Anatomy of a fall - is really good. Usual disclaimer bc no one gets shot in the face but I've got Jew-Twitter for that, fortunately.
Quote from: stone on December 31, 2023, 09:24:01 pmQuote from: Mike Highbury on December 31, 2023, 06:37:12 pmAnatomy of a fall - is really good. Usual disclaimer bc no one gets shot in the face but I've got Jew-Twitter for that, fortunately.I also googled your second sentence to try and understand because that sentence went totally over my head. I failed even with google. I guess it would be tedious for you to explain, but I'm intrigued.That they talk a lot in the film.Followed by a dose self-satire so that you don't mistake me for the kind of person that likes that sort of thing.
Usual disclaimer bc no one gets shot in the face but I've got Jew-Twitter for that, fortunately.
I've just seen the latest Studio Ghibli: The Boy and the Heron.
It's got many of Miyazaki's favourite themes: an adolescent as central character, world war two, flying, natural disasters, the sea, pantheism, man-made structures reclaimed by nature, and - most of all - a supernatural world hidden in plain sight. It's also got a Fascistic parrot, nods to Sleeping Beauty and Alice in Wonderland, a supreme being that looks like Friedrich Nietzsche whose power derives from a floating rock straight out of Magritte. It's a bit chaotic with too many ideas but also a glorious feast of the imagination and frequently visually stunning.
I think the only message I actually got was: "trying to maintain an unrealistic perfection is fallacy, embrace the real world, warts and all" or something like that....
The Killer Really good, I thought, and not just good for a Netflix movie either. It develops nicely and was a nice angle on the revenge drama genre. It is quite violent, but not gratuitously so. Plenty of the director's trademark bleak, lonely cinematography. (David Fincher)
Boondock Saints is absolutely awful. I stuck with it for over an hour until switching off. Complete crap.
Just back from seeing Barbie, a solid 5/5, haven’t laughed so much in ages. Lots of jokes that will go right over the kids’ heads but had me in stitches. Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie are excellent and the soundtrack is spot on.
OndraOndra (2023) is a musical fantasy film which tells the origin story of Adam Ondra (Timothée Chalamet), featuring his early days as a sport climber.PlotThe young Adam Ondra arrives in Catalunya on a determined mission to repeat hard routes and put up some new ones of his own. With meagre savings and little in the way of sponsorship, he is forced to belay for money and degrade himself by providing coaching to visiting groups from British climbing walls, including the Westway and the Castle. As a result, he faces mockery from three rival sport climbers - Alex Megos (Jack Gleeson), Chris Sharma (Jake Gyllenhaal), and Daniel Woods (Austin Butler) - all of whom have generous sponsorship deals which allow them to climb full-time.Unable to afford the exorbitant prices at the grocery shop in Margalef, Adam reluctantly agrees to coach a group from Mile End for the next fortnight. As he coaxes the visiting Londoners up mid 6s at Can Torxa, Adam finds his competitive frustrations begin to melt away, partly aided by the provisions of Hackney-based organic weed entrepreneur and Fr6b onsighter Joshi (Benedict Cumberbatch).Galvanised by the profound effects of his spiritual awakening, and with the help of Joshi and Dalstonian baker Sienna (Ophelia Lovibond), Adam knocks up a prodigious batch of edibles and delivers them to the house in Bisbal where his three rivals are staying. The show him in, and introduce him to guests Dave Graham (Andrew Garfield) and Alex Honnold (Finn Wolfhard). Adam shares out the delicious-looking brownies.Things do not go to plan. Alex Megos has a massive whitey, is sick in the bath, and leaves in a taxi for the airport. Dave Graham’s dog bites Honnold before chasing him most of the way to Lleida, with Dave in hot pursuit. Daniel Woods goes all-out, uncorking a bottle of psilocybin-infused Sonoma County zinfandel he’d smuggled out to Spain which he ploughs through determinedly along with a bowl of cargols a la llauna and esqueixada de bacallà.Whilst Daniel staggers around the house muttering about the curse of the spiders’ eyes, Adam and Chris reconcile their differences and agree to combine forces. In between bouts of uncontrollable giggling, they pack rucksacks, then hitch a ride on the back of an olive farmer’s tractor to Oliana. Chris shows Adam a line he’d bolted back in 2009, and offers him a belay on what will one day become La Dura Dura.