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music, art and culture / Re: Anyone seen any good films lately - Part the second

« Last post by tommytwotone on Today at 12:23:05 pm »

Bit niche, but Ghost Stories is currently on iPlayer.


It's co-written and stars Derren Brown collaborator Andy Nyman, and is a trilogy of three ghost stories which all come together at the end (can't say much more without spolier-ing). I'd seen it before so re-watched it last night, had forgotten how unsettling / genuinely scary in places it is.


There's also a scene in what looks like gritstone moorland with some boulders in the background - spent ages trying to place it!

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music, art and culture / Re: Anyone seen any good films lately - Part the second

« Last post by seankenny on Today at 11:57:56 am »

Civil War

A near-future America is - for reasons left very vague - undergoing a civil war, pitting an alliance of Texas and California, plus a rebellious Florida, against what's left of the federal government. The film follows a group of reporters as they travel from New York to Washington, in an attempt to interview the president before the expected fall of the government. The first two thirds of the story is a brutal road trip through a fragmented, militia-run landscape, the final third is a war movie of high intensity urban combat. It's really well done, very tense in places, looks great and some good performances.

But... as a film about journalists, it's really off. The reporters are just all wrong - too reckless and crazy. I've worked with plenty of reporters covering conflict and most of them are pretty sober and quite geeky. The print reporter in Civil War doesn't do one interview the entire time, what are Reuters paying this guy for?! Alex Garland clearly spent too much time watching Apocalypse Now and playing first person shooters, but it's still a decent movie despite my gripes.

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news / Re: AidanWad

« Last post by andy moles on Today at 11:44:08 am »

We are almost as predictable with our scoffing and sneering 

But it is just and righteous sneering

dab

In the dance move sense or the hitting pad with leg sense?

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news / Re: AidanWad

« Last post by remus on Today at 11:19:25 am »

We are almost as predictable with our scoffing and sneering 

But it is just and righteous sneering

dab

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news / Re: AidanWad

« Last post by andy moles on Today at 11:06:22 am »

We are almost as predictable with our scoffing and sneering 

But it is just and righteous sneering

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news / Re: AidanWad

« Last post by Wellsy on Today at 10:46:35 am »

And as if by magic:

https://www.ukclimbing.com/news/2024/04/aidan_roberts_climbs_two_top-end_projects-73655

Second comment: Shadowplay. Boom. 

This should form the basis of some sort of drinking game, along with 'what have they done on grit', 'is it as hard as Indian Face?', 'benchmark E0', etc

When Seb Berthè flashed Le Voyage the first comment was literally "what has he done on grit"

Smh

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news / Re: AidanWad

« Last post by Fultonius on Today at 10:24:35 am »

We are almost as predictable with our scoffing and sneering 

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news / Re: AidanWad

« Last post by andy popp on Today at 10:18:32 am »

Three Pebble Slab.

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news / Re: AidanWad

« Last post by Bonjoy on Today at 10:13:23 am »

And as if by magic:

https://www.ukclimbing.com/news/2024/04/aidan_roberts_climbs_two_top-end_projects-73655

Second comment: Shadowplay. Boom. 

This should form the basis of some sort of drinking game, along with 'what have they done on grit', 'is it as hard as Indian Face?', 'benchmark E0', etc

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music, art and culture / Re: RIP

« Last post by andy popp on Today at 09:45:53 am »

I have just heard news of the passing of legendary North Wales character Cliff "The Captain" Phillips.

Cliff, a stalwart of the Llanberis scene since the 60s, was a man preceded by his reputation for deep, almost cosmic eccentricity and long-lived dirtbaggery. He was also known for some incredible tales of survival, particularly when he took a reputed 200ft ground fall soloing on the Mot, managing to crawl to the road before passing out. I believe he took another big soloing fall at Tremadoc.

I knew Cliff a little as part of the general 'Beris scene in the 80s and remember a rather sweet man. He was a very active new router on the slate at that time, and as a climber he was really much more than the reputation for oddness and mishaps suggests. He was actually very good, on rock and in the Alps.