What DVD have you just watched?

Out of nowhere comes a film with a completely original story (a blend of buddy movie, crime caper and romantic comedy), which shows Reeves really is a good actor, and Caan on form like he hasn't been since the godfather. Farmiga hits another home run. Recommended!

Cheers,

EJ

We are enjoying the first season.

Out of nowhere comes a film with a completely original story (a blend of buddy movie, crime caper and romantic comedy), which shows Reeves really is a good actor, and Caan on form like he hasn't been since the godfather. Farmiga hits another home run. Recommended!

Cheers,

EJ

Ah yes it is quite good and as for Vera.....Oooh those eyes of hers are hypnotic.

Just ploughed thru' this:

IMO Plough is the operative word. It is just another somebody in the family is dying sob story admittedly with a twist. Maybe I am getting crochety in my old age but shit the protagonists are actually super rich so its hard to get any sympathy up.

regards

Geoff

London river (2009)

Sorry no picture, don't know how this works on a iPad....

Along with mrs Mulder, we watched this drama about missing childeren after the London attacks. Recommendable.

Kouyate played a very good part as Ousmane (for me unknown actor, but will look him up).

Cheers, Fred

On tonight's menu:

'In Bruges' ......having been there and watched Father Ted we felt we could relate.......'the swans'!

Great movie.  G

No explosions, no crashes, no violence just three stories which begin to interweave as the film evolves. Great acting from all but especially Annette Bening. The stars on the box are truly deserved.

In 1960s Jackson, Miss., aspiring writer Eugenia Phelan crosses taboo racial lines by conversing with Aibileen Clark about her life as a housekeeper, and their ensuing friendship upsets the fragile dynamic between the haves and the have-nots. When other long-silent black servants begin opening up to Eugenia, the disapproving conservative Southern town soon gets swept up in the turbulence of changing times.

We quite liked it. Oh well.

Yes. I saw it at the cinema and thought Clooney and the rest of the cast were excellent. The twist is the affair, and the playing out of the split loyalties in the friends rang very true to me.

Mind you Juliette fell asleep - but she does that a lot. Took her to see The Sunshine Boys yesterday, when the lights went down so did her eyelids!

Devito was GREAT by the way, if you get the chance I would recommend seeing it before they end the run.

M

Whisky Galore!

A caper that is exactly as suggested at the beginning of the film - a fiction!

ATB from George

Pretty entertaining.

An early 1955 Bergman film.

Fantastic thriller, with a good, original story and solid acting all round. 

EJ

P.S. Just kidding. Steven Seagal's Pistol Whipped was more fun than this.

Spoilers follow!

Battleship is inspired by the board game of the same name, but it is not a literal translation. After discovering a potentially habitable planet in another solar system, SETI sends out a signal. Within hours, an alien invasion force attacks Earth. Of the five ships, one - later, it turns out, their communications vessel - hits a satellite and crashes over Hong Kong. The remaining four ships submerge somewhere close to Pearl Harbour and establish an energy boundary that blocks all Earth forces from engaging, save for the three ships inside the perimeter. The three ships are quickly sunk, at the cost of three alien vessels. The remaining alien vessel seems to have free reign to re-establish contact with its home planet. However, it is engaged by an old 2nd WW battleship, converted from museum to fully loaded active warship within three hours, by a crew of veterans that fortunately was on hand, and the remaining US soldiers. The battleship manages the destroy the last alien warship, and the energy barrier with it. US F18s come in and quickly eliminate the residual alien presence. There is also a compelling subplot about a dysfunctional lieutenant, who is a brother of his boat's captain and the son of the fleet admiral, and who wants to marry the admiral's daughter.

Worth every cent of its USD 200 M budget.

EJ

Man on a Ledge is a heist movie with a twist. Silly, but very much worth seeing. 

EJ

George

(Did I miss the knowing in the '!' ?)

Not as fictional as some might think, it is based on real events when the S.S. Politician was shipwrecked with a cargo of whiskey in the Hebrides. My father was based in teh Hebrides for a while in WW2, and the locals still checked the new tides for any cases that might wash up.

Great film, I must get some of the Ealing Comedy's on DVD.

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Graeme

I totally agree on 'In Bruges', a great movie.

 
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After about five months we finished 'The West Wing' and really enjoyed it. One of the best TV series I have seen.

Hard to get into a new series after that. We watched the pilot of 'Studio 60, on Sunset Strip', also by Aaron Sorkin, with mixed feelings, Matthew Perry, Bradley Whitford and Timothy Busfield were all really good, but Amanda Peet was just irritating, a performance cut from the finest mahogany. It might get better.

Jamie

Dear Jamie,

Whisky Galore!

I know that it is indeed related to facts, but it was a good way of ensuring that no legal complications resulted"!

ATB from George

classic.

After about five months we finished 'The West Wing' and really enjoyed it. One of the best TV series I have seen.

Hard to get into a new series after that. 

Jamie

Agree
Thoroughly enjoyed West Wing. Excellent intelligent scripts.

Have just acquired this to work through. I have high hopes it will be enjoyable. 



Geoff

One of my favourite films of all time.

+1

For the third time.