Amps Interesting that you mention contrast, I suppose that’s why it works well in Oxford, given that medieval and modern are often shunted up against each other.
Rate The Last Movie you Watched
mono-stereo it’s not a hard and fast rule, more horses for courses, but with the brutalist stuff it has very narrow design choices so to an extent you can talk about it in broad ish terms.
General movie topic, a great new interview with Michael Mann about Thief and Heat 2.
https://www.vulture.com/article/michael-mann-on-heat-2-and-the-redemption-of-thief.html
deadhead Loved it, think it’s deserves better than an 8!
all subjective but I don’t know do you think it’s as good as City of God for example?
deadhead they’re different films, obviously, but they’re both 10/10 for me
Long flight to Vietnam tmrw so hopefully I may actually watch a film! It’s been ages since I’ve watched anything really decent. Society of the Snow was probably the last one (and that was a recommendation on here)
What would people recommend at the moment (no marvel, sci fi shite)
I’m Still Here
Conclave
LaRoy Texas
The Apprentice
Blink Twice
Lord of War
Anora
The Brutalist
Late Night With the Devil
Motherless Brooklyn
Along_the_Wire cheers mate. Will make a note of those and see what’s on the flight.
Homegrove iPad and download rentals or purchase. I never watch the stuff on planes - often badly out of date and / or shit
Along_the_Wire yeah the combination of small screen and a movie with someone like Hugh Grant, plus earphones from 1985 plugged into your seat makes for a truly shite few hours.
Simulated lounges ftw.
Nothing like a pretend whiskey sour in the pilots lounge after you’ve just dropped a nuke on the Whitehouse, then reverse corkscrew landed your spitfire on a Friday evening. Tally ho!
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A Working Man (2025) 4/10
Thought this might be another Beekeeper given it has the same protagonist and director, but this has none of the fun of seeing entitled millennials in suits, disabled white South Africans or Jeremy Irons being murdered.
Statham, in a more familiar role as an ex-British paratrooper, is working on a construction site (hence the film’s imaginative title) in Chicago when he decides to rescue his boss’s daughter from the Russian mafia. In a lot of respects it is like Beekeeper- our second favourite bald headed Brit works his way up the criminal hierarchy purging it of the badness until, inevitably, his mission completed and hunger sated, he returns to a quiet life in the countryside with his daughter and blind friend.
Unlike Beekeeper however the fight scenes are all shot in dark corridors, burning houses, swamps at night or dingy clubs which makes it hard to really see what’s going on. The choreography is not great either.
Makes Taken look Oscar worthy.