Along_the_Wire Face - watched it on Mubi, a crime caper from 1997 featuring a baby-faced Robert Carlisle and Ray Winstone. You’d think they could get a tune out of that script and direction with those two, but could they bollocks. Absolute rubbish. 2/10
Smallman1 Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. A enjoyable load of old cannon fodder for a Monday night. 6.5 NASCAR’s out of 10.
Amps Homegrove It’s not Tarantino’s best film (that’s Jackie Brown) H, always raising the question, ‘what are they smoking in Finland?’
Homegrove Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). I’m clearly 42 years late to the party, because I had trouble getting through this. It was just bad, I thought.
Homegrove Furiosa, not as good as Fury Road, but then what is? Some amazing shots in this for which it’s worth seeing on the big screen, and Chris Hemsworth is amazing and also worth the ticket money alone.
Along_the_Wire Affliction. Fairly miserable film about a dodgy small town cop - good turn from Nick Nolte and even James ‘overacting’ Coburn is pretty good. I’d give this a bleak 7/10
Wasily Furiosa (2024): 7/10 Not as bad I as thought. They avoided the Aquaman CGI fest where there’s so much going on it makes you feel sick. Decent truck action and it’s pretty respectful of its predecessors. There is a lot of ‘Australia question intonation/ high rising terminal’ amongst the backing characters/ extras which for me was a bit distracting.
Phil-McRackin Land of Bad. Soldiers stuck behind enemy lines. Unoriginal but pretty decent action with a gruff Russel Cross as a drone operator. On Amazon Boys Kills World. Specially trained Mute killing machine out for revenge. Some good fighty stuff but a bit disappointing,was looking forward to it.
Homegrove 12 Angry Men (1957). Scratching this one off my never seen that one-list. A classic for a reason. The sweat continuity-guy was on top of his duties while filming this.
Phil-McRackin I finished Jury Service a couple weeks ago. 4 week trail of some scrotes who’d carried out an aggravated burglary. Was a bit apprehensive about it beforehand but enjoyed it in the end. 4 out of 5
Dan Phil-McRackin I had one for two weeks in 2007 with some bird who got caught with uncut rocket fuel. I didn’t want to give her intent to supply just possession….5 gammons we’re doing their nut at me. Obviously never appreciated a decent bit of gear. Plus both the Cops had conflicting statements.
whatever Phil-McRackin Have done it a couple of times. Was really frustrating how dim some people are and the other jurors just wanted to go home early.
Phil-McRackin Dan I did it about 30yrs ago where a young former private school lad had been caught dealing acid…myself and a couple of other younger jurors argued against it and he got off. They then read out a list of previous offences 😂
Smallman1 Dan I had one for two weeks in 2007 with some bird who got caught with uncut rocket fuel. Don’t suppose you got her number?
