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alistair Good luck to whoever takes on Ant Middleton.

    The Fugitive

    One of those ’doesn’t really get made anymore’ type films, because, you know, Marvel, Disney etc. Good thriller, everyone is decent in it, bar the dodgy body dummy they throw off the dam.

    3 Just For Mens out of 5

      Amps the 4K Blu Ray is spectacular! Almost a once a year movie for me. The making of it was legendary mess, and a small miracle that it worked. I think they started filming in February of 1993 (without a finished script), and the movie was in theatres in August of that year, which is a ridiculously short turn around time in Hollywood. Everyone making it thought it a sure disaster, and it was a huge hit, earned Tommy Lee Jones an Oscar, and made him a star.

          Amps googled the other nominees and holy shit it was stacked category in 1994. Ralph Fiennes for Schindler’s List, Leonardo DiCaprio for Gilbert Grape, Pete Postlethwaite for In the Name of the Father and John Malcovich for In the Line of Fire. All amazing performances. Samuel Gerard was easily the least flashy role also. I guess TLJ won it for breathing life to a what could have been a cliched part.

            CODA (2021, Apple TV)

            For a film that won the academy award for best picture this seems to have a pretty low profile. I also didn’t know that Emelia Jones was Aled Jones' daughter. It’s a coming-of-age film about a teenage girl who is emancipated from her close-knit but culturally limited family circumstances by the transcendent power of song!

            It’s cheesy, it’s heartfelt, it’s beautiful.

            8/10

            Can’t be fucked with the Euros, might do another Hanks style ‘film not footy’ marathon when Engeeeerland play. Alternative Harrison Ford flicks? Open to suggestions.

              Amps Crossing Over from 2009 is a decent Harrison flick

                Homegrove I think I watch this twice a year, it’s a brilliant film. Tommy Lee Jones is fantastic in it, although having seen the other Oscar nominees Fiennes can feel pretty hard done by not to win

                  Depends on what you want. Frantic and Presumed Innocent tick the right boxes when it comes to late 80s/early 90’s “man in distress”type thrillers

                    alistair late 80s/early 90’s “man in distress”type thrillers

                    I don’t recall John McClane clutching his pearls.

                      Watched Nope last night.

                      Swerve.

                      Past Lives (2023). Movies like this are like crack for a hopeless romantic like me. 5/5 tears at the end.

                        Under Paris

                        Lasted <20 minutes.

                        Swerve.