Pursued By Trees
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Re: Films Again - all new
Apr 04, 2018, 14:34
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American Ultra - nicely balanced mix of slacker comedy meets action movie. Sort-of a cross between American tv series Chuck (but with a movie level of violence) and a bit-less-full-on-than-Kevin-Smith-ish level of comedy.
Jessie Eisenberg plays a dope-addled and panic-striken convenience store clerk who is unwittingly a C.I.A. sleeper agent. When a C.I.A. boss decides to 'clear the portfolio' the overseer of the project (that Jessie's characters' training was a part of) decides to activate him in order to give him a fighting chance of survival. Also features Walton Goggins.
Also highly recommended, but with less mass-appeal, Jessie Eisenberg (again) in The Double. Loosely based on the Dostoyevsky story. Has something in common with Eraserhead in its' alienation vibe, but is actually a darkish comedy (with Kaurismaki-style absurdist elements) ... a lot of laughs if you're that way inclined. The highly film-literate Richard Ayoade's second feature. Even includes a brief cameo from J. Mascis.
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jb lamptoast-morsley
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Re: Films Again - all new
Apr 04, 2018, 18:10
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Enjoyed The Double in the main, although I did find it unsettling. As dark as the story is, the end is somewhat different to the book, but no worse off for it IMO. Was a bit obsessed with Dostoevsky as a student some 20 years ago. I seem to remember a BBC version of Crime and Punishment with John Sim and Ian Mcdiarmid at the turn of the century that I wouldn't mind revisiting.
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necropolist
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Re: Films Again - all new
Apr 16, 2018, 22:01
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A Quiet Place is really very good indeed.
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anthonyqkiernan
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Edited Apr 18, 2018, 15:03
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Apr 18, 2018, 15:03
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keith a wrote: Seven Psychopaths
Same Writer/Director. I had to try really hard to remember Harleson was in that
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jb lamptoast-morsley
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Apr 24, 2018, 22:30
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Les Combattants. 2 post school age younguns strike up a relationship whilst going on army training courses and playing at Ray Mears. Quite liked it actually
Idiocracy. Didn't make it to the end - although the idea has some potential. We're run by idiots, all gone to the dogs, continual dumbing down etc. Just delivered in quite a mediocre fashion with little imagination
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1001realapes
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May 28, 2018, 00:22
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Pirates of the Caribbean : Dead Men Tell No Tales
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1001realapes
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Jun 10, 2018, 05:17
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Deathgasm
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1001realapes
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Jun 12, 2018, 11:56
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Hunt For the Wilderpeople
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1001realapes
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Jun 17, 2018, 02:32
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The Big Gundown
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jb lamptoast-morsley
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Re: Films Again - all new
Aug 17, 2018, 14:33
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Ant man and the Wasp. Think Mark Kermode had it about right describing it as the more family orientated of the Marvel universe. Enjoyable enough without being essential viewing
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