What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[Prospero]

I used to know Bernard Cornwell who wrote Sharpe in his previous incarnation... and under his real name.

[Prospero]

"The Invisible Woman" a very low key film directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes about an affair involving the writer Charles Dickens. it gradually engages your attention but is really sophorific. I'm sure the novel by Claire Tomalin is better or it wouldn't have been adapted.

[Stavros]

Ralph Fiennes...sophorific...who would have thought it? Does it go into Dicken's life as a sex tourist? He used to go to Paris with Wilkie Collins to have sex with prostitutes, something you don't get much of in his turgid books.

[Prospero]

Nope - nowt about his wider ranging sex life. The focus is on woman he left his wife to live with - the mistress who is the subject of the film.

[Stavros]

The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino 2013)
This desperately terrible film concerns a 65 year old man who organises parties for the rich in Rome and who once published a book. In the course of the film we learn something poignant about his youth which returns to haunt him, it convinces him that he has spent most of his life doing nothing, and even that doesn't seem to matter. There is some sort of contrast with a nun whose daily life has meaning and purpose -to her- and the endurance over centuries of art but otherwise this film is a cynical essay in not much in particular using Rome as a city that has no poverty, no squalor or reality for that matter. There might be some sort of critique of Silvio Berlusconi but even there is it doesn't amount to much. Antonioni made cynical films in the late 50s and early 60s (L'eclisse, Il Grido, la Notte, L'Avventura) designed to show what shallow lives the rich live, which may or may not be true. Anyway at a cost of £10 this dvd was £10 more than it was worth and is destined for the charity shop. Avoid.

[robertlouis]

watching all of my boxset of sharpe again today while working on website final designs and webcam later ..




Ahhhhhh why cant we go fight the frogs again glory days .

I know John Tams who played Hagman and also arranged and sang the title song - best arrangement of that old stalwart ever - and was lucky to sing harmony with him on it one night in Cambridge a few years ago. Lovely fella.

[Prospero]

"Out Of The Furnace" brutal, bleak and unpleasantly violent. Brilliantly shot with terrific performances. Christian Bale who plays the central character does the most remarkable portrayal of an American for an actor born in pembrokeshire in Wales. He also stars in "American Hustle."

[Dino Velvet]

Uplifting, Enchanting, Inspiring... It's Lucio Fulci fer cryin' out loud!!!

[Jimmy W]

HER - Joaquin Phoenix is not an artist. He is not complicated. He is not brooding or interesting or anything he probably thinks he is. Walk The Line, The Master and now this embarrassment. He is a fumbling mumbling ....what did he say? ...can anyone hear this dialogue?....pretender. Take a second look and see what I mean. I like Spike Jonze but this premise had problems from the start and it had the potential to be something great had it not focused on the love interest being the "You've Got Mail" voice on a computer. This cleft lip Big Bang Theory clone walking around with his IPhone on a date..and people blithely accepting this "relationship"...Sorry, NO. Jimmy W says don't buy into the hype...this movie sucks and so does Joaquin Phoenix

[sdc1989]

The Place Beyond the Pines. Pretty good crime saga centering on two families, each on the opposite side of the law. Sounds pretty rote but it plays with convention in some pretty interesting ways. Bradley Cooper does the best work of his career. The third act drags a bit but it's pretty good on the whole.