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Thor Ragnarok
"The Last Jedi."
Happy 75th Birthday CASABLANCA
bright. decent attempt at the urban fantasy genre.
Four Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Stars Mildred Hayes (of Fargo fame), Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, and Peter Dinkage. There are no purely good guys or purely bad. It’s about people behaving, sometimes badly and sometimes well in their attempts to deal with the shit life has handed them. Best movie I’ve seen in a long, long time. I recommend it highly.
I wanted to see it because I like the screenwriter Martin Mcdonagh a lot. His films aren't for everyone but he has an off-beat sensibility. What he does is simply different and often highly entertaining. I'm gonna go see this soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by trish
The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi, 2016)
Another brilliant film from the director of A Separation (2011) and About Elly (2009). Farhadi works within the limitations imposed on cinema in Iran, but uses this to focus on intense personal dramas, which in this case concerns two actors who have to move into temporary accommodation when their own building suffers structural damage due to construction work next door. Their new apartment contains a secret which exposes fault-lines in Iranian society and the relationship between men and women, but also contains oblique references to the Miller play Death of a Salesman, in which the two actors are appearing at the time, with themes of deception, betrayal and broken illusions threaded through play and film.
Farhadi was banned from entering the USA in 2016 and was therefore unable to collect his Oscar for Foreign Movie in person.
TCM had the classic 'Forbidden Planet on the other night. They also showed the lesser-known 'The Invisible Boy' which also featured Robbie the robot.
Guardians of the galaxy 2. A jolly romp.
'The Last Jedi'