What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[Lindseylong]

The Shawshank Redemption...Love this movie!

[Deimos]

Dead Snow

One of the most bizarre, but well done foreign zombie films in recent years

[runningdownthatdream]

Dead Snow

One of the most bizarre, but well done foreign zombie films in recent years

Like foreign zombie films? Try this:

[runningdownthatdream]

Recently watched AND highly recommended:

The Secret in their Eyes:
Cell 211:
Submarino:

[Deimos]

Like foreign zombie films? Try this:

seen it lol. not bad at all.

[Stavros]

I watched Black Hawk Down for the second time last night. I think its one of the best war films of recent years, and one of the few that emphasises the intensity of the relationships that develop between service personnel when they are in the thick of fighting. The futility of attempting to abduct Aideed is not so important, the production is terrific in its ability to convey the chaos of Somalia (even if filmed in Morocco which can be chaotic in its own way in certain places...), and the way in which the details of combat have been thought through. It probably helps that it is based on a true story and an eyewitness account, many war films seem to work when based on this. I don't know Josh Hartnett much but he is outstanding in this film. It is violent and gory, but for once it serves the story rather than being a bloody gloss on reality, and moves across the Rangers involved without idolising or selecting one over another, although I suppose the Hartnett character has a little more screen time, a true ensemble piece. Also, the absence of any sense of triumph -and not just because the mission was a costly failure-gives the film an edge, a depth that is lacking in the kind of war film I detest -of which Saving Private Ryan, soaked more in treacle than blood, is a good/bad example. Perhaps the Somali side could have been given more weight, but the only element that is truly unforgiveable is the use of a requiem style music at the end, completely inappropriate for this film which doesn't need tear-jerking music moments; a cop out by Ridley Scott who should have known better.

[European21]

UP!'

[Prospero]

"The 39 Steps" - Hitchcock from the 1930s. Before that The Wave - German film about how fascism can arise in the most innocent situations

[Los Angeles resident]

The last movie I saw was "Attack the Block", an English sci-fi movie that was released in the U.K. and Ireland on May 13 and will be given limited release in the U.S. on July 29. This movie was shown in June at the Los Angeles Film Festival and was given a special showing last night (Fourth of July) at the New Beverly Theater in Hollywood. The director of the film, Joe Cornish, was there to give a Q&A after the film.

The story takes place in South London, London's roughest neighborhood consisting of housing projects and gangs. A group of teen muggers terrorize a young woman until a giant meteor lands in a car next to them. The woman escapes, the thugs look in the car to see what it is. A strange creature attacks the ringleader of the gang, but he fights him off. The creature scampers into an abandoned shed nearby. They follow it there and kill him, hauling it out of the shed like it's some trophy. They take it back home to their housing project where they show it off to neighbors. Meanwhile, the woman provides description of her attackers to police. The police show up at the project to make arrests. The woman in a nearby van identifies her attackers. Right after the police lock them up in the same van, more creatures attack the police, trapping both the mugging victim and the perps in the same van and the rest of the movie becomes a fight for survival.

"Attack the Block" pays homages to movies like "Assault on Precinct 13", "Die Hard" and "Tremors". The movie is scheduled to be released in the U.S. on July 29, probably in New York, Los Angeles and a few selected cities.

Update: In addition to New York and Los Angeles, "Attack the Block" will also open in Chicago, Austin, San Francisco, Seattle and Toronto.

Reviews are in. The two papers that gave this film negative reviews, the San Francisco Chronicle and The Settle Times, complained about the opening sequence where the lead character gets mugged and after the aliens have landed, the muggers become heroes as the victim teams up with them.

" ... this fabulously inventive debut feature, written and directed by the British comedian Joe Cornish, never flags."
- Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times

"Spirited and exciting, 'Attack the Block' is so-called geek cinema done right."
- Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times

"Writer-director Joe Cornish, a veteran of British TV, has delivered a brisk blast of bloody good fun, sci-fi with a little social commentary as subtext."
- Roger Moore, Tribune Newspapers

" ... an entertaining thriller in the tradition of 1970s B-action films, with an unknown cast, energetic special effects and great energy."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

" ... sporadically funny but never as entertaining as it should be, and the presence of the usually reliable Nick Frost, of 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' doesn't add much zip."
- Moira Macdonald, The Seattle Times

"In Britain, it's probably just a regular bad movie, but here - with accents that are barely comprehensible and in-jokes about council flats, ... it's surprising this thing ever got released."
- Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

"Stacked against this summer’s CGI-driven blockbusters, 'Attack the Block' is definitely the fastest action ride, and quite possibly the most fun."
- Jennie Punter, The Globe and Mail

" ... the action is bloody, funny and no character is above meeting a nasty end."
- Linda Barnard, The Toronto Star

[LibertyHarkness]

The Eagle - the new roman movie came out monday.,., utter pile of shite ..