@jump Great to hear the Prince Charles is still going strong, last time I was there was for their regular Rocky Horror nights more than 20 years ago. It was probably the most interesting cinema in central London (along with NFT).
@Rossoverde Yeah Prince Charles is still going, luckily covid didn't put it under as it's far too unique of a cinema to be lost. They changed the writing on the marquee to say "no, we are not chaning our name to King Charles" recently.
National Film Theatre is called the BFI Southbank now, to be honest I've only been there a couple of times and both times it was as part of a film festival a mate worked at. I can't remember what I actually saw but I remember Patrick Stewart was there though.
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Yeah, that's basically the plot of White. There was a lot of talk at the time from certain sectors about how that one was the best of the three as it was more like his earlier films (Dekalog, Camera Buff, Blind Chance, etc) than the "European" stylings of The Double life of Veronique, that Blue and Red have in common. But they were wrong as Blue is the best, even if it's just because Juliette Binoche is the lead.
Edit: everywhere below Middlesbrough is the South as far as I'm concerned
Wanting to get into racing in order to entice youth buyers (and to one up Ferrari after a little tit for tat between the two companies), Ford Motor Company teams up with the only American to win Le Mans, automotive designer Carroll Shelby, in order to design a race car capable of besting the Italian car maker in the prestigious event.
A lot of masculine bravado as everyone seems stubbornly intent on clashing with everyone else (Henry Ford II vs Ferrari, Carroll Shelby and his hand picked driver, Ken Miles, vs the suits at Ford, and sometimes each other) and with a lot of fantastic action on the track, it's a very fun movie. Of course probably a bit exaggerated for movie making sake, but an interesting look back at automotive & racing history.
Striptease (Blu-Ray)
This is much better than it has absolutely any right to be.
I mean, I rewatched it because boobs, and... yay boobs I guess (though I'll admit the blonde with the super massive fake ones had even me wincing, & this is coming from someone who enjoys low rent fan service anime), BUT it has some genuinely funny comedy bits, especially from the senator & owner of the strip club. Yeah, they're sleazy, but they're almost always the butt of the joke & Moore's character is almost always the smartest one in the room so I can't say it's mean spirited.
Tetris (Apple TV+)
The core story behind this is actually pretty interesting (the whole unprecedented bit about a businessman trying to strike a deal directly with the Soviet government in regards to licensing a product for sale in the west, especially since he was skipping certain legalities), and as someone who grew up on Nintendo it was cool in general to see the story behind one of the most famous games in history.
That said it got a little silly in the second half when they turned it into a bit of a political thriller (culminating in a high speed car chase across Moscow), but Hollywood is going to Hollywood I guess (over Tetris though, lol). Also no reason this needed to be R rated (I'm not a prude by any means, but this seemed to have over a dozen F-bombs for no other reason then to have them), I mean, it's a story about frickin' Tetris.
Still really liked it though, and it was interesting to watch a movie that largely took place in the backdrop of Soviet Moscow.
InuYasha the Movie 2: Castle Beyond the Looking Glass (Blu-Ray)
Rewatching the series (collecting it on Blu-Ray) and made it to the point where you can fit in the second movie.
Probably overrating it a bit because it's my favorite of the movies in a franchise that's nostalgic for me, but I can't deny I had a lot of fun with it. There's not a whole lot I could say about it that would convince someone who isn't already a fan to see it (though I want to give a shout-out to the fight with the big 3/4 headed sea serpent thing, which was exciting as all get out), but I will say it looks absolutely gorgeous on Blu-Ray. I had purchased the digital version a few years ago on Amazon, but it seems like the quality of it really dips at specific times (it wasn't a buffering issue, and is an issue across all the InuYasha movies digitally), yet the BD is absolutely crystal clear and almost looks like a contemporary release in terms of quality (the first movie looks better on BD as well, but it seems like this one's conversation is above & beyond). Hope the last two films are updated to this standard.
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@Bunkerneath Ah, I was hoping you were from Isle Of Wight. I went to the festival there a few years ago and I remember seeing a road sign about a zoo with just monkeys and owls so I was hoping to go there in the summer to see it (plus the beach) and was looking for some local tips.
@Rambler it's been years since I saw them so they aren't fresh enough in my mind to weigh in which was one was best but I would love to see people argue over them the same way the bitter fans do about Star Wars!
@jump To explain the first one, it's Batman and I wanted to see Batman. For the second, I'm a big fan of both Steve Martin and John Candy and had never seen that movie since it was R but after learning it was PG in the 80s and changed to an R in rereleases just because of one scene I watched it finally.
I wanna watch One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Matrix, and Schindler's List sometime in the near future though.
@Rambler such a great film, I love all the details like the Joker's mustache that was painted over. It also has great logic, Batman runs into the tavern with the bomb and takes minutes to clear the place out without knowing how long the bomb had and could have killed dozens of people.
@Rambler I’m now curious if I was that drunk I had confused the garlic festival for the music festival so I didn’t see Prodigy and Fleetwood Mac and had just watch some Morris dancers and a bandstand instead.
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