Lady Macbeth, what’s in a name though. Florence Pugh was good in Midsommar so why not. Not for everyone, period piece. Intense, definitely R rated, don’t watch with Mom or your sister.
Vagabond (“Sans toit ni loi”) (1985)
Agnes Varda’s unique film is a classic that I have been trying to rent for many years, if only I could find it for rent in the USA. Fortunately, I found it on the Criterion Collection site, and the movie was worth the wait.
In the first scene, a farmer is out tending to his field on a cold winter day, when he makes a grisly discovery - a young woman’s frozen body in an irrigation ditch. The rest of the movie shows the last several days in the dead woman’s life, leading up to her demise in the field. Sandrine Bonnaire’s performance as Mona, the young woman, is incredibly convincing. She isn’t presented as a saintly victim of circumstance - at least, not entirely. She is a difficult, manipulative character, with plenty of flaws on prominent display. On the other hand, she often has to be calculating and assertive in the environments she finds herself in, to survive.
As we see Mona interact with a wide variety of people she meets along the way, we see that the ways in which the people in her life view her are as varied as their own lives. This is really the heart of the movie. The sisters at the convent where Mona finds a free meal see her simply as someone they will help, when she needs their help, with the simple food they can provide. A young woman envies Mona’s freedom, as she chafes at her parents’ restrictions and expectations. A college professor takes Mona into town for meals, fascinated by her wandering, rootless existence and independence. Another woman she quickly forgets thinks about Mona long after she is gone, and wonders what has become of her. The men in her life also have different views of her - some are purely interested in using her for various purposes, and others have a sincere interest in her.
One man, who lives with his wife and children on a farm where Mona is offered work and even a field of her own to till, warns Mona that the freedom of a vagabond has a downside. He warns her that, based on his own experience as a wanderer earlier in life, the freedom she pursues can turn to unbearable loneliness, and can even lead to oblivion and death, if pursued indefinitely. In the end, as we know from the beginning scene of the movie, Mona fails to heed his advice, and moves on until she meets her fate. While this isn’t an easy film to watch, you won’t forget the experience. Highly recommended.
I saw Bad Milo (2013).
It's not bad for a low budget horror comedy.
The acting is decent.
The music is good.
I laughed at least ten times, and there are some famous comedians in the movie.
It's not a comedy masterpiece, but it's okay.
The plot is pretty good, and the ending is strong.
Masterpiece movie from Emir Kusturica.
No professional actors, just ordinary people.
9/10 strongly recommend along with his other movies.
Dom za vesanje 1988
The King’s Man. Good prequel to The Kingsman movies.
Ooh...
I'll have to catch that one!
I tried to watch Time of the Gypsies but only got thru about 15 mins and lost patience with it. Will have to try another time.
siata94….us, too.
we saw some of the
similarities with Firestarter.
Live ammunition was used in the film - in interviews, actor Aleksey Kravchenko has described actual bullets passing some 10 centimetres above his head.
9.5/10 shocking movie.
Come and see
Trailer:
Full movie with English subs here:
Open your eyes, use your brain.
Old Henry……well done western.
The Protege — Pretty good movie —- Only so many ways you can do Shoot-Em-Up
Encanto 2021
Negatives:
- Most of the plot was a result of the characters failing to communicate with each other.
- Some of the songs are straight-up exposition dumps.
- The magic pushes the plot forward in a contrived, arbitrary way
Positives:
- The animation here is absolutely insane. I watched on Disney+ with DolbyVision enabled and the colors and fidelity blew me away.
- There’s a good lesson in here—people with seemingly perfect lives can be under stresses you know nothing about unless you talk to them.
- Some great singing/acting
Personal Gripe:
I’m pretty sure Luisa was first conceptualized as a male character and they swapped genders. It just feels a bit jarring that this woman has more muscle mass than any of the male characters and it takes me out of the movie. You could argue it’s “because magic” but when characters lost their gifts Luisa didn’t lose her masculine physique.
I saw Freaky (2020).
[One of my favorite movies of all time.]
This movie is amazingly good.
It's one of the best horror comedies of all time.
It's right up there with the original Gremlins.
One big difference is that Gremlins is PG-13, and Freaky is definitely rated R.
Freaky is a cross between the classic family comedy Freaky Friday and the classic horror series Friday the 13th.
If you understand the basic premise of Freaky Friday and Friday the 13th, you'll enjoy this movie more, but it's not necessary to enjoy this film.
Here's an edited synopsis, from IMDb:
After swapping bodies with a "Jason Voorhees clone", a young girl in high school discovers she has less than 24 hours before the change becomes permanent.
The acting is extremely good, and the music is excellent.
The plot is just about perfect.
The movie is genuinely funny, but it's also a proper modern horror film with plenty of violence.
I can't believe how much I enjoyed this very fun to watch movie.
Dallas Buyers Club.
finally got around to it.
bottom line: it is really, really, really depressing.
so…i guess it is good because it made me feel that way.
also, it is super-slow.
but, again, it must be good
enough, since i stuck with it.
finally, most modern Oscar winners
are some of the saddest movies ever.
Finally, No Time to Die.
Thoroughly enjoyed it, it captured everything Bond for me and came around in a nice arc for the Craig Bond, even going so far as to use the Louis Armstrong classic All the Time in the World, which was last used in Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Not the best of the old Bond films, but the only time Bond married (legitimately), and where Tracy Bond (Diana Rigg) was killed. Hence a nod to the more human Daniel Craig 007.
Winter On Fire. On Netflix, a must watch!
Thanks for sharing your impression. It’s on my list to see. Sad to think of this being Craig’s last time as Bond. I was unsure about him taking over the role in Casino Royale, but he really ran well with it. Frankly, I think he has given the best portrayal of the James Bond characterized by Ian Fleming.
Is that the one that starts off with the loooooooong parkour session up’n’down cranes, derricks, etc. when he’s chasing that guy?
That was a hoot!
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Let us know what you think. The reviews were a bit divided, but that’s to be expected, the world was under Covid at the time and just about everybody became a TV and film critic. Also there was very little else going on in the news, so the production problems became larger news than they should.
In a strange turn of fate, I often see a guy with his laptop sat at a quiet table in our local pub. I assumed for years he was probably doing the accounts or something, but we got chatting one day so I asked him what he did. He said he wrote the Bond screenplays, so I asked (naively), what bits he wrote. “All of it” was the reply. He’s written everything since Halle Berry walked out of the sea in Die Another Day and is a really nice, down to earth bloke. Most of the locals here know what he does, but everyone just leaves him to it, I think he likes it that way. He won’t let on what he’s writing at the moment, but as long as it’s not another Johnny English or Plunkett and Macleane Ride Again, then I’m not bothered. 
Tonight’s viewing was Dune, which I reckon is epic cinema and deserved to be seen on the big screen, but I watched it on the TV. Up there with Interstellar in the top sci fi films I’ve seen.