What was the last film you watched?

[J. R.'s Piece]

The Scamp. Starring Richard Attenborough, Dorothy Alison, Colin Petersen, Terence Morgan, Charles Lloyd-Pack, Jill Adams, Margaretta Scott, Geoffrey Keen

The Whole Truth. Starring Stewart Granger, Donna Reed, George Sanders. Also starring Gianna Maria Canale. With Michael Shillo, Peter Dyneley, Hy Hazell, Jimmy Thompson, Richard Molinas, John Van Eyssen, Philip Vickers, Agnes Lauchlan

The Mob. starring Broderick Crawford

Cosh Boy. Starring James Kenney and Joan Collins. With Hermione Baddeley and Hermione Gingold

The Good Die Young. Starring Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Richard Basehart, Joan Collins, John Ireland, Rene Ray, Stanley Baker and Margaret Leighton, Robert Morley with Freda Jackson, James Kenney, Susan Shaw, Lee Patterson, Sandra Dorne, Leslie Dwyer

Cat and Mouse. 1958. Lee Patterson, Ann Sears, Hilton Edwards, Victor Maddern

The Guns of Navarone.

The League of Gentlemen. Starring Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Kieron Moore, Terence Alexander, Bryan Forbes, Norman Bird, Nanette Newman, Doris Hare, Patrick Wymark, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Nigel Green, Gerald Harper, David Lodge, Melissa Stribling and Oliver Reed

 

[Mel O'Drama]

I enjoyed it! Some of the language and pronunciation was a little American/contemporary at times, but not enough to spoil a decent film.​

 

[cijimccashin]

Mother!

 

[Richard Channing]

A rarity these days, a film that is thought provoking, inspiring, powerful, beautiful. Amazing!

 

[Willie Oleson]

A rarity these days, a film that is thought provoking, inspiring, powerful, beautiful. Amazing!

Is it something like "Contact"? (I love that movie)

 

[Richard Channing]

Is it something like "Contact"? (I love that movie)

Yes, a bit. It deals with similar themes

 

[Michael Torrance]

First Man. I don't think I can say anything of value to add to what the film and the two main actors (Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy) offered. And the trailer doesn't do it justice because despite the grand topic, it is overall a low key movie about a low key character who happened to be thrust in the global limelight. Though it does have its nail biting moments.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE.

 

[Seaviewer]

The Girl King (2015)

About the Christina, the 17th century Queen of Sweden.

In a way it's a prequel to The Abdication (1974) which starred Liv Ullmann, although it contradicts it in some of the details.
Greta Garbo also played her in Queen Christina (1933).

 

[Rove]

A rarity these days, a film that is thought provoking, inspiring, powerful, beautiful. Amazing!

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I watched this yesterday on Netflix. Thoroughly enjoyed it...again. Reminds me a lot like "Annihilation" starring Natalie Portman. Another thought provoking movie.

 

[Payton Cross]

Yesterday I went to the new Halloween in the cinema, the movie was better than I thought, a real classic slaher horror movie.

 

[James from London]

I watched Cosmopolis yesterday. Almost the entire film takes place in the back of a stretch limo. It reminded me a lot of The Man Who Fell to Earth. R-Patz is in every scene and he's a really compelling, weird screen presence. More like a young Christopher Walken than a young Bowie though.

And I watched Maggie's Plan the other day. Really enjoyable and funny, with interesting, unpredictable characters, and a neurotic Woody Allen vibe.

 

[James from London]

Oh I forgot, I also watched this, which was lovely:

 

[Seaviewer]

17 Again

Matthew Perry youthens into Zac Efron thanks to a mystical janitor with unexplained motivations and tries to redo high school.

I've seen this sort of thing done better. Efron is okay but he and Perry are not really enough alike to convince me they are the same person and Thomas Lennon steals the show from both of them. It's interesting to seem him with Matthew Perry in almost the reverse of the roles they later played in The Odd Couple on TV.

 

[James from London]

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool -- a beautifully tender, compassionate, intimate love story. Full of heart and very moving.

Added bonuses: Julie Walters reprising her Educating Rita scouse accent and Billy Elliot dancing, joyously, to 'Boogie Oogie Oogie' by Taste of Honey.

 

[Michael Torrance]

Bohemian Rhapsody. I do not recommend it, especially if you are a fan of Freddie Mercury of historical truth about real persons. What is more disturbing is that while they were showing Live Aid in July 1985 all I kept thinking was "oh my God, that is the summer of the Moldavian cliffhanger!"

 

[Seaviewer]

historical truth about real persons

I've heard a lot of criticism about that but biopics as a genre are infamous for "stretching" the truth.

 

[James from London]

They Shall Not Grow Old

As remarkable and powerful as everyone says. Not an easy watch by any means, but I guess that's the point.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...-peter-jackson-review-first-world-war-footage

 

[Willie Oleson]

to 'Boogie Oogie Oogie' by Taste of Honey

They also played that on "The Deuce"

 

[James from London]