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The characters have weird motivations, it lacks of a good direction and it's pretty monotone.
Pity because some great actors are involved. Jodie Comer, Tom Hardy, Damon Herriman or Michael Shannon with a minor role.
A movie about a biker club with good intention first that goes terribly wrong and turns into a gang could be very interesting.

6/10

He was brilliant as Caligula. Loved it when he introduced his horse to everyone.

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French movie. Quite a bit lost in translation (the French are very talky), but I enjoyed it. No clue if the school kids are real or just extras, which confused me.




Naomi Scott is a powerhouse in this and does a perfect American accent. (Brits seem to be very good at this.) Not really my cuppa tea, but I finished it.




Good movie with an interesting storyline. I usually dislike courtroom dramas, but it was okay in this movie. Nicholas Hoult (also doing an excellent American accent) is really good in this. Hoult grew up to be a very handsome man.

Sorry, I had a lot of issues with Juror No 2...a link to my review:

https://www.movieforums.com/reviews/...6-juror-2.html

1st Rewatch...One of the earliest of the backyard musicals that Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland did together. Mickey plays Jimmy Conners, a high school drummer who wants to have his own band with gal pal Mary (Garland) as his vocalist. He wants to enter his band in a high school band contest to be judged by bandleader Paul Whiteman and has to put on a melodrama in order to raise the money for the trip. Rooney is excellent in this movie...was surprisingly moved by the scenes with his mother, but Busby Berkley's direction is kind of lackluster, except for one spectacular production number called "La Conga". The film also felt about seven hours long.

1st Rewatch...The first two thirds of this movie about a young man from a steel mill town who wants more than anything to play football for Notre Dame are contrived and melodramatic, but the final third of the film beginning when Rudy actually gets to run out of that Notre Dame tunnel is just glorious. Sean Astin shines in the title role and Jerry Goldsmith's music is sublime.

1st Rewatch...This fictionalized look at the composing team of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart does come alive during the many musical highlights where MGM once again proves they had more stars than in the heavens. Highlights include Perry Como's "Mountain Greenery", Betty Garrett's "There's a Small Hotel", Judy Garland's "Johnny One Note' and her duet with Mickey Rooney, "I Wish I Were in Love Again" (the last time Garland and Rooney would perform onscreen together) and let's not forget the spectacular "Slaughter on 10th Avenue" ballet starring Gene Kelly and Vera-Ellen. The scenes of the eternally blah Tom Drake Drake as a Rodgers and Mickey Rooney in one of his most annoying performances as Hart really slow things down, but the musical numbers almost make up for them.

Good review. Don’t disagree. Liked it despite.

In many ways it's a real clunker, which is sad because it might be the last film Eastwood will direct.

I wish he'd gone out on a higher note than that.

Proof, 1991

Martin (Hugo Weaving) has been blind from childhood, and is sharply averse to the idea that people might use his blindness as an excuse to deceive him or, worse, pity him. Martin takes photographs of everything he comes across, getting others to describe what is in the photos. Martin strikes up a friendship with Andy (Russell Crowe), a young man who works in a cafe that Martin frequents. Andy becomes Martin’s trusted photo “translator”, but their relationship is threatened by Martin’s housekeeper, Celia (Genevieve Picot), who is romantically fixated on Martin.

A very engaging film, particularly in the first half.



FULL REVIEW. If you are a fan of Crowe or Weaving, highly recommend this one!

Probably about the same as me. Unfocussed trundle through an episodic script with a really grating voiceover. A Mofo-er explained the background for all this but unfortunately it did not add up to a good film for me, merely serviceable.

Conclave (2024)

An interesting insight into the machinations that occur when attempting to select a new pontiff in the modern age. The acting is excellent and the intrigue great not to say the surroundings (I would say scenery but as the are all under lockdown). Ralph Fiennes must have an academy award nomination for the conflicted but dogged Cardinal Lawrence surely? The let-down for me was the final act, I felt it was not warranted and did not stack up given the traditions of nominations and voting. That comes from years and years of networking so felt rather "grafted" on and the film could have done better playing out in a more linear manner.

Finally getting around to Damnation. So far it's very impressive, like a condensed Satantango working with a couple characters instead of a whole city.

a childhood favourite of my wife's. it's not particularly good but watching it with her was special

I definitely saw this movie in the theater.

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Hangmen Also Die! - (1943)

Another Allied propaganda film - this one partially based on real life and the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, governor of the occupied Czech lands during World War II. Being a Fritz Lang movie, it's exquisitely made and strikes the right tone throughout most of it's running time - with our characters living life in Prague while being surrounded by collaborators, the resistance, those who desperately try to keep their head's down but most of all a population afraid. Afraid for their loved ones, and themselves. It shows how certain events can be the spark which lights the flame of patriotic inspiration, which is bad for the Germans. I thought most of it was great, but it falls down a little towards the end when I just felt that doing that was making light of the situation, and at the time the Nazi reprisals for the assassination were far more brutal than what we see in this movie. You could almost say they get off pretty lightly considering! But I liked that there was a degree of complexity that dealt with the difficulties inherent in having to live with the Gestapo while at the same time not betray your fellow countrymen - hard to do is your family is being threatened. The only name I really knew out of the cast was Walter Brennan (and nobody really tries to emulate a Czech accent), but we get by on a song and a prayer, nearly literally.

7/10

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[Snooze Factor Ratings]:
Z = didn't nod off at all
Zz = nearly nodded off but managed to stay alert
Zzz = nodded off and missed some of the film but went back to watch what I missed
Zzzz = nodded off and missed some of the film but went back to watch what I missed but nodded off again at the same point and therefore needed to go back a number of times before I got through it...
Zzzzz = nodded off and missed some or the rest of the film but was not interested enough to go back over it

7/10

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gosh that movie bought back my child hood memories

7/10 - I might actually prefer Home Alone 2 over the original. I've seen both many times but this is the first time I've thought that.