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[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

 

Still gotta get round to seeing this, but not sure I wanna trial yet another platform…

[Octogoat]

If you want an original dystopian scifi series based on an excellent book series look no further than Silo starring Rebecca Ferguson 

 

 

[InvaderStych]

This was well worth the watch ...

 

 

... The Pilot (and this trailer) barely scratch the surface.

 

[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

Quick one: if you have D+, check out Predator: Killer Of Killers. 
 

Three interlinked animated shorts (plus a finale) about what happens if you have to take down one of them and are tough, brave, smart and lucky enough to win.
 

The animation style is fluid and elegant, similar to the Spiderverse movies. And while the core plot steps are still fairly predictable, it’s a hell of a step up on most of the recent entries (with the exception of the excellent Prey, which also gets a neat little callback.) Definitely worth a look.

[Oubliette_Red]

I found 'IF' to be a very fun movie.

 

 

"What kind of kid creates an invisible IF?"

[Amp Up]

Life of chuck but bring tissues

[Techwright]

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

 

Tim Roth, Gary Oldman, Richard Dreyfuss:  'nough said.

 

Fatalism at its funniest.  The script is brilliant, the actors completely in tune with it, and the verbal badminton scene would have been worth the price of admission if it was all I saw.  It does help to have seen the play Hamlet, since this "behind the scenes" story weaves in and out with the Shakespearean play as it unfolds.

 

 

 

 

Edited Monday at 12:50 AM by Techwright

[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

 

I've always enjoyed these, not least for Daniel Craig's wonderfully strange suthun-fried accents: but also a bit of old-school sleuthing.

Knives Out didn't cheat either on the mystery, which I very much liked: Glass Onion did, but enjoyed it anyway.

(Though I prefer the Poker Face series for the actual setup and solve. And while I'm aware a lot of this board might consider this sacrilege, I wish they'd given Thursday Murder Club's material and cast to Johnson instead of blasted Chris Columbus.)

 

Yet again we have an all-star cast: Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, hot-priest-but-not-playing-one-here Andrew Scott...

...but giving the most work to The Crown's Josh O'Connor as Benoît's self-imposed, probably unwanted Watson.

 

Edited Monday at 05:37 PM by ThaOGDreamWeaver

[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

There's not many trailers make me go "oooh, what the hell is this?"

 

 

Spoiler

So I'm fairly sold on this kind of movie just by having Mads in it.

 

But I'm genuinely intrigued: is this an out and out fantasy movie, or - maybe better yet - a standard Leon: The Professional type plot, seen from the perspective of a traumatised kid a la American McGee's Alice...?

 

Or something in between?

 

[Techwright]

3 hours ago, ThaOGDreamWeaver said:

There's not many trailers make me go "oooh, what the hell is this?"

 

 

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So I'm fairly sold on this kind of movie just by having Mads in it.

 

But I'm genuinely intrigued: is this an out and out fantasy movie, or - maybe better yet - a standard Leon: The Professional type plot, seen from the perspective of a traumatised kid a la American McGee's Alice...?

 

Or something in between?

 

 

Pretty sure David Dastmalchian was in that trailer.  Expect Baba Yaga.   😉

 

Is that yellow track suit a reference to Kill Bill?