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Shard

Shard

Spotlight (2015; Netflix) film about the Boston Globe journalists uncovering the sexual abuse pandemic in the Catholic church. As if the idiocy of religion isn't bad enough, situations like this demonstrate just how ugly the whole charade can become. Anyway, very good film, well acted and paced.

BristolUK

Loved it. I always wanted to be a journalist and I've always liked newspaper/news stuff.

All The President's Men, Lou Grant, The Paper (also Michael Keaton), A Brit TV series I forget the name of, The Newsroom....looking forward to The Post.

Tangram

Goodbye Christopher Robin was excellent

Tangram

Blade Runner 2049, Victoria & Abdul, Dunkirk and Wind River were also pretty good

BristolUK

Did you like the original? I know I was "supposed" to like it but I didn't.

Novocastrian

I watched "Bright" on Netflix with my son, visiting from Berlin, on Thursday.

An original concept pitch with elements of the Hobbit and Men in Black (including Will Smith as an LA cop with an Orc partner). Unfortunately the whole thing rapidly fell apart into confused nonsense and car chases.

!1/10]

Shard

Started that one, but it was vetoed by the powers that be. "Elysium" also on Netflix, as a dystopian action flick, wasn't bad. Possibly a 2/10 on your scale.

DandNHill

Will Ferrell makes me cringe.

beckiwoo

Just watched Infinity Chamber on Netflix. Was a bit slow and I expected there to be a big plot twist but it didn’t happen, disappointed with the ending.

6/10 for keeping me in suspense and a plot that Black Mirror series would probably use/have

BristolUK

I can't think why.

DandNHill

Eeek!

Maybe he likes having that effect on people?

morpeth

I watched Bright and during film thinking wasn't here another movie the last year or two, also set in LA very similar ?

Watched three Italian movies , the Great Beauty, Suburra, and a comedy I think called "Hello Mr President- so different Italian movies, just when I think the Fellini-type scenes are detracting from the film pace and I feel like not watching, I persevere, and at the end I am impressed one way or another often in a way I didn't expect.

Dunkirk I think had many faults, but I think for anyone who had relatives there it was quite effective.

BristolUK

A few days ago I was trying to remember a movie where a girl escaped her miserable home life by crawling into a washing machine in the kitchen and emerging from another washing machine in a laundromat.

I sat down tonight to watch a quirky sounding movie and instantly I knew it was the one I was trying to recall.

I reviewed it in the 2016 thread and gave it 12 out of 10.

It's quite magnificent.