What movie are you viewing at the moment?

[Wendigo]

Magic (1978)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077889/


Classic horror film with Anthony Hopkins as down on his luck magician Corky Withers who somehow manages to hit the big time as a magician ventriloquist with a doll called Fats who hides a secret.
Fantastic cast all round.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJr8LiQyjGA

[OldSchool47]

Sunset Boulevard

A great movie. Should have won Best Picture Oscar.

[73north]

loved this Film tonight !!
Headshot has a pretty succinct pitch: “The Raid meets Kill Bill starring Iko Uwais”.

Uwais, an Indonesian silat fighter who became an overnight sensation after starring in director Gareth Edwards’ 2011 action masterpiece The Raid and it’s 2014 sequel, will be the obvious draw for any discerning martial arts fan. Combining a soulful, down-to-earth screen presence with a tireless, brutal fighting style, Uwais feels like he’s one English-language supporting role away from becoming an international superstar. Although it provides him with a serviceable – if trite – dramatic arc to play, as well as some savage fight sequences, Headshot ends up feeling more like a resume-builder than an escalation in his career.
Uwais stars as a man who washes up on a beach with bullet fragments in his head and no memory of his identity or past. Nursed back to health by a local doctor who dubs him Ishmael – one guess as to what book she’s reading in her introductory scene – he discovers that he was betrayed and left for dead by a gang of vicious criminals who have returned to finish the job. The first half is a bit of a slow burn, establishing Ishmael’s mostly platonic friendship with Ailin, the doctor who rescues him. The back half of the film abruptly switches gears and attempts to explore his relationship with his former friends turned enemies. In the end, neither aspect of the story feels fully served. This is especially disappointing given how charming Chelsea Islan is as Ailin, who gets relegated to damseling and looking after a helpless little girl once the action picks up.
Speaking of the action – which is the only reason anyone’s reading this review, I know – it’s pretty impressive, if not groundbreaking. Whereas The Raid films wowed with innovative camera work and logistically complex fight sequences, Headshot writing/directing team Kimo Stamboel and Timo Tjahjanto – collectively credited as the Mo Brothers – opt for a more stripped down approach, both narratively and technically. Many martial arts films revel in their heroes facing twenty to one odds, but Headshot consists almost exclusively of mano a mano showdowns as Ishmael tears through his former gang piece by piece. This has its advantages, the major one being that every fight feels like the fight of Ishmael’s life, even the ones against opponents who in any other action film would be dispatched in a matter of seconds.

[trailmaster]

This is one of the Netflix movies that I watched today. Bad Santa 2 the sequel to the great comic hit Bad Santa made 13 years earlier, starring Billiy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Kathy Bates, others. While the first movie was a great, though rather gross comedy, this sequel was just awful. There was not one funny scene. It was crude, vulgar, nasty and offensive. I give it 0 stars.

[Sir Honkers]

Lego Batman with two of my grandkids. Maybe twenty minutes too long, but it's witty and quite funny. And it's a lot better than Superman vs Batman.

[mungy]

Just d/l the new Trainspotting movie...looks pretty atm.

[Devius]

Originally Posted by neo2008

JOHN WICK CHAPTER 2



The seemingly invincible assasin John Wick returns in JOHN WICK CHAPTER 2 after getting his Mustang back John wants to settle into a quiet life with his dog but an Italian crime lord Santino D'Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio)comes calling ,and wants John to assassinate his sister Gianna (Claudia Gerini)

This is one of those mega hyped up one man against 100 movies that i love.It's stylish for the most part,and every action scene is done up to a T,including one in which Wick faces off against Gianna's bodyguard Cassian (Common)
I also liked how the film gives us more of look into the "league of Assasins he is a part of

Some of the action is quite cartoonish at times and im not sure if certain things were just done to get a few laughs and give the audience a breather

Still im looking forward to chapter 3

Scale of 1-10 an 8½

POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT

I thought JW2 was corny in places - at times the shoot-outs reminded of Police Squad and Naked Gun:



Also the double-cross was predictable, and as for the ending...John Wick (and his trusty pet dog) vs everybody else (we know he's a killing machine, but WTF)?



The first John Wick movie was definitely superior - JW2 gets 6.5 /10 for me...

[scoundrel]

Originally Posted by OldSchool47

A great movie. Should have won Best Picture Oscar.

It was the Oscars that got small.

[trailmaster]

This is another film I saw from Netflix yesterday. Manchester-by-the-Sea a great emotional film starring Casey Affleck , younger brother of Ben Affleck, Michelle Williams, others. Casey Affleck stars as a handyman working for three buildings in the town of Quincy, Massachusetts. He learns that his brother is in the hospital with Congestive Heart Failure, but he dies before Casey can get to the hospital in time to see him alive. Later when a lawyer is reading a will Casey finds out that he was chosen by his older brother to be the legal guardian of his brothers son. There are many flashbacks in this film seen that show how Casey's life has had such a drastic turn since there was a fire in the house where he lived wth his wife played by actress Michelle Williams and their three children. All three children died in the fire and his wife divorced him soon after. This film is very complex but quite interesting. Casey Affleck is quite an accomplished actor. For his role in this movie he won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for best actor. The film earned almost 10 times the money it used to produce the film.

[MaxJoker]

Now this ,



Was a better title dan`dat



As it`s not a rough and tumble high action movie.
It`s a super low budget eighty percent typical Irish humour based comedy.



Picture (If yee will) a film along the lines of Dog Day Afternoon.
Only here we have far more confusing complications other than one bloke robbing a bank to fund the sex change of his partner



Once the twenty four minute mark arrives (Since then Brendan stops acting as if he`s on horse tranquilisers) and the plot proper kicks in , it becomes a pleasant enough smile inducing watch