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1 Oct
6:35pm, 1 Oct 2024
153,828 posts
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GregP
Just out from Lee. Superb, although a bit short on laughs. Go see it before it leaves the cinemas.
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2 Oct
9:36pm, 2 Oct 2024
33,195 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Better Man is a 2024 biographical film about the British pop singer Robbie Williams, directed by Michael Gracey. Williams is portrayed as a monkey, performed using motion-capture technology by Jonno Davies.
I'm not really a Robbeh fan, in fact I think he's a bit of an arse, but the trailer looks bonkers. I may go.
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3 Oct
6:23am, 3 Oct 2024
153,852 posts
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GregP
Talking of bonkers trailers, we had The Apprentice this week, with that bloke off Succession who's name I always muddle up - Jeremy Strong possibly? Played Kendall Roy.
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3 Oct
12:05pm, 3 Oct 2024
43,927 posts
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Nellers
I've just seen a trailer for Better man and I can confirm that it does, indeed, look completely bonkers!
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3 Oct
12:11pm, 3 Oct 2024
43,928 posts
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Nellers
I just had to watch it again to be sure I wasn't having some kind of fever dream induced by those mushrooms that might have been on the turn last night. It's real.
That's either going to be one of the most artistically innovative and brilliant things in cinema this year or an absolute car crash, and I know where I'm putting my money.
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3 Oct
12:13pm, 3 Oct 2024
54,577 posts
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McGoohan
So, Robbie Williams has a biopic with him as a CGI monkey
Pharrell Williams has a biopic with him as Lego bricks
Basically, if your surname is Williams you get an animated biopic. I'm looking forward to seeing Andy Williams singing Moon River as a stop-motion cow or something.
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3 Oct
12:54pm, 3 Oct 2024
51,062 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Boss Level on t'terrestrial totally was quite fun. Weird ending.  G
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4 Oct
6:19am, 4 Oct 2024
153,864 posts
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GregP
Watched Civil War on the tellybox last night as a companion piece for Lee. I thought it was excellent. It’d be on my Films of the Year list except it’s ineligible as I didn’t see it at the cinema.
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4 Oct
8:25am, 4 Oct 2024
9,204 posts
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Son of a Pronator Man
So I went to see The Outrun As I think everyone knows it's based on an autobiographical book by Amy Liptrot. Rona ( Saoirse Ronan), a young Orcadian woman, returns home after a period of destructive, addictive drinking in London, to sober up. She lives some of the time with each of her divorced parents, her father is a small time sheep farmer whose life has been damaged by mental illness and her mother who has found God and wild water swimming. Eventually she finds a job as a bird warden looking for endangered Corncrakes on the very remote island of Papa Westray, also trying to persuade the local farmers to change their field mowing practices to give the birds a chance to breed. She reconnects with herself in the isolation and beauty of the Island and with the sparce but supportive community. The raging Orcadian storms outside her small cottage home reflect the storm within her as she tries to imagine, and learn to live a life without alcohol. And at the end, a corncrake turns up. Ronan is excellent , as she usually is. The "recovering alcoholic" can be a bit of a cinema cliche, but as the writer was involved in the screenplay, presumably she felt the depiction was true to her own experience. Next week I'm going to see The Critic
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4 Oct
8:35am, 4 Oct 2024
51,070 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Oops, don't think your spoiler tags worked SoaPMan. However, I suspect the story is probably known and it's more about how it is told and shown that will be the enjoyment for the viewer? G
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