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8 Nov
10:32am, 8 Nov 2024
2,816 posts
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HappyTimes
Partially thanks to this group went to see Heretic last night (really not a H Grant fan usually). Happy to have went as it was an enjoyable couple hours.
Nobody else fancy or been to see Juror #2 yet (apparently Clints last film).
Bit of a new take on 12 Angry Men in some ways. Also enjoyed this one (mostly)
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8 Nov
7:23pm, 8 Nov 2024
68,843 posts
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Derby Tup
The Zone of Interest starting shortly at the Baptists in Haworth
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8 Nov
7:37pm, 8 Nov 2024
1,136 posts
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Scorge
i liked heretic, although it is very wordy.
just back from blitz, which isn't an easy watch at times, but good.
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8 Nov
9:15pm, 8 Nov 2024
9,227 posts
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Son of a Pronator Man
I’m going to see Small Things Like These on Saturday.
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8 Nov
9:18pm, 8 Nov 2024
22,945 posts
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Sharkie
The book ^ is very good and I'm looking forward to seeing what Cillian Murphy does with the lead role. It's quite a 'quiet' book so I hope they don't over egg it.
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8 Nov
10:36pm, 8 Nov 2024
70,883 posts
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LindsD
Oh oh! That's the book you lent me. Now I really want to see it. I thought it rang a bell.
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11 Nov
8:28am, 11 Nov 2024
9,228 posts
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Son of a Pronator Man
So, I went to see Small Things Like These…I keep on misremembering the title as All The Small Things, which is a Blink 182 song and nothing at all to do with it.
The film is set in 1980’s rural Republic of Ireland. It’s difficult to date the film as 1980’s Ireland looks a lot like 1960's UK, but in one scene the song Come on Eileen is playing on the radio, so it can’t be earlier than Christmas 1982.
Bill Furlong is an ordinary hard-working guy who owns a coal delivery business. He’s not wealthy but the business provides for him, his wife and 5 daughters. They have a roof over their heads, food on the table and money for Christmas presents.
One of his customers, that he regularly delivers coal to, is the local Magdalene Laundry. These workhouse-like institutions were all over Ireland, where young single pregnant women were taken, made to work in slave-like conditions and when the baby was born, it was adopted, all without the mother’s consent. The film 2013 film Philomena documents this, as do many others.
Bill sees things at the laundry that trouble him. At one visit, he goes into the office to deliver his invoice for payment and a young woman, distraught, begs him to help her escape. Another time he sees a young woman being dragged inside, clearly against her will. He tells his wife what she has seen but her response is that it’s none of his business and he should ignore it and do nothing.
Bill is troubled because he was the child of a young single mother who worked as a maid for the widow of a local landowner. His mother died when he was about 10, and the family raised him as their son. If his mother had been taken to the laundry when she was pregnant, his life and hers would have been very different.
When he delivers coal to the laundry early one morning, he finds a young woman, filthy and terrified, locked in the coalshed. He takes her into the laundry and the nuns feign concern for her condition. Obviously she has been locked in there as some sort of punishment. The Mother Superior tries to ensure that Bill will not talk about what he has found, firstly with veiled threats that his children would not get places at the school run by the nuns and also with bribery, a sum of money in a Christmas card as a gift for his wife.
Bill is more troubled than ever. The local publican warns him that to speak out against the Church will be bad for him, his business and his family. But on Christmas Eve, he goes to the laundry, find the same young woman again locked in the coalshed and takes her to his home. At this point the screen freezes and fades, we are left to wonder what happened next.
Cillian Murphy is excellent, he plays a man of few words but we feel his turmoil and anger throughout. Emily Watson as Sister Mary/Mother Superior gives a lesson in ice-cold intimidation that any Mafia boss would learn from.
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11 Nov
9:13am, 11 Nov 2024
9,229 posts
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Son of a Pronator Man
Some interesting trailers... The Brutalist: a biopic about the architect Laszlo Toth I do love concrete architecture but at 4 hours running time this might be too much.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig : a weird name for a political thriller set in Iran ( Persian, with subtitles). Looked gripping
Queer :Daniel Craig very much not being James Bond
Hard Truths : drama from Mike Leigh , his films are usually worth watching
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12 Nov
5:30pm, 12 Nov 2024
11,812 posts
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Fields
Blitz this evening, looking forward to it; had mixed reviews but I hope it will be a spectacle at least
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12 Nov
5:33pm, 12 Nov 2024
54,707 posts
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McGoohan
We went to see it on Sunday and so.... I'll not say anything  so you go in 'blind'.
I saw one 1-star audience review on Rotten Tomatoes where the person had voted it down because they completely missed something rather vital, something that's literally flagged up in writing on the screen. There's no cure for stupid.
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