ElleDarling
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I love a good western.
Thank you! I just saw this the other night and was going to post it myself. A very sad but necessary film. The ending makes your soul drop.It's a different kind of movie but if you've seen "The Strangers" ... This movie left me feeling the same way ... But I do suggest watching it because it's a warning and so f*cking real.
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Tusk was wild. Turning into a seal is now on my top 10 things I fear the most.I watched this weird sh!t last night.
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ETA: I forgot to add this movie. I watched it before the
above. It was... interesting.
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thanks!I saw 3 in two days in this order:
RYE LANE
The romcom is back in this British movie set in South London. A mostly black cast, authentic setting, lovely dialogue and chemistry between the leads. Loved, loved it.
Basic non spoiler plot.
Dom (David Jonsson) splits up with girlfriend Gia and has an emotional breakdown. Yas (Vivian Oparah) has an important job interview and has recently broken up with her self righteous dickhead of a boyfriend. In the unisex toilets of a central London Art Gallery, where a mutual friend is holding an exhibition, Yas overhears Dom sobbing in the cubicle as he laments Gia. Over the course of the day, Yas and Dom bond and along the way there is fun, laughter, tears, and possibly love.
From the simplest of premises the director, Raine Allen Miller, writer Nathan Byron and actors: Vivian Oparah and David Jonsson manage to craft a really lovely little gem of a movie. The wholly believable central couple have a natural chemistry and quirkiness that draws you into their world.
It is both refreshing and heartening to see a majority black cast. They resemble the types of people you would or could meet in everyday life. Even the larger than life characters are not extreme or unrealistic.
Loved it.
5/5
BROKER
New Korean drama.
Another Korean banger which centres on baby trafficking, a murder, and redemption.
Basic non spoiler plot
Ha Sang-hyeon (played by Parasite's Song Kang-ho ) is the owner of a hand laundry and volunteers at the nearby church, where his friend Dong-soo ( played by Gang Dong-won ) works. The church has a baby box where abandon babies can be left. Moon So-young (played by Lee Ji-eun) leaves her baby there one night. Ha Sang-hyeon and Dong-soo run an illegal business selling babies. A policewoman (Bae Donna) and her sidekick are on the trail of the traffickers and stake out the baby box.
The disparate strands of the movie are woven together really well and the acting is top rate all round.
Song Kang-ho once again puts in a terrific performance, at times comical and heart warming but ultimately tragic. He and his sidekick are the nicest baby traffickers you could ever meet.
Highly recommended.
4/5
RASHOMON 1950
'Tis the year of the Akira Kurosawa seasons and re releases. The BFI have just finished a major retrospective of his work, and I saw most of the ones I wanted to see again on the big screen, but missed Rashomon, so I was delighted that an independent cinema quite near where I live in London was showing it. I really love watching old films on a big screen because that's how they were meant to be seen.
This film gave cinema a new word and technique. The Rashomon effect is a storytelling and writing device in cinema, in which an event is given contradictory interpretations/descriptions by the individuals involved, thereby providing different perspectives and points of view of the same incident.
This film which stars Kurosawa's long term acting collaborator Toshiro Mifune was the one that really brought him to the attention of western audiences.
The plot non spoiler plot involves the death of a Samurai in a forest, but how he dies, why he dies and who is the killer are retold differently at the trial by the eye witnesses: Tajōmaru the bandit, the Samurai's wife and the Samurai himself through a medium!
The 4th eye witness, a woodcutter, does not testify at the trial, but tells his story afterwards to a priest.
As with all Kurosawa movies, it is beautifully shot, every scene like a painting.
It is rightly seen as a seminal work and masterpiece in cinematic history.
5/5
I watched the 2018 movie "Bad times at the El Royale" on HBO. It was a trip of a movie. It held my attention. I'd give it a solid 7.5. The trailer doesn't really convey what the movie was about, but here it is:
I watched the 2018 movie "Bad times at the El Royale" on Amazon. It was a trip of a movie. It held my attention. I'd give it a solid 7.5. The trailer doesn't really convey what the movie was about, but here it is: