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Films 2015

 

Title Rating Comments
Fire

From 1996, an Indian film about how tradition wrecks human behaviours - marriage. Religion is such a destructor of lives.

The Corn is Green

A touching story of a school teacher and a bright pupil, set in Wales. Hepburn is her usual self.

Baby Mama

Silly, but Tina Fey. Business lady wants a baby, but can't concieve.

Mean Girls  

Why did I watch this stupid highschool girls movie? Tina Fey.

Far from Heaven

Julian Moore and Dennis Quaid are very good, as is Dennis Haysbert and Patricia Clarkson. The period production is extensive. The difficult themes of a gay husband and the racial chasm back in the 1950s.

Goodnight Mr. Tom (1998)

A made-for-TV production set in WWII about an evacuee. Not very well acted and the script was a bit predictable. I remember John Thaw as a policeman.

Ice old in Alex(1958)

A quite dated war movie with some pretty poor acting. I found it dragged and the "romance" scene and story line was atrocious. John Mills - of course, Antony Quail, Silvia Syms and a very good character actor Harry Andrews.

Hector

An low-budget film about a homeless man. This is very well made and acted. I especially enjoyed the main character and the lady running the Xmas Home, Peter Mullen and Sarah Solemani.

The Winslow Boy

An exceptional period movie. Strange how good plays endure. I much enjoyed the performances by Rebecca Pidgeon, Jeremy Northamand and Nigel Hawthorne

Max

The Hunger Games (Part 4)

My Old Lady

Sweet.

The Dressmaker

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

La Femme Nikita

Proof of Life

without insurance. Russel Crowe and Meg Ryan. Well done. I saw this when it first came out. Love not money.

The World according to Garp

Glenn Close and Robin Williams.

True Romance

Tarantino at his gunslinging best.

Narcos Season 1

Drug lords in Columbia.

Straight Otta Compton

Legend

More or less a character study of the Kray brothers. Nasty is how I would summarize them. When I was a lad the school organised a trip to Holland. We went over the Chiswick floyover in London - rumoured to be the last resting place of several people who resisted their activities. This flim has a lot of stuff in it.

The Sapphires

The Martian

Love and Mercy

Last Cab to Darwin

The Smartes Guys in the Room

The Hunt for the Arctic Ghost Ship

The leader Franklin was the best Navy captain at the time. I read the book last year. Interesting.

Ricki and the Flash

is pretty good.

Vacation  

Begin Again

Trainwreck

Elysium

Twenty Feet from Stardom

Mordecai

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Jurassic World

Die Wand

and a dog called luchs. She become isolated in a forest with a few animals. The words she uses to describe how she misses her dog I find easy to comprehend.

The Fog of War

Humans

making PCs. Some good ideas and characters, but it was made in the US of A. Oh and the main man drives a 944. Recommended.

Halt and Catch Fire

making PCs. Some good ideas and characters, but it was made in the US of A. Oh and the main man drives a 944.

The Dish

San Andreas

Archie Panjabi.

Mrs Henderson Presents

With Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins. A good movie based on real life.

Two days, one night

and in a film about a factory worker who has lost her job and the boss gets her co-workers to choose between her getting her job back and a bonus. A social film as used to be made in Franch in a bygone era.

Die abhandene Welt

A family drama set in Düsseldorf and New York. Entertaining but missing that spark to make it a great film.

Mad Max - Fury Road

I didn't go for the dialog: just as well. They must have spent a fortune on simulation and CGI. Not an extensive storyline.

Conducta

Well made flick set in Cuba - with all that entails. A touching story with several threads set around a school teacher and some of the more "difficult" children.

The Cider House Rules

A touching film with Michael Caine (who really can't do an American accent) Charlize Theron and Toby Maguire about an orphanage and an apple farm. Based on a John Irving novel. Enjoyable.

One Hour Photo

Robin Williams in a serious role as a mis-treated person who ends up processing photos in a shopping center. He was so versatile. He is missed.

Kingsman: The Secret Service

This film is simply fun. So many take-offs. Well worth a look. Recommended.

Soylent Green

Very dated and very poorly acted (it is charlton heston after all) but a quaint story which sort of fits into the pattern of possible events the next few generations.

A Most Violent Year

Set in the 1950s, with some huge cars of the period. This is a good story, well told. It leaves sufficient holes to get one's own imagination going.

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Amusing, but not an in depth expoloration of each storyline. Nice and bright, and you have to love the Bollywood music, feet tapping.

Still Alice

Not bad, but a Hollywood film, not into too much depth. Good performance by Julianne Moore.

Magic in the Moonlight

Like the setting. Colin switched a bit too fast. Got to love those happy ends. Great music too.

Kapgang (Speedwalking)

Set in Jutland 1976, mum dies and Martin has to deal with a grieving bother and his dad who is keen on skirt. Includes the lovely Sidse Babeit Knudsen in a blonde wig. (Borgen)

Page Eight

Bill Nighy in a most enjoable political thriller Rachel Weisz ain't too bad either if you like brunettes.

On The Beach

In spite of a good cast and a background story of its time (based on the book I read many years ago) the film is quite dated.

Borgen

A most enjoyable, 3 season TV series. Love those Danes.

White Palace

Mr Spayder sure did some wierd films. 44 and 27 - sounds like a match. This story has feet and I remember a similar relationship many years ago in Geneva at the Squash Club, but this one ends differently. Very well acted. Max - what a great name!
Quote: "Honey I got everything you need!"

The Riot Club

I couldn't finish watching this. Infantile behaviour in young men is pathetic. It played to my dislike of elites.

Red Dog

Neat film about a dog in a mining community in N. Australia. Aparently based on a true story.
And later in ABC news.

The Imitation Game

Very well acted. Some dramatisations I didn't care for, but the story of Alan Turing is one of genuis and destruction. Must go to Bletchley Park. Recommended.

Quartet

Nice house, with some talented musicians. An enjoyable flick with some superb actors. Entertaining.




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