Let's Talk Movies #34 - Kingsmen, Murder, Blade Runners and...IT!

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I realized the other day that I never posted after I watched La La Land. Wouldn't have been a biggie if I had kept forgetting! I thought it started out strong, but as soon as the romance started to fall apart, so did the movie. They more Ryan and Emma lost interest in one another, the more I lost interest in the movie. Unfortunately that meant that two thirds of the movie was a downer. Plus I thought the conclusion of the movie was put together in a strange way and that really lost me. Why would someone make a movie with such two great actors in a romance and have them be unhappy for the majority of the movie? Weird choice to cast two such charismatic people into this type of story. Plus I thought there would be more music, or at least more varied musical choices. they seemed to use variations on three songs that repeated over and over. Then John Legend comes on the screen breathing life into the movie and Stone's character mocks his joyful song. So that sucked too. I think I'd like to see the studio's cut of this movie after they wrestled it away from the director and re-cut it into something enjoyable.

 

[VGThuy]

The National Board of Review, always the first critics body to announce, revealed their winners today:

http://www.awardsdaily.com/2017/11/28/2017-national-board-review-winners/

Best Film
The Post

Best Director
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird

Best Actor
Tom Hanks, The Post

Best Actress
Meryl Streep, The Post

Best Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project

Best Supporting Actress
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird

Best Foreign Language Film
Foxtrot

Best Animated Feature
Coco

Best Documentary
Jane

Best Original Screenplay
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread

Best Adapted Screenplay
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist

Best Directorial Debut
Jordan Peele, Get Out

Best Ensemble
Get Out

Breakthrough Performance
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name

Spotlight Award

• Wonder Woman: Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot, NBR Freedom of Expression
• First They Killed My Father, NBR Freedom of Expression
• Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992

Top Ten Films

• Baby Driver
• Call Me By Your Name
• The Disaster Artist
• Downsizing
• Dunkirk
• The Florida Project
• Get Out
• Lady Bird
• Logan
• Phantom Thread

Top Ten Independent Films

• Beatriz at Dinner
• Brigsby Bear
• A Ghost Story
• Lady Macbeth
• Logan Lucky
• Loving Vincent
• Menashe
• Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
• Patti Cake$
• Wind River

Top 5 Foreign Language Films

• A Fantastic Woman
• Frantz
• Loveless
• Summer 1993
• The Square

Top 5 Documentaries

• Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
• Brimstone & Glory
• Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
• Faces Places
• Hell On Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS

Looks like Meryl Streep has another movie putting her in contention. I'm so happy that Greta Gerwig won Best Director and Laurie Metcalf won Best Supporting Actress. I hope this year, all the critics awards give their awards to different movies to prevent any sort of favorite and/or backlash for a movie that ends up winning everything before the Guild and industry awards take place.

 

[Buzz]

IT's HERE!!! The Infinty War trailer has finally arrived!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZfuNTqbHE8

 

[Wyliefan]

Then John Legend comes on the screen breathing life into the movie and Stone's character mocks his joyful song.

How exactly does she mock his "joyful" (not the adjective I'd have chosen, but okay) song? When she sees that Seb isn't enjoying playing it, she looks sad and leaves. But the only thing she ever says about the music itself, as I recall, is that she doesn't mind it but she knows it's not what he wants to play.

 

[VGThuy]

From what I remember, she said she liked Legend's music, but she knows it's not the music Ryan Gosling wants to do and he was sort of showing it in his performances that she attended.

I was the opposite and I liked La La Land after their first date (still love the Planetarium scene though the idea of it is so twee) as it stopped being cute/clever tried to delve into some real human emotion.

 

[Buzz]

The Infinity War trailer just on Marvel's official YouTube channel has over 17m views just within the last few hours alone!

 

[Japanfan]

I mostly hate the movie for the reasons stated in the article yet I still can't help watching it whenever it's on TV. I think if the entire movie consisted of the Bill Nighy subplot, the John and Judy (porn standins) subplot, throw in a bit of Hugh Grant dancing and then him and his chauffeur singing and an emotional scene from Emma Thompson and it would be a good movie. Oh and maybe a tiny part of the scene where the American girls like Colin's accent (the part where they repeat bottle, then realize table is the same is cute...the part where they are inviting him over and saying they all sleep naked in the same bed is stupid). So basically I think there is a decent 20 minutes in there.

I loved Bill Nighy in 'Love Actually' - especially the scene when he comes home from Elton John's Christmas party to spend time with his "fat manager" (his words).
I also though Hugh Grant was hilarious, and a liked a lot of the other characters and romances/subplots. The porn stand-ins were particularly cute.

But I agree with you about the scene with the American girls, didn't care for it. And then was also a scene where the woman with a crush on Alan Rickman's character mopes around sadly in her lingerie. It went on far too long and could have been cut entirely, it served no purpose.

 

[VGThuy]

The New York Film Critics Circle are announcing winners right now. These are the current winners and I'll update as they continue to announce the winners for other categories.

Best Film: Lady Bird
Best Director: Sean Baker / The Florida Project*
Best Actress: Saoirse Ronan / Lady Bird
Best Actor: Timothée Chalamet / Call Me By Your Name
Best Supporting Actress: Tiffany Haddish / Girls Trip
Best Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe / The Florida Project
Best Screenplay: Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Best Cinematography: Mudbound / Rachel Morrison
Best Animated Film: Coco (Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina)
Best Foreign Language Film: BPM (Beats Per Minute) / Robin Campillo
Best Non-Fiction Film: Faces Places (Agnes Varda)
Best First Film: Get Out (Jordan Peele)

*New York Film Critics took their sweet time announcing this one. This may have been a contentious vote.

 

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The Color of Freedom (also known as Goodbye Bafana) is a movie about James Gregory (played by Joseph Fiennes) who was a South African prison guard assigned to be Nelson Mandela's main guard. The movie begins when Gregory is assigned this position and ends about twenty years later when Mandela is freed from prison. Dennis Haysbert plays Mandela and he and Fiennes are great on screen together. Diane Kruger plays James Gregory's wife and although her role is small, she excels just as strongly as the two male leads. I thought the movie was well written, it has a 7.1 rating at imdb.com, which is good if a movie makes it into the 7's (out of 10) for a rating. No major award recognition for this though. Which is unfortunate because I'd say at least one of the three performances should have received some kind of acknowledgement.

Trailer for The Color Of Freedom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO4PSY84Gik

How exactly does she mock his "joyful" (not the adjective I'd have chosen, but okay) song? When she sees that Seb isn't enjoying playing it, she looks sad and leaves. But the only thing she ever says about the music itself, as I recall, is that she doesn't mind it but she knows it's not what he wants to play.

From what I remember of that scene, is that this kickass song fills up the screen and the band is going crazy and the audience is ecstatic. Then we see Stone's mopey face in this major buzzkill moment. What makes it even worse is that Gosling's character is doing all this to please her. It's like he can't catch a break. She pressured him into this (or at the very least, implied this is the direction he should go) and then when he has done what she wanted...she's still not happy. The movie just became even more of a downer after that.

 

[Wyliefan]

No, she never implied that was the direction he should go. He did it on his own because he was worried about being in a relationship when his finances were in such a dire state. But she always wanted him to pursue his own goal. That's one of the things I liked about the movie -- for all the fantasy sequences and magic moments, there was still a good bit of realism and complexity to the characters' dilemmas.

But you can see it all on his face too. That sort of wry, resigned look he throws her when he moves from the piano and fires up that electronic contraption -- he knows and she knows and we know that this moment is anything but kickass or ecstatic for him, and that's what she reflects back to him. The movie never comes out and says that this music is wrong or bad, just that it's not where his heart and soul are, so he's selling out when he participates.

 

[Buzz]

The Avengers Infinity War trailer has become the most viewed trailer of all time. Marvel claims it has been viewed a total of 230m times in it's first 24 hours after release which breaks the record previously held by IT. That number comes from adding up all the views on all official Marvel sources worldwide.

http://ew.com/movies/2017/11/30/avengers-infinity-war-trailer-record/

 

[Erin]

I was the opposite and I liked La La Land after their first date (still love the Planetarium scene though the idea of it is so twee) as it stopped being cute/clever tried to delve into some real human emotion.

I felt the same way about it and I could relate to some of the issues around two people each pursuing their own career sometimes means it's hard for them to be together.

I found it amusing that the second time I watched was with my significant other and

Spoiler

he was disappointed that Stone and Gosling's characters didn't end up together. I found it a bit interesting that he felt that way, because in the story of my life, I've been in that situation and had the relationship end, which means he's the other guy who Stone ends up with at the end (making me Emma Stone of course )

 

[PeterG]

Trailers For Movies Released 2017-12-01st
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuI4-fSHhipRfb98hbocQMHc3QsEihow9

Dec. 1st - The Disaster Artist – Comedy drama with Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Josh Hutcherson, Zac Efron, Sharon Stone, Melanie Griffith, Alison Brie, Bryan Cranston, Kristen Bell, Megan Mullally, Adam Scott, Lizzy Caplan, Kate Upton, J.J. Abrams, Melanie Griffith, Judd Apatow, Zach Braff, Bob Odenkirk, Hannibal Buress, Jacki Weaver, Randall Park and James Franco

Dec. 8th – The Shape of Water - Fantasy with Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins and Octavia Spencer

Dec. 1st - Wonder Wheel (Limited) – Crime drama with Kate Winslet, Justin Timberlake, Juno Temple and Jim Belushi

Dec. 1st - The Tribes of Palos Verdes (Limited) – Drama with Jennifer Garner and Justin Kirk [Weeds]

Dec. 1st - Love Beats Rhymes (Limited) – Musical with Common, Hana Mae Lee, Method Man and Jill Scott

Dec. 1st - Daisy Winters (Limited) – Drama with Brooke Shields, Iwan Rheon [Game of Thrones], Paul Blackthorne [Arrow] and Carrie Preston [True Blood]

Dec. 1st - The New Radical (Limited) – Documentary. From imdb.com: “Uncompromising millennial radicals from the United States and the United Kingdom attack the system through dangerous technological means, which evolves into a high-stakes game with world authorities in the midst of a dramatically changing political landscape.”

Dec. 1st - 24 Hours to Live (Limited) Action thriller with Ethan Hawke and Rutger Hauer

Dec. 1st - In the Absence of Good Men aka Gangster Land (Limited) – Crime drama with Sean Faris, Jason Patric, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Peter Facinelli and Michael Paré

Dec. 1st - Slumber (Limited) – Horror with a new cast & Maggie Q. From imdb.com: “A sleep doctor tries to protect a family from a demon that feeds on people in their nightmares.”

Dec. 1st - Big Time (Limited) – Documentary. From imdb.com: “…follows Bjarke Ingels during the course of 7 years (2009-2016), while he struggles to finish his biggest project so far. We are let into Bjarke's creative processes as well as the endless compromises that his work entails.”

Dec. 1st - Kepler’s Dream (Limited) – Family adventure with Kelly Lynch, Holland Taylor [Two and a Half Men] and Sean Patrick Flanery

Dec. 1st - Inoperable (Limited) – Horror, new cast. From imdb.com: “A young woman wakes up in a seemingly evacuated hospital with a hurricane approaching that has awakened malevolent forces inside. She realizes she must escape the hospital before the hurricane passes, or she will be trapped there forever.”

Nov. 29th - Naples ‘44 (Limited) – Documentary. From imdb.com: “A British Intelligence Officer in Naples at the end of World War II: Norman Lewis's acknowledged masterpiece about a war-torn city and its unforgettable humanity.”

Dec. 1st - Alien Invasion: S.U.M.1 (Limited) – Sci-fi thriller, new cast. From imdb.com: “An aggressive race of aliens took over Planet Earth and humanity's at its end, living in giant bunkers below ground. Young Military rookie S.U.M.1 (Iwan Rheon) is sent to the surface to save a group of unprotected survivors.”

Dec. 1st - Shadowman (Limited) – Documentary. From imdb.com: “Richard Hambleton was a founder of the street art movement before succumbing to drugs and homelessness. Rediscovered 20 years later, he gets a second chance. But will he take it?”

Dec. 1st - Badsville (Limited – Los Angeles) – Action drama romance, new cast. From imdb.com: “A violent greaser gang is ripped apart when their leader finds love and is determined to leave Badsville - a town where love doesn't exist.”

Dec. 1st - Another Wolfcop (Limited) – Horror comedy, new cast. From imdb.com: “Alcoholic werewolf cop Lou Garou springs into action when an eccentric businessman with evil intentions seduces Woodhaven's residents with a new brewery and hockey team in this outrageous horror-comedy sequel.”

Dec. 1st - The Dancer (Limited) – French drama with Gaspard Ulliel, Mélanie Thierry, Lily-Rose Depp and Amanda Plummer

Dec. 1st - The Other Side of Hope (Limited – New York) – Finnish comedy drama. From imdb.com: “A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.”

Dec. 1st - Brotherhood of Blades 2 (Limited) – Chinese historical action drama. From imdb.com: “In the Ming dynasty of China, Shen Lian, a secret police of corrupt government, is trapped by the conspiracy on a mission. To prove the innocence, he seeks the truth with a girl called Bei Zhai.”

Dec. 1st - The Swindlers (Limited) – South Korean crime drama. From imdb.com: “High stakes and fast talk are the game in this crime caper that brings together an all-star cast as unlikely allies from different sides of the law.”

Dec. 1st – Padmavati (Limited) – Indian historical drama. From imdb.com: “Set in medieval Rajasthan, Queen Padmavati is married to a noble king and they live in a prosperous fortress with their subjects until an ambitious Sultan hears of Padmavati's beauty and forms an obsessive love for the Queen of Mewar.”

 

[PeterG]

Trailers For Movies Released 2017-12-01st

Dec. 1st - The Dancer (Limited) – French drama with Gaspard Ulliel, Mélanie Thierry, Lily-Rose Depp and Amanda Plummer

@Artistic Skaters
@cocotaffy
@kwanfan1818

Are y'all interested in dramas about dance as well as documentaries about dance? I do have to note that this drama's trailer didn't really include any dancing of note. I'm assuming the movie itself has some dancing in it, but I'm unsure whether they even have any full routines in it or not.

 

[Wyliefan]

I'm wondering how Wonder Wheel will do. Just from the buzz I'm hearing, it seems a lot of people aren't in the mood for Woody Allen these days.

 

[VGThuy]

Since we may be hearing about Greta Gerwig in the next few months, I'd like to provide this Criterion Collection Three Reasons trailer of Frances Ha for those who may not be familiar with her:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7cCU9vs-MY

 

[Artistic Skaters]

I've seen Lady Bird twice so far & it's high on my list this year so I'm glad to see it getting so many awards. I really liked Willem Dafoe in The Florida Project, but the movie is a lot different than I expected. Overall it is extremely dark with a few seconds of brightness here & there. I thought it would be the reverse - something more uplifting like the movie In America. Dafoe's role as the motel manager who wants to help the young girl but can't quite ever get it right is the character I liked best in the film.

This Beautiful Fantastic with Jessica Brown Findlay (Lady Sybil from Downton Abbey) & Tom Wilkinson is beautifully filmed with some quirky but interesting characters. An introverted young librarian has to tend to her overgrown garden if she doesn't want to be evicted by the landlord. The elderly curmudgeon next door who cultivates perfect plants begrudgingly offers assistance, resulting in a whimsical & often witty tale about friendship.

@PeterG, I watch both dance documentaries & dramas. The same for films about art. I like the movies like Mao's Last Dancer & Renoir the best, but also see the ones like Center Stage & Art School Confidential. Thanks for keeping us up to date with the listings of the new movies so we can find them all.

 

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An article about how CGI is used in films these days (don't let the creepy article title skare you off)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...mmers-crotch-is-movie-cgi-getting-out-of-hand

This part I found interesting to hear about:

“Simple but high quality digital visual effects are now at price point where low budget movies can afford them. We change the time, on clocks, on wristwatches. We grade day for night. We fix cloud continuity in the sky. We make summer shoots look autumnal and we add snow and rain when called for,” says Ben Robards, a creative partner at Absolute Post. “If your 80s movie isn’t convincingly period, we can liberally sprinkle Rubik’s Cubes and Walkmans around; if your Jane Austen adaptation has electricity pylons and hybrid cars in shot, we can remove them.”

Unsure why the article needed to focus on genitalia more than once...

I'm wondering how Wonder Wheel will do. Just from the buzz I'm hearing, it seems a lot of people aren't in the mood for Woody Allen these days.

I wondered about this too. Thought maybe they should postpone it...at the very lest until the spring when hopefully we're not having daily updates about harassment in the world of entertainment (and beyond). I'm also wondering if people will shy away from making films with people like Woody Allen or others who have had rumours about their behaviour - that's yet to be uncovered.

 

[PeterG]

Tonight I watched the documentary Magician: The Astonshing Life and Work of Orson Welles. I wouldn't say I'm a Welles fan, but I saw the trailer for this and it looked so good that I had to find a copy to watch. It was as good as I had hoped it would be. Very well made documentary, which (thankfully) focusses on his career in all it's stages. I saw thankfully because I don't really enjoy when they go too much into someone's private life at the expense of covering important parts of the person's career. This documentary does touch a bit of his personal life, which was equally interesting. But the vast majority of it is on his work, both in theatre, film and radio, separated into various stages of his career. Two of the things that I found most interesting about this movie was the amount of unfinished movies Welles never completed. I believe about six different films are mentioned, with short clips from each shown. I checked Wikipedia and it highlights three unfinished movies (one which Netflix has purchased and is working on right now to complete). Wikipedia also lists about 24 other projects which are either unfinished movies or unfinished screenplays. The second really interesting thing covered here is connected to what I've just mentioned in that Welles seems to have started on a passion project, jumping into it without budgeting the movie, or at least not ensuring there was enough of a budget to finish the movie. So he would work on a movie and then production was stalled when he had no more money. Then he'd have to search out acting gigs to make money and then start up the production again. I wonder if he loved the initial passion of a project and then as his perfectionist streak started to hit, it caused him to lose interest, maybe thinking he couldn't make things as great as his imagination had created. Very fascinating man and movie about the man. Totally recommended, even if you're not really a Welles fan like me, but simply a lover of movies and the whole process of creating art.

 

[Buzz]

Legendary Bollywood actor Shashi Kapoor has died at the age of 79. Growing up my mother watched nothing but Bollywood movies and Kapoor was one of her favourite actors. May he rest in peace.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-42225524

 

[Vash01]

Saw Lady Bird today. Liked, but didn't love it. Saoirse Ronan is very good of course, and other characters did a good job of supporting her. As a movie it felt flat to me. Problems of growing up, teenagers, high school kids, is nothing new. It is described as a comedy, so it will get the Golden Globes in that category. Oscar loves these types of movies, so a best picture and best director nominations will be there, come Oscar time. Ronan is a certain best lead actress nom, and Laurie Metcalf in the supporting actress role is a near certainty. To me the whole mother daughter drama seemed contrived.

To me it was just 7/10. Imdb is showing 8.5, which surprised me.

The theatre was nearly empty, with just two other persons in it. I am sure on weekend it will be full because of all the attention it is getting.

 

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If you want to see an AMAZING movie, then check out The Girl With All The Gifts. It is phenomenal. It was released in a lot of countries in 2016, but not until February of this year in North America. So it could be considered for this year's awards, but I've seen no mention of it. Which is a shame because both the story and the direction are brilliant. And the cast is so good! It's tough to choose one performance as the best, but Sennia Nanua as "the girl" (Melanie) has to carry the movie, so she deserves the first mention. But Glenn Close as the scientist who is responsible for finding a cure for the virus that is turning humans into feral beings is good (as expected) and Gemma Arterton as Melanie's main teacher is very strong as well. The story has a haunting quality to it as a military compound and laboratory are over-run by infected humans and a small group of those able to escape then try to find their way to another base where they will be safe. What's haunting about the movie is something I can't specifically mention as it would give away an important part of the story, but I struggled with the ending for a bit, not liking it. But with time I've settled into what happens. And it's a brilliant ending probably, whereas lots of movies I find have endings which are somewhat weak in comparison to the rest of that movie. So my final thought on this movie is: Oscar-worthy.

Trailer for The Girl With All The Gifts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1n4vpOjm5E

 

[smurfy]

I saw ‘Three Billboards outside Ebbing, MO’
I enjoyed it, some moments that just made me laugh out loud. Great performances, Frances McDormand is always amazing, Sam Rockwell was hysterical, almost but notover the top. Lucas Hedges is a good young actor. Woody Harrelson was great in a subtle performance. He is good good in so many types of roles. TThe story line was interesting, i like the way things unfolded, peeling layers away as you learn more and more about several characters. I ciukd seenit being nominated in acting categories.

 

[Seerek]

Imo, Gemma Jones and Ian Hart are the backbone of God's Own Country and give the film the local context it needed to be effective. Great casting of the supporting roles (and should be recoginzed).

What's interesting about the film's timing of when it was produced vs. when it was released is that the director/writer could have provided even more of a "Brexit" dimension to the story if they wanted.

 

[Buzz]

Disney is rumoured to have made a $60bn offer for certain FOX assets including X-Men and Fantastic Four. I have much respect for Disney but ain't that a bit high?! I mean Pixar, Star Wars and Marvel altogether didn't cost that much.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/05/dis...al-could-be-announced-next-week--sources.html

 

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‘Lady Macbeth’ Leads British Independent Film Awards Nominations – Full List
http://deadline.com/2017/11/british...ist-lady-macbeth-three-billboards-1202199080/

Here’s the full list of nominees:

Best British Independent Film
THE DEATH OF STALIN
GOD’S OWN COUNTRY
I AM NOT A WITCH
LADY MACBETH
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI

Best International Independent Film
THE FLORIDA PROJECT
GET OUT
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
LOVELESS
THE SQUARE

Best Director
ARMANDO IANNUCCI, The Death of Stalin
FRANCIS LEE, God’s Own Country
MARTIN McDONAGH, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
RUNGANO NYONI, I Am Not a Witch
WILLIAM OLDROYD, Lady Macbeth

Best Screenplay
ALICE BIRCH Lady Macbeth
ARMANDO IANNUCCI, DAVID SCHNEIDER, IAN MARTIN The Death of Stalin
FRANCIS LEE God’s Own Country
MARTIN McDONAGH Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
RUNGANO NYONI I Am Not a Witch

Best Actress
EMILY BEECHAM Daphne
FRANCES McDORMAND Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
MARGARET MULUBWA I Am Not a Witch
FLORENCE PUGH Lady Macbeth
RUTH WILSON Dark River

Best Actor
JAMIE BELL Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
PADDY CONSIDINE Journeyman
JOHNNY HARRIS Jawbone
JOSH O’CONNOR God’s Own Country
ALEC SECAREANU God’s Own Country

Best Supporting Actress
NAOMI ACKIE Lady Macbeth
PATRICIA CLARKSON The Party
KELLY MACDONALD Goodbye Christopher Robin
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH The Death of Stalin
JULIE WALTERS Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

Best Supporting Actor
SIMON RUSSELL BEALE The Death of Stalin
STEVE BUSCEMI The Death of Stalin
WOODY HARRELSON Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
IAN HART God’s Own Country
SAM ROCKWELL Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Most Promising Newcomer
NAOMI ACKIE Lady Macbeth
HARRY GILBY Just Charlie
COSMO JARVIS Lady Macbeth
HARRY MICHELL Chubby Funny
LILY NEWMARK Pin Cushion



Best Debut Director
DEBORAH HAYWOOD Pin Cushion
FRANCIS LEE God’s Own Country
THOMAS NAPPER Jawbone
RUNGANO NYONI I Am Not a Witch
WILLIAM OLDROYD Lady Macbeth

Debut Screenwriter
ALICE BIRCH Lady Macbeth
GABY CHIAPPE Their Finest
JOHNNY HARRIS Jawbone
FRANCIS LEE God’s Own Country
RUNGANO NYONI I Am Not a Witch

Breakthrough Producer
GAVIN HUMPHRIES Pin Cushion
EMILY MORGAN I Am Not a Witch
BRENDAN MULLIN, KATY JACKSON Bad Day for the Cut
FODHLA CRONIN O’REILLY Lady Macbeth
JACK TARLING, MANON ARDISSON God’s Own Country

The Discovery Award
EVEN WHEN I FALL Sky Neal, Kate McLarnon, Elhum Shakerifar
HALFWAY Ben Caird, Jonny Paterson
IN ANOTHER LIFE Jason Wingard, Hannah Stevenson, Rebecca Clare Evans
ISOLANI R Paul Wilson, Lisa Hague
MY PURE LAND Sarmad Masud, Bill Kenwright

Best Documentary
ALMOST HEAVEN Carol Salter
HALF WAY Daisy-May Hudson
KINGDOM OF US Lucy Cohen, Julia Nottingham, Lucas Ochoa, Thomas Benski, Bill Rudgard
UNCLE HOWARD Aaron Brookner, Paula Vaccaro
WILLIAMS Morgan Matthews, Hayley Reynolds, Sarah Hamilton

Best British Short Film
1745 Gordon Napier, Morayo Akandé, John McKay
FISH STORY Charlie Lyne, Catherine Bray, Anthony Ing
THE ENTERTAINER Jonathan Schey, Jodie Brown, Jun Bung Lee
WORK Aneil Karia, Scott O’Donnell
WREN BOYS Harry Lighton, John Fitzpatrick, Sorcha Bacon

Best Cinematography
BEN DAVIS Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
DAVID GALLEGO I Am Not a Witch
TAT RADCLIFFE Jawbone
THOMAS RIEDELSHEIMER Leaning Into the Wind
ARI WEGNER Lady Macbeth

Best Casting
SHAHEEN BAIG Lady Macbeth
SHAHEEN BAIG, LAYLA MERRICK-WOLF God’s Own Country
SARAH CROWE The Death of Stalin
SARAH HALLEY FINN Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
DEBBIE McWILLIAMS Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

Best Costume Design
DINAH COLLIN My Cousin Rachel
SUZIE HARMAN The Death of Stalin
SANDY POWELL How to Talk to Girls at Parties
HOLLY REBECCA I Am Not a Witch
HOLLY WADDINGTON Lady Macbeth

Best Editing
JOHNNY BURKE Williams
DAVID CHARAP Jawbone
JON GREGORY Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
PETER LAMBERT The Death of Stalin
JOE MARTIN Us and Them

Best Effects
NICK ALLDER, BEN WHITE The Ritual
LUKE DODD Journeyman
EFFECTS TEAM The Death of Stalin
DAN MARTIN Double Date
CHRIS REYNOLDS Their Finest

Best Make Up & Hair Design
JULENE PATON I Am Not a Witch
JAN SEWELL Breathe
NADIA STACEY Journeyman
NICOLE STAFFORD The Death of Stalin
SIAN WILSON Lady Macbeth

Best Music
CARTER BURWELL Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
FRED FRITH Leaning into the Wind
MATT KELLY I Am Not a Witch
PAUL WELLER Jawbone
CHRISTOPHER WILLIS The Death of Stalin

Best Production Design
JACQUELINE ABRAHAMS Lady Macbeth
CRISTINA CASALI The Death of Stalin
JAMES MERIFIELD Final Portrait
NATHAN PARKER I Am Not a Witch
EVE STEWART Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

Best Sound
ANNA BERTMARK God’s Own Country
MAIKEN HANSEN I Am Not a Witch
ANDY SHELLEY, STEVE GRIFFITHS Jawbone
JOAKIM SUNDSTRÖM Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
SOUND TEAM Breathe
 

 

[PeterG]

Trailers For Movies Released 2017-12-08th
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuI4-fSHhipQvxZx2F6cto3y8dSqE3SCU


Dec. 8th - I, Tonya – Drama with Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney and Bobby Cannavale

Dec. 8th – Just Getting Started (Wide) - Action, Comedy with Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones, Rene Russo, Glenne Headly, Joe Pantoliano and Elizabeth Ashley

Dec. 8th - November Criminals (Limited) – Mystery with Chloë Grace Moretz, Ansel Elgort, Catherine Keener, Terry Kinney and David Strathairn

Dec. 8th – Bullet Head (Limited) – Crime drama with Adrien Brody, John Malkovich, Antonio Banderas and Rory Kulkin

Dec. 8th - The Pirates Of Somalia (Limited) – Drama with Al Pacino and Melanie Griffith

Dec. 8th - Hollow in the Land (Limited) – Mystery thriller with Dianna Agron, Rachelle Lefevre and Shawn Ashmore

Dec. 8th - The Rape of Recy Taylor (Limited) – Documentary. From imdb.com: “Mrs. Recy Taylor was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Unbroken, she spoke up and fought for justice with help from Rosa Parks and legions of women.”

Dec. 8th - Kaleidoscope (Limited) – Thriller wit ha new cast & Toby Jones. From imdb.com: “…a taut, psychological thriller that explores the inescapability of a destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother. At the heart of this modern day 'Psycho' are some unsettling questions: Can we ever escape the role in which we are cast by our early circumstances? Must a perpetrator first be a victim?”

 

[Buzz]

The Jurassic World 2 trailer is here.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vn9mMeWcgoM

 

[watchthis!!]

I found "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" to be the type of kids movie that works well for all ages. Jennifer Garner and Steve Carell play the parents of Alexander, who has had such a bad day that his birthday wish is for everyone else in his family to have as bad a day as he has just had. But soon after the next day begins, he wishes he had chosen a different birthday wish. Things go from bad to worse, but the tone of the movie is kept light, so things don't become bogged down regardless of what is about to happen to the family next. I recommend this one for everybody who wants some light and fun entertainment. Dylan Minnette from 13 Reasons Why plays Alexander's older brother.

Trailer for Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_dideF5qvk

 

[Vash01]

Saw Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri today. Had mixed feelings about it. It kept me glued to the seat, anxious to see what happens next. I waited to get an answer but didn't really get one. I hate movies that don't really end. We do see a change in character. I don't know if that was the purpose of the movie.

On the plus side, the acting was great by Frances McDormand and her supporting cast. Definitely a SAG award nominee, and a best lead actress Oscar nomination for Frances. Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Lucas Hedges were all very good. John Hawke had just a small role.

Some things really bothered me. Someone beats up another person, or commits a crime, like arson, but there are no charges filed or a punishment. Sometimes no investigation (that fits what the main character is angry about). The main character tries to control a big fire with a regular fire extinguisher and escapes with only a few minor burns. Attacks her dentist but no charges are filed. The list goes on and on.

This movie is getting rave reviews as a dark comedy. I agree with the description and I admit that it was entertaining and well acted. The violence was a bit too much for me, but. I would have forgiven it had the other things not been so bothersome.

Would I recommend this to others? May be, because I know some people really thought it was a great movie. I was a little disappointed but wouldn't say it is a bad movie. From the trailer I had expected a better one though.