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Had a bit of an Oscar’s weekend this weekend.

Watched One Battle After Another yesterday and Sinners toight.

One Battle After Another is the better movie in my opinion and deserved the Oscar (out of these two - I still need to watch the other nominees)

But I think DiCaprio put in a better performance than Michael B Jordan and was more deserving of the best Actor - just on my opinion. We’ll see how I feel after watching the others.

I’m not going to lie though, I did NOT expect to hear Vampires in 1930’a Mississippi singing ‘ The Rocky Road to Dublin’

Hamnet

Powerful and profound. It's one to strap yourself in for, it's quite heavy emotionally, the acting is phenomenal, and the story is great. It's an excellent film, but you need be in the mood for it.

DaveE wrote: Wed Mar 25, 2026 10:52 am Project Hail Mary

Loved it

One of the best films I've seen in a very long time

My youngest recommended this also - mrs mik and I are going to see it tonight at the Everyman in Glasgow - all couches. Never been before so looking forward to that experience also.

May not be the actual screen we are in, but you get the idea.

And proper legroom too, plus table service I do enjoy Everyman when I feel like making a trip to the cinema as expensive as possible .

@mik that looks great - we have a Picture House in Brighton, similar thing

There's something very nice about a sofa, glass of wine, and some quality popcorn or a slice of homemade cake while you're watching a good film

Hope you enjoy the film and overall experience

So it actually was the screen in the image above. Proper hot dog (as it should be for £9) and a menebrea brought to our couch. Fabulous.

Film was a bit cheesy in bits, but some awesome filmography and rumbling soundtrack. Gosling was very good in it.

Project Hail Mary was indeed excellent. Just reading the book now and I can see why they had to cut out so much of the science stuff to hit the run-time and keep things light.

Send Help - Sam Raimi-directed movie about two coworkers (one douchebag boss-bro and an overlooked-for-promotion woman) who are stuck on a deserted island is also utterly excellent and now on streaming.

The Stranger

Film version of Camus’ novel about a man who is somewhat detached from the world and appears to drift through life in a daze, before being subsequently tried for murder. I’ve read the book a couple of times and feel this film version is impressive in the way it delicately represents Mersault’s sense of alienation. It elicits the sense of pathos that manifests in the book too. Although I’m also wondering if Mersault is just autistic

7.4 out of 10

Gavster wrote: Fri Apr 17, 2026 5:14 pm And proper legroom too, plus table service I do enjoy Everyman when I feel like making a trip to the cinema as expensive as possible .

We are members of the one in Bury. It's the only way to Cinema IMO!

We've just bought a projector in the room we have the stereo in so are seeing how much we use it. If a lot then I'll get a screen that slides up into the roof. 105" picture so currently really enjoying it, will see if it lasts.

Just watched Predator Badlands on the plane and really enjoyed it. A little silly, a little too much humanising the predator character but as a brain out film, excellent.

Nuremberg, brilliant, after watching The Popes Exorcist I'm really enjoying the Russel Crow stuff currently. Moody enough and some horrific real footage which surprised me. Brilliantly done. It's difficult to see Malek as anything but a camp Mercury but it wasn't a distraction, just shows how brilliant he was in Bohemian Rhapsody.

Dave!

V8Granite wrote: Sun Apr 26, 2026 7:11 am
Nuremberg, brilliant, after watching The Popes Exorcist I'm really enjoying the Russel Crow stuff currently. Moody enough and some horrific real footage which surprised me. Brilliantly done. It's difficult to see Malek as anything but a camp Mercury but it wasn't a distraction, just shows how brilliant he was in Bohemian Rhapsody.

Dave!

I watched Nuremberg on Friday and really enjoyed it too, gripping story and Crowe was excellent.

The Fall Guy (netflix)

A bit late to the party, but that was a really fun film with loads of excellent callbacks.

Very enjoyable, fully 8/10 unicorns.

Jobbo wrote: Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:56 pm Saltburn. Enjoyed it despite the lack of any portrayal of Zonda, who I assumed it was about being the only notable resident of Saltburn. Bit indulgent in length - Amazon can do that whereas a theatre release would have been more tightly edited.

Spotted this on Amazon Prime and watched it last night. Enjoyed the style of it and the twist. I did wonder why the name was familiar and now I know

JonMad wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 8:59 am

Jobbo wrote: Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:56 pm Saltburn. Enjoyed it despite the lack of any portrayal of Zonda, who I assumed it was about being the only notable resident of Saltburn. Bit indulgent in length - Amazon can do that whereas a theatre release would have been more tightly edited.

Spotted this on Amazon Prime and watched it last night. Enjoyed the style of it and the twist. I did wonder why the name was familiar and now I know

Yes, my legal team decided to let them use it for their silly little film, the only film of any note that I actually appear in is Atonement.








And I’ve still yet to watch it…