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[Film] Film 2025



dolphins

Well-known member
Jan 26, 2012
6,394
BN1, in GOSBTS
“Heretic” (2024) on Amazon Prime.

Wanted to see this at the cinema last year but ended up waiting for the streaming release.

A very good movie, one of the better psychological horrors I’ve seen in fact.

Hugh Grant is quite superb in it and the small cast (Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East and a rather pointless couple of scenes from Topher Grace) are excellent.

Very suspenseful, a bit silly but with some interesting ideas. A nice mix between a popcorn flick and something more philosophical.

Hugh Grant can really act when he wants to, as seen in this, About a Boy, The Gentlemen etc.

4* - 1hr 45 just flew by.
Great isn't it? Hugh is clearly having an absolute ball playing the lead role.
 




Meade's Ball

Well-known member
Jul 7, 2003
13,686
Hither (sometimes Thither)
ok, 3 films to briefly waffle over.

Mission Impossible 32, or whatever number it was. Another very long and babbling fiasco of an action adventure. I sat through it unhurt, but was a bit sickened by the almost endless bumsucking of Ethan Hunt/Tom Cruise. Ok he's the only 83 year old man that can run at 5mph on film, but goddamnit but the all-hailing-ness of the commentary of him was a bit agonising. I hope it is all over now, but franchises can only quietly inhale instead of release their last breath.

Tornado. Saw the preview of this at my local Pichouse the other night. £3 for a Scottish samurai western. I thought: why the hell mcnot. It was alright. Some of it felt a bit debut filmmaker, which it wasn't, but the natural scenery was like limbo and absorbing to the eye. The trailer, which i saw today, felt inaccurate too, but it was ok for being something a little different if clunky.

Ballerina. Ridiculous how this franchise can go, um, well it's wrong to say on because it's a reasonless bag of twirling bloody nonsense - maybe it's ridiculous that it cannot go anywhere, or that anyone resists AI in making it better. Some of the deaths were quite good, and bodies flew around, and the dialogue was embarrassing. John Wick is in there for a little while with his magical jacket, and his astonishingly bad manner of speech. Ana De Armas steps in as an offshoot, and does what she can with the fierce action - i hope that the audience doesn't shrink enormously because of people thinking a woman cannot hack away at imbeciles in the same way as a monosyllabic surfer-voice killer.
Sidenote - one of the soon-to-be-killed gunwielders near-ish the end had Hurzeler features.
 


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