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Post by Railroad17 on Dec 25, 2016 16:30:03 GMT
Viva Las Vegas on TV last night.One of the greats.Elvis is a racing driver but has no money luckily Anne Margaret dances about a lot and sings some of the worst songs in movie history.Elvis is in fine form and sings at the drop of a hat..or less.Elvis gets his car fixed and enters the race before the midnight deadline.The King blasts his car away from the grid in the inaguaral Las Vegas grand prix.The grid is in Las Vegas just around the corner from the casino strip it is therefore somewhat surprising that the next race sequence shows Elvis at 6:50 am blasting across the Hoover Dam,what a fuel tank these cars have!Elvis enters the final stretch across the Mojave desert neck and neck with jolly Italian rival.Sadly Jolly Italian has a rear wheel blow out and spins and cartwheels into an oncoming racer who plows straight in to the drivers cab,this brings a sigh but not a song from the Lovely Anne who is following the race in a helicopter.Elvis shrugs with a curled kingly lip and drives on.In the very next scene a car plows into the desert and flips high in the air and is engulfed in flames and then explodes but Elvis cannot stop and nor can the helicopter land to render urgent medical attention.Elvis enters Las Vegas and wins the race and happily the director decides to reprise the title song while the audience gasps at the Kings dancing skills in his surprisingly high lift shoes.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2016 18:27:24 GMT
I watched (Via BBCi Available till 22/01/17) The excellent Comedy/Drama - 'The Lady In The Van' the true story of the relationship between playwright Alan Bennett and a woman who ended up living on his London home driveway Miss Shepherd, highly recommended..
Starring:-Maggie Smith,Alex Jennings,Clare Hammond,Roger Allam,Deborah Findlay,jim Broadbent,Claire Foy,Cecilia Noble, Gwen Taylor,Frances de la Tour,Nicholas Burns and Pandora Colin.
The Lady in the Van tells the true story of Alan Bennett's strained friendship with Miss Mary Shepherd, an eccentric homeless woman whom Bennett befriended in the 1970s before allowing her temporarily to park her Bedford van in the driveway of his Camden home. She stayed there for 15 years. As the story develops Bennett learns that Miss Shepherd is really Margaret Fairchild, a former gifted pupil of the pianist Alfred Cortot. She had played Chopin in a promenade concert, tried to become a nun, was committed to an institution by her brother, escaped, had an accident when her van was hit by a motorcyclist for which she believed herself to blame, and thereafter lived in fear of arrest.
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Post by Tʰᵉ Wᵃˡˡ Oᶠ Dᵉᵃᵗʰ on Dec 29, 2016 18:52:47 GMT
1batfastardYou've only gone and done it again haven't you?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2016 18:56:44 GMT
1batfastard You've only gone and done it again haven't you? Just_Cuz_13 letsrock
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Post by Railroad17 on Dec 29, 2016 19:15:57 GMT
Ethel and Ernest.
Didn't see the point of this at all.Supposed to be a tribute to Raymond Briggs parents.Sad to say that Ethel comes across as a small minded thick working class intolerant inverted snob and Ernest as possibly the highest paid milkman ever..TV and Phone in the 50s!Ernest buys a Triumph Herald and there's poor old Ethel not knowing he had a driving license all those years.Much better to watch This Happy Breed from the 40s.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2017 19:02:21 GMT
Hi All, Friday night was Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, not bad but not as good as the previous three.....
Last night I watched the excellent drama biopic The Danish Girl definitely not to everyones taste because of the subject matter, none the less a well acted and thought out film based on the life of transgender pioneer Lilly Elbe.....
Starring:-Eddie Redmayne,Alicia Vikander,Matthias Schoenaerts,Ben Whishaw,Amber Heard,Sebastian Koch,Pip Torrens, Nicholas Woodeson,Emerald Fennell,Adrian Schiller and Henry Pettigrew.
The story of real-life Danish painter Einar Wegener who, in 1931, became the first man to undergo a sex-change operation. His wife Greta, also a painter, first discovers her husband's affinity for feminine attire when he sits in for one of her models. Ultimately, she encourages him on his transexual journey.
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Post by rockonquo on Jan 2, 2017 8:57:36 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2017 18:29:34 GMT
Hi All, wolfman - Was you pissed up or just bored stiff when you watched Krampus ?.......... Last night I watched the awful 'Krampus' supposed Comedy/Horror based on the actual myth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus there are better versions of this film out there so why they made this tripe is beyond me ? Still each to there own as ever up to the individual my recommendation don't bother, what had the making of a good film was wasted totally in this dreary dragging film.....
Starring:-Adam Scott,Toni Collette,Emjay Anthony,David Koechner,Allison Tolman,Conchata Ferrell,Stefania LaVie Owen, Krista Stadler,Lolo Owen,Queenie Samuel,Maverick Flack,Mark Atkin,Sage Hunefeld,Leith Towers,Curtis Vowell, Luke Hawker and Brett Beattie.
Krampus is a 2015 American Christmas comedy horror film based upon the eponymous character from Germanic folklore, directed by Michael Dougherty and written by Dougherty, Todd Casey, and Zach Shields.
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Post by wolfman on Jan 4, 2017 19:28:21 GMT
Hi All, wolfman - Was you pissed up or just bored stiff when you watched Krampus ?.......... Last night I watched the awful 'Krampus' supposed Comedy/Horror based on the actual myth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus there are better versions of this film out there so why they made this tripe is beyond me ? Still each to there own as ever up to the individual my recommendation don't bother, what had the making of a good film was wasted totally in this dreary dragging film.....
Starring:-Adam Scott,Toni Collette,Emjay Anthony,David Koechner,Allison Tolman,Conchata Ferrell,Stefania LaVie Owen, Krista Stadler,Lolo Owen,Queenie Samuel,Maverick Flack,Mark Atkin,Sage Hunefeld,Leith Towers,Curtis Vowell, Luke Hawker and Brett Beattie.
Krampus is a 2015 American Christmas comedy horror film based upon the eponymous character from Germanic folklore, directed by Michael Dougherty and written by Dougherty, Todd Casey, and Zach Shields.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2017 2:01:23 GMT
Kung fu panda 🙂
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2017 19:39:37 GMT
Hi All, I watched the original Dads Army movie (Via Dave) a better film than the modern remake despite the changes imposed by Columbia pictures (See -en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dad's_Army_(1971_film)). I will be honest the comedy doesn't quite transfer to film from the series, I suspect this simply to be because the film had to stretch the comedy over the length of the film rather than the quick fire jokes of the series, on the whole though a good nostalgic comedy with the majority of favourites from the series...
Starring:-Arthur Lowe,John Le Mesurier,Clive Dunn,John Laurie,James Beck,Arnold Ridley,Ian Lavender,Liz Fraser,Bernard Archard Derek Newark,Bill Pertwee,Frank Williams,Edward Sinclair,Anthony Sagar,Pat Coombs,Roger Maxwell,Paul Dawkins,Sam Kydd, Michael Knowles and Fred Griffiths.
British villagers (Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn) rally in their own confusion, ready to repel a World War II invasion.
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Post by rockonquo on Jan 9, 2017 9:11:06 GMT
Good movie, can't say it's better than the original haven't seen it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2017 13:02:43 GMT
Last night I watched (Via Sky Cinema) the low budget and not widely released excellent Sci-Fi/Drama-Midnight Special, just a well acted and thought out film that has CGI where appropriate but not to much tending to rely on the acting and storyline if your into that genre you should like it......
Starring;- Michael Shannon,Joel Edgerton,Kirsten Dunst,Adam Driver,Jaeden Lieberher,Sam Shepard,Paul Sparks,Nathan Brimmer,Bill Camp,Scott Haze,James DuMont,Billy Slaughter and Sean Bridgers.
The story revolves around Roy Tomlin and his biological son, Alton Meyer, escaping from both the government and a cult, after discovering that Alton has special powers.
Geoff.
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Post by Detroit on Jan 9, 2017 18:42:07 GMT
Sunday matinee yesterday. Passengers in 3D.
Good movie!
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Post by lozza on Jan 10, 2017 18:12:48 GMT
Shawshank redemption.......again. superb film.
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