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Hickock (2017)
O stars
I stopped watching this turkey after Hemsworth took off his shirt to reveal a shaved and buffed 21st century torso.
Ten minutes in I knew not to continue.
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Oh. Is that about his mustache
I reckon.
"...a moustache...a moustache...you just gotta getta moustache..."
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Sicario
i enjoyed it, first newish film ive enjoyed in a while.
7.5 out of ten.
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Trumbo (USA 2015, Jay Roach) 6/10
OK movie about famed screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who gets blacklisted because of HUAC pressure and turns to writing B-Fare for a low budget producer, wins an Academy Award he can't accept, and gets finally vindicated writing movies for Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger. Some funny scenes and some flashy Hollywood background are at times entertaining, but can't hide the fact that the movie is out of its depth; one can't help but sense that there could have been a larger, richer story to be told. Most of the movie's characters remain pretty two dimensional. Though Helen Mirren is deliciously spiteful as Hedda Hopper, the show stealing performance is the comparatively small part by John Goodman as Frank King (which of course reminds one of his similar role as Lawrence Woolsey in Matinée).
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Battle for moscow
2016. Russian made with eng subtitles.
Realistic russian front 1941-set ww2 film. First half establishes the quirky characters among a rag tag red army rifle platoon, expecting a german panzer attack and being short of food, weapons, ammunition and equipment, digging in, knowing they face tanks and a grim future. Second half comes the attacks, and what terrific action as this outnumbered group start destroying tanks with every means available to them, from field guns, armour-piercing rifles and home-made molotovs. The panzers looked real to me so dunno if they were part cgi, merely plated over cars or genuinely preserved originals.
I'd go 7 out of ten. Recommend to anyone who likes Ww2 movies, made airfix models and likes their tanks with realism.
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Yes i nearly mentioned that. It said something like This film has been made possible because of 1,846 citizens funded it. Something like that. Bit like a CD kickstarter i guess!!
There was a whiff of soviet propaganda, especially with the ending, but they made fun of this earlier in the film with exaggerrated stories being read out. - and mocked - from their morale-boosting pamplets.
Yes i saw the guy you mean, TG - im not sure if being crushed under panzer wheels was imminent that cracking gags would be high on my agenda. Going to the latrine might be!
There was one scene very realistic when the panzer rolled over the foxholes/trenches, then stopped, reversed and ground down on the earth to crush soldiers crouching below - a common tactic used by tank drivers on the russian front. It may well date back to the rudimentary tanks in the trenches of WWI but it was certainly a trick used when the enemy was dug in.
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Sorry xeb i dont believe i did see that one.
You may be right about the volume of producers in that film TG.
I must admit the statues by the railway made me think if i went to moscow id wanna check out paniflavs 28.
But given wild horses couldnt drag me there for the world cup i guess its a bucket-list item i can file under No chance!
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks 8.4/10 Great fun and mad as fish.
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