Film Club

Quoted from Manchester Mariner

I really love Ken Loach and his raw, powerful if bleak films but for me personally, I found 'Sorry we missed you' too be a bit too 'Ken Loachy'. No doubt it's an important social commentary and well made film but it was relentlessly depressing right upto the final scene with the beaten up main character, probably with internal bleeding driving away from his home despite protests from his family screaming something along the lines of "I've got to go to work, I've got to go to work." It sort of reminded me of the final scene in Texas Chainsaw Massacre with the woman who sort of escapes onto a main road but is screaming, soaked in blood, never to be the same again.

Quoted from Sandford1981

I take your points entirely and I believe a lot of the time these films are to be endured rather than enjoyed despite them being extremely well made and acted out. I give them high ratings for those very reasons.
Bleak and depressing but unfortunately very revealing with some uncomfortable truths for us all.

Boiling Point won’t be for everyone as Ginny illustrates but perhaps my comparison with loach isn’t the best or most encouraging for people to give it a whirl. Perhaps a comment referencing it’s unrelenting one take style would have sufficed.

Quoted from Stadium

Thanks for this,watched it last night.
Solid film,really enjoyed it.

Quoted from ginnywings

Was probably due to me being full of cold and not in the right frame of mind. It wasn't terrible and I may go back and watch the rest. Been watching a lot of films because I've been feeling too yucky to do much of anything else and was probably just viewing fatigue.

Stephen Graham is always watchable.

Quoted from Sandford1981

Kill the Messenger
8/10

A journalist at a minor newspaper, Gary Webb (played by Jeremy Renner), gets a tip-off that a witness at trial of a drug dealer is a government informant, and is importing drugs into the U.S. After much investigation he uncovers evidence that suggests that the CIA are allowing U.S.-backed rebels in Nicaragua to sell large quantities of drugs in the U.S. in exchange for arms. Once he publishes the story, his world is turned upside down.

A film along similar lines to the Report and Official secrets both of which I liked a lot. I really enjoyed this too.

Quoted from Knut Anders Fosters Voles

More importantly, are you on the mend?!

Quoted from Sandford1981

Don’t Look Up
8.5/10

Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.

It goes  against the grain a little on what’s already been written about this film but I thought it was very good indeed. I really enjoyed the satire and thought it was funny, sad, poignant and scary.

Quoted from smokey111

Bloody hell, you are better than Barry Norman!