You know, I was thinking about a couple of remarks made on here and all I would say about Natalie Portman in Leon and movies like Lolita is that the Director and cast in these movies would consider that they'd failed if cinema goers didn't get turned on.
Anyway, back to the point of this thread, I agree with Bigmo on Rocketman, which made me think of another of my favourites, Almost Famous and the "Tiny Dancer" scene was brilliant

The King,

I normally hate the rewriting of history so after ignoring that it was quite enjoyable. Star turn by Robert Pattinson.

The King

This is a pretty new Netflix Original. This biography war drama tells the true story of the reign of King Henry V (Timothee Chalamet). This movie includes his rise to the throne after his tyrannical father dies, and how this young man navigates the politics of the war that his father left him. In a battle with France, this film includes the historical battle of this man's reign

erm it does not tell the true story at all but Pattinson is excellent / hillarious

Excellent battle sequence but they take liberties with that too but so what!

I've just watched Wind River, thought it was very good.

A Bridge too far.

Sometimes Always Never review – Bill Nighy spellbinding in Scrabble drama

The veteran actor shines as an ageing word wizard searching for his estranged son in Carl Hunter’s kind-hearted debut


There’s a beguiling Englishness to this elegant, offbeat comedy-drama, terrifically written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and directed by feature debutant Carl Hunter. It has a wonderful syncopation in its writerly rhythm and narrative surprises. The film positively twinkles with insouciance, and is performed with aplomb, particularly by Bill Nighy, who brings a droll sprightliness and deadpan wit to the lead part, but shows how these mannerisms mask emotional pain. Sam Riley is excellent as the character’s long-suffering son.

Nighy plays Alan, a retired Merseyside tailor – and Nighy nails an engaging and consistent voice, sounding like a kind of donnish Ringo Starr. The actor shows how his character, a formidable and quietly intelligent man, has retreated into his habits and eccentricities to shield himself from the cares of the world. Long ago, Alan’s favourite son left home, never to return. In the decades since, Alan has searched for him, a quest that has sparked mixed feelings in the heart of his other, now grownup son Peter (Riley) who feels that he was always second-best.

But Alan has fixated on one thing in particular: the fact that his son stormed out over an ostensible argument over Scrabble, and whether the two-letter word “Zo” was admissible. Now Alan is obsessed with Scrabble; he is a grandmaster, a black-belt, even hustling unsuspecting players he meets in B&Bs – a funny and unexpected interlude with a couple played by Tim McInnerny and Jenny Agutter. But while staying with Peter, his wife Sue (Alice Lowe) and their withdrawn teen son Jack (Louis Healy), things reach a crisis. Playing Scrabble online, Alan encounters a virtual opponent whose style he recognises – and who deploys the controversial word “Zo”. Is someone trying to get in touch?

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The Scrabble and Scrabble-obsession are emblems of a complex sort of communication crisis. Alan’s mastery of the game has taken him along a certain type of loneliness spectrum. He is simultaneously very good with words and absolutely terrible with them. He can’t make contact with Peter and Peter can’t make contact with him.

And yet, Alan has far from given up on life: to Peter’s exasperation and dismay, he continues to be an assertive personality, airily dapper, liking everything just so in ways that can’t simply be written off as dysfunctional. He has a positive effect on Jack, showing him the correct way to wear a suit (the title refers to the jacket’s three buttons, top, middle, bottom, and which may be done up). The “tailoring-mentoring” scenes here incidentally have a thousand times more wit and humanity than those in the boorish Kingsman films.

Riley, Lowe, McInnerny and Agutter are all superb in their roles and the Scrabble face-off with McInnerny in an early scene – together with its highly surprising second encounter the following morning – is carried off with wit and flair. This film is a distinct, articulate pleasure.


This wont appeal to everyone but I thoroughly enjoyed this.

Might not be a popular choice but Donnie Darko is decent

If you understand the ending its a classic

2 tv series that I've watched recently, Normal People and Sex Education, both in the romance/drama category and both crying out for sequels.

you're right bigmo. We tend to take for granted the great films that we watch during our lives, but what would we do without them!

Forgot about Zulu

Always loved Hook a man after my own heart

Private Henry Hook, described as "a thief, a coward, and an insubordinate barrack-room lawyer"


I wouldn't blame any man for hiding in the hospital room

Not many film adaptations I'd enjoy after falling in love with a book, but Shipping News is a fine exception imo.

Would recommend The Heartbreak Kid (1972, Charles Grodin, Neil Simon screenplay). Don't go anywhere near the remake.

Running Man starring Arnie is quite good

Any 80s stuff I find to be good despite being quite cheesey, but it works with the settings in my opinion

Robocop another one

Jaws 1 and 2 as I've already said above. one flew over the cuckoos nest, the shining and both batmans with Keaton in them are all good as well.

I'd never heard of that one, Pumps. Having read a few reviews about it, it’s being mentioned in the same breath as The Usual Suspects, so that’s caught my attention. Will give it a go soon.

In The Line Of Fire is a good Eastwood film

Also Rounders with Matt Damon

Grodin retired in the mid 90's but has returned to do a few films, TV host & book writer as well as the theatre he's  a man of many talents, along with Robert Donat two of my fav less well known actors, & yes I love Midnight Run, Iv'e lost count of how many times I have watched it.

The Last Seduction is a seriously good thriller & worth a watch if you can find it anywhere.

i always say this, the only film everybody should watch and a lot of people have probably never seen...

the boy in the striped pajamas

-- big mo, the problem with seeing films like leon is very few films can live up to that

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Talking of sexy annie, Natalie Portman was only 13 when she made this film, but she could have got me arrested!

closet pedo!!!!

i liked OUATIH, far better than i thought it would be. rewatched it

Jaws is legitimately good

Misery is still scary 30 years on

Yep, The Gentlemen was good

The Departed is the most overrated film of all time.

INTO THE WILD is a very good film, not that well-known. made me cry, actually.

THE REVENANT - there  was a lot of hype about that film, won all sorts, but it's worth it cinematically. and the final ~20 minutes are brilliant