Current Movies - Thumbs UP or Thumbs DOWN

[sourland]

About "The Shape of Water" - I think it is the sort of movie that you will either love or hate. No in between on that one.

 

[drumstick diva]

Absolutely Sour.

 

[drumstick diva]

Ya know Sour maybe we should form a partnership in rating movies. Kinda like "Siskal & Ebert." We can be "Sweet" and "Sour." I'll be "sweet."

 

[User395221]

We can be "Sweet" and "Sour." I'll be "sweet."

with a cherry on top!

Do you know that you guys have motivated me to go back to seeing pictures at the cinema? For a long time, I hadn't been, but your recommendations got me back to going. I've been seeing a lot of movies because of you.

I saw one on DVD worth a mention. It is an Aussie movie called Swimming Upstream. It's about this bloke who is good at swimming and his dysfunctional family. Real-life autobiographical material of Tony Fingleton. Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis play the parents, and Jesse Spencer (he was in House) plays the son as a grown-up. This type of adversity-to-success subject-matter has been done before, but the cast makes this better than the run-of-the-mill sports biopic (there's not much sports in it, really, it's more about the people and the family dynamic). Worth a watch if you can find it. The whole cast does an outstandingly good job in this.

 

[drumstick diva]

Well we saw "Molly's Game," this morning with Jessica Chastain or something like that and Idris Elba. Kind of back & forth confusing plot but the two stars did all they could to keep it flying. They were excellent. Brother and I both give it 3.5 stars out of 4.

 

[drumstick diva]

Potato Chip ah, how great it was to see Idris again. He is so watchable! I hope they are working on new episodes for Luther. I think they are supposed to do only 3 .I'm
guessing they will just finish with the 'Alice Morgan' deal and him.

 

[User395221]

I think they are supposed to do only 3 .

There are 4 seasons of Luther. I also came across a movie with Idris in it called "Takers". Haven't watched it yet, have you seen that one? He's a bank robber.

 

[drumstick diva]

I have to see if Netflix has it. I hope he doesn't get shot - don't think I could handle that on top of miserable winter days. Thanks for telling me.

 

[User395221]

Shall I tell you something else to cheer you up?
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40249070#orb-footer

 

[drumstick diva]

They were threatening to make a movie -it'll be great if they ever do it. BTW while looking up info on Takers, I discovered Idris starred as Nelson Mandella in "Long Walk to Freedom." How could I have missed that?