I've never seen Brazil, it it worth watching?

I've never seen Brazil, it it worth watching?

Speaking of demons, many supernatural films deal in demon possession, and they couldn't scare anybody. But "Calvary," if not outright frightening, is genuinely alarming in its subtle hint of something terribly wrong within the town. I imagine most people will watch the film and merely see the village as populated by vivid eccentrics. But a closer look at these odd, bitter, hostile characters will suggest something darker at work.

Indeed, the bulk of the movie consists of a series of bizarre encounters between Father James and the villagers, who taunt him and challenge his faith and carry on in outlandish ways that barely conceal their misery. Whether you choose to see them as metaphorically or literally demon-possessed, McDonagh's intention is clearly along these lines.

A sense of gradually escalating weirdness maintains the movie's sense of forward motion, and that - plus Gleeson's scruffy humanity, used to loving effect - is quite enough for "Calvary" to hold the audience in its grip. Also look for Marie-Josee Croze, in the small and yet strangely key role of a woman transfigured by grief.

You're so wrong. The sequel was great, but not as good as the first because all the plot and story got in the way of the action.

Everything up to them getting out of the truck was all the set up it needed. I'd argue even the first one had a little too much plot.

It was mostly visual storytelling that I am referring to.

And Rama praying and saying goodbye to his pregnant wife.

Whiplash was brilliant. Best oscar nominated film so far.

'Dallas Buyers Club' this evening, it's a very good film but even then kind of overshadowed by the towering magnificence of Matthew McConaughey's performance (and Jared Leto is solid too, as is the rest of the cast).

On Netflix UK, well worth a watch I'd say.

9/10 - It's one of those films where you know how it ends because it's based on real life stuff, but still worth experiencing the journey to see how it gets there. *



* For those who don't know it's about a guy called Ron Woodroof who was diagnosed with HIV in 1985, when of course HIV was supposedly just for gays and drug addicts, but this chap was a lady-loving (and dreadfully homophobic) cowboy type. Frustrated with the glacial progress of FDA approval for HIV drugs, he went outside the system to find alternative drugs and started supplying those drugs to his 'buyers club'.

What Maisie Knew. 'Undeniably hard to watch', I'm sure I read in a review, and that's not the half of it. A custody battle, beautifully seen through the eyes of the 6 year old daughter. Damn near tore my heart out. If you're actually a parent you might have some short-term 'my, but we're good parents', but at the cost of a probably disproportionate sense of your heart being removed. Lovely film but, ouch.

Check out 'Blue Valentine' if you haven't seen it already, utterly crushing at the end.

and has some awesome bits.

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll stick it on my list!

What Maisie Knew. 'Undeniably hard to watch', I'm sure I read in a review, and that's not the half of it. A custody battle, beautifully seen through the eyes of the 6 year old daughter. Damn near tore my heart out. If you're actually a parent you might have some short-term 'my, but we're good parents', but at the cost of a probably disproportionate sense of your heart being removed. Lovely film but, ouch.

I watched Big Hero 6. It was pretty dull.

What Maisie Knew. 'Undeniably hard to watch', I'm sure I read in a review, and that's not the half of it. A custody battle, beautifully seen through the eyes of the 6 year old daughter. Damn near tore my heart out. If you're actually a parent you might have some short-term 'my, but we're good parents', but at the cost of a probably disproportionate sense of your heart being removed. Lovely film but, ouch.

Being set in the modern day kind of tore the film away from the bad memories of the book, for me. The film was great, though. I'm not a parent (so obviously do not understand anything about anything) but I was the child of bad parents, and pretty much a custody battle to get rid of me, so maybe I see it from a different angle, but I found the film particularly warm due to the other adult characters in it. Love can come from many places, and I had a nice little cry (I'll cry at a Fruit Pastille commercial, however, so don't take that as any measure).

Who broke Grim...?