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It aired in the UK on Sky first, now the U.S. gets it.
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Would love for the series to go forward on another streamer, but as that is very unlikely, I love what we were able to get across three seasons. A very strong ending for a series that was miles and a away better than it actually needed to be.
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Series two quietly debuted today. The first two episodes are up. Still funny, still great music.
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I preferred GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE infinitely more than GODZILLA X KONG. I can't believe Adam Wingard directed both. The first one was plodding, trying to wade through this connected universe while ..THE NEW EMPIRE is just fun, breezy, action-packed. A vast improvement.
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Extended S2 trailer.
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Absolutely adored it and was so disappointed that there was no BAFTA love for Helena Bonham Carter and Augustus Prew.
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I actually found it more subdued than the film.
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Not as over-the-top as advertised. Still a great watch. By all appearances of the promotion I assumed it would have anachronistic elements and a bit punchier, but it's not. It is very much your standard historical drama, with the exception of a fair bit of humour running through.
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Absolutely floored that this was nominated for Best Picture considering the range of films it's up against. It's a nice film, but very slight. I didn't find it as profound as others.
Seeing as this, tonally IMO, feels like ALL OF US STRANGERS, I can't see how that lost out in Original Screenplay and Best Picture.
Performances great, but underwhelming film.
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Director Andrew Haigh's first theatrical film in six years is a adaptation is the second film adaptation of the 1987 novel "Strangers".
Starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy and Jamie Bell, ALL OF US STRANGERS is a meditative study of loneliness and connectedness. Of love that reaches through the invisible divides.
Screenwriter Adam (Scott) is a screenwriter living in a sparsely occupied high-rise. The seemingly only other sign of life being a man who lives multiple floors beneath him - Harry (Mescal) - who, after a shaky start, he embarks on a relationship with.
While Adam spends his evenings with Harry; his days are spent with his parents (Foy and Bell), as they navigate all the things that have remained unspoken over the years.
First time I saw it someone was sobbing loudly throughout. It didn't affect me that way...until I saw it the second time. It was then that the emotion of the piece connected with me. Scott got all the glory and Mescal all the attention (and they work splendidly together), but to me, the strength of the film lies in Foy and Bell and their scenes with Scott.
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Sadly, the show has done abysmally at the awards this year. Most recently losing in the four categories at the SAG Awards they were nominated in and garnering no WGA awards.
At least they look good.
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I have a low tolerance for zany and it's the reason why I didn't like KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE and why I really dislike ARGYLLE.
What ARGYLLE has going for it is Sam Rockwell and Dallas Bryce Howard who excel despite Matthew Vaughn's unrestraint.
Everything else is diminishing returns. However, wouldn't mind if what they set up in the mid end credits pan out to something more. I'd watch that.
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What I love about Ramon is that he pushes back when Cristóbal over-reacts. He's full throated when he demands respect from him. Whereas Wlad was more of a tamer, a Cristóbal whisperer, if you would. Wlad let it roll off his back and either laugh at him and keep it pushing. And that worked for him because he was the love of Cristóbal’s life. Ramon had to work harder.
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Absolutely loved this film. And a much better courtroom film than France's 2022 submission SAINT OMER (though Guslagie Malanda was mesmerizing). Sandra Hüller gave a stellar performance and Milo Machado Graner more than kept up with the adult actors. I'm hoping it gets a slot in Best Picture like ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT did last year.
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Just like JA Bayona's true story tsunami film THE IMPOSSIBLE, SOCIETY OF THE SNOW was incredibly immersive and stunning in recreating those moments.
I've never seen 1993's ALIVE based on this story, but I knew about the cannabilism because that's all everyone talked about. Bayona blessedly used the book "Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World's Greatest Survival Story" to form this film. By doing so he gave the dead life. It was no longer about how they died but how they lived. We learned their names. We saw their humanity.
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Episode one was a great start to series 2.
I worried that I wouldn't like Helen and Elliot together because I tend to like the getting together part of characters' relationships versus seeing an established relationship, but Ioved seeing their dynamic. I actually wished we got more of them in those moments.
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On 12/26/2023 at 9:24 AM, nilyank said:
It was okay but not Oscar worthy or even worthy of an Oscar nomination except maybe for costume design.
The costume design was exquisite. Now I am really kicking myself for not going to the brief exhibit they had of the costumes in L.A a month or so ago.
It's not my favourite Yorgos Lanthimos film but it is quite enjoyable. I think Emma and Mark Ruffalo were fantastic. Loved Ramy Youssef in this. It was a joy.
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It left me wondering what the ultimate payoff was for Oliver. Did he want the house and or money or just the destruction of these people? Is he really going to be satisfied going forward?
The ultimate payoff was to just be with Felix in any way he could (friendship or romantically). Then when his secrets was going to put the end to that everything spiraled. He tried to lure Venetia back in with a kiss and that wasn't working so she had to go. To me, if all he wanted was Saltburn or to destroy the family he would not have waited 15 years to do so.
QuoteCan he really maintain that large house long term plus, it’s not likely he would be accepted by people at that level of society.
He has the same chance of success at maintaining the estate as Elspeth had. She was living off of Sir James' money which she willed to Oliver.
I think by the time he gets Saltburn he knows this. He knew it all those years back: people not remembering his name when they sang Happy Birthday to him, not holding the attention of Henry's wife at the party. It's as Emerald Fennell says, a "Pyrrhic victory". It truly is. He "won", but at the cost of not having Felix in the world.QuoteNone of the staff or other family members thought these deaths were suspicious
Twice when looking for Fellx, Duncan stopped and glared at Oliver. He is even standing on the mound looking at Oliver at Elspeth's grave. He knows Oliver is behind this.
QuoteThe family didn’t protest the will?
For all we know Elspeth had no other family. Even if Sir James' sister (Felix's mother) wanted to contest it, she had already been cut out by Sir James. But I think it would have been unnecessary to delve into that. It is, to me, supposed to be a hollow victory for Oliver. He probably dreamt of having a life like the one he now had, but it's tainted.
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25 minutes ago, DearEvette said:
I wonder why the Mormon kid couldn't go home for Christmas? Or the Asian kid.
Ye-Joon's parents were overseas and didn't want him to travel alone. The Mormon kid parents were overseas on a mission.
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1 hour ago, Giuseppe said:
How do you know it was fifteen years later when Oliver 'ran into' Elspeth? I might have blinked and missed a date or something.
People have said they can see the date on Sir James' obituary. The barista and the people outside the café are wearing masks.
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5 hours ago, rmontro said:
I can see the point some have raised though, where's the character's weird, dark side? This must be the most "normal" portrayal of Wonka that we've seen. He seems a very typical, likeable movie hero.
My feeling is that I can see this Wonka evolve (or devolve) into the Gene Wilder one; especially he's had to endure years of paranoia surrounding the Chocolate Cartel and whatever other upstarts try to sabotage him. And considering when he came to town he was bamboozled, I can see him cloistering himself off and becoming more cynical.
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Ok, but what happened to Farleigh? Last I remember, Sir James ordered him out of the dining room, but then we didn't see him for the rest of the movie did we? Are we to assume Oliver offed him, too?
Sir James kicked him out for having drugs. He was banished again, and this time permanently. Sir James said he wouldn't do anything more for Farleigh.
6 hours ago, Giuseppe said:The ending montage went a little fast for me, so I was unclear if they were actually showing us what Oliver did to Felix in the maze, and it looked like Venetia was asleep in the tub and Oliver placed two razer blades on the rim? Was he stalking Elspeth and set up the 'run-in' at the coffee shop? I couldn't really figure out what was happening. The timeline confused me as well because as far as I could tell, we didn't get any timestamps. I could deduce that some years had passed between Oliver leaving Saltburn and then seeing Elspeth in the coffee shop, but how much time? And what did he do to Elspeth anyway? Poison her? So many questions
There was a 15 year time jump from Oliver leaving Saltburn to "bumping" into Elsepeth in the cafe.
The montage showed Oliver spiking the alcohol, begging off to vomit and handing the alcohol over to Felix knowing he would drink it. He left the razor blades on the edge of the bathtub. Venetia was susceptible as displayed by Oliver having her eat his croissant after telling her the night before in the garden that he wanted her to eat and not get up from the table (although, she did ultimately leave he table).
Surely after reading about Sir James' death Oliver started looking into Elspeth's life and found out she lived in that neighborhood. He located a cafe to hang out in in order to orchestrate "bumping" into her.
I am in the minority and believed Elspeth just got sick; and it hand nothing to do with Oliver. Yet, when she did get sick he made sure to have her amend the will so that it would come to her and then he killed her. But I don't think he was the initial cause of her illness because we would have been shown it.
6 hours ago, Giuseppe said:I do wish we had gotten a bit more insight into Oliver's frame of mind. I agree with others that the crazy seemed to come out of nowhere.
I don't think it came out of nowhere. From his parents we know that he already had a tendency to lie. A majority of what he did was driven by his need to be with Felix. Whether he was in love with him or just wanted to be him or a combination of both, he wanted to be a part of Felix's life. When Felix first tried to ditch him after getting annoyed by him in his dorm and not inviting him to the pub; Oliver came up with the lie about his father.
When Oliver saw how fickle the Cattons were with Pamela, he started working on them individually so that they would like him enough to not think him boring and wanting him to leave (which was Pamela's fate). He had to get Farleigh out the house because Farleigh was the only one who he couldn't manipulate.
Once Felix found out he was lying about his background, Oliver knew it was game over and that he was going to lose Felix and access to his life. He gave Felix a chance in that maze by putting his feelings on the line, but one Felix told him he made his blood run cold Oliver knew he had to kill him.
He tried to move on to Venetia but then she expressed how she and her father truly feels about him so he knew that would be a dead end, so he placed the razors on the tub so she could kill herself because he knew she would poison the family against him.
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I haven't had anything to cry about in a while, thanks to the Six Idiots they have my shedding tears. Great send-off for the OG series.
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I'm glad that the theater was packed. I love the film and it deserves eyes.
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S01.E02: The Case of the Dandelion Shrine
in Dead Boy Detectives
Love the series and as someone who is very lukewarm on Lukas Gage, I love him as Cat King.
I was admittedly someone upset at the recasting of Ty Tennant and Sebastian Croft, but I am over it. Jayden Revri, George Rexstrew and Kassius Nelson are incredible. They work well together and they are a wonderful iteration of Charles, Edwin and Crystal.
And Max Jenkins and Caitlin Reilly as the Dandelion Sprites were hilarious. The casting agent/s was firing from all cylinders.