films and tv 2016

Dheepan. Our cruel world. Our tiny lives.

Spotlight. The catholic church is a bunch of criminals. 

Glassland. Excellent Toni Colette. Goes right to the bone.

The Wolfpack.  Parents. I tell you, parents are responsible for a lot of misery. I wish these boys all the very best.

Rams. This was, well, different. And sad. Great hand knitted sweaters and a fab dog.

What we do in the shadows. We have a laugh, for a change.

Deadfall. No. But Eric Bana, still, no.

Interstellar. Another one for the boys. Good grief. The world needs engineers. But count me out until the hero is a female non-patronizing engineer saving the world single handedly.

Victoria. Clever, a bit too long but you will never guess what happens. And whoa! when it does. Watch it, don't watch the trailer, too many spoilers.

Bridge of Spies. I love Mark Rylance and he was fab as ever. But it went on and on and on. One for the boys.

Westen. This, too, was Germany.

Prisoners. Ugh. That whistle. But I knew who the baddy was much too early.

That Sugar. Shopping will never be easy after that.

Love & Mercy. Drugs and shit and bad guys. And love.

Timbuktu. Stunning. Moving. That's what I call a decent movie.

The Martian. What a boring science lesson. And what a hopeless mix of metric and imperial measurements. And yes, shit is manure.

45 years. Hard stuff. Talking would have helped.

Line of duty. Excellent, gripping. Motherofgod.

Trapped. We were hooked!

Sicario. Mexican. Strange. Nasty. Fantastic soundtrack.

Leviathan. Russian. Strange. Very sad and epic.

The Railway Man. The bridge over the river Kwai, Tenko, Empire of the Sun. The Narrow Road to teh Deep North etc.

Goodnight Mommy. Not a horror movie despite the trailer. It's about trauma and identical twins and poor parenting. Excellent images.

Taxi Tehran. I believe it is a good film, R tried to tell me what he enjoyed about it but I had to leave after 10 min due to getting carsick. 

Deutschland 83. That was great fun to watch. And almost no nostalgia.

Inherent Vice. It's crackling and all over groovy. And, wow, sideburns.

Birdman is like a string of explosions in one long shot with a great drummer in the corner.

The Last Panthers. Lots of subtitles but great stuff to watch.

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