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Another year and another set of movies being released.

As always there are a few surprises throughout the year that come out but the big movies look to be good ones this year:

- The Gentlemen
- Jojo Rabbit
- 1917
- Uncut Gems
- Bombshell
-Bad Boys for Life
- The Lighthouse
- Just Mercy
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood
- Parasite
- Birds of Prey
- Dolittle
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Bloodshot
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- Dark Waters
- Onward
- A Quiet Place: Part 2
- Mulan
- Bond: No Time to Die
- The New Mutants
- Black Widow
- Scoob!
- Fast and Furious 9
- Wonder Woman 1984
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- Minions: The Rise of Gru
- Tenet
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Jungle Cruise
- Morbius
- Bill & Ted Face the Music
- The King's Man
- Halloween Kills
- Eternals
- Gozilla vs. Kong
- Dune
- Coming 2 America
- West Side Story

Check out The Wolf's Call. French U boat drama.

Nosebag method.

Dan.... you gotta wear a face hugger in the cinema? What about popcorn?

"Returned to the cinema today to see Tenet. It's an intelligent action film which, while being rather grounded for a Nolan production, has your brain ticking away to keep a handle on the time-twisting elements. Great set pieces, solid understated practical effects and a story that keeps you hooked as it canters along. The performances are good and likeable with perhaps the exception of Kenneth Branagh hamming it up with his version of Boris the Blade. However... the sound mixing is fucking dreadful. Maybe it's a method to make the film ""uncertain"" but what you get is background noise and a thumping soundtrack drowning out the dialogue for well over half the film. And given that this is a concept movie, exposition and reinforcement is needed for a lot of it. But the exposition is generally mumbled and then buried under everything else. By the end of the film you're actually laughing at the lack of clarity. Assuming it's deliberate (I've had a look at other reviews and it's not Cineworld Harlow fucking things up, which was our initial suspicion), it's just bizarre as it drags the film down. I'm looking forward to it appearing online with some fucking subtitles. Anyway, nice that another part of life has rebooted. And strangely enough with a film that makes wearing a mask feel a tiny bit like you're joining in with the story."

Saw The Rental last night. Good psychological thriller. Ending a bit weak and leaves some questions.

"Manuel 5:06 Wed Aug 26 Safe House is a good film. Anyone seen the sequel to ""Inside Man""? The first one was good. Saw a couple of oddish ones last couple of nights. First was ""The Pledge"" with Jack Nicholson. Second was ""Under Suspicion"" with Hackman and Freeman. Both quite ""arty"" and not quite what I expected. Both have great acting but not worth watching if you don't like slow moving films."

"The Way Back, Ben Affleck - Decent, worth a watch. Safehouse (2012) Denzel. Escaped my radar this one, really enjoyed it."

"The Interview with Seth Rogan which is on Netflix was good, never heard of it before. I found the scene with the Tiger rather amusing."

"The Interview with Seth Rogan which is on Netflix was good, never heard of it before. I found the scene with the Tiger rather amusing."

Watched Rogue last night. Another extraction-action movie with the still hot Megan Fox. Was OK and the adding the man eating lion to the usual baddies made it fun.

Watched Gemini Man with Will Smith. Enjoyable enough but what's all this anti ageing stuff all about? Looks absolutely awful. This along with god awful CGI is ruining movies.

"Bad Education, the Hugh Jackman one. Got great reviews but okay at best, a true story though."

"MMG - you reminded me, I actually watched that as well recently. Really enjoyed it. I think Christian Bale is a very decent actor but did struggle with his accent at times. 8.5/10"

"DiCaniosLefty 4:42 Watched The Gentlemen earlier this week. Agreed, thoroughly entertaining. Think I’ll give Le Mans ‘66 a go this evening."

"Finally got around to watching The Gentlemen and thoroughly enjoyed it. Even my wife enjoyed it who isn't much of a Guy Ritchie fan. 8.5/10 Also watched Greyhound. I'd say solid without being amazing, worth a watch. 6.5/10"

"Just Mercy - Fantastic. Watched Phil Spector with Al Pacino and Helen Mirren from 2013, a bit meh, but at least it's a true yarn."

crystal falace 7:14 Tue Aug 18 Thanks for that! Pretty sure that won’t be seen as a spoiler!

"Watched ""Dave"" again last night. Forgot Charles Grodin was in that. There is definitely something about Sigourney Weaver!"

Project Power was shit.

"Project power spoilers... Not sure if it was explained how but she somehow naturally had powers so they took her to take her dna and figure out ""the pill"""

"I watched that Project Power, some good special effects but ultimately a bit of a popcorn no brainer. In fact I lost the plot a bit, why did they have his daughter?, did she really develop the formula?"

"Watched project power the new netflix film with jamie foxx and joseph gordon levitt, entertaining enough but the same story that's been done a hundred times before, man has to save his daughter from big corporation, just with a few random superpowers thrown in"

Great film that BRANDED son...

"Watched “Dark Waters” last night. It’s a film about DuPont dumping vast amounts of chemicals that cause cancers and other health problems including birth defects. Might sound grim and it is but it’s a real story based upon this article https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst-nightmare.html This is a striking couple of paragraphs at the end of the article. Where scientists have tested for the presence of PFOA in the world, they have found it. PFOA is in the blood or vital organs of Atlantic salmon, swordfish, striped mullet, gray seals, common cormorants, Alaskan polar bears, brown pelicans, sea turtles, sea eagles, Midwestern bald eagles, California sea lions and Laysan albatrosses on Sand Island, a wildlife refuge on Midway Atoll, in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean, about halfway between North America and Asia. ‘‘We see a situation,’’ Joe Kiger says, ‘‘that has gone from Washington Works, to statewide, to the United States, and now it’s everywhere, it’s global. We’ve taken the cap off something here. But it’s just not DuPont. Good God. There are 60,000 unregulated chemicals out there right now. We have no idea what we’re taking.’’"

The Nightingale... Errrr... you can see why people walked out the cinema... As graphic a film I have ever seen... but highly watchable