The Recommended Movies Thread

[barrys]

A friend saw this said it was on par with "A Fish Called Wanda"

Anyone seen it yet?

The Guard

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1540133/

Yes saw it last night.

Very funny set in the west coast of Ireland. Brendan Gleeson, class!

Any chance of getting the link please

[migrant]

A friend saw this said it was on par with "A Fish Called Wanda"

Anyone seen it yet?

The Guard

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1540133/

Yes saw it last night.

Very funny set in the west coast of Ireland. Brendan Gleeson, class!

Any chance of getting the link please

I haven't seen it out on any of the sites I frequent, maybe Jimmy went to the theater

[sandman67]

cant say Ive come across it in my meanderings

The BDRIP hi quality copies of THOR are all over the place this weekend though.....Im waiting for the reasonable size versions to be released as space is tight on my storage, and it is a keeper.

[buksida]

Watched Ironclad the other day, as recommended by SM a couple of pages back - great movie, definitely a keeper.

[sandman67]

Glad you liked it Buksi. James Purefoy is one of those actors I use as an indicator....usually if hes in it then its good. He even played a very convincing and fiendish Blackbeard in a BBC drama.

Talking of drama mini series I recommend history buffs check out THE DEVILS WHORE

This four part bosomy pot boiler is set during the chaos and mudsplattered hell that was the English Civil Wars in the mid 1600s, and takes a rather fresh approach on two levels. The main character is a landed lady and the series tells the war from her perspective as her life, and those around her, are torn apart by the conflict. The series also focusses heavily on the Leveller movement and how what starts as an idealistic faction within the Parliamentary forces morphs into a powerful grass roots movement that become, under Cromwells rule, enemies of the state and undesired radicals. This is a breath of fresh air Civil War drama wise as the Levelllers are a bit of history that dont really get much coverage, which is a big omission given the role they played.

Its peppered with stock British name actors off the top shelf, and the whole shebang is done brilliantly...theres plots, stabbings, battles and politics through and through. Its one of those big money Channel 4 productions and the quality does show. Some of the story is a wee bit unrealistic, with its radical free love and womens rights agenda, but then again equality of the sexes beneath the law was a Leveller manifesto point, so maybe its not all that madly out of place. Its very much like TO KILL A KING, one of my favorite Brit neo-historical drama films....which funnily enough was also a Film 4 production.

Top stuff and well worth the 4 hours ... a solid keeper on my hard drive.

I got my copies from VeeHD although I bet if you look about there will be copies elsewhere. Look for the 4 part version rather than the 2 part copy as the 2 parter is a Russian dubbed version. At VeeHD its at

http://veehd.com/video/4527149_The-Devi ... art-4-of-4
http://veehd.com/video/4527094_The-Devi ... art-3-of-4
http://veehd.com/video/4527046_The-Devi ... art-2-of-4
http://veehd.com/video/4528029_The-Devi ... art-1-of-4

[buksida]

Whats going on with the file sizes?

A DVD to AVI rip always used to be about 750-800Mb. Now they're all around the 1.4Gb which is pretty much double. I'm gonna need another hard disk at this rate!

Another observation is that the Veehd search function is utterly useless!

[richard]

SM is the answer you Buksi but maybe it's to so with sub titles and sound tracks all the other add bumf I now seem to get

[sandman67]

Buksi

its all the prawns who want hi rez copies and insist on these massive files....some of them get up to 4 or 5 gigs. Utterly pointless IMHO. Its also that the Blu Ray releases come out earlier than the normal DVDs (to encourage Blu Ray sales). Its a feckng pain in the arse, and a reason I now prefer (smaller but equally good quality) MKV fles. My laptop has a bog standard 72dpi screen so h rez is a waste of time and space.

yep the search functon on VeeHD is a pain...there are a stack of complaints about it and the admins say they are looking at it....it would help if the admins enforced name and tag protocols properly. I find the stuff im actually looking for is usually down the bottom end of the results list.

when I get my keyboard sorted out (termites and the letter I) I will post a tutoral on the subtitle files and where to fnd em/how to play em.

[richard]

I don't usually add to this topic but I have found Sandmans reviews useful letting me know of movies I had not heard of and I thought I would share an old (2007) but goody I have just watched.

" Across the Universe" is a weird love story musical woven around the Beatles songs. Never mind the story the soundtrack is great.

I enjoyed it too

[JimmyGreaves]

A friend saw this said it was on par with "A Fish Called Wanda"

Anyone seen it yet?

The Guard

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1540133/

Yes saw it last night.

Very funny set in the west coast of Ireland. Brendan Gleeson, class!

Any chance of getting the link please

Hi Barry, Saw it in a cinema in the UK . Was looking for a DVD rip for about 3 weeks before but failed to find one. Cost me £750 return on Emirates and £6.50 entrance fee, well worth it

Ah forgot the popcorn, another £1.75

[sandman67]

Early Warning System is going woop woop woop

DVDRIP versions of ATTACK THE BLOCK are out and about - I recc you visit oneclickmoviez.com for a copy - the one I dropped is lovely and crspy clean.

Its a proper good monster movie with a distnct Brit black comedy twst, which isnt surprising as its made by the SEAN OF THE DEAD crew. Imagine a gritty street crime drama meets THE GOONIES and ALIEN.....top stuff. American audiences have mentioned the London streets argot and accents can be a bit of a pain to understand, but I didnt have any issues, and you could always download subs.

A bunch of orrible scrotey hoodies are doing ther hoody thing...muggings, robbin rims, respekin each other etc etc in their orrible London tower block home when what appears to be a meteor hits a car in the carpark. Trouble is it isnt a meteor, and its alien passenger has come to visit for lunch. The polce also arent coming to save the day, as the just thnk the gang are havng a wind up. When more and more begin to fall, the gang of kids and their dope dealer mate decide these aliens aint taking over their block, and so defend their home with anythng they can get ther hands on. Corridor chases and flat to flat battles commence.

Done brilliantly with slap dashes of black humor and excellent aliens (big hairy black blobs wth blue glowing teeth) and laughs, thrills n spills thrown about lke Jackson Pollocks paint to a banging soundtrack of block rocking beats.......ave some!!!!!

Definite three cheers keeper

[sandman67]

Kevin Smith, the man behind "Zack & Miri" n "Jay & Silent Bob", is back to his indie roots with a slice of acton thriller horror all about the crazy Christian gun nut cults, Waco/Ruby Ridge & the ATF, and bored American teen culture with RED STATE - and when the usual off kilter Smith humor is thrown in its like Parisian coffee......very very black and delivered with a cynical sneer.

Three overly horny teen lads get sucked in by a "foxy fishing" scam pulled by the pastor of an extremist Christian cult and his mad glassy eyed followers, who have been having a fun ole time of it murdering the local gay population then picketing their funerals. As they attempt to break free of their imprisonment and impending demise the ATF come knocking on the front door, led by John Goodman's tired and cynical ATF chief character. Soon all Hell breaks loose as the millenial madass cult turn the compound into another Waco.....let the lead fly, praise the lord and pass the ammunition.

Its top entertanment, with some great acting from the two leads, tight plottng, and filmed semi-documentary style to great effect. Social and political satire with a sneer, it is also pretty believable gven what is going on over in the US at the mo with the rise of loony cults and gun culture.... I loved it.

Out in DVDRIP formats at all the usual download sites and torrents.

[sandman67]

A chiller from the vaults that I came across after reading an article about Orson Wells' infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast and its legacy (you can download that from many online sources nowadays...well worth it). Anyways.....back in 1992 the BBC got themselves in a sh*t tsunami of publc backlash for a little number they broadcast one frosty Halloween night.... GHOSTWATCH...the drama mockumentary (before they were common) that inspired heart attacks, suicides, publc hysteria and bedrooms full of screaming kids for weeks and weeks from Lands End to Jon O Groats.

Michael Parkinson...yes THAT Parky.....leads a cast of other daytime chat and light entertanment names on a little excursion to a haunted house in suburban London where two little girls and their mum are suffering at the hands of a violent poltergeist haunting by an entity the girls call "Pipes". It starts as a light hearted Halloween romp with cynical old Parky playing the cynical card and the crew all breathless, but soon the shivers start and you are graduall drawn in as the story of the house is told....and then all hell breaks loose.

For its time it was truly groundbreaking, and unlike many a later attempt at the same is actually genuinely creepy and disturbing. Its excellent pacing and build up, when combined with the use of "Crimewatch" style documentary filming and crews works perfectly and its still as effective today. At the time nobody realised it was a play, so you can see why it caused such chaos when it was broadcast. I remember watching it when it was broadcast and being shocked by it.....its only in the last couple of minutes you get (from the deliberately over the top ending) that its all a staged drama....a lot of watchers didnt though. Even after all this time it still delvers chills.

Lets put it this way....it was one of the few programmes the BBC ever slapped an embargo on and has only ever, as a result, been shown that once and only recently become available on DVD and online. Have a read about it on wikipedia....its a landmark in TV apparently.

If you fancy a bit of a shiver and nervous glance over your shoulder at that sound out in the garden check it out at VeeHD.com and stagevu.com. I strongly recommend it .... and keep your eye out for Pipes as he pops his grisly visage up in the background or window reflections from time to time.

[sandman67]

I love Ray Liotta...I even loved the old Heineken ads he used to do...I even forgave him for the crappy Revolver mess. So, its nice to see hes having a bit of a comeback, and is in a few recent releases.

THE RIVER MURDERS is one of those, and Ray plays Jack, a police detective who has put his old womanising past behind him and settled down, only to have that past dragged back up when a number of his ex one nighters turn up dead one by one. Though the murders are obviously the work of a religiously deranged serial killer, Jack is stilll the prime suspect, and even after being cleared the only clue the FBI have. Christian Slater is good in support as the arsey FBI dick, and Ving Rhames is his usual chocolate voiced brick wall self as Jacks boss.

Its a good watch, and even though the film lets you see the killer early on, its his reason for killing that keeps the watcher guessing....that and will he or wont he get to the two women closest to Jack - his wife and his partner.

No massive shakes, but definitely well worth dropping and seeing, and out in DVDRIP formats at the usual places. Two cheers....

[sandman67]

THE SETUP

Its not often I dont like a crime caper, because I read the IMDB comments usually, or read about them in the film press and dont drop the duffers. Here I was sucked in by hype and names, and man that sucks.

What I do know is rappers and crime films usually spell disaster....and this crock is firmly in that category 9 sh*t tornado box

50 Cent is no 2Pac in GRIDLOK'D here, and despite having a cast of supporting A listers like Bruce Willis this two dimensional cardboard cutout cliche on wheels sucks from the start to the end, is choppy, lacks any pace and heart, and just doesnt keep the eye on the ball. Dont be fooled by the hype or big names on the cover....its got more turkey than Bernard Matthews and its a lot less tasty.

Three buddies pull a diamond hiest, one kippers the other two up, shoots one and misses Mr 50, Mr 50 sets out for revenge. Throw in superfluous Willis as a mafia boss, and some pasty Russian mobsters. Thats it.

Avoid