"The Man Who Disappeared", a Sherlock Holmes story based on Conan Doyle's "The Man With The Twisted Lip". I'm very forgiving of old films/TV when it comes to SFX etc, but this 1951 production doesn't even approach the classic Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of ten years or more earlier technically, and is well behind the roughly contemporary Arthur Howard/Marion Crawford series. Poor direction, terrible casting, etc.
Edit: Oh, I get it it's so it had KKK in the middle of it. -{
Anyway, great rousing finale but in between it was a bit ho hum. One of those odd films that is based on a true story but strangely unconvincing a lot of the time.
It looked a bit too polished to be a film depicting its time. If it had looked scrappier you might have gone along with the idea that a cop would be dumb enough to use his own name to infiltrate a gang and then get the Klan ID card sent to his home address - I thought there would be a follow up to that.
Still didn't really buy the idea of a black cop in the force back then, aside from one snipey guy in the office it's all cool, you never see any other racial problems, or racist reactions to him from the public.
The KKK come out of it quite badly, I thought that was rather unfair... okay okay I'm kidding, but it might have been better to have a couple of them a bit smarter and charismatic (aside from poster boy David Duke) to generate tension. Weird to see that Duke is still doing his thing and the final scenes have the visceral power the rest of the film doesn't quite have.
John David Washington and Adam Driver put in real star performances, good stuff.
This movie is the story of the very unconventional life of Marston, the creator of the Wonder Woman character. He was a psycology professor with his very own theory. He (Luke Evans) had to resign because of his polyamorous relationship with his wife (Rebecca Hall) and a younger woman (Bella Heathcote). They lived together and he had children with both. The women lived together for 38 years after his death. It's also worth mentioning that he and his wife invented an early version of the lie detector. He invented Wonder Woman to spread his ideas about feminism. The comic was also full of bondage, something that often popped up in the comic too. I think the movie is worth watching for the unusual relationship and the three people in it, like me you don't have to be a Wonder Woman fan to like this movie.
There is a gaffe: Marsdon says he served in the OSS in WWI, but this espionage agancy was formed when the US entered WWII.
I've felt great with these probiotics and seen A Simple Favor the other day. I was dragged to the theatre to see this by my girlfriend. I have to say, I enjoyed it a lot more then I expected. It's a fun movie.
This movie is the story of the very unconventional life of Marston, the creator of the Wonder Woman character. He was a psycology professor with his very own theory. He (Luke Evans) had to resign because of his polyamorous relationship with his wife (Rebecca Hall) and a younger woman (Bella Heathcote). They lived together and he had children with both. The women lived together for 38 years after his death. It's also worth mentioning that he and his wife invented an early version of the lie detector. He invented Wonder Woman to spread his ideas about feminism. The comic was also full of bondage, something that often popped up in the comic too....
I want to see that doc.
Those early Wonder Woman comics from the 1940s are awesomely weird stuff, its amazing they got published and I think they are a bit awkward for DC today, because whatever Marston's idea of feminism was, it's different from how the word is understood today and what a major corporation like Warner Brothers would want being sold as a children's comic.
Women were always getting tied up, and the Amazons were always giving these verbose lectures on the virtue of "loving submission". The artist Marston used, H.G. Peter, had this pseudo-art nouveau aesthetic totally out of step with the action packed style becoming standard in superhero comics.
In the earliest days of the superhero comics, there was a backlash from concerned parents against all the violent macho and arguably fascist imagery being sold to children, so DC hired a panel of respectable academics to advise them and appease parents. William Moulton Marston, a psychologist, was one of them, and his advice was to include more female characters and feminine values amongst all the manly men hitting each other. So they asked him to create such a comic himself. Which then consisted of an island full of scantily clad women tying each other up for fun and games, losing their strength when tied up by men, and female villains begging to be brought to Paradise Island in chains where they too could learn the virtues of "loving submission".
Number24, I know you always appreciate a post with lots of pictures, and despite your usual distaste for comic book imagery, I can see Golden Age Wonder Woman is of particular interest to you, so, here are some random examples I found from a Google image search:
some of those knots used were very elaborate and precisely displayed, just in case the kiddies wanted to play along at home!
also there was spanking content:
I've read lots of Golden Age Wonder Woman, and I'm still not clear how any of this promotes feminine values, but the bondage and spanking imagery is always front and centre.
after Marston died in 1948, Wonder Woman became a much more mediocre comic, only published because the original contract stated the copyright should return to Marston's estate should DC cease publication, and they always wanted to sell lunchboxes and t-shirts with the characters image even if the comic itself wasn't making much money.
Been struck down with a bit of 'man flu' this weekend so, being a little housebound I thought I'd look up some old favourites
Last night was 'Trading Places' - still, for me, Murphy and Ackroyd's finest hour and that's not even touching on the universally superb supporting cast.
Genuinely laugh out loud funny even after 35 years and numerous viewings.
This movie is the story of the very unconventional life of Marston, the creator of the Wonder Woman character. He was a psycology professor with his very own theory. He (Luke Evans) had to resign because of his polyamorous relationship with his wife (Rebecca Hall) and a younger woman (Bella Heathcote). They lived together and he had children with both. The women lived together for 38 years after his death. It's also worth mentioning that he and his wife invented an early version of the lie detector. He invented Wonder Woman to spread his ideas about feminism. The comic was also full of bondage, something that often popped up in the comic too....
I want to see that doc.
Those early Wonder Woman comics from the 1940s are awesomely weird stuff, its amazing they got published and I think they are a bit awkward for DC today, because whatever Marston's idea of feminism was, it's different from how the word is understood today and what a major corporation like Warner Brothers would want being sold as a children's comic.
Women were always getting tied up, and the Amazons were always giving these verbose lectures on the virtue of "loving submission". The artist Marston used, H.G. Peter, had this pseudo-art nouveau aesthetic totally out of step with the action packed style becoming standard in superhero comics.
In the earliest days of the superhero comics, there was a backlash from concerned parents against all the violent macho and arguably fascist imagery being sold to children, so DC hired a panel of respectable academics to advise them and appease parents. William Moulton Marston, a psychologist, was one of them, and his advice was to include more female characters and feminine values amongst all the manly men hitting each other. So they asked him to create such a comic himself. Which then consisted of an island full of scantily clad women tying each other up for fun and games, losing their strength when tied up by men, and female villains begging to be brought to Paradise Island in chains where they too could learn the virtues of "loving submission".
Number24, I know you always appreciate a post with lots of pictures, and despite your usual distaste for comic book imagery, I can see Golden Age Wonder Woman is of particular interest to you, so, here are some random examples I found from a Google image search:
some of those knots used were very elaborate and precisely displayed, just in case the kiddies wanted to play along at home!
also there was spanking content:
I've read lots of Golden Age Wonder Woman, and I'm still not clear how any of this promotes feminine values, but the bondage and spanking imagery is always front and centre.
after Marston died in 1948, Wonder Woman became a much more mediocre comic, only published because the original contract stated the copyright should return to Marston's estate should DC cease publication, and they always wanted to sell lunchboxes and t-shirts with the characters image even if the comic itself wasn't making much money.
Thanks for the post, but "Professor Marston and the wonder women" is a feature movie and not a documentary. It looks like you will enjoy it. I did, and I'm notneven interested in superhero comics. I do enjoy comics and I don't feel any distaste for it.
From a house on willow street :
An odd horror film, built around the premise .... What if
You kidnapped someone, only to find they are possessed
By an evil spirit !
Sadly not as much fun as it should have been.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
I'm glad somebody is asking the important questions.
that page is from Wonder Woman 6, Fall 1943, and is the first appearance of Wonder Woman's arch enemy the Cheetah. The woman who adds Wonder Woman's magic lasso to the knots is Priscilla Rich, who will become the Cheetah in a few more pages. I believe this character is to be the villain in the second film, played by Kristen Wiig, so if you want to do your homework, this is a good issue to track down, I know its reprinted in Wonder Woman Archives volume 3.
Somebody wrote an entire Blog page about this issue, with many examples of the artwork, including the very next page in this exciting sequence.
if you cant see the above image I've tried to link to, she literally chews through the leather mask, then is able to reach the lasso with her teeth, following some gymnastic contortions. The following page actually shows her kicking free of the lasso and making her triumphant escape, but I cant find that page anywhere on line that I can link to, so you will just have to use your imagination.
or...
shh, don't tell anybody but you can accidentally download a research copy of Wonder Woman 6 here:>*.
A *.cbz extension is just a zip file, so you should be able to open it with WinZip or other similar tools.
It's almost unbelievable that this is Greta Gerwig's first directed movie, and to top it all off she also wrote it. The story is about a teenage ( Saoirse Ronan) and many of the challenges of that age, particularely her relationship to her mother. The movie shows Lady Bird as a complex and interesting person, and not the usual movie teen girl (sex object, mobile phone-obsessed, rude and shallow etc)
The story isn't very dramatic, it's mostly about …. life. But it's told so well here that it's very much worth watching.
In this 50s film, Dirk Bogarde seizes the chance to brush off his matinee idol image to play a nasty gold-digger with a taste for marrying and murdering old(er) ladies.
Margaret Lockwood is unrecognsiable from her days in The Lady Vanishes and The Wicked Lady - I suppose the latter film not dissimilar to what we see here, someone on the make. Though Lockwood is now older, many a bloke would have settled for a bunk up with her anyhow.
The film is in the same area as Brighton Rock, and seems to be set there too, but it is preposterous, knowing black humour and you wonder that the cast can keep a straight face.
If you catch this on Talking Pictures TV in the UK, it's worth a look as they've redone the print so it looks pristine.
I've just watched 22 July, it's a dramatisation on the tragic events in Oslo and Utoya Island when Anders Brievik commited his terrible murders.
It's on Netflix now and is very well done. Some fine performances and although it can't give every story it follows the plight of one family and Brievik himself, really quite compelling.
I haven't seen that movie yet. There is also a Norwegian movie titled "Utøya 22. juli" that follow the kids on the island in one take and our Public Broadcaster is making a miniseries. In think it's important these stories are being shown, but I haven't seen any of them yet.
I haven't seen that movie yet. There is also a Norwegian movie titled "Utøya 22. juli" that follow the kids on the island in one take and our Public Broadcaster is making a miniseries. In think it's important these stories are being shown, but I haven't seen any of them yet.
It's definitely worth a watch, purely for the young actor who plays Viljar Hannsen if nothing else, I noted that the actor who plays Brievik bares little resemblance, done on purpose I think.
This is pretty excellent across the board. Great acting from everyone, including the supporting roles, and very solid direction from Bradley Cooper. The songs are all strong and they're performed with appropriate skill and finesse. This thing is gonna clean house at the Academy Awards next year, with Lady Gaga a lock for Best Actress and Sam Elliot a lock for Best Supporting Actor.
Recommended.
I'll second this recommendation. I was warned that the film was too long and predictable, but it went quickly for me. The major performances are outstanding. Bradley Cooper is very credible as a boozy rock star, and does his own singing as well. I haven't seen Sam Elliott do work this compelling in years -- he's fantastic. And Lady Gaga is, well, a rare talent indeed, whatever one may think of her art.
There was one plot element that bothered me (below), but otherwise this was a very good film.
The one-on-one talk between Ally's manager and Jack near the end seemed like cheating on the part of the storytellers. First, it was a heavy-handed way to completely "villain-ize" the manager, who had already been established as something of a villain beforehand. Second, and more importantly, the conversation seemed to awaken Jack to ideas that he surely would have aware of already. It's as if the filmmakers needed a justification for Jack's final act, but they couldn't quite figure out how to build it up through the story, so they inserted a quick fix. It didn't ring true.
I've been a bit of an Apollo nerd almost as long as I've been a Bond nerd. I really enjoyed the film, very good performances and great attention to detail. I loved the soundtrack as well. If I could change anything it would just be to make the film longer and allow more time to show more of the Apollo 11 mission.
Well it's never going to win any awards or please the critics but I enjoyed it - the submarine sequences were well done but the SEAL team bits grated a little.
It's like the Manchurian Candidate, but with John Candy in the Sinatra role!
written an directed by David Steinberg, who had collaborated with most of the SCTV people on his own teevee show before there was an SCTV.
Also stars Joe Flaherty, who plays it pretty lowkey, and Eugene Levy, in full sleazoid mode, much like his tabloid publisher character from SCTV.
…but funniest supporting actor is actually Ernie Hudson, who would one year later gain fame as the fourth Ghostbuster. Candy is arrested and handcuffed to Hudson, who makes a break for it, and literally drags Candy to his old lady's pad to fight and then get it on, all before thinking to remove the handcuffs. A very elaborate bit of physical comedy with Candy's style juxtaposed with the typical blaxploitation scene.
(look: someone has uploaded this whole scene!)
Also Flaherty at one point imitates Candy's signature style: "say has anybody seen my friend? kinda big, and gosh he's goodnatured and likable, with a laugh like this: (insert unflattering Flaherty style mockery of Candy's laugh)"
As Levy's character is a filmmaker, there a couple of self-contained film-within-film inserts that could be SCTV outtakes. Within one, Candy reprises his Leave It to Beaver parody!
checking the dates, I see this was made at the same time their buddies Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis made Strange Brew, yet this one I never heard of. Its actually much funnier than the other hosers' movie.
Some movies are called "unique", but very few are. "Loving Vincent" is about the son of a postman who tries to deliver the last letter the painter Vincent van Gogh wrote before his death. This mission gives him insight into the life and death of van Gogh. This is the first and only oil painted movie ever made. Actors such as Douglas Booth, Aidan Turner and Saoirse Ronan played the roles in a green screen studio. Then each of the film's 65,000 frames is an oil painting on canvas, using the same technique as Van Gogh, created by a team of 100 painters. This makes the movie a feast for the eyes. Many of the scenes are based on van Gogh's paintings. This movie is truely unique because every single frame was hand-painted in the style of Vincent van Gogh, but also because it gives a touching insigth into his life. Please take the time to watch the trailer in the link below:
That's an interesting review. I suppose it could have mentioned that Geldof couldn't persuade Queen to do Live Aid cos Freddie Mercury couldn't give a damn about the cause, so he instead sold it to them on the basis that this was going to be the biggest rock show on earth so how could Queen, and the great showman not be involved? Then, as if to sum up what rock n roll is about, Queen is the band that steals the show. And gets a new hit song out of it, One Vision, of which none of the profits went to charity.
Queen is one of those odd bands, like Abba, in that the journos really didn't like them and they didn't make great copy, but audiences did. Backstage footage seems to show them to be a bit boring, if you've been spoilt by the likes of the Beatles, Stones and the Who's personalities, but then again, if you're looking to do a musical based on the songs, then it seems you're better off with Abba and Queen. With the other bands, you miss seeing the band members perform the songs. Which might make an argument that Abba and Queen are better in some ways musically.
I guess they had to decide whether to go with the debauched side of Freddie's life or not because once you factor that in, it becomes all about that I guess.
Emma Thompson looks fit in this. It adds piquancy to the way her marriage to Stanley Tucci is not working out, and the lack of sex therein.
She plays a judge who arbitrates in family law. One key case is that of Jehovah's Witnesses whose son is not legally old enough to decide whether he should have a blood transfusion, so should the State intervene to enforce it?
This is an interesting film and it grips. It is hard to say quite what it is about however. It's not a courtroom drama. It's not a film about a marriage in crisis either. At some points you're thinking, well, where is this going? That's actually quite a pleasant sensation in a cinema where everything has the air of 'one we made earlier, only this time with CGI'.
Like many such films, it's timeless. You don't get fashions in courts of law, and I suppose the posh rarefied world of upper class England doesn't date much either, it's always the land of Mary Poppins.
Talking of which I don't much care for the Mary Poppins Returns trailer. It makes me uneasy in all the wrong ways. Should have had Emma Thompson take the lead, though of course she's done Nanny McFee.
Fionn Whitehead is the young lad in the movie (Children's Act, not Mary Poppins), oh, he's the lead character in Dunkirk. That's where I saw him. He's very good in it too.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-914d27szA
"The Man Who Disappeared", a Sherlock Holmes story based on Conan Doyle's "The Man With The Twisted Lip". I'm very forgiving of old films/TV when it comes to SFX etc, but this 1951 production doesn't even approach the classic Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of ten years or more earlier technically, and is well behind the roughly contemporary Arthur Howard/Marion Crawford series. Poor direction, terrible casting, etc.
James Woods is awesome in this movie.
James Bond- Licence To Kill
BlackkKlansman
One word for some reason, might that catch on?
Edit: Oh, I get it it's so it had KKK in the middle of it. -{
Anyway, great rousing finale but in between it was a bit ho hum. One of those odd films that is based on a true story but strangely unconvincing a lot of the time.
It looked a bit too polished to be a film depicting its time. If it had looked scrappier you might have gone along with the idea that a cop would be dumb enough to use his own name to infiltrate a gang and then get the Klan ID card sent to his home address - I thought there would be a follow up to that.
Still didn't really buy the idea of a black cop in the force back then, aside from one snipey guy in the office it's all cool, you never see any other racial problems, or racist reactions to him from the public.
The KKK come out of it quite badly, I thought that was rather unfair... okay okay I'm kidding, but it might have been better to have a couple of them a bit smarter and charismatic (aside from poster boy David Duke) to generate tension. Weird to see that Duke is still doing his thing and the final scenes have the visceral power the rest of the film doesn't quite have.
John David Washington and Adam Driver put in real star performances, good stuff.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
This movie is the story of the very unconventional life of Marston, the creator of the Wonder Woman character. He was a psycology professor with his very own theory. He (Luke Evans) had to resign because of his polyamorous relationship with his wife (Rebecca Hall) and a younger woman (Bella Heathcote). They lived together and he had children with both. The women lived together for 38 years after his death. It's also worth mentioning that he and his wife invented an early version of the lie detector. He invented Wonder Woman to spread his ideas about feminism. The comic was also full of bondage, something that often popped up in the comic too. I think the movie is worth watching for the unusual relationship and the three people in it, like me you don't have to be a Wonder Woman fan to like this movie.
There is a gaffe: Marsdon says he served in the OSS in WWI, but this espionage agancy was formed when the US entered WWII.
Those early Wonder Woman comics from the 1940s are awesomely weird stuff, its amazing they got published and I think they are a bit awkward for DC today, because whatever Marston's idea of feminism was, it's different from how the word is understood today and what a major corporation like Warner Brothers would want being sold as a children's comic.
Women were always getting tied up, and the Amazons were always giving these verbose lectures on the virtue of "loving submission". The artist Marston used, H.G. Peter, had this pseudo-art nouveau aesthetic totally out of step with the action packed style becoming standard in superhero comics.
In the earliest days of the superhero comics, there was a backlash from concerned parents against all the violent macho and arguably fascist imagery being sold to children, so DC hired a panel of respectable academics to advise them and appease parents. William Moulton Marston, a psychologist, was one of them, and his advice was to include more female characters and feminine values amongst all the manly men hitting each other. So they asked him to create such a comic himself. Which then consisted of an island full of scantily clad women tying each other up for fun and games, losing their strength when tied up by men, and female villains begging to be brought to Paradise Island in chains where they too could learn the virtues of "loving submission".
Number24, I know you always appreciate a post with lots of pictures, and despite your usual distaste for comic book imagery, I can see Golden Age Wonder Woman is of particular interest to you, so, here are some random examples I found from a Google image search:
some of those knots used were very elaborate and precisely displayed, just in case the kiddies wanted to play along at home!
also there was spanking content:
I've read lots of Golden Age Wonder Woman, and I'm still not clear how any of this promotes feminine values, but the bondage and spanking imagery is always front and centre.
after Marston died in 1948, Wonder Woman became a much more mediocre comic, only published because the original contract stated the copyright should return to Marston's estate should DC cease publication, and they always wanted to sell lunchboxes and t-shirts with the characters image even if the comic itself wasn't making much money.
More cheese than a French buffet.
Last night was 'Trading Places' - still, for me, Murphy and Ackroyd's finest hour and that's not even touching on the universally superb supporting cast.
Genuinely laugh out loud funny even after 35 years and numerous viewings.
Thanks for the post, but "Professor Marston and the wonder women" is a feature movie and not a documentary. It looks like you will enjoy it. I did, and I'm notneven interested in superhero comics. I do enjoy comics and I don't feel any distaste for it.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Venom, seems to be getting lots of bad reviews
An odd horror film, built around the premise .... What if
You kidnapped someone, only to find they are possessed
By an evil spirit !
Sadly not as much fun as it should have been.
that page is from Wonder Woman 6, Fall 1943, and is the first appearance of Wonder Woman's arch enemy the Cheetah. The woman who adds Wonder Woman's magic lasso to the knots is Priscilla Rich, who will become the Cheetah in a few more pages. I believe this character is to be the villain in the second film, played by Kristen Wiig, so if you want to do your homework, this is a good issue to track down, I know its reprinted in Wonder Woman Archives volume 3.
Somebody wrote an entire Blog page about this issue, with many examples of the artwork, including the very next page in this exciting sequence.
if you cant see the above image I've tried to link to, she literally chews through the leather mask, then is able to reach the lasso with her teeth, following some gymnastic contortions. The following page actually shows her kicking free of the lasso and making her triumphant escape, but I cant find that page anywhere on line that I can link to, so you will just have to use your imagination.
shh, don't tell anybody but you can accidentally download a research copy of Wonder Woman 6 here:>*.
A *.cbz extension is just a zip file, so you should be able to open it with WinZip or other similar tools.
It's almost unbelievable that this is Greta Gerwig's first directed movie, and to top it all off she also wrote it. The story is about a teenage ( Saoirse Ronan) and many of the challenges of that age, particularely her relationship to her mother. The movie shows Lady Bird as a complex and interesting person, and not the usual movie teen girl (sex object, mobile phone-obsessed, rude and shallow etc)
The story isn't very dramatic, it's mostly about …. life. But it's told so well here that it's very much worth watching.
In this 50s film, Dirk Bogarde seizes the chance to brush off his matinee idol image to play a nasty gold-digger with a taste for marrying and murdering old(er) ladies.
Margaret Lockwood is unrecognsiable from her days in The Lady Vanishes and The Wicked Lady - I suppose the latter film not dissimilar to what we see here, someone on the make. Though Lockwood is now older, many a bloke would have settled for a bunk up with her anyhow.
The film is in the same area as Brighton Rock, and seems to be set there too, but it is preposterous, knowing black humour and you wonder that the cast can keep a straight face.
If you catch this on Talking Pictures TV in the UK, it's worth a look as they've redone the print so it looks pristine.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
It's on Netflix now and is very well done. Some fine performances and although it can't give every story it follows the plight of one family and Brievik himself, really quite compelling.
There was one plot element that bothered me (below), but otherwise this was a very good film.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=the+catcher+was+a+spy+&&view=detail&mid=2701AA58E4BBEE8B60B02701AA58E4BBEE8B60B0&&FORM=VRDGAR
I've been a bit of an Apollo nerd almost as long as I've been a Bond nerd. I really enjoyed the film, very good performances and great attention to detail. I loved the soundtrack as well. If I could change anything it would just be to make the film longer and allow more time to show more of the Apollo 11 mission.
Well it's never going to win any awards or please the critics but I enjoyed it - the submarine sequences were well done but the SEAL team bits grated a little.
It's like the Manchurian Candidate, but with John Candy in the Sinatra role!
written an directed by David Steinberg, who had collaborated with most of the SCTV people on his own teevee show before there was an SCTV.
Also stars Joe Flaherty, who plays it pretty lowkey, and Eugene Levy, in full sleazoid mode, much like his tabloid publisher character from SCTV.
…but funniest supporting actor is actually Ernie Hudson, who would one year later gain fame as the fourth Ghostbuster. Candy is arrested and handcuffed to Hudson, who makes a break for it, and literally drags Candy to his old lady's pad to fight and then get it on, all before thinking to remove the handcuffs. A very elaborate bit of physical comedy with Candy's style juxtaposed with the typical blaxploitation scene.
(look: someone has uploaded this whole scene!)
Also Flaherty at one point imitates Candy's signature style: "say has anybody seen my friend? kinda big, and gosh he's goodnatured and likable, with a laugh like this: (insert unflattering Flaherty style mockery of Candy's laugh)"
As Levy's character is a filmmaker, there a couple of self-contained film-within-film inserts that could be SCTV outtakes. Within one, Candy reprises his Leave It to Beaver parody!
checking the dates, I see this was made at the same time their buddies Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis made Strange Brew, yet this one I never heard of. Its actually much funnier than the other hosers' movie.
Some movies are called "unique", but very few are. "Loving Vincent" is about the son of a postman who tries to deliver the last letter the painter Vincent van Gogh wrote before his death. This mission gives him insight into the life and death of van Gogh. This is the first and only oil painted movie ever made. Actors such as Douglas Booth, Aidan Turner and Saoirse Ronan played the roles in a green screen studio. Then each of the film's 65,000 frames is an oil painting on canvas, using the same technique as Van Gogh, created by a team of 100 painters. This makes the movie a feast for the eyes. Many of the scenes are based on van Gogh's paintings. This movie is truely unique because every single frame was hand-painted in the style of Vincent van Gogh, but also because it gives a touching insigth into his life. Please take the time to watch the trailer in the link below:
Trailer:
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=loving+vincent+trailer&&view=detail&mid=9C6FFED81071D118A34B9C6FFED81071D118A34B&&FORM=VRDGAR
Queen is one of those odd bands, like Abba, in that the journos really didn't like them and they didn't make great copy, but audiences did. Backstage footage seems to show them to be a bit boring, if you've been spoilt by the likes of the Beatles, Stones and the Who's personalities, but then again, if you're looking to do a musical based on the songs, then it seems you're better off with Abba and Queen. With the other bands, you miss seeing the band members perform the songs. Which might make an argument that Abba and Queen are better in some ways musically.
I guess they had to decide whether to go with the debauched side of Freddie's life or not because once you factor that in, it becomes all about that I guess.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Emma Thompson looks fit in this. It adds piquancy to the way her marriage to Stanley Tucci is not working out, and the lack of sex therein.
She plays a judge who arbitrates in family law. One key case is that of Jehovah's Witnesses whose son is not legally old enough to decide whether he should have a blood transfusion, so should the State intervene to enforce it?
This is an interesting film and it grips. It is hard to say quite what it is about however. It's not a courtroom drama. It's not a film about a marriage in crisis either. At some points you're thinking, well, where is this going? That's actually quite a pleasant sensation in a cinema where everything has the air of 'one we made earlier, only this time with CGI'.
Like many such films, it's timeless. You don't get fashions in courts of law, and I suppose the posh rarefied world of upper class England doesn't date much either, it's always the land of Mary Poppins.
Talking of which I don't much care for the Mary Poppins Returns trailer. It makes me uneasy in all the wrong ways. Should have had Emma Thompson take the lead, though of course she's done Nanny McFee.
Fionn Whitehead is the young lad in the movie (Children's Act, not Mary Poppins), oh, he's the lead character in Dunkirk. That's where I saw him. He's very good in it too.
Roger Moore 1927-2017