What Film (Movie) Have You Just Watched?

[Coss]

Treasure

American journalist Ruth travels to Poland with her father Edek to visit his childhood places. But Edek, a Holocaust survivor, resists reliving his trauma and sabotages the trip, creating unintentionally funny situations.

Lena Dunham, Stephen Fry.

Stephen Fry said he found Irony in his playing this role, in that he is the son of a contentious objector.

A movie,  funny and moving in equal parts.

I was taken back when, they were visiting Auchwitz, at the size and scale of the place. The doccos and such that I've seen over the years do not portray the huge size.

[Coss]

LaRoy Texas

A little slow in the early stages, with cliché 'merican characters doin their darndest. As it develops, it gets better and better.

A crime comedy film written and directed by Shane Atkinson,

Shane should get a gong for this.

 

[Old Hippie]

Just watched Warrior on Netflix. It’s about Chinese Gangs in San Francisco during the 1800’s. Pretty good, lots of Kung-Fu and cultural nuances but sadly fucked up in part by the woke gang…has to have some gay character and trans characters…and misrepresents a few things to suit the new woke/rewrite history crowd. Worth a look, you can fast foreward through the gay shit… (that isn’t a gay euphemism) 

[Palatkik]

Young Woman and the Sea [2024 Movie]
The story of competitive swimmer Trudy Ederle, who, in 1926, was the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel. A Disney production that is fictionalized in parts with unnecessary twists for today's political correctness, comes with all the usual Disney brand of a feel good family melodrama that might put some off. Overall a satisfying family film.

 

[Palatkik]

Hard Miles [2023 Movie]
A prison social worker assembles a cycling team of teenage convicts and takes them on a transformative 760-mile ride. Inspired by the life of Greg Townsend and the Ridgeview Academy cycling team. A formulaic sports drama that uplifts without any surprises.

 

[Palatkik]

Welcome to Wrexham [2022 TV]
Docuseries chronicling the purchase and stewardship of Wrexham AFC, one of professional football's oldest clubs, by two Hollywood actors, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. Three series now complete with more to come, this is one of the better football documentaries to be made, full of passion and laughs with some self-deprecating humor from the new to the scene owners thrown in.

 

[Palatkik]

Franklin [2024 TV]
Explores the story of one of the greatest gambles of Franklin's career. At age 70, Franklin outmaneuvered British spies and French informers while engineering the Franco-American alliance of 1778. An eight part TV series comes across as more of a dull history lesson, well acted, fantastic costumes and scenery but a slow and padded for some.

 

[Palatkik]

Firebrand [2023 Movie]
Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and paranoid, Katherine finds herself fighting for her own survival. Wonderful period drama with a fine cast that has a slightly unusual ending for artistic effect that some may question, but overall splendid.

 

[Palatkik]

Kinds of Kindness [2024 Movie]
A man seeks to break free from his predetermined path, a cop questions his wife's demeanor after her return from a supposed drowning, and a woman searches for an extraordinary individual prophesied to become a renowned spiritual guide. Three bizarre linked chapters by the original director Yorgos Lanthimos are performed by a stellar cast, this is avant garde and extreme dark humor, fascinating to watch albeit long.

[Palatkik]

The Instigators [2024 Movie]
Follows two robbers who must go on the run with the help of one of their therapists after a theft doesn't go as planned. Unusually strong cast in mediocre crime comedy.