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The Phantom of the Open was great fun - it's about Maurice Flitcroft, who blagged his way into the British Open despite never having played golf before.

Fun fact: Flitcroft came from the same town as @Nymzee
 
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This was significantly better than I thought it would be :

The Stronghold.

Set in the slums of Marseille, three very unorthodox plain clothes policemen, go full on, against a gang of drug dealers, set up in an old tower block.

It’s like the Shield meets Fauda, with some lovely filming of old Marseille.

The acting is all round good, it’s believable, it’s non stop and with a plot twist in the last twenty minutes, that you really don’t see coming

Netflix ( French subs )

@jaycee
I liked this - kind of reminded me of Les miserables (not the musical), which you might want to take a look at if you haven't already. I think it's on Netflix.
 

Watched a documentary ‘Horror Noire: A history of Black horror’ (on shudder).

Really interesting look at black representation in horror movies, framed by looking from Dawn of the Dead to Get Out. Interesting stuff if you’re a fan of the genre.
 
Documentary movie:
Gimme Shelter (1970) -
No narration, just a series of concert performances from the Rolling Stones at the peak of their powers, tearing across the US on a gloriously ramshackle tour. Loads of shots of hippie crowds of US "Kids", being driven into a frenzy by Mick n' Keef and Charlie and Bill (and Mick Taylor, brilliantly gifted blues man who was behind many of their best songs during their zenith).
Bizarre fashion and hair, ram-packed arenas, rock-blues nirvana, man.
In the aftermath of the death or Brian Jones and the slow, sad yet inevitable implosion of the Beatles, and Manson and his crazy California cats carving up Hollywood. 'Nam was raging, there were no cops 'cause they were all over fightin' the Commies in South-East Asia, babe.
But Woodstock was beautiful, it was all love, anything was possible. So the Stones management put on a free concert in San Francisco, it was gonna be cool, everything was together. We're gonna be bigger and better than Woodstock, this is the west coast equivalent.
What went down at Altamont Speedway on December 6th 1969 was a grim coda to the decade of optimism that prececed it, and a chilling precursor to the cynical decade that followed. The film presents it in a stark yet dreamlike manner. The gradual disintegration of the feel-good vibe of the final concert into chaos and fear is astonishing. Keef in his autobiography said something to the effect of: "The violence at the front of the stage was just incredible, man".
4 births and four deaths, one of them captured on film. A horrifying murder amongst a terrified crowd with a blade in gruesome slow-motion. A nightmarish bad trip of a crowd of 300,000 people being terrorised by a gang of coke & booze fuelled Hells Angels, who were clearly up for fighting in 'Nam themselves.
It's the closest vision to hell you'll ever see.
"The music that thrilled the world...And the killing that shocked it!"
Far Out, man.
 

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Cross of Iron (1977)

Right. This is the best war movie ever made, in my opinion.

The battle scenes are incredible, the editing and use of bloody squib effects is incredible. Really hammers home the horror of the Eastern front of WW2, post Stalingrad.

If you haven't seen it, your life is incomplete. Finally got my copy of it back off a lad in work after 2 years. He thought it was incredible.

I WILL SHOW YOU.... WHERE THE IRON CROSSES GROW!!!
 

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Cross of Iron (1977)

Right. This is the best war movie ever made, in my opinion.

The battle scenes are incredible, the editing and use of bloody squib effects is incredible. Really hammers home the horror of the Eastern front of WW2, post Stalingrad.

If you haven't seen it, your life is incomplete. Finally got my copy of it back off a lad in work after 2 years. He thought it was incredible.

I WILL SHOW YOU.... WHERE THE IRON CROSSES GROW!!!

Like the sound of this, any idea where I can watch it ?
 
Watched a few over the past couple of days

Spiral: From the Book Of Saw - Absolute piffle, with a central performance from Chris Rock that rivals Nicholas Cage in The Wicker Man

Stillwater - Excellent, slow burn drama with Matt Damon - (Loosely) based on the Amanda Knox case

The Transfiguration - Gritty and bleak modern retelling of classic vampire tropes

Never Rarely Sometimes Always - Sometimes difficult to watch but always gripping abortion drama - Fantastic performances from the 2 young leads

Coming Home in the Dark - Another bleak-fest, elements of Eden Lake and Funny Games in this Antipodean thriller
 
Cross of Iron (1977)

Right. This is the best war movie ever made, in my opinion.

The battle scenes are incredible, the editing and use of bloody squib effects is incredible. Really hammers home the horror of the Eastern front of WW2, post Stalingrad.

If you haven't seen it, your life is incomplete. Finally got my copy of it back off a lad in work after 2 years. He thought it was incredible.

I WILL SHOW YOU.... WHERE THE IRON CROSSES GROW!!!
Fantastic film
 

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