Movies

Did the IMAX in central Manchester which is apparently one of only about 4 in the country which is the full IMAX. Really was quite the spectacle

You made me curious:

BFI IMAX, British Film Institute - London, UK
Vue Manchester IMAX & The Printworks – Manchester, UK
The Ronson Theatre at the Science Museum – London, UK

I recall watching the first 'new' Star Wars at the IMAX in London.

Bradford?

I beleive it was there when I went in year 5.

Any advance on 1993?

Father Stu, starring and I believe produced by increasingly earnest God botherer Mark Wahlberg is an excercise in schmaltzy God bothering that should have the sub text, "Straight to DVD", if there was such a thing. Avoid like the plague unless you are a God botherer and want some self affirming shite in your life.

Past Lives, on Netflix. Wonderful, sad, funny, uplifting, many triceratops.

Honestly lost interest when they started zooming each other for 20 minutes.

Chicago: Short attention span.

I lost interest when I read that it was a "touching modern romance story".

Fucksake, philistines. Yes, it’s slow/measured and a bit weird. No, there aren’t any special fx, monsters or superheroes. But this movie has SOUL. You should open up and let its strangeness in.

And for that reason, I'm out.

I had no interest in the first place. I think Mark Kermode only needs to worry about Charlie if he has his scythe in hand.

Watched Short Circuit with the two eldest (6&8) at the weekend. A classic, albeit with a lot more blackface and potty mouth than I remember from 30 years ago.

I remember trying Back To The Future a few years ago with Little Miss BW when she was about five. We had to abandon it early on because of the language. Clearly, a PG certificate in 1985 was very different to one now.

We tried again when she was eight or nine and she loved it. We ended up watching all three films a number of times - it was ace.

This was mostly 'shit' which gets a bit of a hammering in our house anyway so I ran with it, although I wasn't expecting quite as many. I like how Prime rate these movies, it had 3 dots out of five for drinking, smoking and drugs but 0 for positive role models. Stephanie runs a fucking animal shelter, Newton Crosby PHD is trying to save a robot that is alive and Jonny 5 only wants input and deplores dissemble of any kind.