What are the best films you have seen this year? Why did you like them so much?

I caught that movie a while back, extremely well done. I think everyone should see it.

Last night we watch "The Visit", its a M. Knight Shyamalan film about 2 children who visit the grandparents they have never met before. Very creepy and definitely worth watching.

I really enjoyed All The Way, a biopic about LBJ starring Bryan Cranston. It's impossible to match the tone of the time, and I wasn't really expecting authenticity. I just wanted to see a few good actors perform some interesting roles, and low expectations win the day.

I liked it.

I don't know how it sounds but I like Horror movies and see a couple of like Poltergiest.

Home Alone ,it is the best movie , a child learn how to survive at home when nobody is there to help , and he manage it very well and tell others even a child can create hurdles for thief.

Well, this year I saw "The Choice", I liked it very much as it includes everything - drama, romantic, funny scenes. Also I watched many films with Tom Hanks - "The Bridge of Spies", "Saving Mr. Banks", "Apollo 13", "Philadelphia", "You've got Mail", "Sully". I can't even say which one is the best, Tom Hanks is my favourite actor now.

It would be Hidden Figures this year. I found it a truly excellent movie about math, computing, NASA, the cold war & space race, civil rights & women's rights. These girls were awesome.

Nocturnal Animals: visual beauty hates its observer so that reality has to self-destruct

Alien Covenant: observation is only peaceful if it's not physically moved

My Cousin Rachel: something becomes impossible once it happens

Big fan of Gary Oldman in The Darkest Hour, a very powerful movie for me but I guess I am biased. Also liked Red Sparrow, Ghost In A Shell, Annihalation. Love The Holliday for various reasons. Priest (with Lilly Collins, Phils daughter.) Not a star wars fan & getting tired of all these marvel movies. My favourite movies of all time are Midnight Express, The Deer Hunter, Shirley Valentine & The Holliday

I forgot to add Local Hero & Hitman to my likes!

I'm a little rusty, was Midnight Express the story of an American caught trying to smuggle weed out of Turkey. I may have my movies confused.

And I seem to have a reading problem. Milagro Bean Field War came out several decades ago.

Relax, there are several threads about movies (past and present). I think everybody should watch Milagro Bean Field War...maybe Sunset Boulevard (although it might not connect with much younger viewers), and I think, A Face in The Crowd and the Oxblood Incident are also must see.

Hi Roger, hope you are doing well. GB

I have a big want film. I don’t have any knowledge of the Brit politician portrayed by Hugh Grant, so I think I’ll enjoy the film if I do some research on Jeremy Thorpe first, but the reviews are stratospheric, and the idea of goofy romcom meister doing an impeccable, serious turn is very interesting.

If anyone’s seen it, I’d love to hear what you thought.

https://amp.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jun/02/hugh-grant-is-uncanny-liberals-glued-to-a-very-english-scandal-jeremy-thorpe?__twitter_impression=true

Hugh Grant is uncanny': Liberals glued to A Very English Scandal
Grant is remarkable as Jeremy Thorpe and the basic thrust is right, say people linked to the story. Shame about the cars ...

Martin Kettle
Martin Kettle
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Sat 2 Jun 2018 05.00 EDT

Watching Hugh Grant’s TV portrayal of Jeremy Thorpe, it is almost impossible to believe that such an extraordinarily reckless public figure could really have prospered in 20th-century British politics. But he did.

The insouciance, the exhibitionism, the darkness and the utter unreliability that Grant captures so brilliantly in A Very English Scandal may seem like a grotesque caricature of Thorpe. But it isn’t.

Forty years on, and especially in the social media age, it seems inconceivable that a major politician could have led a double life as a promiscuous gay man and a pillar of the parliamentary and social establishment, without his colleagues cottoning on. Especially when he tried to have his former lover murdered. But he did – and they didn’t.

Did you know at the time that Thorpe was gay, I asked his successor as Liberal leader, David Steel, this week. Steel’s response, speaking from his home in Scotland, was instant, vehement and almost astonished. “No. Absolutely not. It was a surprise when it all came out.”

It's not a film, it's a three parter. I remember the scandal when I was a kid, and the jokes it spawned, most of which are just plain homophobic, but this one wasn't to bad.

What do Captain Kirk and Jeremy Thorpe have in common?

They both say, 'Give me more thrust Scotty.'

It's in the news today.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44336859

Yes it was.

Letter from Masanjia is still the best I've seen so far this year.

Learned a lot, reflected a lot. Not an easy film but worthwhile.

I wish the director had explained the black/white art in the film. I was at the world premiere. Leon was there for a Q&A and learning more about the art really helped me understand even more.

Interstellar

Well, first of all, Altered Carbon is a movie that everybody should see in that year.

I enjoyed Christopher Robin, which I thought was the best live action Disney remake