Oh right. I've never seen it, but according to Wiki, no that is called Crime Scene: Scene of the Crime

Rewatched Ronin there for the first time in years. The cars chases are so good. I remember them being good but I just thought they were pretty magnificent.

superflyninja wrote:

Rewatched Ronin there for the first time in years. The cars chases are so good. I remember them being good but I just thought they were pretty magnificent.

Unusual....car chases usually look less impressive when revisiting them. So it's worth celebrating when that happens occasionally.

Was that at the flicks or streamed?

davyK wrote:

superflyninja wrote:

Rewatched Ronin there for the first time in years. The cars chases are so good. I remember them being good but I just thought they were pretty magnificent.

Unusual....car chases usually look less impressive when revisiting them. So it's worth celebrating when that happens occasionally.

I think it's because it all looked practical in a mad Max esque way.

I've been watching more of the Leeds Film Festival Stuff...

Dune Drifter:  Very low budget SciFi flick that pulls off a lot with a little.  It opens strongly, introducing a small gang of space-fighter pilots on the way to battle, but sags badly once it gets to the real plot of the film - a pair of pilots crash land on an alien planet, an enemy alien having crashed nearby.  If that sounds familiar, it is, though it's not that 80s episode of Battlestar Galactica with Starbuck and the Cylon.  There's lots of scrabbling about in volcanic deserts, but if I'm honest, not an awful lot else.

Still, I've seen much much worse rendered with much more money. From a technical perspective it's impressive, but from a story telling, one less so.

Caveat:  A down on his luck insomniac is offered a chance to make a bit of cash by an old friend who asks him to babysit his emotionally disturbed niece.  What follows is a wonderfully creepy little flick featuring an antique Duracell bunny, a crossbow, and the titular caveat.  Unfortunately the pacing's not quite right - it slows substantially once it starts to fill in some of the blanks and never really recovers, dropping some of its strongest images and ideas in the process, and swapping them for things more familiar and mundane.

Still, it's brilliantly shot, the small cast works well, and for the first half at least I was nicely uncomfortable.

The Columnist: A Dutch comedy about a left leaning columnist who finds herself attacked by internet trolls and decides to take matters into her own hands.  It's a gleefully unsubtle bit of satire that remains phenomenally fun throughout but then doesn't quite stick the landing. Not that it matters really - its "have your cake and eat it" approach to both gratuitously catering to our worst impulses whilst simultaneously wagging its finger may not change anyone's minds about anything, but it was pretty entertaining none the less. 

Beauty Water:  South Korean animated horror movie. A woman finds herself in possession of the seemingly mythical "Beauty Water" a substance that allows you to become unspeakably beautiful after bathing in it.  Inevitably things go badly wrong.  To the film's credit, there were a couple of points where I was pretty sure I knew where it was going, only for it to go somewhere else entirely. 

However that also means that in places the story's a bit of a mess, and any wider points it might be trying to make about body image, or the way we treat each other based on appearance are largely either lost or undermined entirely.  Which would be fine if was actually scary, but instead it just ends up feeling a bit silly.  Visually it's one of those animations that looks pretty good in stills, but somehow doesn't flow properly, which again leaves it feeling too artificial to really care about what's happening.

I suspect that there are going to be a group of people who absolutely love it, and it certainly gets refreshingly weird in places, but ultimately it just made me shrug.

Dear lord. Just...no.

At this stage studios are going through their back catalogue and going “who’s childhood memories can we destroy today?”

I have no interest in that Tom and Jerry movie but let's face it, it could be much worse.

At least they haven't given them voices.

LivDiv wrote:

I have no interest in that Tom and Jerry movie but let's face it, it could be much worse.

At least they haven't given them voices.

They have

I feel like they've had voices before? Maybe in a post-2010 cartoon series reboot?

What? They’re editing in old footage around new film?! Hahaha.

MattyJ wrote:

I feel like they've had voices before? Maybe in a post-2010 cartoon series reboot?

They had voices in the first T&J cartoon movie, for sure.

They should’ve committed to showing all the live actors from the knee down.

Sum of All Fears  A ripping yarn with a fine cast. Degrades into farce a tad toward the end - expected with an adaption of this type of book I suppose - but it entertained me.