Astounding that more people would put Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels in their top ten than would put Rear Window.
You people.
My list is favourite films not already done, and I’m ashamed to admit I haven’t seen Rear Window; I will rectify the error this evening.
On that subject, has anyone mentioned Twelve Angry Men yet?
Oh my goodness, Twelve Angry Men is even better than Rear Window.
But seriously, Rear Window is magical. Everything is spot on. Hitchcock could make magnificent films in incredibly limited settings. See also Rope. I believe both are the same in the way that they're set almost entirely in a single room (or looking out from it).
That is one of the points of Twelve Angry Men too. It was originally a play, and it works very well on the stage still.
I will report back on Rear Window once I’ve seen it.
I hope you love it. If you don't grip your chair at least once the film has failed.
Thank you for that: yes, great film and masterly directed: lots of show don’t tell. Grace Kelly was superb as was James Stuart (if a bit old for the part.)
The Shadow Cabinet reshuffle was a clear further shift to isolate the Cobrynites and far left by Starmer with the appointment of the Blairite Lammy as Shadow Foreign Secretary and the Brownite Cooper as Shadow Home Secretary. That does suggest Starmer is making efforts to make Labour more centrist after its heavy defeat in 2019 under Corbyn.
However, it was also a clear promotion for Remainers. He replaced Nandy with a fervent People's Vote campaigner in Lammy and alongside Starmer and Reeves most of Labour's top team were diehard Remainers until the 2019 general election. Streeting, also a diehard Remainer, meanwhile came into the Shadow Cabinet as Education Secretary.
How that goes down in 63% Leave Bexley in the by election tomorrow remains to be seen
Unlike the last time this was brilliant from Starmer.
He's managed to get as much wisdom as he can around the table. The left has been hugely weakened, but they'll not point to why.
Starmer's pointless dig at Angela Rayner was an own goal. Labour needs people who can hammer the Tories and whether you like her or not, Rayner has been cutting through. And she is not even that left-wing.
Ah yes, I totally agree that his handling of Rayner is a bit odd. I suspect that there's something we don't know there.
Rayner is a capable politician.
She seems a loose cannon who is more comfortable preaching to the choir (against "Tory scum" etc) than winning converts.
As well as the fact he pretty clearly distrusts her, I don't think she and Starmer agree on fundamental approach. What he wants to do is detoxify ("not Corbyn's party"), convey competence ("ready to govern"), and separate Tory voters from Tory politicians in quite a targeted way (a "lions led by donkeys" message). Rayner is more of a tub-thumper - generate a wave of righteous rage in order to win.
Rayner is Starmer's John Prescott, a token sop to the left and working class and unions, having a grand position as Deputy Leader and Shadow First Secretary of State but little actual power. Prescott of course even in the New Labour years ended every Labour conference with a tub thumping speech ranting at the Tories to the party activists delight, much as Rayner will do
Different situation as Labour Deputy Leader is an elected position.
Blair genuinely liked Prescott - an unwavering loyalist with an instinctive understanding of Labour's core vote whom Blair was more than happy to keep close.
Starmer pretty clearly doesn't rate Rayner. She is literally unsackable, but he's perfectly clear he doesn't want her in the room where the decisions are made (it's not as bad as Corbyn/Watson where the mutual loathing was palpable, but they aren't mates).
But in a sense does it matter? Labour Deputy Leader has some level of status, but it varies in relevance over time. I mean, Raab is technically deputy PM, but it was only a way to give him a fig leaf when he was demoted. He's not a Willie Whitelaw or even a Nick Clegg - it's pretty much titular, to give the pompous arse some kind of sense of worth.
The Shadow Cabinet reshuffle was a clear further shift to isolate the Cobrynites and far left by Starmer with the appointment of the Blairite Lammy as Shadow Foreign Secretary and the Brownite Cooper as Shadow Home Secretary. That does suggest Starmer is making efforts to make Labour more centrist after its heavy defeat in 2019 under Corbyn.
However, it was also a clear promotion for Remainers. He replaced Nandy with a fervent People's Vote campaigner in Lammy and alongside Starmer and Reeves most of Labour's top team were diehard Remainers until the 2019 general election. Streeting, also a diehard Remainer, meanwhile came into the Shadow Cabinet as Education Secretary.
How that goes down in 63% Leave Bexley in the by election tomorrow remains to be seen
Unlike the last time this was brilliant from Starmer.
He's managed to get as much wisdom as he can around the table. The left has been hugely weakened, but they'll not point to why.
Starmer's pointless dig at Angela Rayner was an own goal. Labour needs people who can hammer the Tories and whether you like her or not, Rayner has been cutting through. And she is not even that left-wing.
Ah yes, I totally agree that his handling of Rayner is a bit odd. I suspect that there's something we don't know there.
Rayner is a capable politician.
She seems a loose cannon who is more comfortable preaching to the choir (against "Tory scum" etc) than winning converts.
As well as the fact he pretty clearly distrusts her, I don't think she and Starmer agree on fundamental approach. What he wants to do is detoxify ("not Corbyn's party"), convey competence ("ready to govern"), and separate Tory voters from Tory politicians in quite a targeted way (a "lions led by donkeys" message). Rayner is more of a tub-thumper - generate a wave of righteous rage in order to win.
Rayner is Starmer's John Prescott, a token sop to the left and working class and unions, having a grand position as Deputy Leader and Shadow First Secretary of State but little actual power. Prescott of course even in the New Labour years ended every Labour conference with a tub thumping speech ranting at the Tories to the party activists delight, much as Rayner will do
Different situation as Labour Deputy Leader is an elected position.
Blair genuinely liked Prescott - an unwavering loyalist with an instinctive understanding of Labour's core vote whom Blair was more than happy to keep close.
Starmer pretty clearly doesn't rate Rayner. She is literally unsackable, but he's perfectly clear he doesn't want her in the room where the decisions are made (it's not as bad as Corbyn/Watson where the mutual loathing was palpable, but they aren't mates).
But in a sense does it matter? Labour Deputy Leader has some level of status, but it varies in relevance over time. I mean, Raab is technically deputy PM, but it was only a way to give him a fig leaf when he was demoted. He's not a Willie Whitelaw or even a Nick Clegg - it's pretty much titular, to give the pompous arse some kind of sense of worth.
Having said earlier that Goodfellas is the best film and soundtrack ever, how about favourite scene ever? Travolta and Thurman dancing to You Never Can Tell in Pulp Fiction.
Stallone training by running though Philly in Rocky.
It was completely unstaged. They (I think Stallone and two others) drove around looking for places for him to run. They couldn't afford any extras, so the people in the market are just real people in a market, and the guy that throws him an orange just did that spontaneously.
When Stallone gets to the top of the steps and starts shadow boxing, they actually play the tape of him doing it in reverse.
And it's got the Rocky theme.
In fact, I think Rocky deserves special mention in any great movie discussion.
It was such an incredible achievement by Stallone. He sold his first ever screenplay when he hadn't even written it to the producers during a (failed) audition. I think he then wrote it in a weekend. He got his budget cut in half, from two to one million dollars, so he could star in it. The biggest expense in the budget was the make-up department and they ran out of money filming it.
And his movie won three Oscars and was nominated for another seven.
The Shadow Cabinet reshuffle was a clear further shift to isolate the Cobrynites and far left by Starmer with the appointment of the Blairite Lammy as Shadow Foreign Secretary and the Brownite Cooper as Shadow Home Secretary. That does suggest Starmer is making efforts to make Labour more centrist after its heavy defeat in 2019 under Corbyn.
However, it was also a clear promotion for Remainers. He replaced Nandy with a fervent People's Vote campaigner in Lammy and alongside Starmer and Reeves most of Labour's top team were diehard Remainers until the 2019 general election. Streeting, also a diehard Remainer, meanwhile came into the Shadow Cabinet as Education Secretary.
How that goes down in 63% Leave Bexley in the by election tomorrow remains to be seen
Unlike the last time this was brilliant from Starmer.
He's managed to get as much wisdom as he can around the table. The left has been hugely weakened, but they'll not point to why.
Starmer's pointless dig at Angela Rayner was an own goal. Labour needs people who can hammer the Tories and whether you like her or not, Rayner has been cutting through. And she is not even that left-wing.
Ah yes, I totally agree that his handling of Rayner is a bit odd. I suspect that there's something we don't know there.
Rayner is a capable politician.
She seems a loose cannon who is more comfortable preaching to the choir (against "Tory scum" etc) than winning converts.
As well as the fact he pretty clearly distrusts her, I don't think she and Starmer agree on fundamental approach. What he wants to do is detoxify ("not Corbyn's party"), convey competence ("ready to govern"), and separate Tory voters from Tory politicians in quite a targeted way (a "lions led by donkeys" message). Rayner is more of a tub-thumper - generate a wave of righteous rage in order to win.
Rayner is Starmer's John Prescott, a token sop to the left and working class and unions, having a grand position as Deputy Leader and Shadow First Secretary of State but little actual power. Prescott of course even in the New Labour years ended every Labour conference with a tub thumping speech ranting at the Tories to the party activists delight, much as Rayner will do
Different situation as Labour Deputy Leader is an elected position.
Blair genuinely liked Prescott - an unwavering loyalist with an instinctive understanding of Labour's core vote whom Blair was more than happy to keep close.
Starmer pretty clearly doesn't rate Rayner. She is literally unsackable, but he's perfectly clear he doesn't want her in the room where the decisions are made (it's not as bad as Corbyn/Watson where the mutual loathing was palpable, but they aren't mates).
But in a sense does it matter? Labour Deputy Leader has some level of status, but it varies in relevance over time. I mean, Raab is technically deputy PM, but it was only a way to give him a fig leaf when he was demoted. He's not a Willie Whitelaw or even a Nick Clegg - it's pretty much titular, to give the pompous arse some kind of sense of worth.
Just been to a shop for the first time since the great remasking. The local One Stop. (So a bit C2/D/E ish compared to Tesco/Sainsburys in the centre of town). Two employees, six customers. Not one mask. Heroes, all.
Andrew Lilico @andrew_lilico · 1h Everyone is going to get Covid many times through their lives. So you're telling me we'll get omicron next Spring via vaxx escape instead of delta next Spring-Summer via immunity waning?
The Shadow Cabinet reshuffle was a clear further shift to isolate the Cobrynites and far left by Starmer with the appointment of the Blairite Lammy as Shadow Foreign Secretary and the Brownite Cooper as Shadow Home Secretary. That does suggest Starmer is making efforts to make Labour more centrist after its heavy defeat in 2019 under Corbyn.
However, it was also a clear promotion for Remainers. He replaced Nandy with a fervent People's Vote campaigner in Lammy and alongside Starmer and Reeves most of Labour's top team were diehard Remainers until the 2019 general election. Streeting, also a diehard Remainer, meanwhile came into the Shadow Cabinet as Education Secretary.
How that goes down in 63% Leave Bexley in the by election tomorrow remains to be seen
Unlike the last time this was brilliant from Starmer.
He's managed to get as much wisdom as he can around the table. The left has been hugely weakened, but they'll not point to why.
Starmer's pointless dig at Angela Rayner was an own goal. Labour needs people who can hammer the Tories and whether you like her or not, Rayner has been cutting through. And she is not even that left-wing.
Ah yes, I totally agree that his handling of Rayner is a bit odd. I suspect that there's something we don't know there.
Rayner is a capable politician.
She seems a loose cannon who is more comfortable preaching to the choir (against "Tory scum" etc) than winning converts.
As well as the fact he pretty clearly distrusts her, I don't think she and Starmer agree on fundamental approach. What he wants to do is detoxify ("not Corbyn's party"), convey competence ("ready to govern"), and separate Tory voters from Tory politicians in quite a targeted way (a "lions led by donkeys" message). Rayner is more of a tub-thumper - generate a wave of righteous rage in order to win.
Rayner is Starmer's John Prescott, a token sop to the left and working class and unions, having a grand position as Deputy Leader and Shadow First Secretary of State but little actual power. Prescott of course even in the New Labour years ended every Labour conference with a tub thumping speech ranting at the Tories to the party activists delight, much as Rayner will do
Different situation as Labour Deputy Leader is an elected position.
Blair genuinely liked Prescott - an unwavering loyalist with an instinctive understanding of Labour's core vote whom Blair was more than happy to keep close.
Starmer pretty clearly doesn't rate Rayner. She is literally unsackable, but he's perfectly clear he doesn't want her in the room where the decisions are made (it's not as bad as Corbyn/Watson where the mutual loathing was palpable, but they aren't mates).
But in a sense does it matter? Labour Deputy Leader has some level of status, but it varies in relevance over time. I mean, Raab is technically deputy PM, but it was only a way to give him a fig leaf when he was demoted. He's not a Willie Whitelaw or even a Nick Clegg - it's pretty much titular, to give the pompous arse some kind of sense of worth.
It’s an issue. People don’t like open animosity.
Slightly, but it's VERY Westminster Village.
I heard a nice Blair/Prescott anecdote from a civil servant at the time. Apparently Prescott bought Blair a singing Billy Big Bass for his birthday. Not sure how enamoured Blair was with it, but pleased enough with it to display it on his office.
OK I’m gonna narrow it down massively. Ten best films is insane, like saying “ten best books” or ten best “places”
Ten best British films made with a predominantly British cast in Britain with a British theme and location
Withnail and I WickerMan Monty Python Holy Grail Oliver! Shaun of the Dead Trainspotting Four Weddings Kes Human Traffic A Matter of Life and Death
Most of my top ten are British but I didn't have any of those. No Local Hero? No Railway Children? And personally I much preferred Shallow Grave to Trainspotting. Still, good selection.
Having said earlier that Goodfellas is the best film and soundtrack ever, how about favourite scene ever? Travolta and Thurman dancing to You Never Can Tell in Pulp Fiction.
Just because I have sympathy with outlaws who are really quite kind underneath I like the scene at the end of Oliver when Fagin and the Artful Dodger go off into the sunset .
OK I’m gonna narrow it down massively. Ten best films is insane, like saying “ten best books” or ten best “places”
Ten best British films made with a predominantly British cast in Britain with a British theme and location
Withnail and I WickerMan Monty Python Holy Grail Oliver! Shaun of the Dead Trainspotting Four Weddings Kes Human Traffic A Matter of Life and Death
Most of my top ten are British but I didn't have any of those. No Local Hero? No Railway Children? And personally I much preferred Shallow Grave to Trainspotting. Still, good selection.
Shallow Grave was excellent, but not standout
Dial M for Murder is an exquisite Hitchcock, set in London, with a largely UK cast
Having said earlier that Goodfellas is the best film and soundtrack ever, how about favourite scene ever? Travolta and Thurman dancing to You Never Can Tell in Pulp Fiction.
Just because I have sympathy with outlaws who are really quite kind underneath I like the scene at the end of Oliver when Fagin and the Artful Dodger go off into the sunset .
OK I’m gonna narrow it down massively. Ten best films is insane, like saying “ten best books” or ten best “places”
Ten best British films made with a predominantly British cast in Britain with a British theme and location
Withnail and I WickerMan Monty Python Holy Grail Oliver! Shaun of the Dead Trainspotting Four Weddings Kes Human Traffic A Matter of Life and Death
A Canterbury Tale Great Expectations The Fallen Idol Kind Hearts and Coronets The Servant A Clockwork Orange The Go-Between My Beautiful Laundrette Secrets and Lies 28 Days Later
Sorry but I now can't get this out of my head - 12 Angry Men as PB argument cum jury deliberation. I picture a man called Boris on trial and the charge is "Putting a Border in the Irish Sea". It looks a slam dunk - he did it - and when the jury retire they agree. However it's not quite unanimous. It's 11 to 1 for Guilty. But that one is the indefatigable Philip Thompson - played not by Henry Fonda but by Christian Bale - and he sees it differently. Cue an interminable debate, back & forth, forth & back, as he first refuses to concede and then, slowly, relentlessly, grinds the others down, forces them to say everything 10 times, then rebuts it 10 times, till they are faced with the choice of killing him, which is a world of trouble, or caving in and agreeing. Which they do, they change their vote and Boris goes free.
LOL!
Considering I put all 3 Dark Knight movies in my top 10, I'm quite honoured to be played by Christian Bale.
Yes, I saw your list. Very 'superhero' heavy. Quite strikingly so.
Superhero movies are some of the best movies, especially nowadays. I think post-Cold War superhero movies are the very best action movies, better than spy movies, not simply because of the heroes but because in part they get the best villains.
The problem nowadays is people are too PC to cast the Chinese, or Russians etc as the villains as it will hurt their sales their if they do, but nobody objects if The Joker, Bane, Zod or Thanos is portrayed as the villain.
There were many great superhero movies I could have named but didn't. I only chose one from the entire MCU which is over 20 films, the entire Dark Knight trilogy deserves to be on the list. I didn't choose Superman 2, or the 80s Batman with Jack Nicholson as the Joker or many more that could have been included.
OK I’m gonna narrow it down massively. Ten best films is insane, like saying “ten best books” or ten best “places”
Ten best British films made with a predominantly British cast in Britain with a British theme and location
Withnail and I WickerMan Monty Python Holy Grail Oliver! Shaun of the Dead Trainspotting Four Weddings Kes Human Traffic A Matter of Life and Death
A Canterbury Tale Great Expectations The Fallen Idol Kind Hearts and Coronets The Servant A Clockwork Orange The Go-Between My Beautiful Laundrette Secrets and Lies 28 Days Later
Fantastic alternative list! We have made some wonderful movies
Andrew Lilico @andrew_lilico · 1h Everyone is going to get Covid many times through their lives. So you're telling me we'll get omicron next Spring via vaxx escape instead of delta next Spring-Summer via immunity waning?
Once Were Warriors Boy The Piano Angel At My Table In My Father’s Den Heavenly Creatures Dark Horse The Breaker-Upperers What We Do In The Shadows Sleeping Dogs
Once Were Warriors Boy The Piano Angel At My Table In My Father’s Den Heavenly Creatures Dark Horse The Breaker-Upperers What We Do In The Shadows Sleeping Dogs
Once Were Warriors Boy The Piano Angel At My Table In My Father’s Den Heavenly Creatures Dark Horse The Breaker-Upperers What We Do In The Shadows Sleeping Dogs
Once Were Warriors rightly top, but what about The Hunt for the Wilderpeople, or Bad Taste?
Once Were Warriors Boy The Piano Angel At My Table In My Father’s Den Heavenly Creatures Dark Horse The Breaker-Upperers What We Do In The Shadows Sleeping Dogs
Top pick seems interesting. I initially thought that you'd referred to Mel Gibson's " We were soldiers" - also a good film.
Having said earlier that Goodfellas is the best film and soundtrack ever, how about favourite scene ever? Travolta and Thurman dancing to You Never Can Tell in Pulp Fiction.
Just because I have sympathy with outlaws who are really quite kind underneath I like the scene at the end of Oliver when Fagin and the Artful Dodger go off into the sunset .
Once Were Warriors Boy The Piano Angel At My Table In My Father’s Den Heavenly Creatures Dark Horse The Breaker-Upperers What We Do In The Shadows Sleeping Dogs
Once Were Warriors Boy The Piano Angel At My Table In My Father’s Den Heavenly Creatures Dark Horse The Breaker-Upperers What We Do In The Shadows Sleeping Dogs
Once Were Warriors rightly top, but what about The Hunt for the Wilderpeople, or Bad Taste?
I actually thought I’d included Wilderpeople, damn.
OK I’m gonna narrow it down massively. Ten best films is insane, like saying “ten best books” or ten best “places”
Ten best British films made with a predominantly British cast in Britain with a British theme and location
Withnail and I WickerMan Monty Python Holy Grail Oliver! Shaun of the Dead Trainspotting Four Weddings Kes Human Traffic A Matter of Life and Death
The Railway Children Gregory's Girl Trainspotting My Beautiful Launderette Educating Rita* Rebecca The 39 Steps Atonement Cathy Come Home In the Name of the Father
Farage's exclusive interview with Donald Trump in Florida at Mar a Lago on GB news just started now
If I wanted to see Nigel with his tongue so far up Donald's arse that he's able to polish the man's tonsils, then I'd have accepted the invitation to visit Vladimir Putin's personal video library.
Quite. Farage is doing himself no favours by cozying up to that SOB
I like films Steve Coogan is in as there is always a bit of Alan Partridge in his characters but 24 hour Party People and the Look of Love are his best.
BTW Steve Coogan does the best Neil Kinnock impression
Part of the fun in watching Hot Fuzz is trying to identify the great variety of rifles, pistols, revolvers, sub machine guns and mines which have supporting roles.
Is there any genuine chance, given the great number of testimonies from doctors that most omicron cases are mild/asymptomatic, that omicron is indeed a largely mild variant? I realise such wishful thinking is frowned upon on PB. But should we rule it out?
I like films Steve Coogan is in as there is always a bit of Alan Partridge in his characters but 24 hour Party People and the Look of Love are his best.
BTW Steve Coogan does the best Neil Kinnock impression
Is there any genuine chance, given the great number of testimonies from doctors that most omicron cases are mild/asymptomatic, that omicron is indeed a largely mild variant? I realise such wishful thinking is frowned upon on PB. But should we rule it out?
From evidence so far I have had more dangerous curries
Is there any genuine chance, given the great number of testimonies from doctors that most omicron cases are mild/asymptomatic, that omicron is indeed a largely mild variant? I realise such wishful thinking is frowned upon on PB. But should we rule it out?
Yes of course is it, especially as it isn't unheard of that virus can mutant themselves into being less lethal.
Is there any genuine chance, given the great number of testimonies from doctors that most omicron cases are mild/asymptomatic, that omicron is indeed a largely mild variant? I realise such wishful thinking is frowned upon on PB. But should we rule it out?
From evidence so far I have had more dangerous curries
Could you list your local Indian eateries, so I remember never to dine there!
I like films Steve Coogan is in as there is always a bit of Alan Partridge in his characters but 24 hour Party People and the Look of Love are his best.
BTW Steve Coogan does the best Neil Kinnock impression
Can’t believe I missed “Red Shoes” in my U.K. list above.
I think it’s probably the G-O-A-T U.K. film (with a British theme/cast/location).
Such a softy!
But yes, you're quite right. An exquisite film.
I think the central scene is scintillating. It makes my synapses pop. Spielberg and Scorsese are also big fans, from memory both rate it #1 or thereabouts.
Is there any genuine chance, given the great number of testimonies from doctors that most omicron cases are mild/asymptomatic, that omicron is indeed a largely mild variant? I realise such wishful thinking is frowned upon on PB. But should we rule it out?
I do that wishful thinking thing too. And moreover if it is mild/asymptomatic and drives out the dreaded delta, wouldn't it be very welcome?
Someone mentioned Kes below - it also has a beautiful soundtrack, as does Local Hero. The only time I've ever had much time for Dire Straits ; beautiful folky earthiness rather than middle-of-the-road rock.
Is there any genuine chance, given the great number of testimonies from doctors that most omicron cases are mild/asymptomatic, that omicron is indeed a largely mild variant? I realise such wishful thinking is frowned upon on PB. But should we rule it out?
Of course there's a chance.
It's really not at all clear why covid should be able to mutate and cause us all this trouble. Cold viruses have been loafing about for ages and seemingly haven't managed such a trick. I can imagine explanations for it, but I've not heard any actual facts.
Grrrr. Been 'gubbed' by PaddyPower as I was winning too much money from them it seems.
It really pisses me off how much the bookies advertise on TV saying catchphrases like "bet responsibly" but anyone who does bet responsibly and wins their bets is gubbed and anyone who is a problem gambler losing lots is encouraged to bet even more.
Is there any genuine chance, given the great number of testimonies from doctors that most omicron cases are mild/asymptomatic, that omicron is indeed a largely mild variant? I realise such wishful thinking is frowned upon on PB. But should we rule it out?
Yes of course is it, especially as it isn't unheard of that virus can mutant themselves into being less lethal.
@Chris posted data earlier that suggested it was milder than delta. And it think it’s fair to say that he is hardly what one might call a covid dove!
I like films Steve Coogan is in as there is always a bit of Alan Partridge in his characters but 24 hour Party People and the Look of Love are his best.
BTW Steve Coogan does the best Neil Kinnock impression
I like films Steve Coogan is in as there is always a bit of Alan Partridge in his characters but 24 hour Party People and the Look of Love are his best.
BTW Steve Coogan does the best Neil Kinnock impression
Omicron was in the UK days before South Africa warned the world of the new Covid variant, it has emerged after the majority of cases in Scotland were linked to a single 'event' on November 20.
Is there any genuine chance, given the great number of testimonies from doctors that most omicron cases are mild/asymptomatic, that omicron is indeed a largely mild variant? I realise such wishful thinking is frowned upon on PB. But should we rule it out?
I do that wishful thinking thing too. And moreover if it is mild/asymptomatic and drives out the dreaded delta, wouldn't it be very welcome?
Yes, I suppose so (assuming it can out compete Delta, which I am far from convinced about!)
Someone mentioned Kes below - it also has a beautiful soundtrack, as does Local Hero. The only time I've ever had much time for Dire Straits ; beautiful folky earthiness rather than middle-of-the-road rock.
Elvira Madigan for the soundtrack. The fillum isn't bad either.
Grrrr. Been 'gubbed' by PaddyPower as I was winning too much money from them it seems.
It really pisses me off how much the bookies advertise on TV saying catchphrases like "bet responsibly" but anyone who does bet responsibly and wins their bets is gubbed and anyone who is a problem gambler losing lots is encouraged to bet even more.
I get gubbed by bet365 who live up to their nickname of Bet£3.65
I was refused a booster for being too young' A 34-year-old woman says she is "livid" after being turned away from a booster jab walk-in centre for being too young.
Heidi Bird, a nutrition scientist in London, tells the BBC she had queued at a pharmacy in Hampstead, North London with other young people who also got turned away.
"I asked the pharmacist why and he said the system is not set up to handle these at the moment," she says.
The UK has been dragging its heels on this. All my friends in Europe have been vaccinated.
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The head of NHS made it absolutely clear yesterday that is not how it works. It going in age grouping. Your friends been vaccinated, but I doubt boostered.
Why are the BBC even reporting this ranty lady?
Obviously, it is far from absolutely clear what the new plan is. The old plan (booster after six (or five) months) would naturally follow the original roll-out which was by clinical need and age. Headlines for the new plan were that all adults should be jabbed. I can't blame ranty lady or anyone else for missing the small print.
I didn't even listen to it, and it is in neon lights.
The rollout will be done in age bands, as before.
Ranty lady even seems confused between the difference between a 'booster' and a 'vaccination'.
If she'd listened to Boris, she'd know. But if she'd listened to The Saj on the same day, he did not mention an age-based rollout. There is also the problem that what was announced as a great change is really doing the same thing as before, only faster.
Astounding that more people would put Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels in their top ten than would put Rear Window.
You people.
My list is favourite films not already done, and I’m ashamed to admit I haven’t seen Rear Window; I will rectify the error this evening.
On that subject, has anyone mentioned Twelve Angry Men yet?
Oh my goodness, Twelve Angry Men is even better than Rear Window.
But seriously, Rear Window is magical. Everything is spot on. Hitchcock could make magnificent films in incredibly limited settings. See also Rope. I believe both are the same in the way that they're set almost entirely in a single room (or looking out from it).
That is one of the points of Twelve Angry Men too. It was originally a play, and it works very well on the stage still.
I will report back on Rear Window once I’ve seen it.
I hope you love it. If you don't grip your chair at least once the film has failed.
Thank you for that: yes, great film and masterly directed: lots of show don’t tell. Grace Kelly was superb as was James Stuart (if a bit old for the part.)
I don’t think Stewart was too old for the role - the awkwardness of the relationship is intrinsic to the movie.
I like films Steve Coogan is in as there is always a bit of Alan Partridge in his characters but 24 hour Party People and the Look of Love are his best.
BTW Steve Coogan does the best Neil Kinnock impression
That was perhaps the worse ! Coogan is so good he plays multiple characters in some of his shows - You really have to look about 4 times to spot Coogan is playing "Keanu Reeves" in Saxondale.
I like films Steve Coogan is in as there is always a bit of Alan Partridge in his characters but 24 hour Party People and the Look of Love are his best.
BTW Steve Coogan does the best Neil Kinnock impression
Grrrr. Been 'gubbed' by PaddyPower as I was winning too much money from them it seems.
It really pisses me off how much the bookies advertise on TV saying catchphrases like "bet responsibly" but anyone who does bet responsibly and wins their bets is gubbed and anyone who is a problem gambler losing lots is encouraged to bet even more.
I get gubbed by bet365 who live up to their nickname of Bet£3.65
Where as I hear if you speak Chinese and appear to be based in the Far East they will happily take £365k bets....
I need to at least consider War Games and Ferris Bueller's Day Off in my favourite movies list.
Not Broderick but The Breakfast Club is a great 80s movie.
I love the fact that it only cost a million dollars to make, and you could probably remake the movie now for the same amount.
I mentioned Bad Taste earlier. It took 4 years for Peter Jackson to make. A similar amount of time as his later LoTR films. Rather less of a budget though...
OK I’m gonna narrow it down massively. Ten best films is insane, like saying “ten best books” or ten best “places”
Ten best British films made with a predominantly British cast in Britain with a British theme and location
Withnail and I WickerMan Monty Python Holy Grail Oliver! Shaun of the Dead Trainspotting Four Weddings Kes Human Traffic A Matter of Life and Death
A Canterbury Tale Great Expectations The Fallen Idol Kind Hearts and Coronets The Servant A Clockwork Orange The Go-Between My Beautiful Laundrette Secrets and Lies 28 Days Later
Fantastic alternative list! We have made some wonderful movies
The Servant is chillingly superb
Used to picture that for Johnson and Cummings. But wrongly, I think, as it turned out.
Grrrr. Been 'gubbed' by PaddyPower as I was winning too much money from them it seems.
It really pisses me off how much the bookies advertise on TV saying catchphrases like "bet responsibly" but anyone who does bet responsibly and wins their bets is gubbed and anyone who is a problem gambler losing lots is encouraged to bet even more.
I get gubbed by bet365 who live up to their nickname of Bet£3.65
Where as I hear if you speak Chinese and appear to be based in the Far East they will happily take £365k bets....
I remember when the stories of the footballers placing thousands of bets were doing the rounds. How on earth did they get that many bets on !?! was the first question I asked. Bookies must love footballers accounts.
Once Were Warriors Boy The Piano Angel At My Table In My Father’s Den Heavenly Creatures Dark Horse The Breaker-Upperers What We Do In The Shadows Sleeping Dogs
Goodbye Pork Pie? In the best traditions of an American road movie.
Grrrr. Been 'gubbed' by PaddyPower as I was winning too much money from them it seems.
It really pisses me off how much the bookies advertise on TV saying catchphrases like "bet responsibly" but anyone who does bet responsibly and wins their bets is gubbed and anyone who is a problem gambler losing lots is encouraged to bet even more.
I get gubbed by bet365 who live up to their nickname of Bet£3.65
Where as I hear if you speak Chinese and appear to be based in the Far East they will happily take £365k bets....
I remember when the stories of the footballers placing thousands of bets were doing the rounds. How on earth did they get that many bets on !?! was the first question I asked. Bookies must love footballers accounts.
Oh they love the suckers. A better question is how does Tony Bloom still get billions of quids of bets on...i reckon the operation on placing the bets must be as complicated as the models he uses to predict the games.
OK I’m gonna narrow it down massively. Ten best films is insane, like saying “ten best books” or ten best “places”
Ten best British films made with a predominantly British cast in Britain with a British theme and location
Withnail and I WickerMan Monty Python Holy Grail Oliver! Shaun of the Dead Trainspotting Four Weddings Kes Human Traffic A Matter of Life and Death
The Railway Children Gregory's Girl Trainspotting My Beautiful Launderette Educating Rita* Rebecca The 39 Steps Atonement Cathy Come Home In the Name of the Father
*filmed in Dublin but set in the UK
Pedant: Cathy Come Home was a television play.
I'd add to the British list:- Chariots of Fire Angels One Five (actually a lot of British war films are probably now dismissed as hack propaganda jobs but are often imo a lot better than that) American Werewolf in London Python's Meaning of Life (or is that cheating as it is arguably a string of sketches?)
Not sure about The King's Speech but there were some heartwarming stories of it helping stammerers. Likewise Reach for the Sky with amputees.
OK I’m gonna narrow it down massively. Ten best films is insane, like saying “ten best books” or ten best “places”
Ten best British films made with a predominantly British cast in Britain with a British theme and location
Withnail and I WickerMan Monty Python Holy Grail Oliver! Shaun of the Dead Trainspotting Four Weddings Kes Human Traffic A Matter of Life and Death
War Requiem Kes Life of Brian Caravaggio In Which They Serve Dambusters L&D of Colonel Blimp Brief Encounter Trainspotting Four Lions
Cool. Good to see Jarman cited. One of the greats of British Cinema, who launched the careers of Sandy Powell, Nigel Terry and Tilda Swindon among others. Last of England is a measure of his genius, and though almost totally unknown, The Angelic Conversation is a beautiful film.
I like films Steve Coogan is in as there is always a bit of Alan Partridge in his characters but 24 hour Party People and the Look of Love are his best.
BTW Steve Coogan does the best Neil Kinnock impression
OK I’m gonna narrow it down massively. Ten best films is insane, like saying “ten best books” or ten best “places”
Ten best British films made with a predominantly British cast in Britain with a British theme and location
Withnail and I WickerMan Monty Python Holy Grail Oliver! Shaun of the Dead Trainspotting Four Weddings Kes Human Traffic A Matter of Life and Death
The Railway Children Gregory's Girl Trainspotting My Beautiful Launderette Educating Rita* Rebecca The 39 Steps Atonement Cathy Come Home In the Name of the Father
*filmed in Dublin but set in the UK
Pedant: Cathy Come Home was a television play.
I'd add to the British list:- Chariots of Fire Angels One Five (actually a lot of British war films are probably now dismissed as hack propaganda jobs but are often imo a lot better than that) American Werewolf in London Python's Meaning of Life (or is that cheating as it is arguably a string of sketches?)
Not sure about The King's Speech but there were some heartwarming stories of it helping stammerers. Likewise Reach for the Sky with amputees.
I think for its brutal honesty Filth deserves a mention
Once Were Warriors Boy The Piano Angel At My Table In My Father’s Den Heavenly Creatures Dark Horse The Breaker-Upperers What We Do In The Shadows Sleeping Dogs
Goodbye Pork Pie? In the best traditions of an American road movie.
I like films Steve Coogan is in as there is always a bit of Alan Partridge in his characters but 24 hour Party People and the Look of Love are his best.
BTW Steve Coogan does the best Neil Kinnock impression
That is an astoundingly good impression. Phenomenal
By many accounts Coogan is an arse (like his persona in the various TRIPS) but my god, he is talented
I suspect Coogan personifies everything you detest about middle class woke liberal Labour luvvies.
He is properly left wing. He was just about the only celeb that stuck by Jezza to the very end. There's a bit in series 2 of The Trip where he goes off on a rant about big pharma. Made me wonder if he has got the vaccine.
Is there any genuine chance, given the great number of testimonies from doctors that most omicron cases are mild/asymptomatic, that omicron is indeed a largely mild variant? I realise such wishful thinking is frowned upon on PB. But should we rule it out?
Hypothesis:
The Omicron variant thorns out to be very transitable, but also very milled, compared to other variants, but still gives a good level of immunity to stop/reduce the risk of catching one of the other variants, and as such works as a free booster to people who have already been vaccinated, and a in involuntary vaccine for those who have not been vaccinated yet.
Evidence: Governments, collectively have so far been bad at every stage of this Pandemic, so that the only way they could maintain that track record would be to stop international travel and slow down the speared of the variant that's going to end the whole thing.
This may be both too cynical and too optimistic at the same time, but who knows!!!!!!!!
Intriguing suggestion that Omicron may be a zoonotic spillover. In other words, an animal caught original Covid off humans, it then circulated in the animal population for a year and a half, before re-infecting humans in mutated form. Has happened before (remember the Danish mink variant).
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Blair genuinely liked Prescott - an unwavering loyalist with an instinctive understanding of Labour's core vote whom Blair was more than happy to keep close.
Starmer pretty clearly doesn't rate Rayner. She is literally unsackable, but he's perfectly clear he doesn't want her in the room where the decisions are made (it's not as bad as Corbyn/Watson where the mutual loathing was palpable, but they aren't mates).
But in a sense does it matter? Labour Deputy Leader has some level of status, but it varies in relevance over time. I mean, Raab is technically deputy PM, but it was only a way to give him a fig leaf when he was demoted. He's not a Willie Whitelaw or even a Nick Clegg - it's pretty much titular, to give the pompous arse some kind of sense of worth.
People don’t like open animosity.
It was such an incredible achievement by Stallone. He sold his first ever screenplay when he hadn't even written it to the producers during a (failed) audition. I think he then wrote it in a weekend. He got his budget cut in half, from two to one million dollars, so he could star in it. The biggest expense in the budget was the make-up department and they ran out of money filming it.
And his movie won three Oscars and was nominated for another seven.
Heroes, all.
Ten best British films made with a predominantly British cast in Britain with a British theme and location
Withnail and I
WickerMan
Monty Python Holy Grail
Oliver!
Shaun of the Dead
Trainspotting
Four Weddings
Kes
Human Traffic
A Matter of Life and Death
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Everyone is going to get Covid many times through their lives. So you're telling me we'll get omicron next Spring via vaxx escape instead of delta next Spring-Summer via immunity waning?
The Lady Killers?
As for Oliver:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk
I'm not expecting that many cases. I'd be very surprised if there were only a few hundred though.
Shallow Grave was excellent, but not standout
Dial M for Murder is an exquisite Hitchcock, set in London, with a largely UK cast
No I Heart Huckerbees on any list?
Great Expectations
The Fallen Idol
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Servant
A Clockwork Orange
The Go-Between
My Beautiful Laundrette
Secrets and Lies
28 Days Later
The problem nowadays is people are too PC to cast the Chinese, or Russians etc as the villains as it will hurt their sales their if they do, but nobody objects if The Joker, Bane, Zod or Thanos is portrayed as the villain.
There were many great superhero movies I could have named but didn't. I only chose one from the entire MCU which is over 20 films, the entire Dark Knight trilogy deserves to be on the list. I didn't choose Superman 2, or the 80s Batman with Jack Nicholson as the Joker or many more that could have been included.
The Servant is chillingly superb
I love the scene, I'm pretty sure in YG2, when it goes..
Kiefer: William H Bonney; you are not a god
Emilio: Why don't you pull the trigger and find out
https://blacklivesmatter.com/black-xmas/
The only reaction will be White Lives Matter
Once Were Warriors
Boy
The Piano
Angel At My Table
In My Father’s Den
Heavenly Creatures
Dark Horse
The Breaker-Upperers
What We Do In The Shadows
Sleeping Dogs
Local Hero. I first watched it before I would effectively have a career as Mac.
Best film moments?
Personally, have to include:
The Railway Children "Daddy my daddy!" Watch it and sob.
Battle of Britain. "Repeat please...."
Kagemusha, when the double rides the length of the troops cheering them on.
Field of Dreams. Pitching with his father....
"Charlie don't surf...."
A very inclusive thread though this has been.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Fastest_Indian
It's very good.
I need to at least consider War Games and Ferris Bueller's Day Off in my favourite movies list.
And what is not to enjoy with multi dimensional, great script, well acted, great photography, The English Patient?
Hopkins’s accent is superb, though,
Bad Taste (and the rest) are niche x niche.
Gregory's Girl
Trainspotting
My Beautiful Launderette
Educating Rita*
Rebecca
The 39 Steps
Atonement
Cathy Come Home
In the Name of the Father
*filmed in Dublin but set in the UK
I think it’s probably the G-O-A-T U.K. film (with a British theme/cast/location).
BTW Steve Coogan does the best Neil Kinnock impression
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY7aqvR9oD0
https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/12/01/omicron-case-in-nigeria-dates-back-to-october-weeks-before-it-was-first-reported-in-south-africa/?sh=3d56e3492abc
But yes, you're quite right. An exquisite film.
By many accounts Coogan is an arse (like his persona in the various TRIPS) but my god, he is talented
It's really not at all clear why covid should be able to mutate and cause us all this trouble. Cold viruses have been loafing about for ages and seemingly haven't managed such a trick. I can imagine explanations for it, but I've not heard any actual facts.
It really pisses me off how much the bookies advertise on TV saying catchphrases like "bet responsibly" but anyone who does bet responsibly and wins their bets is gubbed and anyone who is a problem gambler losing lots is encouraged to bet even more.
But I had mine ages ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imVngLpqEHU
Powell and Pressburger were magical.
The soundtrack is also a belter
Kes
Life of Brian
Caravaggio
In Which They Serve
Dambusters
L&D of Colonel Blimp
Brief Encounter
Trainspotting
Four Lions
How on earth did they get that many bets on !?! was the first question I asked.
Bookies must love footballers accounts.
I love the movie and the fact that it introduced me to WAR
I'd add to the British list:-
Chariots of Fire
Angels One Five (actually a lot of British war films are probably now dismissed as hack propaganda jobs but are often imo a lot better than that)
American Werewolf in London
Python's Meaning of Life (or is that cheating as it is arguably a string of sketches?)
Not sure about The King's Speech but there were some heartwarming stories of it helping stammerers. Likewise Reach for the Sky with amputees.
The English Patient is one of the worst movies ever made.
Brexit fears hold back US-UK trade deal https://on.ft.com/3pmaCuT
I’d have it near the top.
The Omicron variant thorns out to be very transitable, but also very milled, compared to other variants, but still gives a good level of immunity to stop/reduce the risk of catching one of the other variants, and as such works as a free booster to people who have already been vaccinated, and a in involuntary vaccine for those who have not been vaccinated yet.
Evidence: Governments, collectively have so far been bad at every stage of this Pandemic, so that the only way they could maintain that track record would be to stop international travel and slow down the speared of the variant that's going to end the whole thing.
This may be both too cynical and too optimistic at the same time, but who knows!!!!!!!!
Do I get points if this terns out to be correct?
https://twitter.com/K_G_Andersen/status/1465822536629821442