Wildlike on Amazon Prime is a great film
Your man from sideways, and a really beautiful young one. Well worth a look. Not dissimilar in some ways to nomadland cc @habanerocat @caulifloweredneanderthal
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Scorsese’s The Aviator is a damn fine movie. Leonardo is the actor of his generation.
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Continuing my Leo deep dive of late, The Departed. Great cast, with everyone dialed up to 10. Wahlberg more so than any other, some of the lines he spits out are just magnificent. But they all drive it home, Jack, Leo, Baldwin, Sheen, Damon, by God Damon is by the far the most unlikable. A proper rat. Farmiga does very well to carve out any bit of real estate for herself, but a very underappreciated and used actress.
Nicholson’s open is iconic, “I don’t wanna be a product of my environment…”
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The only thing I didn’t like about the Departed was Wahlburg tbh. Thought he hammed it up to the point of being a caricature. Ray Ammer Winstone was underused in it too. A great film though
Wahlberg went far too far I think. That was the character I guess, but its hard to believe Sheen stood in those scenes with him and didnt think it was a bit OTT, but the dialogue was hilarious.
I think every single one of them was told to go nuts, even Baldwin had one or two moments, not to mention Damon’s use of the word “faggot” over and over.
A brilliant show. One of those shows for me like Die Hard that I would watch on repeat.
As you said a few posts up anything DiCaprio did for a few years there was the bomb. Shutter Island, The Departed, Django Umchained, Wolf of Wall Street, J Edgar, Inception…no actor this century has been involved in that volume of top quality work.
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Shutter Island is a complete fucking mindfuck. Watched it again recently and it fucking haunts you. From that opening on the ferry to the horrible closing, just different class.
Dicaprio is the real deal alright.
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Brilliant piece
An excellent film.
Just watched The Boxer there. A flim I had completely forgotten about.
Yes, it’s simplistic on a level. Yes, Emily Watson was a stupid choice as the lead (surely to jaysus Susan Lynch or someone, clearly a commercial decision) and some of the West Belfast accents are bloody awful.
But it’s a very, very good film. Day Lewis excellent of course, so are Brian Cox and Gerard McSorley. I actually saw this in the cinema at the time, 1997 and thought itnwas probably too early to make a film like this, but it getsnover the line with a great spoiler at the end. Very good film, a hell of a lot more intelligent than most films about the North (I think the excerable Devils Own wouls have been at the same time). And Gavin Friday doing the music. Recommend highly.
I watched that movie in The Classic in Harolds Cross of a Friday night. Anyone old enough to remember The Classic will know what it was famous for every Friday night. An interesting experience. A great auld shithole of a Cinema.
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I’ve been meaning to watch City of God for about 15 years and just got around to it there. It’s a great film. A samba amalgamation of Goodfellas, Love Hate and Once upon a time in America.
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The Rocky Horror… Them were the days
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A due to A Shawshank and B Reese’s
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The Big Short just started on RTE2.
A fine watch
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Along with Margin Call and Trading Places the best movies to do with the trading floor. Slight nod also to Gekko.
Point Break - 1991
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Vaya con Dios 
My only tattoo
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