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What Movies Have You Seen Lately?
- LoveHistory
- Bibliomaniac
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- Location: Wisconsin, USA
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- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4243
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
I watched The Young Victoria last night on Sky Movies. I thought it was very good and it did bring a few tears to my eyes! 

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Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
A couple of our recent rentals have included District 9 (bizarre, but good, probably a career catapult for Sharlto Copley) and the 1970s cult SF film, Zardoz, directed by John Boorman with Sean Connery running around in something akin to a loin cloth for most of the film. Also starred a young and very skinny Charlotte Rampling.
- parthianbow
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After many years of wanting to, I finally saw All Quiet On The Western Front (1930). What a war film it is. With none of the modern CGI, blood and gore, it still manages to convey thoroughly the horror of war. Even the grating American accents of the German soldiers did not really matter. Five stars.
Ben Kane
Bestselling author of Roman military fiction.
Spartacus - UK release 19 Jan. 2012. US release June 2012.
http://www.benkane.net
Twitter: @benkaneauthor
Bestselling author of Roman military fiction.
Spartacus - UK release 19 Jan. 2012. US release June 2012.
http://www.benkane.net
Twitter: @benkaneauthor
[quote=""Ludmilla""]A couple of our recent rentals have included District 9 (bizarre, but good, probably a career catapult for Sharlto Copley) and the 1970s cult SF film, Zardoz, directed by John Boorman with Sean Connery running around in something akin to a loin cloth for most of the film. Also starred a young and very skinny Charlotte Rampling.[/quote]
That's quite a double bill

That's quite a double bill


- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4243
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
Oh, Marley & Me is so sad! I admit to crying, too. I have the book but can't bring myself to read it.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
- Madeleine
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 5726
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: "Echoes of the Runes" by Christina Courtenay
- Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime
- Location: Essex/London
I've sort of skim-read Marley but don't think I could read the whole thing, I don't want to see the film either; Sky has just started showing it over here.
Mello, I can sympathise - we had a lab who went on til she was 17 - hope your dog has many more happy years yet.
Mello, I can sympathise - we had a lab who went on til she was 17 - hope your dog has many more happy years yet.
Currently reading: "Echoes of the Runes" by Christina Courtenay
I loved the first Boondock Saints so looked forward to the second, Boondock Saints: All Saints Day....what a horrible waste of two hours of my night when I could have been reading or book browsing or playing with my girls. What were they thinking?!? they took a great movie and a great possible sequel and ruined it.
Shutter Island. I really don't get what all the fuss is about - can't believe this movie is already in the imdb top 250! Yes, it was a fun slab of 1950's gothic but predictable as hell and about as profound as a McDonald's commercial. Better watch Jacob's Ladder if you want a hallucinotary-flashbacky thriller with a twist. And is Scorsese trying to outdo Tarantino now with all the grandiose OTT-ness and movie in-jokes? A biiiig letdown. 
