What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

kburra said:
This is a fantastic drama , what a courageous lady she was. A brilliant story well told this has fantastic acting throughout. Sheridan Smith is a fantastic actress and she embodies every character she plays. I love watching her. Don't hesitate to watch this drama. You will not be disappointed. It's very poignant and emotional.
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"I fought the law"
 

Tells the story of London being torn apart by the turbulent power struggles of its international gangs and the sudden power vacuum that's created when the head of London's most powerful crime family is assassinated.
Four series and plenty of action,very violent in some places,must admit though I binged watched most of it!!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7661390/
 
My take on MobLand (2025):

Have you ever felt compelled to continue watching a series because you liked the actors, but were relieved when the series ended?

MobLand has no plot, and not much of a story, but it does have a premise: a British crime family clashes with another crime family to eventually determine who will prevail. That’s about it. The one element that holds the entire series

together is the existence of the main crime family’s “fixer”, named Harry, perfectly played by Tom Hardy. Most of the scenes feature how this fixer cools hotheads, proposes negotiations, or resorts to violence himself. And there is violence aplenty in every episode, firmly applying the two Gs: gore and gutter language.

The cast is chock full of A-list actors. In addition to Hardy, Pierce Brosnan plays Conrad Harrigan, the family patriarch, Helen Mirren shines as his complicit wife, Paddy Considine as the older son, and Joanne Frogatt (recognizable from her Downton Abbey role) as Harry’s wife.

Outside of the use of the fixer, we vaguely feel that we’ve seen this mob family before. Since 1972’s The Godfather there have been a fairly steady supply of crime family movies and series. But usually we have some idea of how that crime family made its money, and how it became dominant. MobLand barely mentions this topic, so we’re left to wonder how Conrad and Maeve Harrigan & family got so powerful. We suspect the drug trade, but was that enough to afford them an enormous estate and mansion outside of London?

However, along with the great cast, the cinematography was first rate. The production used four DPs, the chief of whom was Si Bell, filming four episodes. Guy Ritchie was an executive producer, directing two episodes, although his trademark reputation for film violence seemed to permeate the entire production.

There’s been a lot of chatter about the Irish accents of its two veteran stars, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren. Brosnan did in fact grow up in Ireland, so we’d assume that he’d know which accent to use. Being an American I wouldn’t know one Irish accent from another, but both actor’s accents at times did seem a little off.

So this series could be described as three actors in search of a good script, but if you like mob stories well acted with plenty of violence and language, this series should touch all the bases.

Doc’s rating: 6/10
 
For some reason this clip from the Hudsucker Proxy just popped into my mind out of nowhere. It's Peter Gallagher doing a spoof of a drinking smoking Dean Martin as a singer named Vic Tennta at some big social function. I had to do a search to find it, and then searched for an appropriate thread to put it in. This thread may work. It's just the must current movie thread.

Watch Gallagher getting ready to take a drink, and then casually remembering that he's in the middle of a song. It's subtle, but a hoot.

 
Why I don't know but I watched a movie with Julia Roberts where she was a mom of a son
fighting drug addiction and she really played the loving Beeache Mother well. Domineering,
low tolerance level, crying one minute, angry the next. No idea why I watched it all. Nothing else on
I imagine. She had to be drained when filming was done on that one.
 
JustDave said:
For some reason this clip from the Hudsucker Proxy just popped into my mind out of nowhere. It's Peter Gallagher doing a spoof of a drinking smoking Dean Martin as a singer named Vic Tennta at some big social function. I had to do a search to find it, and then searched for an appropriate thread to put it in. This thread may work. It's just the must current movie thread.

Watch Gallagher getting ready to take a drink, and then casually remembering that he's in the middle of a song. It's subtle, but a hoot.
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Enjoyable picture from 1994. It was probably Paul Newman's only screwball comedy. And it definitely was in the Coen Bros.' style.
 
StarSong said:
Appreciate the review - and the warning. I'll take a hard pass on this one.
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Yeah, I was a little surprised Mobland was renewed for a second season. I admired Tom Hardy's work, but Brosnan and Mirren seemed like caricatures.

I'd much prefer to see Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren in a followup to The Thursday Murder Club film-- IMO a superior production.
 
ChiroDoc said:
I always use subtitles due to the accents. Most of it I can understand, but miss enough to want to have subs. Some of the Irish, Scot, or Welsh accents are tricky, along with some of their expressions.
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That reminds me of the movie Quadrophenia, @ChiroDoc. The cockney accents are so thick, and they speak so fast, it took me years to figure out what was being said in some parts. My old VHS, and even the DVD, did not have closed captioning. I think the version I downloaded does, but after more than 40 years of watching it I've basically figured it out.

Jimmy's quitting scene. I love this:

 
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