Gangster Squad (2013)
Boring and stupid. Skip by all means.

Hansel and Gretel, Witchhunters
Stupid and weird. Started great but later witches seemed like a mixture of lesbian goths and anorexic male metal groupies with makeup. Terrible acting too. Weird mixture of serious and silly. Not bad if you are looking for a silly movie with no pretense. Whenever they used the word "fucking" I cringed. 

Do watch it. It's goddamn amazing. Mads does an astounding job playing Hannibal. 

The Shadow Line - brilliant UK neo noir crime miniseries. It has very distinctive style which some have found off putting, but I watched the whole thing in a day.

Friday Night Lights Season 1 - whoa, this should not be as good as it is. Generally well written for the most poart, great characters and terrific acting.

The Good Wife Season 1 - only saw this because someone I really trust said to. And like FNL, it is also much better than it has any right to be. Some of the week to week legal drama stuff is not that great but the acting and characters are phenomenal and the season arc storytelling is pretty good.

Hands Over the City (1963) - watch this and then watch some of the Berlusconi coverage from now. I would make a case that this movie demonstrates that italian politics is actually in mind bogglingly better shape than 50 years ago.

Silver Linings Playbook - good film with good acting, but massively overrated and overpraised.

A Separation - amazing iranian movie which is surprisingly not really about a divorce in Iran (although that is a mjor plot point) but about how truth is a matter of perspective. 

 

should be watching Man of Steel on Tuesday night, anyone seen that? 

...but that was rather disappointing, beside the usual hollywood cgi machine. 

the first 40 minutes is fairly strong, pretty affecting. The film moves ably between the present day man drifting, trying to hide his abilities out of a sense of duty for his adoptive father, and his childhood as he grapples with what he is capable of. Costner and the kid who plays young kal do great.
Then it gets pretty ham fisted, and the tiresome latter half slogs toward its inevitable happy ending.
Kind of similar to my feelings about the Matrix 1, actually, which maybe makes sense considering the matrix-like plot elements and general blase ultraviolent cgi'd progression (and fishburne). 

Agreed! When I first watched that show I couldn't believe how good it was, given the setting. But it is. Even the somewhat cheesy game moments are touching, and also the games are very well filmed.

Also, Minka Kelly. 

Was fun to watch. I delves in and out of different genres at times so its not pure horror. 

Minka Kelly is hot but that voice... 

actually like Insidious. 

http://alittlemoreaction.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/minka-kelly-009.jpg 

like a broad spectrum of films, I usually have good taste but I also do like a lot of "bad" films (art is subjective after all!). 

wasnt just directed at you :)

I think someone else mentioned, maybe kona, that they really enjoyed it. So I am in the minority, not you. 

I know I have a habit of enjoying terrible films, films like Trailer Park of Terror and Tokyo Gore Police. ;) 

Insidious- a lot of people I've talked to have loved that.
Haven't seen Trailer park, but I'd say that's a different sort of horror than Insidious - intentional rather than unkowing (pure) camp... based on the title, and association with TGP (which I was kind of disappointed in, actually). 

Yeah mate I didn't mind it. It was a bit slow at first, but once the other side (the realm) came into it and dad had to go over to the other side, that's when I really liked it. I love supernatural horror movies so it fit exactly what I like.

Was this the one where the mum was in the kitchen and she turned around and all the chairs were stacked up? God that gave me goosebumps.

There's better horrors out there - Poltergeist obviously. But it's decent. 

or at least a scene where she turns around and books are in bookshelves. 

Chairs all stacked up is from poltergeist. 

Two horrible movies:

Horrible Bosses, don't watch unless you like 3 obnoxious fucks talk angry nonsense at the same time while filler music plays in the foreground.

Red Tails, don't watch unless you consider a script written by a highschool drama class great literature or if you have negative knowledge of how planes work. 

Hm, I've had quite the bad luck recently. Caught a bit of Red Dragon on TV and will watch that soonish. Seemed very good. 

anyone seen it?

it's probably my favourite film of the past 12 months but i can see it being one that divides opinion, so am interested to read people's thoughts on it.

and nitin, you're not the only one who thought insidious was shit. it felt like someone's college project! 

but I have seen:

Django Unchained - some good bits but seriously Tarantino needs an editor, this and Inglorious Basterds are so bloated its not funny. More about Brumhilda and less shenanigans with aussie accented dumbasses would have maybe made me care about the whole thing. (My horse) Fritz stole the show.

John Carter - also has some good bits but who the hell thought it was a good idea to cast Taylor Kitsch in the lead role. He looks and sounds nothing like a civil war veteran should. Also, the plot is compleltely nonsensical, but there is some good visuals here.

Zero Dark Thirty - really well acted by Jessica Chastain which overcomes some of the other problems, namely a bit of a chaotic screenplay and non existant secondary characters. Last hr or so is also spectacularly well made.

Red - oh dear, and I see there is a sequel too. Not funny enough, not actiony enough, just a very very average action film but with different stars than usual. 

zero dark thirty is pro-torture, religious and unlimited celebrating the military/cia. I was disgusted as it went on without showing no sign of criticism. 

less sober but it's hard not to agree that it is difficult or at least eccentric to judge what is essentially a piece of propaganda (and, despite being a generally angry person I'm disturbed by how such revenge fantasies can be so "feel good") by solely aesthetic standards as a work of art.

Django Unchained - Apparently I am the PC brigade tonight, but I really felt like Tarantino trivialized (and probably could not help but do so) the subject.

Now to be most annoying of all, I predictably liked Man of Steel.