Now Screening - What Are You Watching Right Now?

[Macca]

No Country For Old Men
Kept me entertained - worth a watch.

[Barry]

No Country For Old Men
Kept me entertained - worth a watch.

Agreed - though not, in my opinion, the best of the Coen brothers' works.

[Macca]

Agreed - though not, in my opinion, the best of the Coen brothers' works.

Which do you rate then, Barry? For me it's Big Lebowski and Fargo. Otherwise I can take them or leave them.

[Tim]

The Big Lebowski and Fargo.

+1, especially TBL, but I really like NCFOM too, Javier Bardem is outstanding in it. But to be honest, I enjoy everything they do.

[Barry]

Which do you rate then, Barry? For me it's Big Lebowski and Fargo. Otherwise I can take them or leave them.

I've seen them all. Of the Coen brothers' canon, I like 'Raising Arizona', 'Big Lebowski' and of course 'Fargo'.

But I especially like 'O Bother, Where Art Thou?'. Mainly for the word play (as in 'Fargo') and for the music (which I have on CD).

[Macca]

I've seen them all. Of the Coen brothers' canon, I like 'Raising Arizona', 'Big Lebowski' and of course 'Fargo'.

But I especially like 'O Bother, Where Art Thou?'. Mainly for the word play (as in 'Fargo') and for the music (which I have on CD).

I forgot they did Raising Arizona. Actually I didn't know that No Country.. was a Cohen Brothers film until the closing credits although I suspected it might be a little way into it.

And I agree Bardem is brilliant. Everyone is really good in fact. I like the nineteen -seventy's setting as well.

[MartinT]

Star Trek - Into Darkness

What can I say, very little without ruining it but what I can say is this is in my opinion a fantastic film, amazing to look at, with excellent action scenes, special effects and brilliant acting particularly from Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch

Saw it last night (in 2D, of course) and loved it. It has great respect for the characterisations and humour of TOS, good simple storyline, superb action sequences and a top menacing performance from Benedict Cumberbatch as Khan. Pine and Quinto, especially, have truly embraced the original characters and are believable as them, quite a feat.

[Covenant]

I saw it last night at the cinema in 3d. Got to say I could do without the 3d which was blurred in places. Some flaws in the story annoyed me. Kirk and the baddy flying through space from Enterprise to the other ship. They had to reach a hatch opened by Scotty. It wasn't an airlock so there would have been explosive decompression of the vast engineering bay.
But loved the characters who totally understand the original TV series and are fantastic in their own right.

[MartinT]

It wasn't an airlock so there would have been explosive decompression of the vast engineering bay.

Various ST series have depicted openings to space where a 'force field' keeps the air inside.

[Covenant]

I suppose if they can transport when they are on the move they can hold back a room full of air and allow two bodies to fly through the force field.
Clever these trekkies.