Now Screening - What Are You Watching Right Now?

[Barry]

I've seen the first one of those, have to say first time I watched it didn't get past 15 minutes but tried again once I sort of understood where they were going with the tone of it and I quite enjoyed it.

Depp is really good in it, carries it really.

Not seen any of the others as they don't seem to come on the telly very often, but I'll look out for them.

Inclined to agree - I saw the first and then the second, which did not add much. It's now a franchise, and despite the inclusion of the inestimable Geoffrey Rush they all seem to be much of a muchness.

[struth]

Earlier...

The Front Page, 1974...




NOW...

Jeremiah Johnson, 1972...

[struth]

on being offered the indian chief's daughter, Del Gue had these words for Jeramiah....

He may be a Christian and talk white; but he's still an Indian and his rules is his rules. Now, when this is over you can take her to Fort Hawley and trade her, but you will get married my friend. Besides, maybe she ain't half bad. You turn down this gift, and they'll slit you, me, Caleb and the horses from crotch to eyeball with a dull deer antler!

a good reason to marry me thinks... father in laws are all the same

[struth]

Bicentennial Man, 1999...



When Andrew regales the family with jokes, the jokes themselves were unscripted. Robin Williams ad-libbed all of the jokes. The other actors' reactions to the jokes and their laughter are real.

The aria that Andrew is listening to when he first uses the record player is from Dvorak's opera "Rusalka." The opera is concerned with the fairy-tale story of a water nymph who wants to become mortal for love.

The female robot, Galatea, is named after the statue brought to life by the gods in the Pygmalion myth.

[struth]

The Ipcress File, 1965..




Harry Palmer is depicted as an accomplished cook, but when you see Palmer skillfully break a couple of eggs, the hands in the close-up belong to Len Deighton, author of the book on which this movie was based. Deighton was an accomplished cook and also wrote a comic strip about cooking for The Observer. The walls of Palmer's kitchen are full of these strips.


Palmer is the first action hero to wear glasses. (Sir Michael Caine is near-sighted in real life.) Caine chose to wear glasses because he expected this movie to be the first of a franchise, similar to the Bond movies. He feared being over-identified with the character of Harry Palmer, and so he wore the glasses so that he could remove them for other roles.
Harry's glasses frames were dark brown, contrary to the widely held view that they were black. They were a style called "Teviot 74" manufactured by a company called "U.K. Optical". They were already popular at the time for being a stylish and inexpensive alternative to the standard models that were issued for "free" by the National Health Service in Britain. They became even more popular after the success of this movie. Len Deighton wore the same frames at this time. Those frames have been described by some as the first affordable "designer" frames available in the U.K.

[struth]

Shooter, 2007...
Welcome to Tennessee, patron state of shootin' stuff





The large caliber rifle that Swagger owns, with which he is framed, is a Cheyenne Tactical M200 Intervention. It fires a .408 caliber projectile accurately out to and beyond two thousand meters. The CheyTac M200 is also available with a Long Range Rifle System, which consists of a laser range finder, magnifying scope with night vision capability, and a weather-sensing module, all of which interface with a PDA running ballistics calculation software.

When Swagger (Mark Wahlberg) directs his M200 at a can of beef stew he set up for target practice. He locks his scope dead center on it and looks over at his dog and says "1760 (meters), that's about a mile". At that distance, a shooter has to take into account wind, bullet spin drift, the Coriolis Effect, etc. which means Swagger would have needed to apply "Kentucky Windage" to compensate for these variables. In other words, the scope would have been off center as snipers use the scope cross hair mil dots to compensate. In addition, the Cheytac M200 Intervention sniper rifle includes a ballistic computer PDA as well as mathematical documentation to aide in precise aiming, which means the scope would be anything but dead center on the beef stew can.

[Barry]

[URL="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&ua ct=8&ved=2ahUKEwiYvOGZzoD7AhWmhP0HHQpuCrwQFnoECCIQ AQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe _Ipcress_File_(film)&usg=AOvVaw1BNxKsXT-fxwudNzIlgVb-"]The Ipcress File, 1965..

Good film - the first and the best of the Harry Palmer trilogy.

[sailor]

This is or was available on Netflix, outstanding and thoroughly recommended. I can't see anybody, young or old not enjoying this brilliant doccy.

My Octopus Teacher

2020 | U | 1h 25m | Nature & Ecology Documentaries
A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.

I tried to get a pic up here for you, sorry no luck.

[Barry]

[struth]

marvellous and worth another watch..