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The Holdovers (2023)
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It's the beginning of our festive film season and for Izzy's first Christmas choice she has gone for award-winning The Holdovers (2023), a 70's tale of a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker (Dominic Sessa), and with the school's head cook (Da'Vine Joy Randolph), a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.
Sunday Dec 01, 2024
Rope (1948)
Sunday Dec 01, 2024
Sunday Dec 01, 2024
Hal has returned to his Hitchcock marathon for his next selection by choosing Rope (1948), the classic psychological crime thriller portraying two men who try to convince themselves they've committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party after strangling a former classmate to death.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Sunday Nov 24, 2024
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Sunday Nov 24, 2024
Sunday Nov 24, 2024
Izzy has gone big this week and selected a true war epic in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998), portraying a squad of U.S. Army soldiers on a perilous assignment behind enemy lines. The mission: to risk their lives to save the life of one man, paratrooper James Ryan. Ryan is the last survivor of a family of four brothers, the rest of whom have been killed in action.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Sunday Nov 17, 2024
Duel (1971)
Sunday Nov 17, 2024
Sunday Nov 17, 2024
Hal has selected Steven Spielberg's feature film debut this week Duel (1971), a road-action thriller centred on a travelling salesman David Mann (played by Dennis Weaver) driving his car through rural California to meet a client. However, he finds himself chased and terrorized by the mostly unseen driver of a pursuing truck.
Sunday Nov 10, 2024
Nosferatu (1922)
Sunday Nov 10, 2024
Sunday Nov 10, 2024
For a special cinema interactive viewing, we took a trip to the Prince Charles Cinema to watch the highly influential silent horror German film Nosferatu, that tell the story of the mysterious Count Orlok (Max Schreck) who summons Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim) to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok's servant, Knock (Alexander Granach), prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.
Director: F.W. Murnau
Sunday Nov 03, 2024
Casper (1995)
Sunday Nov 03, 2024
Sunday Nov 03, 2024
Izzy has selected a film full of childhood nostalgia for her with Casper (1995) which follows the title character who peacefully haunts a mansion called Whipstaff Manor, meeting and befriending a teenage girl named Kat Harvey (Christina Ricci), the daughter of Dr. James Harvey (Bill Pullman), a paranormal therapist who is hired to move into Whipstaff in order to rid the mansion of its spectral inhabitants.
Director: Brad Silberling
Sunday Oct 27, 2024
Whistle and I’ll Come to You (1968)
Sunday Oct 27, 2024
Sunday Oct 27, 2024
Hal's gone a bit left-field again for his next Spooktober choice, and he's picked out a classic BBC adaptation of an equally classic ghost story about a skeptical professor on vacation in Norfolk who finds a cursed whistle, starring Michael Hordern.
Director: Jonathan Miller
"Do you believe in Ghosts Professor?"
Sunday Oct 20, 2024
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Sunday Oct 20, 2024
Sunday Oct 20, 2024
Izzy's first official selection for Spook-tober is the Oscar-sweeping The Silence of the Lambs (1991) featuring Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee who is hunting a serial killer named "Buffalo" Bill, who skins his female victims. To catch him, she seeks the advice of the imprisoned Hannibal Lector (memorably played by Anthony Hopkins), a former psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer.
Director: Jonathan Demme
Sunday Oct 13, 2024
Dead of Night (1945)
Sunday Oct 13, 2024
Sunday Oct 13, 2024
We are back for the first episode of Spooktober (Spooky Season oooohh) and Hal has gone straight in and selected one of his all-time favourite Horror movies with the anthology Ealing classic Dead of Night (1945) starring Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave and Googie Withers as guests invited to a weekend in the country share their supernatural stories, beginning with Walter Craig (Johns), who sense impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality.
Directors: Charles Crichton, Alberto Cavalcanti, Robert Hamer & Basil Dearden
Sunday Sep 29, 2024
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Sunday Sep 29, 2024
Sunday Sep 29, 2024
Izzy is back with a real treat this week as she has chosen the 2005 Stop-Motion animation comedy film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit as Wallace and his loyal dog, Gromit, set out to discover the mystery behind the garden sabotage that plagues their village and threatens the annual giant vegetable growing contest. Featuring Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes & Helena Bonham Carter in voice roles. Directors: Nick Park & Steve Box
Couple Indemnity
As far as film taste goes, ours couldn't be more different. Yet, since our very first date, our enthusiasm and open-mindedness towards different films, whether it's unfamiliar genres, distant decades or foreign languages, has been the basis of many more wonderful dinner-date conversations.
We hope you enjoy a peek into our film-nerd debates.