Our movies for 2023
Movie Club list for 2023
Date: 4 March
RRR (India, 2022)
“Intoxicatingly over the top, RRR pulls out all the stops to make the absolute most of its 187-minute runtime.” (Rotten Tomatoes)
Yes, this film is over 3 hours long and it’s an unforgettable ride, imo. It follows the “imaginary friendship between two superheroes,” according to director S. S. Rajamouli.
More here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRR_(film)
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Everything everywhere all at once (2022, Daniels, Comedy/Drama)
‘Punching way above its weight, this inventive indie pic boasts spectacular ambitions that belie its limited budget. Yet for all its madcap invention and frenzied visual wit, what drives this story of a woman trapped in a world of “laundry and taxes” is a tangible emotional wallop – that most“special” effect that franchise blockbusters so often fail to deliver. Michelle Yeoh sinks her teeth into a kaleidoscopic role that cheekily draws on her own genre-hopping back catalogue.’ (The Guardian)
I’ve heard this one is a bit of a parallel-universe-travelling spinout – something completely different!
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Date: 13 May (new date)
Casablanca – A “studio” movie that demonstrates how the finished film can transcend the sum of its parts. And that song!
Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), who owns a nightclub in Casablanca, discovers his old flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) is in town with her husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). Laszlo is a famed rebel, and with Germans on his tail, Ilsa knows Rick can help them get out of the country.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1003707-casablanca
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Escape from Mogadishu (2021) Action drama
Director Ryoo Seung-Wan
It is 1991, Mogadishu, capital city and most populous city of Somalia was torn by civil war. The personnel and the families of the South Korean embassy, isolated with no communication were enduring hail of bullets and shells. Then one night, personnel from the North Korean embassy knocked on the door asking for help. People of both embassies have one goal, to escape from Mogadishu. (from IMDB)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_Mogadishu
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14810692/
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Date: 1 July
Once Upon A Time In America – The longest movie you’ll ever see from a man named Sergio.
In 1968, the elderly David “Noodles” Aaronson (Robert De Niro) returns to New York, where he had a career in the criminal underground in the ’20s and ’30s. Most of his old friends, like longtime partner Max (James Woods), are long gone, yet he feels his past is unresolved. Told in flashbacks, the film follows Noodles from a tough kid in a Jewish slum in New York’s Lower East Side, through his rise to bootlegger and then Mafia boss — a journey marked by violence, betrayal and remorse.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/once_upon_a_time_in_america
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Knives out (2019)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan’s dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan’s untimely death.—Lionsgate
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Date: 26 Aug
Tampopo (1985)
Comedy
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, the main story is about trucker Goro, who rides into town like a modern Shane to help Tampopo set up the perfect noodle soup restaurant. Woven into this main story are a number of smaller stories about the importance of food, ranging from a gangster who mixes hot sex with food, to an old woman who terrorizes a shopkeeper by compulsively squeezing his wares.—Reid Gagle
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Beasts of no nation 2015
Follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in a fictional West African country. While Agu fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination Depicts the mechanics of war and does not shy away from explicit, visceral detail, and paints a complex, difficult picture of Agu as a child soldier.
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Date: 28 Oct
Wolfwalkers (2020) Animated Fantasy.
Directors Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart.
In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter, ROBYN, comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack. But when Robyn saves a wild native girl, MEBH, their friendship leads her to discover the world of the WOLFWALKERS (from IMDB)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfwalkers
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5198068/
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Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) Drama
Director Steven Zaillian
A prepubescent chess prodigy is encouraged to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer. (from IMDB)
Club Moofie 