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    Rate the last film you saw partie deux

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    4 minutes ago, Paul71 said:

    Sign of old age that when you prefer the front row to the back row ?

    Yes, I always make a beeline for the front, mainly so I don’t end up with some gangly ******* in front of me. 

    The other night at Northern Light I was behind an elderly gentleman with a halo of white frizz on his bonce. It caught the light in a very distracting manner. 

    Rate the last film you saw partie deux

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    1 hour ago, archied said:

    nil by mouth is still one of the best films ever

    Thanks for the recommendation, I haven’t seen it. 

    No, I don’t go for the blockbusters. I’m lucky to have the Barley Mow film club at Bonsall and Northern Light in Wirksworth near by. They put on an interesting selection, often stuff that I wouldn’t ever have heard of. 

    Rate the last film you saw partie deux

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    Mary Magdalene

    Familiar subject matter, supposedly from the viewpoint of Mary, but there was too much missing from the story to give the characters any substance or to make the relationships seem plausible. 5/10

    Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 

    The last weeks of the life of Holywood actress, Gloria Grahame, based on the book by Peter Turner, her much younger lover at the time. Parts of her life were told through flashbacks, but too little to give a sense of who she was or why we should care. 6/10

    Family Life 

    The 1971 Ken Loach film about the descent of a young woman into schizophrenia, and the brutalities of her hospital treatment. A suitably bleak anti psychiatry flick with various Freudian and Marxist themes well to the fore. 6/10

    A Fantastic Woman 

    Chilean foreign language film about the death of a transgender woman’s lover, and her struggle to survive the subsequent fallout from the family and the police. Unsentimental and darkly uplifting, with a strong lead. 8/10

    Beer Thread

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    1 hour ago, sage said:

    What do you think to the micropub?

    I like the Feather Star, and more people I know tend to go in there.  Not tried the new micro at the Red Lion yet. 

    Random stuff that people do that annoy me

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    I’ve probably mentioned this one before, but it keeps happening and I’m getting more and more irritated by it; paper napkins under your food. 

    You can’t begin to eat until you’ve extracted the damn thing, by which time half of your chips are on the floor and the rest have bits of soggy paper stuck to them. Then, when you actually need a napkin, all you have is a ripped bit of greasy tissue. 

    There’s no justification for this on any level; it’s not even aesthetically pleasing to have maroon paper poking out from under a rocket salad. It’s wasteful, annoying and unhygienic. 

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