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Anna Calvi recommended Whiplash (2014) in Movies (curated)

Whiplash (2014)

2014 | Drama

8.5

(24 Ratings)

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"This is about what a music student who really wants to be great has to sacrifice to pursue greatness. It reminded me a little of my own experience at university, and how there’s such a difference between studying music, which is quite sterile, and then actually going out and doing it. You have to unlearn everything and just try to be honest, using your instrument to speak in a way that people can understand. Andrew’s (Miles Teller) relationship with his music teacher in the film is very extreme, but I had music teachers at school who I felt really passionate about and who I wanted to get better for, so they would believe in me."

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Back to School (1986)

7.0 (4 Ratings) Rate It

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Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfield) is concerned that his son Jason (Keith Gordon) is unsure whether...

The Pelican Brief (1993)

7.2 (5 Ratings) Rate It

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While engaged in an affair with her alcoholic law professor (Sam Shepard), a New Orleans law student...

The Last American Virgin (1982)

5.5 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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Pizza delivery boy Gary (Lawrence Monoson), loudmouth David (Joe Rubbo) and hunky Rick (Steve Antin)...

Gnomic Wisdom

Geoffrey Phillips

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'Life is a sexually transmitted condition with 100% mortality'. So begins Dr Geoffrey Phillips in...

Paul Bettany recommended In the Name of the Father (1993) in Movies (curated)

"There’s so much to like about it. Really brilliant script. I think it’s an amazingly directed movie. It’s the real trick of that movie, to come out feeling that you’re Irish and hate the English, especially when you’re English, which I am. [laughs] It is one of the most exquisite performances of all time. I saw it when I was a student of acting, and there was lots of people to admire; there was Robert De Niro, and there was Al Pacino, and here was an English person, making such a complete and visceral transformation in character that you just went, “Oh my God, we’re allowed to do that sort of thing, too?” That felt really empowering."

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Raul Esparza recommended track Every Day a Little Death by Stephen Sondheim in A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim in Music (curated)

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Every Day a Little Death by Stephen Sondheim

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"I was a student at N.Y.U. in the ’90s. It was the first semester of a musical theater class, and one of the students got up and sang “Every Day a Little Death.” It was dark outside and snowing, and I remember hearing the song and thinking, “What is this?” It’s such a simple series of tiny moments that make up a day, that seem to be completely pragmatic descriptions of everyday life, played against the unbelievable torrent of sweeping emotion underneath in the music. And that is such a classic skill of Steve’s, where lyric plays against music, and the two things together, in the ear of the listener, tell you the whole story."

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Dean (6925 KP) rated Choose (2011) in Movies

Jun 6, 2021

Choose (2011)

2011 | Drama, Horror, Mystery

7.5

(2 Ratings)

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Katheryn Winnick (0 more)

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Had potential

This started off OK, a sort of Slasher film with a twist with the killer forcing victims to choose who to kill or be attacked. With a detective element to it as well. Katheryn Winnick of Vikings stars as a journalism student tracking the killer along with her dad as the local sheriff in a small town.
Just a shame it didn't reach its potential, not a particularly scary film. Seems to be stuck between genres without choosing which direction to go in. The second half of the film unravels without much drama to a rather tame ending. OK if you want a short film to pass the time.

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Nicky Wire recommended Rattlesnakes by Lloyd Cole / Lloyd Cole and the Commotions in Music (curated)

"“Louise is the girl with the perfect skin/ She says turn on the light, otherwise it can't be seen/ She's got cheekbones like geometry and eyes like sin/ And she's sexually enlightened by Cosmopolitan”. To think that was a hit record! It can be done. It can be done. I can remember everything. Again, it’s one of my favourite covers ever - the mystery of this story of a hazy door - are you going to open it and enter this world of student bedsit literary excellence? It’s a really underrated album and I absolutely adore it to this day. I’ve been trying to get my kids into it, but they’re not having it. It’s all Daft Punk for them."

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