"Last Stop Larrimah" is a much watch movie on Netflix.     It is best described as a movie/doco type of screening that starts slowly but builds up to a great end.     Typical Aussie outback movie where life revolves around the Pub in a dying town, with the usual cross section of people from the town upperclass (bogans in diamonds) to the town drunk.    I found it a good movie, and have actually driven through the town a few times as well as having stayed at the "Pink Panther Pub". 

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Spotswood aka The Efficiency Expert - starring Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Alwyn Kurts, Bruno Lawrence, John Walton, Rebecca Rigg, Toni Collette, Russell Crowe, Angela Punch McGregor, Dan Wyllie, John Flaus, Jeff Truman all giving masterly performances many in their first major roles.  It is the story of an efficiency experts, with Edgar Wallace called in to look at how Balls a Moccasin Factory situated in the Melbourne suburb of Spotswood can be brought up to speed and actually make real profits.  Before this, Mr. Ball has been selling his assets to hide that he has been making a loss.  Played by old time actor Alwyn Kurts, Mr. Ball, treats his staff benevolently and believes in the dignity of their work over their efficiency.  Carey is a young man who is detailed to help Mr. Wallace prepare his report.  Wallace finds himself drawn into the private lives of the employees around him.  He takes part in the slot car championship and enjoys it.  He decides that rather than sack everybody he can do something else and use their expertise to make something of the factory.  Well worth watching, I'd rate this 8 out of 10, if for nothing else to see Russel Crowe in his first starring role, alone with Toni Collette as well as greats like Angela Punch McGregor and Bruno Lawrence  and Alwyn Kurts.

Fauda.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4565380/

8.3/10  IMDb   100% Rotten Tomatoes   4.8/5 Facebook   90% liked this TV show

Doron, an Israeli soldier, comes out of retirement and goes undercover to hunt down a deadly terrorist he thought he had eliminated.


Rewatching it on Netflix.

Captain Nemo wrote on Nov 17^th, 2023 at 11:01am:



I thought it was a good movie as well.  It could have included a "wee" break for us Seniors though!   I have downloaded it to watch again on a rainy day and I also enjoyed seeing Tom Conti in a good role.    His Daughter Nina Conti is quite well known on the Comedy Circuit here in Melbourne.     She uses hand controlled face masks of various types on volunteers from the audience and, together with a very well hone voice projection technique, can absolutely destroy someone on stage.

Vic wrote on Nov 17^th, 2023 at 2:58pm:


Oh! I didn't catch that she was Tom's daughter. Spotted her on ABC breakfast today but didn't realise who it was. 

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a 1943 British romantic-war film written, produced and directed by the British film-making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. The title derives from the satirical Colonel Blimp comic strip by David Low, but the story is original. One film critic has described it as "England's greatest film ever".  I wouldn't go so far but it talks about an England that even then was dying out.  Deborah Kerr plays three roles, first as Edith Hunter, then as Livesay's wife, Barbara Wynne and finally as "Johnnie" Angela Cannon, who is Candy's MTC driver.  Theo, Candy's German friend is struck by her resemblance to his dead wife, Edith.  Anyway, it all begins as a flash back as "Spud" Wilson, Angela's boyfriend tries to capture General Wynne-Candy at the Royal Bathing club.  Wynne-Candy grabs him and submerges him in the bath with him and remembers how he met Theo his German friend and the trials and tribulations over the decades.  Overall, a wonderful movie, even if they do use American trucks.  Interesting it features John Laurie, whom you'd recognise as the dour, pessimistic Private Frazer from Dads' Army.  I'd give this film 9 out of 10, well worth watching.

Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 American black-and-white spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of an American reporter based in Britain who tries to expose enemy spies involved in a fictional continent-wide conspiracy in the prelude to World War II. It stars Joel McCrea and features 19-year-old Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Basserman, and Robert Benchley, along with Edmund Gwenn.  It has the usual Hitchcock build up of tension and is well worth watching.  It reflects a America still unsure about the possibility of war with Europe in the way it treats Fisher, the master spy and the circumstances of his death, far too noble for a Nazi. 9 out of 10.