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"Action!" Films of 2026

DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
edited January 12 in Heaven
I am looking forward to Odyssey in the summer, but is anything else good coming up - anything you’ve seen and want to talk about ? Post reviews and recommendations here.

(ETA late because my own typo was doing my head in.)

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  • MrsBeakyMrsBeaky Shipmate
    Just back from our local cinema. Beaky daughter number two took me to see "Song Sung Blue".
    Confession time: as a teenager I was a member of the Neil Diamond fan club 😬😆 which is partly why my daughter chose it.
    But honestly, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson et al turned in such excellent performances that you wouldn't need to be a fan to enjoy it. Unless you hate musicals!
    What I really loved, apart from the excellent singing and acting, was that the film featured some of Neil Diamond's less populist songs with his imo very poetic lyrics.
    It's a sad but hopeful story and I'm glad to have seen it.
  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    Finally started The Hogfather! 1/3 of the way through. I like it, but I wonder if people who don’t already know about Discworld or haven’t read the book will get many references or know what’s going on.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    Daughter-Unit and I are very excited to see Project Hail Mary which opens March 20!
    Trailer.
  • Sicut CervusSicut Cervus Shipmate
    We have just come home from seeing “my brother’s band”, subtitled version of a French film called “en fanfare”, I think. Really good, some small points of homage to Billy Elliott and As it is in heaven, and probably many other movies. About the healing power of music, amongst other things. Was a big hit in France last year and won a Cesar.
    I had a small quibble with the translation of ‘embouchure’ as mouthpiece. Should be embouchure in the context of wind instrument technique.
  • MarkDMarkD Shipmate
    jedijudy wrote: »
    Daughter-Unit and I are very excited to see Project Hail Mary which opens March 20!
    Trailer.

    Looked at the trailer. Looks interesting. Been forever since I've been to a theatre.
  • SarasaSarasa All Saints Host
    I too am looking forward to Project Hail Mary, but will probably wait till it is streamed as I need subtitles when watching films.
  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    Finished the Hogfather movie, now watching Colour of Magic!
  • Sicut CervusSicut Cervus Shipmate
    The hot weather has driven us to air-conditioned cinemas, so we have just seen ‘the Choral’.
    Really liked many things about this film, especially Ralph Fienne’s performance and the young soldier who took on the tenor solo. Like others, not so sure about Elgar’s appearance, it made him look like those awful people on the conscientious objector committee, and didn’t really contribute to the plot.
    The application of Gerontius’ music to ww1 deaths of millions of young soldiers was very powerful. The script brought out the social changes accelerated by ww1, which I remember my grandfather, a veteran of that war, talking about.
    WitG and I have plans to visit the war graves in France this year, as we both have great-uncles buried there.
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Am I the only one who keeps mentally ignoring the exclamation mark and reading the title of this thread as “Action Films of 2026,” and who is then surprised to see discussion of movies like The Choral, thinking “but that’s not an action film”?

    I suspect the answer to my question is yes, I am the only one.


  • Sicut CervusSicut Cervus Shipmate
    I took Action! To be a general film reference. As in Lights, Camera Action. I don't think we have a separate thread for different genres, happy to be corrected.
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    I suspect the answer to my question is yes, I am the only one.
    You are not the only one.

  • SparrowSparrow Shipmate
    Looking forward to seeing Hamnet next week.
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Sicut Cervus wrote: »
    I took Action! To be a general film reference. As in Lights, Camera Action. I don't think we have a separate thread for different genres, happy to be corrected.
    No, I don’t recall that we’ve ever have separate threads for separate genres. And yes, I get the “Lights! Camera! Action!” reference.

    I’m just saying that my mind repeatedly ignores or fails to register the exclamation mark, so that even though I know better I keep reading the thread title as “Action Films of 2026,” rather than as “Action! Films of 2026.”

    Maybe it’s the extra space before the exclamation mark—“Action ! Films of 2026”—that throws me off.


  • ArethosemyfeetArethosemyfeet Shipmate, Heaven Host
    I hope the slight amendment to the title provides clarity.

    Arethosemyfeet, Heaven Host
  • Lily PadLily Pad Shipmate
    Arethosemyfeet wrote: »
    I hope the slight amendment to the title provides clarity.

    Arethosemyfeet, Heaven Host

    I found my mind was doing the same thing. Thank you for the change.

    I saw "David" yesterday at our local theatre. I doubt it will be here much longer as there were only ten of us in attendance. It made me wonder how many people watched it and went home afterwards to read the story in their Bible. I found it entertaining. The best part was the interpretation of the fabrics and the textures in the clothing. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in textiles and that type of thing.

  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Yes, thank you, @Arethosemyfeet!

  • SparrowSparrow Shipmate
    Went to see Hamnet yesterday. All the reviews I had seen said it was one of the best films ever, a huge tear jerker, spoke of the entire cinema leaving in floods of tears. Not me! OK it was a strong emotional subject and well handled but it didn’t move me all that much. Also nearly all in the dark, for realism presumably. The first half of the movie dragged, setting up their relationship and early days of their marriage.. A lot of Ann/Agnes screaming and writhing about in childbirth. Very little about Shakespeare’s early writing career. The end section, taking place in London at the first performances of Hamlet, was good. I wouldn’t give it more than four stars.
  • Barnabas62Barnabas62 Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Just been to see “H is for Hawk”. Visually stunning, a profound exploration of grief through the coping struggles of one person.

    Claire Foy is just amazing in the key role and the relationship between her and the goshawk is very real.

    A thoughtful and thought provoking movie, as was the original memoire written by Helen Macdonald.
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    Creator (1985). Peter O'Toole, Mariel Hemingway, Vincent Spano, Virginia Madsen. A college professor tries to clone his dead wife.

    The plot sounds naff and, truth to tell, it is not a great movie. But it is a sweet movie. It helps that I adore Peter O'Toole. He wants people to see "the Big Picture" but otherwise won't tell them what it is. Victor Spano cuts to the heart of it: "Harry, I keep trying to see the Big Picture. I'm sorry, but I keep missing it because all I can think of is how much I love her." O'Toole: "What makes you think that you are missing it?"

    This movie is firmly in my list of Guilty Pleasures. I just re-watched it tonight. It remains on the list!
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