Interstellar I just found tiresome -- I actually gave up on it. Most voice parts delivered in a sort of a monotone that just left me jaded.
EDIT//  Dunno, maybe I'll try Interstellar again sometime - it gets very good score on imdb

Hey tomos! Yes, try it again, it was one of the best movies I saw in the last 3 years. (Wouldn't have minded it being a bit shorter though. ) And I just saw that it even entered IMDb's Top 250 (as #33).

In a dark room, watching on a tablet, using earphones, (starts to make you imagine what lies beyond the glare of the LCD and what small sounds you're missing), and at a time well passed midnight, I watched two of the most iconic figures of horror in the last 10 years: Sadako (Ring series); Kayako (Ju-on series)

Yes, it had to happen: Sadako v Kayako

La La Land
the lack of chemistry between the two really took away from it for me

Quote from: tomos on January 18, 2017, 08:58 PM

La La Land
the lack of chemistry between the two really took away from it for me

You mean Gosling and Stone?  I thought they had great chemistry.  It's amazing how multiple people can see the same movie, and have such wide-ranging differences in what they see.  I've heard them compared to the Golden Age greats.

I'm always conscious others may/will see it differently. So yeah, my take on it.
I thought they had great promise initially -- him being stroppy, her quirky. Maybe it just wasn't given enough time. I did enjoy the ending, thought that worked very well. It was in the main body of the film I thought the chemistry was lacking. I'm not big on the musical approach, so maybe that left me looking for too much elsewhere.
Some great melodies, songs, music though

Passengers. My first and probably my last 3D movie. Chris Pratt's lifeless face coming STRAIGHT TOWARDS ME OHMYGOSH.

I'd totally prefer a 3D J.Law porno.

Still better than Passengers.

They Look Like People - low budget scary movie, very well done and completely creeped me out.

Manchester by the sea
Fleabag (series)
Fail-safe
French connection
Little Miss Sunshine
The Thing

Fail-safe

Dr. Strangelove was a parody of this film.  Peter Sellers played three roles.  If you are too young to remember The Cold War(tm) then it may not be so funny.  But for those of us who do the caricatures are marvelous. 

Kundschafter des Friedens
a bunch of old East German spies come out of retirement and show the kids how it's done. With a few hiccups along the way.
I enjoyed it.

Nice sixties style spy music and split screens:


^ two (different) trailers in that one

Solaris

Storyline:
The Solaris mission has established a base on a planet that appears to host some kind of intelligence, but the details are hazy and very secret. After the mysterious demise of one of the three scientists on the base, the main character (a troubled psychologist) is sent out to replace him. He finds the station run-down and the remaining scientists cold and secretive. When he also encounters his wife who has been dead for ten years, he begins to discover the baffling nature of the alien intelligence.

My review:
I've actually been watching 2 versions of the Solaris movie - the original 1972 Russian production, and the newer Hollywood version of 2002, with George Clooney.
They are both very good movies, in my view, and though the interpretation and somewhat surprising endings are different, the story hangs together rather well in each.   
I had always thought the 1972 version could not be bested, but the 2002 version was just as good and George Clooney does a pretty creditable act as the psychologist.   
The Solaris movies are based on the story of the same name by the superb SF writer Stanislaw Lem.   

Soundtrack Music: https://www.soundtrack.net/album/solaris--3196/
The music in the second one (2002) is by Cliff Martinez and is very good and I find it worth listening to for its own sake, with some of it being quite hauntingly beautiful.   

Low budget Lovecraft inspired film: