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In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or are transformed into beasts according to their choice and sent off into The Woods. I've never heard of Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos before but if the rest of his movies are similar to this one, I'll be checking them out. I love these type of movies which come up with these unconventional stories. The Lobster is a strange movie and the people in this future are all apathetic and uncharismatic which makes the fact that they have to form couples even more ironic. They bond on basis of common character traits (such as a limp or short shortsightedness). The delicious offbeat humour and high-concept weirdness of The Lobster's first act don't conceal the movie's darker intentions. For such a low budget movie it has a tremendous cast in Colin Farrell, John C Reilly, Rachel Weisz and Léa Seydoux amongst others. The movie is slow paced but still hypnotising to look at, but I can imagine if these kind of movies are not your thing that you will find it quite boring. I found it an interesting movie as it has some very dry humour in it. Although I enjoyed it a lot, it doesn't mean that you will as it's a bit of an acquired taste. If you're up for it though, give it a whirl.

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Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator" is a grand spectacle with a reverence for the nostalgic, set in simpler times. As a snapshot of Howard Hughes's life from 1927 to 1947, this movie is a portrait of a man of genius and unmatched innovation, and also a man debilitated by severe OCD and extreme depression. It has an amazing performance by Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, and a mesmerising performance by Cate Blanchett, who seems to inhabit the role of Katherine Hepburn. DiCaprio truly captures Hughes's intensity, genius, and charm. His suffering also elicits great compassion. An unrecognisable Kate Beckinsale is also awesome as Ava Gardner. This movie is spectacular to view, and has a sense of history and tragedy. Definitely recommended to watch.

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Albert Finney is Eddie Ginley, a music-hall comedian/nightclub bingo caller who really wants to be fictional private detective Sam Spade. Ginley starts a new career and turns himself into a private eye with an advert in the newspaper, wearing a trench coat and talking in rapid-fire dialogue à la Humphrey Bogart. He takes on the job of investigating a dangerous case involving murder, weapons smuggling and drugs. This movie pulls off that clever difficult trick of being gripping both as a spoof and as a thriller, thanks to the clever screenplay by Neville Smith and Stephen Frears’s taut direction. Albert Finney is really good as Ginley. The smart banter between Bogart and Lauren Bacall echoes in the breathless quips that Finney and Billie Whitelaw trade in some of the movie's best moments. Prepare to enjoy a pacey, brilliantly written plot which refreshingly expects the audience to have the knowledge and intelligence to keep up and be swept away. I was pleasantly surprised with this movie.

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Unable to go home for the holidays, young girls Greta and Sumac are forced to remain at their boarding school with Rodney, the headmaster's son. They meet Meba, a baby flying saucer from Venus. Mainly of interest as a precursor of E.T, which borrows at least three or four of its key ideas, this is actually a slightly below average entry in the children's features turned out by Mary Field's unit at Elstree for Rank's Children's Film Foundation even though the direction is occasionally inventive and it all comes to really fine climax. The problem at the heart of the matter is that the Venusian's doings are not only a bit on the dull side, but the technical trickery now seems very unsophisticated to an E.T trained audience. It might interest completists of CFF movie fans but otherwise don't really bother.

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AKB48Fan rated House on Haunted Hill

 House on Haunted Hill 7/10

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A group of people are invited to stay in a haunted house for 1 night. If they manage to survive the experience, they stand to win $10,000. A moody, atmospheric and surprisingly comedic chiller, this horror classic is an old-movie lover's dream come true: terrific sets, great use of music, an intelligent and layered screenplay, a charismatic leading man in Vincent Price, and some intricate and downright unpredictable twists along the way. What begins as an effective but simple haunted-house yarn gradually develops into a nifty little thriller, filled with unsavoury and untrustworthy characters slowly unraveling a mystery while the threat of ghosts and ghouls haunts every scene. If you're a horror fan of all kinds, you should take a look at this cult classic.

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AKB48Fan rated The One That Got Away

 The One That Got Away 8/10

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A thoroughly entertaining (and true!) movie about a World War II German POW Franz von Werra, an ace Luftwaffe pilot shot down during an air battle over Britain in 1940. He not only escaped twice (but got recaptured) from 2 different camps on British soil but actually managed to totally escape for good when he was transported to a remote POW camp in Canada in January 1941 by train, cross the St Lawrence river into the US and find his way back to Germany via South America and Spain. The movie defies convention by actually allowing the bad guy to outfox the good guys. Even though you shouldn't, you actually grow to like this cocky and ingenious man because he absolutely refused to let his captivity stop him from thinking of creative plans to escape. German actor Hardy Kruger is brilliant as von Werra. The cinematography is also fantastic showing the bleak, cold and wet Autumn landscape of the Lake District. This is a very well made and enjoyable movie of one soldier's quest by any means necessary to find his way back home.

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AKB48Fan rated The Stranglers of Bombay

 The Stranglers of Bombay 7/10

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This is a quite fantastic British comedy about a young couple who get married and buy a small cottage out in the countryside. Unfortunately the bride's father interferes with the renovating in the cottage which leads to all kinds of complications! Using every slapstick and farce joke they can lay their hands on, scriptwriters Jack Davies and Henry Blyth keep the pace rushing along at such a gallop you get carried away with their enthusiasm. James Robertson Justice is superb as the pompous overbearing father Sir Beverly Grant with excellent backup by Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Sally Smith and Ronnie Barker as a builder. There are many funny moments in this movie but one thing is for certain - you're bound to be laughing a lot throughout. British comedy lovers should definitely check this out.

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Scotland Yard's Inspector Lawrence discovers the Crown of St Edward has been stolen from the Tower of London in a daring daylight robbery. The culprit is super villain Jenebel dubbed The Queen Of The World. It's up to suave, debonair playboy Sir Reginald Hoover's alter-ego Argoman with his telekinetic powers to stop her! This is a truly dreadful Euro super hero parody movie which has it's tongue well and truly in cheek. It's like the Batman TV series except it's far worse than it. The superhero's attire is a pathetic yellow spandex costume with a mask and when he uses his powers his eyes light up green! Just one drawback to those powers though - if he shags somebody he loses those powers for 6 hours!! The plot is nonsensical and the only good thing I can say about this movie is the eye-candy on display in the villain Jenebel and Sir Reginald Hoover's girlfriend who wear quite revealing clothes. If want a good chuckle after a drinking session you could no worse than watch it otherwise steer clear of it.

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AKB48Fan rated Before We Vanish

 Before We Vanish 6/10

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Three aliens travel to Earth on a mission in preparation for a mass invasion. Having taken possession of human bodies, the visitors rob their hosts of the very essence of their being, leaving psychological and spiritual devastation in their wake. This movie by Kiyoshi Kurosawa started out quite well with a husband acting rather odd in a hospital and a schoolgirl who murders 2 old people in their home but then the story slows right down and doesn't really pick up again until about 25 mins before the end. Kurosawa's usual deadpan sense of surrealist humour is at full effect at all times. There's a few good action scenes usually with the alien schoolgirl blowing people away with pistols or machine guns. As the movie drags for over 2 hours, there are pacing issues with the story which doesn't help with the flow - a good 30 mins should have been cut. I can't say this is one of Kurosawa's best work and I don't think I'd watch it again.

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An English journalist accepts a wager from Edgar Allen Poe and his friend Lord Blackwood that he cannot spend a night in the haunted Blackwood castle. Once there, the writer wanders around the dusty rooms and corridors, until music and a glimpse of a waltzing couple lead him into an empty room. He is surprised to be tapped on the shoulder by the stunningly beautiful Elizabeth Blackwood. She informs him with an ambiguous charming/eerie manner that she has prepared his room upstairs and that someone is always expected on this night...the Night of the Dead. Thus begins a startling series of supernatural events that bewilder the journalist all the rest of the night. This is a well executed old and very dark house Italian gothic horror. The story is interesting with many twists and turns - so many that you are wondering just who is and who isn't among the undead by the end of the movie. It gets very high marks for creating a creepy atmosphere. The house, black & white cinematography and music work together to make for a scary looking movie. Scream Queen Barbara Steele is her usual beautiful/creepy self. The movie delivers in terms of macabre visuals and shivers with many memorable moments. This is one Italian Gothic horror that is genuinely deserving of its praise. Go watch!

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Based on the popular BBC radio series that was running at the time, this comedy is about an inept crew of a mine-sweeping unit off the fictional island of Boonsey in the English Channel. None of the cast from the radio series apart from Leslie Phillips appear in the movie which is s shame as I'm sure Jon Pertwee and Ronnie Barker would have fitted in nicely in this movie. The plot of the movie is about the Admiralty trying to close down the mine-sweeping unit with the crew getting up to all sorts of mischief to make sure that doesn't happen. You could say this movie is sort of like one of the Carry Ons with it's humour and there is plenty of laughs to be had. Cecil Parker has the leading role as the man in charge of the mine-sweeping operation. Ronnie Shiner tries his best to be like Sid James even attempting to copy his dirty laugh at times. It might not be a classic comedy movie but it's a good one to put your feet up, disengage your brain and just enjoy the shenanigans that takes place.

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Burt Lancaster is Ned Merrill, a guy who one day decides to swim his way home, via all his neighbours pools. He stops for chats, drinks and even a frolic in some woods with a buxom blonde teenager. It appears at first he is doing this for fun, then snippets of things that some neighbours say unveil a darker story. This is a weirder movie than it sounds, they way things happen and the interactions with the neighbours is occasionally surreal. It was a box office failure when it was released but has now become a cult classic. The movie draws you in from the first moment and gives you a fantastic performance from Burt Lancaster. His character at first oozes confidence and somebody in the picture of health but in the last scene he's a wreck of a man. Lancaster for a man in his early 50's at the time of filming looked in amazing shape. In the end, this is a great movie of somebody who lost the American Dream. Definitely well worth checking out.

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An interesting version of the Robin Hood story by Hammer Studios. Robin de Courtenay is a Norman nobleman falsely accused by his cousin Roger of murdering his other cousin Henry. Forced to turn outlaw, Robin flees the castle, joins a band of Saxon outcasts, and is dubbed Robin Hood. The fight for justice begins. This version of the Robin Hood story features a number of twists, not the least of which is that Robin is a Norman and his close friends, Little John and Will Scarlet, are Norman retainers. Maid Marian has a rather limited role when compared to most other adaptations. Most, but not all, of the characters generally associated with Robin Hood are present in this version. Barrie Ingham is fine as Robin though he lacks the charisma of other actors that took the role before him. This well-made movie is well worth a look, particularly for those who enjoy the Robin Hood genre or classic adventures.

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