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Expresso Bongo
A hustler turned agent who is after a quick buck finds a raw talent in a young man who can sing and play the bongos. Signing the kid up and taking 50% of his fees, the agent thinks he can make a lot of money from him but when an American singer befriends the kid and finds out how much the agent is ripping him off she persuades the lad to ditch him. I would say this movie is more suited to Cliff Richard fans more than anybody else as it was in the year that this movie was released that he hit the big time. The movie depicts a crude and seedier side of London in the late 50's with strip clubs and prostitutes on the streets of Soho. Alongside Cliff, Laurence Harvey is great as the sleazy unscrupulous agent though at times he comes across rather OTT with the beautiful Sylvia Syms as his stripper girlfriend. It's a fascinating time capsule of what the scene was like in London during this time. The songs featured in the movie sadly lack quality. It's still an entertaining cult classic.
6 years, 1 month ago
The Admirable Crichton
Kenneth More plays Crichton, the head butler of a wealthy household. He suggests the family go on a holiday in the South Seas on their yacht after one of the daughters is arrested for being a suffragette. Unfortunately during a violent storm at sea, the yacht is abandoned and all hands head for the lifeboats. One of the lifeboats eventually land on a tropical uninhabited island, far away from shipping lanes. Rescue seems remote. The wealthy family are useless in survival techniques and only More's butler seems to know what to do. Before long, their roles are reversed and it is More that reigns supreme on the island as Governor with the family at his beck and call. Some have said this is a mix of Gilligans Island and Upstairs Downstairs and they're not wrong. It's based on one of JM Barrie's role reversal plays. The plot is simple in that the movie looks at the class system in the UK and switches it in a situation where practicality and leadership qualities mean more than birthright. The movie has a few digs at the ruling classes in the final 20 minutes, showing them as pompous and perhaps not as honourable as they should be, meanwhile Crichton lives up to the character given him by the movie's title. Overall this is a quaint and amusing little movie that makes a very good point.
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Momokuri

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Momokuri

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6 years, 1 month ago
Not So Dusty
 Not So Dusty 6/10
6 years, 1 month ago
Not So Dusty
Last of the Summer Wine's Bill Owen plays a dustbin man who along with his friend and work colleague find a rather valuable book that various people are desperate to get their hands on it. This comedy movie is fairly funny if you like slapstick humour and rather dated jokes. Along with Owen whose character is a cheeky chappie, future Till Death Us Do Part star Dandy Nichols also gets a sizable role and some good lines. As long as you don't expect too much from this movie you'll find it enjoyable.
6 years, 1 month ago
Fast Girls
 Fast Girls 6/10
6 years, 1 month ago
Fast Girls
Written by Noel Clarke who plays a running coach, this movie is about a rivalry between two female runners who come from different backgrounds. Shania is working class and Lisa comes from a wealthy family with her father on the athletics board that selects the runners. They don't get on with each other but when both are selected to represent their country in the 4 x 200m relay team, they must find a way to overcome their differences in order to win on the track. This movie came out just before the Olympics came to London in 2012. The story covers familiar ground seen in most sports movies, and pushes home the concept that the only thing holding an individual back is how they deal with adversity and what they can do to break the cycle of their lives. It has a great cast which includes Lily James and Lenora Crichlow as the feuding pair. A very entertaining movie in which you root for Shania despite her volatile temper and the British team in the final race. Give it a shot.
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The Inbetween Age
This musical represents a snapshot of what Britain's teenagers liked musically at the time and the rise of the coffee bar scene in the country. It's also a movie to showcase Terry Dene who was a star at the time. The thin plot is about a woman who owns a café with just one customer so with the help of her relation renovates the café into a hip coffee bar where young people come to listen to the latest music on the jukebox. It gets rather far-fetched when she has enough money to open a recording studio next door to help budding new musicians. Depending on your taste in music and if you want a taste of nostalgia back to the good old days you may like this movie. I thought it was dreadful and the music that's played was terrible.
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6 years, 1 month ago
Satan
On the eve of her 20th birthday, a young woman is going with her parents to visit her uncle. Unfortunately, just as they arrive within sight of his house, the car hits a large tree and explodes killing her mother and father. Her uncle takes her inside the house so that she can recuperate. While she is there she begins to have premonitions that include flashbacks to Satanic rituals which happened hundreds of years before on the very grounds where her uncle lives. This low budget horror is not, by any stretch of the imagination, the worst of its type. It has a reasonably interesting story, attractive characters, at least one sleazy psycho guy, and plenty of nakedness and blood. Since its about an evil Satanic cult, there's also a few cool ritual scenes with daggers and robes, along with an attractive young blonde being offered up to the Dark Lord. The story has its moments as I really enjoyed the beginning of the movie and the end quite a bit. It is the middle that at times muddles the movie down involving the young woman having a relationship with her cousin. The movie does have gore in it, nothing that looks all that great at times. Michael Gough does well in his role as the evil uncle. It's not too bad of a movie but could have been a whole lot better.
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Loophole

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Loophole
An American architect living in England who loses an important contract teams up with a band of thieves to break into London's most impregnable vault. With the architect's knowledge, they plan to burrow underneath the vault through the rat infested sewers but complications threaten to derail their efforts. This adventure movie takes it's time to get going but once the heist gets underway it's an interesting enough movie to watch with plenty of suspense apart from the rather stupid ending which defies explanation. Albert Finney and Martin Sheen heads the cast with a young looking Jonathan Pryce as one of the thieves. It's such a pity that the lame ending spoiled what had been such a good story but those that like caper movies will find a lot to enjoy.
6 years, 1 month ago
6 years, 1 month ago
Twice Round the Daffodils
Made by the team behind the Carry On movies, this isn't a typical laugh a minute comedy you expect from them but instead has a bit of a serious tone to it. It's about a group of men confined to a sanitorium because they have TB. Until they get better and have walked around a patch of daffodils twice they are stuck there indefinitely. There are laughs to be had here but it is tinged with a touch of pathos. There's an excellent cast in the movie from Donald Sinden as an RAF skirt chasing officer to a loudmouth Welsh miner in Donald Huston and Carry on regular Kenneth Williams. If you're a fan of any of these actors you'll enjoy it but don't go into it expecting to be splitting your sides with laughter because it's not that type of movie.
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6 years, 2 months ago
They Shall Not Grow Old
An astonishing documentary by Peter Jackson about WWI told through the narrative of the soldiers who fought in it. What Jackson has achieved is nothing short of brilliant - he not only managed to restore and repair old B&W film but has transformed it by colourising the footage. It shows a different perspective of things when seen in colour and gives a vivid impression of how life was on the Western Front. I loved hearing the selected testimonies of the many hundreds of soldiers that took part in the campaign (this apparently took place in the 60's and 70's when most of them were still alive). For Jackson to have professional lip readers painstakingly review all the footage to allow the viewer to then know and hear what was being said truly brought the footage to life. I highly recommend this movie to everyone so that we never forget the sacrifices they made for our freedom.
6 years, 2 months ago
Spud 3: Learning to Fly
The 3rd and last in the Spud trilogy isn't a patch on the other two movies. It's not up to standard and there's not a lot of antics with the Crazy 8 gang but instead it concentrates more on Spud's family. The story is also a little repetitive if you've seen the other movies, with the usual romantic liaisons, spliffs, alcohol and school plays. Not even John Cleese as The Guv gets some good lines this time round. A shame that this movie limps to a crappy conclusion as I really enjoyed the previous two. It seems unlikely that the 4th book which end's Spud's tale will be made into a movie.
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Winchester

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6 years, 2 months ago
Winchester
This movie based on the story of the most haunted mansion in America isn't bad but it doesn't seem to quite deliver on it's setup. With a few tweaks this could've been a very successful slow burn, gothic ghost story. The cinematography is very atmospheric. The acting is good and there's a few scary moments. A marked over-reliance on jump scares got a little tedious. I really don't think they took as much advantage of the location as they could've. The portrayal of Sarah Winchester by Helen Mirren as the tortured, guilt ridden ghost appeaser falls short to be honest. For what it was, it was entertaining. I just don't think it fulfilled it's potential.
6 years, 2 months ago
6 years, 2 months ago
The Other Side of the Door
A disappointing horror movie set in India about a couple who lost their son in an accident which saw their car plunge into a river and he was drowned whilst the mother Maria and daughter escaped. Now 6 years on, Maria is told about a mysterious temple in the woods far away, where she could meet her little boy one more time and say a final farewell. I must admit that I didn't know a whole lot about this movie going into it but I was expecting more than what I saw. The story basically stole ideas from Pet Semetary. There are those that would tell you it's homage, but one man's homage is another man's stolen goods and this is a little too stolen. There are clues all over that they have done this. I liked the idea of using local Indian lore in the plot but what a shame that the director couldn't pull it off that well. You get the usual cheap shocks which did nothing for me. So in the end, this movie is just another cliché horror that you'll instantly forget.
6 years, 2 months ago
6 years, 2 months ago
Yesterday
This Hammer production broke away from the traditional horror movies for which they had become famous in the 1950's and like "The Camp on Blood Island" was a WWII drama concentrating on the war with the Japanese. Set in the Burmese jungle, but filmed in the studio, it is a mostly all-male affair full of very familiar British faces of the time. The movie starts off in a deceptively familiar fashion, lulling the audience into the belief that we are in for yet another routine war-time jungle patrol movie. Then things are turned on their head when a British unit taking refuge in a small village are captured by the Japanese. Stanley Baker gives a powerful performance as an officer under pressure. The lines are blurred as to who is good or bad - the British for what they do to some native villagers or the Japanese for their treatment of the British prisoners. It's a thoroughly satisfying anti-war movie.
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Tesagure! Bukatsu-mono

6 years, 2 months ago
Blassreiter
 Blassreiter 7/10
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