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The Naked Truth (1957)
A particularly impressive and downright British screwball farce. A scandal sheet publisher is blackmailing various people with the following threat, pay up or your dirty secrets will become public knowledge. Four of his victims decide to kill him instead. The comedy comes from their failed attempts. The characters are so well defined, with master character actor Peter Sellers again showing his virtuoso talents for adopting various disguises. Terry Thomas and the smooth Dennis Price are brilliantly assured with the material, but Sellers does steal the show. Peggy Mount and a young Joan Sims also appear. The whole film is rather silly, no part more so than the ending, but is very entertaining and very funny as the bungling victims try to kill either themselves or their tormentor, each with an equal lack of success. Well worth watching.
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Stonehearst Asylum
A Gothic horror tale based on an Edgar Allen Poe tale, filled with the grotesque excesses of Victorian medicine and mental health treatments. Throw in two big stars as two opposing forces in this literal madhouse, and you might think you have a humdinger here. But no - the first hour drags a bit but thankfully things pick up afterwards and it becomes fairly interesting. The cast has some heavyweights which includes Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Kingsly and Michael Caine. With a cast like this however I was expecting something a little bit better. Overall, the movie is good but it's not something that you're likely to remember for anything special.
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Sightseers

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Sightseers
This is very much a team effort: the two stars (Alice Lowe and Steve Oram) also co-wrote the script. With a distinct nod to earlier movies such as Badlands, it focuses on two lovers, Tina and Chris, who embark on a caravanning holiday that takes a decidedly bloody turn, as they dispose of several innocent victims. The script is deadpan yet extremely funny: both protagonists get some valuable one-liners. Director Ben Wheatley's cinematic style is certainly startling, with its deliberate use of out-of-sync sound, fantasy sequences, a little bit of gore and a soundtrack that includes work by Soft Cell and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Alice Lowe and Steve Oram are brilliant in their roles. If you enjoy dark and mysterious movies with a complex story line, then I would recommend you watch this.
7 years, 5 months ago
PSI Factor
 PSI Factor 5/10
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PSI Factor
An obscure and rarely seen low budget movie about a scientist who is a part of a top secret Air Force project that is sending messages into space and who gets a reply back from aliens. Nobody seems to believe him and after getting his girlfriend to steal a classified file about him, the scientist goes on the run with the Air Force in hot pursuit. The aliens appear as a glowing red ball of light that help and hinder the scientist at times. Scenes of young children playing with insects are seen at various intervals and this is never explained until the climax when the scientist finally gets to understand what the aliens are all about. Peter Mark Richman is good in the leading role of the scientist. What lets this movie down however is the cheap special effects and there isn't that much of excitement to be had. If you're the type that likes The X-Files or the 60's series The Invaders then this movie might be up your street.
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The Shadow of Chikara
Southern Captain Wishbone Cutter, Indian/Irish companion Half-Moon O'Brian and geologist Amos Richmond head out on a journey to a cave which supposedly holds some valuable stones. Along the way they come across a young lady, Drusilla Wilcox, who was the last survivor of an Indian ambush and decide she'll come too. But it doesn't seem quite right, as they are being followed by some unseen force who doesn't want them to reach their destination. A fairly offbeat but murky western / horror variation set during the end of the American Civil War which hints that a demon force known as Chikara is stalking the group for trespassing on it's terrain. It's a low-cost looking production but it is eerie at times and atmospheric. The acting by the cast is better than the story itself led by Joe Don Baker as Wishbone Cutter and Sondra Locke as the mysterious Drusilla. There's a bit of a twist right near the climax which caught me offguard and gave the movie a satisfying conclusion. Also a disturbing scene featuring a couple of horses falling down a side of a mountain is unsettling and looks real enough. It's not too bad of a movie.
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School-Live!

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Final Girl
 Final Girl 4/10
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Final Girl
A young woman is raised and trained to destroy a gang of murderers who hunt and kill blonde women for fun. It is essentially all she knows and she wants to please her master who has put in all the years to make her the killing machine that she is. However the movie fails to build up any tension and you fail to really care about any of the characters. The script is too evasive and you find that you cannot follow just how any of the characters think. You don't understand their motivation to do anything and so you are unsure as to why they do anything. This movie leaves a lot of questions unanswered and has much to be desired. Although Abigail Breslin looks stunning in the leading role she gives a hollow and uninteresting turn. Alexander Ludwig (Bjorn in Vikings) also doesn't impress at all. Give it a miss.
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In the Dark Half (2012)
A young teenage girl who is babysitting a single father's young son whilst he is out poaching rabbits finds him dead in the morning. She becomes convinced that she is being haunted by the boy. A wasteful low budget British horror movie which is all about mood and atmosphere as the story itself is not that good. It hints that something otherworldy/supernatural is happening to the teenage girl but you don't see anything taking place in the end. I found the main actress, Jessica Barden, a bit disappointing as the lead character; she's limited to one expression throughout and that soon gets wearying. There's nothing to really recommend about this movie so if you skip it you're not missing out on anything.
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The Smallest Show on Earth
Husband-and-wife team Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna play a newly married couple who inherit a dilapidated cinema (and its elderly, incompetent and equally dilapidated staff), and try to restore it to something like it's original glory. However they soon discover that it's not going to be as easy as perhaps they first thought. There is competition from a huge modern cinema just across the street, which is in need of a car-park and the site of the old "Bijou" would be just the thing. This is a terrific comedy and features Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Miles as the cinema staff, and Leslie Phillips as the Bijou owner's solicitor. The movie is in the grand tradition of those lovely old British comedies in which people set about renovating something old and long forgotten and against all the odds succeed. Where the movie also works is as a tribute to the golden age of cinema, in particular the Bijou's staff tearfully watching an old silent movie. It's an endearing tale of how it used to be in the movie business in the old days. Well worth seeing.
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In Our Name

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In Our Name
Downton Abbey's Joanne Froggatt plays a British soldier who is struggling to adapt back to civilian life after a tour of duty in Iraq and the atrocities she witnessed there. The subject of the Iraq war and how those who served in it are returning home with mental health disorders triggered by their experiences there is something that's had some attention in the press and various other outlets, and this movie attempts to make a drama out of it, highlighting with subtlety and sensitivity the delicate mindset of a soldier coming home. The use of run down, graffiti/vandalism laden housing estates in the North East makes for a fitting atmosphere. Joanne Froggatt gives an incredible performance as Suzy, a person suffering from PTSD. Suzy thinks she can handle everything but the cracks soon start to show through as the viewer sees her inner struggles. Overall, it's a well made and crafted movie which shines a light on a relevant matter.
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The Beast in the Cellar
In rural Lancashire, soldiers are being killed by a mysterious creature. Two elderly sisters live in a country house and seem to have an idea who could have killed the soldiers. It seems that someone who has been bricked up in their underground cellar has escaped and is committing the murders. A fairly average British horror with the only good thing about it is the acting of the two sisters played by Beryl Reid and Flora Robson. There is hardly any gore when it shows the murders taking place - a small splatter of blood here and there. The creature is kept off-screen for the majority of the movie until the identity is revealed in a story by one of the sisters near the climax. The ending is a bit predictable and the editing is rather bad in places. This movie could have been so much better.
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Dementia 13 (1963)
One of Francis Ford Coppola's movies he directed early in his career under the tutelage of Roger Corman. The plot is about a woman who watches her husband's fatal heart attack on a rowing boat on a lake and begins to cover up his death in hopes of getting his share of an inheritance. This leads to a gathering of a very strange family in an Irish castle where an axe murderer runs amok! While the movie starts out in an interesting manner, it quickly becomes a rather simplistic horror that is straight forward and somewhat predictable. The acting in the movie is a bit stiff and wooden and the dialog / screen writing is not really up to par. The two best performances in the movie are turned in by the wife that drowns her husband in the opening scene and the family doctor that has a rather creepy edge to him. The rest of the cast is just going through the motions. This movie is a bit overrated if I'm being honest. It's good to know that Coppola went on to bigger and better things in his career after this production.
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Hero

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7/10

Hieoro

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7/10

Easy Rider (1969)

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5/10

The Champ

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7/10

On Golden Pond

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7/10


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Night Fare
A pretty good horror/action French movie about 2 young men on a night out in Paris who take a taxi somewhere but decide not to pay the driver after arriving at their destination by running off. They find the driver pursuing them over Paris as he wants his fee with the taxi meter going up all the time. I really enjoyed the first half of this movie as the two men are chased here, there and everywhere with the mysterious taxi driver coming across as an unstoppable force of nature. As the night goes on and every safe haven the men turn to is eliminated, they're forced to face a moment they thought they had left behind for ever. The driver is a great villain (if you can call him a villain that is?). He's nearly always shrouded in shadow and is a big brute of a man. And then the plot sharply turns 180 degrees in the second half as the viewer finally discovers who the driver is. The movie starts out like a slasher flick but it slowly turns into a tale of redemption. I wasn't too keen on this swerve to be honest but it made for an interesting ending. Overall, Night Fare is a tense and, at times, brutal chase movie that keeps the adrenaline pumping throughout.
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Girls Beyond the Wasteland

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White Cargo (1973)

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White Cargo (1973)
Before he became famous in Britain as one of it's favourite TV sitcom stars, David Jason took part in this silly slapstick comedy movie in which he plays a bumbling idiot that gets involved in a plot with some Arabs smuggling English girls out of the country into slavery in the Middle East. This isn't as bad as a lot of people have said but it's still typical of the type of poor comedy movies that Britain was producing during the 70's. Thankfully David Jason's likable character lifts it from being the disaster it could have been. He gives a good performance as the daydreaming hero who thinks he could be James Bond but more or less bungles everything he tries. I wouldn't say this movie is very funny but it does produce a couple of laughs.
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