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Dollman
Brick Bardo is a traveller from outer space who is forced to land on Earth. Though regular sized on his home planet, he is doll-sized here on Earth, as is his enemy who has landed as well. While Brick enlists the help of an impoverished girl and her son, the bad guy enlists the help of a local gang. I had strangely never seen this one, but I am glad that I got around to finally watching it as it is a ton of fun. I honestly didn’t know much of anything about it either. The story is a bit strange, but I liked the idea of a tiny humanoid alien kicking ass on the local thugs by using his miniature gun on them. Tim Thomerson as the hero does his best Dirty Harry impression. Overall, if you haven’t checked this one out yet, you probably should give it a watch. It has a cheesy appeal to it but it is also entertaining.
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Dollman

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6/10

Force 10 from Navarone

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Force 10 from Navarone
Mallory and Miller are back. The survivors of Navarone are sent on a mission along with a unit called Force 10, which is led by Colonel Barnsby. But Force 10 has a mission of their own which the boys know nothing about. From 007 veteran Guy Hamilton, this is the long-delayed sequel to the 1961 movie that sees screen legends Gregory Peck and David Niven exchanged for the equally talented likes of Robert Shaw and Edward Fox. This special forces duo finds themselves accompanied by Harrison Ford, Carl Weathers, Barbara Bach, and Franco Nero on a dangerous mission deep in enemy territory. Unsteady alliances, reignited grudges, and the ticking clock of an impending dawn attack spark much of the drama that fills this WWII espionage adventure. The movie is great to watch from beginning to end, thanks to the performance of the cast, mostly engaging set pieces, and Hamilton's assured filmmaking. A definite job well done.
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Overlord (1975)
During World War II, a young man is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-day, June 6th, 1944. A little seen British war movie by director Stuart Cooper which uses stock footage which has been spliced into the main story. The stock footage itself is fascinating to watch covering the London blitz, aerial dogfights, fleet rallies and various beach landings. It works extremely well and the movie is completely shot in black and white. Despite the movie's faux-documentary style, Cooper's overall tone is surreal, dreamy and almost poetic. There is a foreshadowing of death from the beginning of the movie. The movie is short on plot, but it is intended more as a mood piece. The sense of hopelessness is portrayed throughout. A great war movie to see.
3 years, 1 month ago
Phenomenon
 Phenomenon 6/10
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Phenomenon
An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky that knocks him out. Soon afterwards he discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis. This movie is a fine vehicle for John Travolta and he makes the most of it, but there is not much else happening here. The movie has a good premise and the filmmakers let us know it by stretching its limits in every single way. It has a nice small town charm to it and the characters are extremely likeable, but the story too often steers in the wrong direction and becomes too large scale. It also gets way too sentimental in the final 45 mins which bored me to tears. Some say the movie is a vehicle for Scientology, others say it's a modern retelling of the life of Jesus but to me it's just a nice movie and that's all. Good performances from Forest Whittaker and Robert Duvall. Overall, it was a decent movie.
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Two and Two Make Six
An US airman stationed in the UK pushes his commanding officer at somebody's home and a vase strikes him on the head knocking him out. Believing he killed him, the airman goes on the run with a girl. They run into a couple like them in a roadside cafeteria and a mix up happens. This was the directorial debut of Freddie Francis and well, let's just say he'd get better at his job! It’s classed as a romantic comedy, but never seems sure of what it wants to be. In fact the comedy doesn't seem to be any good at all. George Chakiris makes for quite a dull lead as the American on the run. He is teamed up with Janette Scott for the majority of the movie. The other couple in Alfred Lynch and Jocelyn Lane are much more fun to watch. Lane in particular is quite striking! It was interesting, but far too inconsistent in tone and neither funny enough nor dramatic enough to be fully one thing or the other. One to miss.
3 years, 1 month ago
No Trace
 No Trace 6/10
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No Trace
A crime novelist murders a blackmailing old accomplice by using an idea from one of his novels. He then gets asked by a police detective to help him solve the murder and turns his own experience with the investigation into another book. A decent enough British thriller even though it's silly that the murderer is helping the police to solve the crime. Writer-director John Gilling does a good job of unpicking the murderer's secret, although he is too arrogant for the viewer to care about, and the peril in which his secretary is unwittingly placing herself isn't exploited as well as it could have been. Dad's Army fans will enjoy seeing Scotsman John Laurie as the lead detective in the movie alongside Barry Morse. Dinah Sheridan performs well as the secretary who does some investigating on her own. In the end, it's a movie that provides no surprises but is good enough to warrant a watch.
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That
Two funeral parlours fight one another for business, one of whom is more shady than the other. This Hammer comedy movie was a spin-off from a 1971 BBC series which only lasted for 7 episodes. Just like the series, it didn't do well and tanked at the British box office. It's a limply farcical runaround involving two funeral firms - the Victorian, roguish Holroyds and the ultra modern front for some incognito drug traffickers - finding and losing, rinse and repeat, the corpse of a recently deceased soft drinks mogul, culminating in a coffin full of cannabis being cremated, getting all the mourners and undertakers stoned in the process. There are a couple of good gags but not nearly enough and some of the comedy does get very tiring after a while. It's the cast that'll provide the draw for this long forgotten movie with Bill Fraser, Roy Kinnear, Bob Todd and Michael Robbins amongst others making an appearance. Unless you're a Hammer completist, it's best you skip this movie.
3 years, 1 month ago
Nirvana
 Nirvana 6/10
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Nirvana
Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its useless “life”, Jimi begins a search for people who can help him both to discover what happened to Lisa and to delete his game before it is released. This movie has a colourful and slightly hokey mix of science fiction and cyber punk ideas and images. Even though the story has a quick-pace about it and it has moments that satisfy but in the end it comes off as routine and underwhelming. It seems it has copied some ideas from other cyber punk movies. There are enough spirited and original sights and sounds to keep things watchable, however, and Christopher Lambert makes, as always, a solid, French-accented lead. Apparently 20 mins have been cut from the original Italian version and most of the cast have been dubbed into English. It's a fairly good sci-fi movie in the end but there's nothing special to make it stand out from the pack.
3 years, 1 month ago
High Boot Benny
A police informant is found dead in a boarding-school situated near the border between Northern Ireland and Eire. There are three suspects: the protestant school headmistress; Marley, an unfrocked missionary priest; and Benny, a seventeen-year-old criminal who has taken sanctuary in the school… This bleak Irish drama is a morbid exercise in symbolism that uses the story as an allegory for "The Troubles". Teenage delinquent Benny, who sports a mohican and steel-shinned boots is caught in the middle of a conflict between the police, the British Army, the Loyalist paramilitaries, and the IRA. There are no winners in this movie and it doesn't have any characters the viewer can warm up to. The IRA even teach Benny a lesson in which they tar and feather him after he is caught stealing. The movie didn't do enough to keep my interest and even though it's short at 82 mins long I was glad when the end credits rolled. Some viewers will probably enjoy it but it was just too depressing to like.
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Adventure in the Hopfields
A little girl accidentally breaks her mother’s favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it. A charming CFF movie by none other than the director of The Towering Inferno - John Guillermin. This is a delightful little hour from a more innocent, halcyon time. Hard to imagine what kids today may make of it. Mona Washbourne, Hilda Fenemore, Russell Waters and Dandy Nichols make up the adults in the cast whilst Mandy Miller and a very young Melvyn Hayes as a scruffy rapscallion are part of the children. Watch out for Anthony Valentine and Jane Asher as part of the kids group as well. For those wishing to reminisce how life was in the decade after the war in which families decamped from the city to the Kent countryside to make extra money picking hops will find this movie a nostalgic experience.
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Adventure in the Hopfields

have watched

6/10

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot

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The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
Decades after serving in WWII and assassinating Adolf Hitler, a legendary American war veteran must now hunt down the fabled Bigfoot. With such a silly title, I expected this movie to be either funnier or faster paced. But it's definitely not a comedy, nor an action movie either. Instead, what the viewer gets is some kind of bizarre twilight zone story drowned in melancholy, not tense enough to be compelling, and with no twist at all. The whole thing is pretty boring, really. I won't say it's a bad movie but let's just say that if it didn't exist, there wouldn't be much of a loss. Below average.
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Hanover Street
Margaret is a nurse in England during WWII, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot. This is cliche-ridden, unoriginal, outlandish, and boring pastiche of better old World War II set romances. I watched it for Harrison Ford who gives a very indifferent performance here. He is dull, and it is not so surprising in a dull movie. The love interest by Lesley Anne Down lacks any spark of reality or emotional conviction. The two genres of war and romance don't gel that well here and the only actor to actually come out of this with any merit is Christopher Plummer. A big waste of time in the end.
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Stiff Upper Lips
Aunt Agnes vainly tries to force Emily to marry boring Cedric Trilling by taking them to Italy and India hoping that Emily will forget about the handsome commoner George. A very funny parody of the Merchant Ivory period drama productions. It satirises popular perceptions of certain Edwardian traits: propriety, sexual repression, xenophobia, and class snobbery. The plot may not be especially solid, but that’s not the point of a parody anyway. What matters is the subtle-yet-side-splitting wit employed to mock uptight British classics. The cast which includes Sean Pertwee, Peter Ustinov and Prunella Scales looked like they were enjoying themselves. I laughed quite a bit during the movie. Even if you don't like period dramas, I'm sure this movie will raise a smile with you. Give it a go.
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American Shaolin: King of the Kickboxers II
After being humiliated in the ring by a dirty kickboxer who pulled down his shorts and then hit him, a martial arts student named Drew decides to travel to China and enter a monastery where he may learn the Shaolin form of fighting. This has nothing to do with the 1st King of the Kickboxers movie. It's an incredibly cheesy movie in the tradition of The Karate Kid/No Retreat No Surrender with an obnoxious protagonist in the lead role. The viewer gets to see the usual Shaolin training regime although I've seen better in other movies. The fight scenes are good because you have Corey Yuen as the martial arts choreographer. I thought the experience in the temple would have changed Drew into a better person but he's still the same arrogant little shit apart from the last 5 mins when he has his rematch with the man that humiliated him. Reese Madigan isn't the best actor I've seen but I guess he's adequate enough. If you have an obsession with early 90’s martial arts action movies then this isn’t the worst thing you could watch, but it’s not something worth seeking out either.
3 years, 1 month ago
The Final Winter
Grub Henderson is an Australian rugby league player, a 200 game man and old-school thug who solves his problems by hitting people or ignoring them until they go away. In the week that follows Grub will finally realise that his playing days are behind him - but he's not going to bow out without a fight. Set in the 80's, this Australian sports drama is all about how the game of rough and tumble rugby league was changing during the time but it also focuses on one man's homelife who has dedicated his entire existence to his rugby league club and finding out they no longer care what happens to him. Matt Nable is a former rugby league professional and this was the first screenplay he wrote and his feature acting debut to boot. The character he plays Grub isn't that likable, but his slow realisation that time is passing him by is one that even non sports fans can identify with. You don't have to be a rugby league fan to enjoy this movie as I definitely don't like the sport.
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The Final Winter

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6/10

The Intruder

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