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No Trace
 No Trace 6/10
3 years, 7 months ago
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.
3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago
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, 7 months ago
Nirvana
 Nirvana 6/10
3 years, 7 months ago
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, 7 months 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.
3 years, 7 months ago
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Adventure in the Hopfields

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6/10

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot

4/10


3 years, 7 months ago
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.
3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago
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.
3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago
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.
3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago
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, 7 months 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.
3 years, 7 months ago
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The Final Winter

have watched

6/10

The Intruder

8/10


3 years, 7 months ago
The Intruder
A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble. Trouble he soon finds he can’t control. This might well be Roger Corman's best movie but it is deeply uncomfortable to watch. Those who know Corman as a fantasy and horror director will be surprised here. This is a strong political movie about racial intolerance, a low-budget production, shot in black and white with no big stars (William Shatner was not famous just yet). Shatner does a great job as a person who shows the hatred and ignorance of humans with his words but in doing so things get way out of hand. Many will no doubt be offended by the use of the N word which is said frequently throughout the movie. It's a sensational, gripping masterpiece that should be seen by everybody in how not to treat human beings.
3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
Barry McKenzie’s Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the Queen of England and thinks that kidnapping her will draw tourists to his country. Barry and his mates set out to rescue her and bring her back to Australia. The first Barry McKenzie movie did well so here he is - back in his 2nd adventure! A totally un-PC comedy and all the better for it. Also the movie that turned plain ol' Aunt Edna Everage into Dame Edna. Full of crude and low-brow humour, it does have it's fair share of good laughs until it starts to run out of steam in the final 30 mins. It presents a somewhat endearing yet over-the-top parody of broad Australian stereotypes i.e constantly drinking Fosters beer cans. This is the 1st movie I've seen the late Clive James take part in. There are a number of cameos from the likes of John Le Mesurier, Roy Kinnear, Frank Windsor and Donald Pleasance plays Count Plasma although I can't say he's that funny in the role. Many will be offended by the sexist, racist and homophobic language used but this movie was a product of it's time. It's amusing enough to warrant a watch.
3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago
Godzilla vs. Kong
In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet collide in a spectacular battle for the ages. A truly dreadful movie. I expected the script to be functional, maybe terrible, but it spent so long explaining pointless exposition for the ridiculous story and not a single joke landed. Godzilla was boring. Kong was a joke. The fight in Hong Kong was okay for a bit. But there's almost nothing redeeming in this. It was a very painful experience watching this. Is this all we expect from blockbusters these days? The special effects that people seem to be raving about weren't even that good and with poorly written characters it all felt hollow and empty. The acting by the entire cast was crap. Please Hollywood, don't go near Godzilla or Kong ever again as you can't do a decent movie with them. What else can I say other than it was horrible.
3 years, 7 months ago
Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star
Three aliens from the planet Taros land on Earth and are befriended by a Wyoming rancher’s son. This sci-fi movie is aimed squarely for kids but whether they'll be able to stay interested throughout it all is another matter. Whilst it has a 3 legged 3 eyed cute alien pet Kirbi to make them laugh, the rest of the movie is filled with a lot of tepid drama, boring scenes of people wandering around the woods, and an annoyingly unnecessary love triangle that’s never even allowed to play out properly. The two alien girls are charming enough and there's even a heartthrob in Ricky Paull Goldin for young girls to swoon for. However, there's not enough excitement in this movie to keep you occupied. A fairly bland movie in the end.
3 years, 7 months ago
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Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star

have watched

4/10

Bat*21

7/10


3 years, 7 months ago
Bat*21
Lt. Col. Iceal “Ham” Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he’s in is going to be carpet-bombed but a temporary shortage of helicopters causes a delay. Working with an Air Force reconnaissance pilot, Capt. Bartholomew Clark, he maps out an escape route. Based on a real life event, this is another of those late 80's Vietnam War movies which relies on the performances of its actors rather than a hail of action, blood, and bullets. It's different from many of the other Vietnam movies as the leading character has a conscience and frequently tries to avoid bloodshed especially civilian lives. It's a fairly straightforward war movie but the acting of Gene Hackman and Danny Glover sets it above the rest. The script is also intelligent so you're not going to get a gung-ho guns a-blazing story. Overall, a great movie to sit back and watch the some of the more unique tactics used to survive in bad situations.
3 years, 7 months ago
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Amazons

have watched

3/10

The Chain

6/10


3 years, 7 months ago

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