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3 years, 1 month ago
3 years, 1 month ago
Under Suspicion
In the late 1950s, British police officer Tony Aaron resigns from the force after sleeping with Hazel, wife of the man whose house he was supposed to guard. In his new job as a fake private investigator, he helps couples get divorces by photographing Hazel having “affairs” with the husband. When she is murdered during a job, Tony begins having an affair with the dead man’s mistress, Angeline, while trying to prove his innocence. Although made like an overdramatic period piece with overbearing music, this movie takes its cue from 80's steamy American thrillers such as Jagged Edge and Body Heat, especially with an outrageous twist ending. I did like Liam Neeson's acting in this but there seemed to be little chemistry between Leeson and Laura San Giacomo. The whole thing looked a little bit off and lead to an improbable climax, a race against time to save someone from the gallows. Kenneth Cranham had a good supporting role. Although the ending rather spoiled the movie for me, I still enjoyed it.
3 years, 1 month ago
3 years, 1 month ago
Our Man in Havana (1959)
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba. This is a fairly typical British satire of the spy genre, with Alec Guinness playing his usual hapless character whose supposedly clever plans lead him into hot water. Although this is a well-cast movie with solid direction from Carol Reed and some well-judged turns in support from famous faces, I found it far less funny than I was expecting and not up to the same quality as the Ealing comedies. Average at best.
3 years, 1 month ago
3 years, 1 month ago
Value for Money
A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her. This British comedy seems familiar of Hollywood romantic comedies of the 1950's — gold diggers, dance numbers, and more than a little innuendo. It is both a regional comedy and a product of the post-war era, resulting in a comedy of radical contrast and cynicism — while Diana Dors is the epitome of class, she is a direct contrast to the shabby town of Batley, distinguished by its remarkable drabby cobbled streets which are coated with soot from the nearby factories. John Gregson plays a wealthy man with an endearing sense of self-deprecation and gives a good account of himself. Dors plays her usual glamour puss. It may not be an outstanding British comedy, but it is certainly enjoyable to view from start to finish, with the direction, script and fabulous costumes all rather good.
3 years, 1 month ago
3 years, 2 months ago
A Kind of Loving
As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him. One of the best known kitchen sink/angry young man movies of the period, when British cinema was drawing attention for its unflinching realism. A controversial movie of it's time and one of those which showed the sordid side of life and illustrated the deserved dire consequences of doing things you shouldn't have. The plot follows an inevitable track like a Greek tragedy. Alan Bates and June Ritchie take the main roles with James Bolam, Jack Smethurst and Thora Hird taking good supporting parts. You'll even get to see a quick cameo from Nora Batty herself (Kathy Staff) as a young mother. You'll get to see life as it was in the Northern industrial towns at the time and though you might say it's a bit grim, I'm sure many will find it nostalgic. All in all, a fantastic drama that keeps your interest from start to finish.
3 years, 2 months ago
Dark Tower
When a window cleaner falls to his death from the side of a Barcelona high-rise office building, security consultant Dennis Randall is called in to investigate. Although he first believes the deaths to be accidental, he soon comes to realise that some strange force is at work inside the building. This horror movie could have been so good but what transpires is tepid at best. With its solid cast which includes Jenny Agutter and Kevin McCarthy, and the many possibilities for gory spectacle offered by a haunted semi-built office building, you might have expected this to be a cheesy piece of late 80's nonsense, packed with outrageously daft death sequences. Unfortunately, nearly everything proves to be extremely disappointing: long periods pass with nothing of note happening; too much of the movie is focused in and around the building's elevator, and there is very little in the way of satisfying splatter. The movie's silly finale provides unintentional laughs in the form of a manky looking corpse. Unless you really want to see a poor horror movie, don't waste your time here.
3 years, 2 months ago
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Dawn of the Mummy

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3 years, 2 months ago
Dawn of the Mummy
Modern day tomb robbers disturb a Mummy's tomb. Along with the Mummy rising, slaves who were buried in the desert thousands of years before, also rise, with a craving for human flesh. What a poorly made Mummy movie this is which will bore the hell out of you until the last 15 mins. The problem mainly lies on its sloppy direction, flat pace and downright tedious story. It takes too long to get going, making the padded out sequences a chore. Though if you stick it out, you're given a hectic and grisly payoff. The gory make-up effects are pretty well-done with some nasty scenes involving slave zombies of the Mummy. Performances are really woeful and insufferable. A big plus is that it's shot on location in Cairo. The monster of the piece is not your traditional looking mummy dressed up in white bandages, but its towering 7 foot frame, dark oozing figure and black tar face makes it different. In the end, not even the blood splattered last 15 mins can save this crap horror movie.
3 years, 2 months ago
3 years, 2 months ago
The Quiet Earth
After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world. Unlike many of its contemporary post-apocalyptic movies, this one does not involve a nuclear holocaust. In fact, what has happened, how and why remain somewhat mysterious throughout most of the movie. And unlike most cyberpunk movies, it does not give our intrepid survivors hordes of cannibalistic zombies, marauding motorcycle gangs or clear cut answers to contend with. Shot on location in New Zealand, this low budget sci fi epic adapts a novel of the same name. The trio of cast members are great but especially Bruno Lawrence as Zac Hobson. The final scene is very ambigious and spectacular. It is up to your imagination what it means. A very good thinking person's sci-fi movie.
3 years, 2 months ago
Riff-Raff
 Riff-Raff 8/10
3 years, 2 months ago
Riff-Raff
Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who’s struggling to be a professional singer. A fantastic Ken Loach documentary-style comedy about the scams, laughs, dangers and camaraderie of work on a London building site. Bill Jesse's pointedly funny script skillfully evokes the texture of working life; Loach's handling of Stevie's tentative romance with would-be singer Susan, on the other hand, wavers between the touchingly simple and curiously off-key. The cast is excellent all round with Robert Carlyle (at the start of his movie career) being the main star but Ricky Tomlinson is also brilliant as the man that tries to get the lads to complain about the terrible working conditions they have to endure but is sacked for his efforts. Despite a downbeat ending, this is another superb movie from Ken Loach and is worth seeking out.
3 years, 2 months ago
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The Day the Fish Came Out

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3/10

The Black Panther

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The Day the Fish Came Out
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3 years, 2 months ago
Catch Me a Spy
While on vacation, a woman’s husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, she begins looking for a suitable spy to capture and trade in exchange for her husband, but she develops an attraction to the one she thinks is a good candidate. A bit of a misfire by comedy writing duo Dick Clement (who also directs this) and Ian La Frenais. It's a very drab looking spoof spy movie. It's got a nonsensical plot concerning the smuggling of manuscripts from Soviet Russia in to the West. Yes, it does have one or two good laughs but the majority of the movie is not that good as sadly, it is entirely lacking in suspense, making the speed boat climax a major non-event. This is the only movie you'll ever get to have Kirk Douglas and Wilfrid Brambell in the cast and they don't even get to share a scene together. What a wasted opportunity! Douglas looks bored most of the time in the movie. It's a passable time waster but don't expect much out of it.
3 years, 2 months ago
Dimension 5
 Dimension 5 5/10
3 years, 2 months ago
Dimension 5
An American intelligence agent, aided by a Chinese-American female agent, uses a time-travel belt to thwart Chinese operatives who are attempting to destroy Los Angeles by building an H-bomb. One of the stranger offerings to follow in the wake of the mid 60's James Bond craze. A low rent secret agent thriller with a time-travel twist. The best thing about Dimension 5 is the gaudy 60's colours and decor but the story is lukewarm. The limited use of the time travel device is disappointing – it could have been dropped entirely without really affecting the story. I can't say it's an exciting tale though it did keep my interest until the very end. Jeffrey Hunter fresh from being dropped from Star Trek as Captain Pike plays the hero with Harold Sakata (Oddjob in Goldfinger) as the wheelchair bound big villain. An OK movie though you wouldn't miss anything by skipping it.
3 years, 2 months ago
3 years, 2 months ago
The Acid House
This is a trilogy of short tales from Irvine Welsh's books. Like Trainspotting a mere year before it, The Acid House adopts the approach of telling a groggy and visually disgusting tale about Scottish people living lives full of drugs, sex and the like in locations that visually repulse you. The first tale is about God turning a man into a house fly who gets revenge on his girlfriend and his parents. The second is about a henpecked man whose girlfriend leaves him to have sex with a thuggish neighbour upstairs and the third one is the weirdest story of them all - a man tripping out on acid is struck by lightning and swaps bodies with a newborn baby. The first two are great but the last tale was too surreal and odd for my liking. The cast all perform well and Dr Who fans might well get a shock to see the things Michelle Gomez gets up to in this movie! If you like movies with a dank and downbeat style of storytelling and setting you might enjoy this.
3 years, 2 months ago
3 years, 2 months ago
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
A Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with with his own ambivalence towards the war he's fighting for and the fear of having to bomb a set of highly defended bridges in Korea. This is a fairly drab Korean War drama that doesn’t really have a lot to recommend it for apart from the cool aerial footage. It’s the usual ‘family vs war’ stuff with William Holden getting the jitters before and during missions to photograph and then destroy some strategic bridges. You have to wait a very long time before it gets to those - beforehand there’s very little going on aside from the movie’s best scene, where Holden has to land his jet on a compromised naval carrier. The movie does have one hell of a downbeat ending to it. Not a movie I'd recommend to be honest.
3 years, 2 months ago
3 years, 2 months ago
Dark Encounter
A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8 year-old girl, the still grieving family return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the family is exposed to an inexplicably strange phenomenon that rattles them to the core. This is a very good low budget movie which although set in the US was actually shot in North Yorkshire with an all British cast. It is wonderfully acted and well paced with a unique alien abduction take on the genre. At first terrifying and menacing, the aliens turn out to be benevolent beings who are trying to give a grieving family the peace that they deserve. There are nods to Close Encounters Of The Third Kind when the family are under siege in their house by lights outside and sounds emanating from the attic. It has a story that grips you from beginning to end. The cast led by Laura Fraser are excellent. I really enjoyed this movie and I can definitely recommend it.
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