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3 years, 11 months ago
Quest for the Mighty Sword
When Prince Ator becomes 18, he gets a mighty sword from the mean sorcerer gnome Grindl, to free the Goddess Dehamira and her people. On his journey he has to fight against dragons and other fantastic figures. The 4th in the Ator series and surely the worst of the lot. It takes the franchise to new depths of ineptitude. Prince Ator gets to fight a siamese robot and then a poor man's mini version of Godzilla in a cave. It has to be seen to be believed just how shit they do this sequence. I cannot tell you how really terrible this movie is. From the dreadful acting to the pathetic action sequences to the nonsensical plot - everything sucks big time! It's just a cheap and shoddy movie. Nobody in their right mind should ever see this movie as it will give you brain rot. Avoid!
3 years, 11 months ago
Deadly Strangers (1975)
After she misses her train, a young woman is forced to hitch a ride back to town. After managing to get away from a lecherous trucker, she is given a ride by a good-looking but somewhat mysterious young man, who she comes to suspect may be a dangerous escapee from a mental asylum. A great tale by director Sidney Hayers with a more grown up role for Hayley Mills. Didn't even know she had done a topless scene in her movies until I saw this. Hayers has the difficult task of keeping us gripped by two people traveling by car through the British countryside. The viewer may think he knows all there is to this tale but with a couple of red herrings and a twist near the end, it will definitely keep you glued to the climax. The movie often immerses the viewer into the lurid pasts of both leads and most of the characters Mills comes in contact wants to bed her! While the subject matter can be a bit sordid, its not as violent (or as sleazy) as it could've been. The performances from the two leads are solid. If you want to see a movie involving murder, voyeurism, bikers, road rage, nudity with a twist ending then give this a go.
3 years, 11 months ago
AKB48Fan added 2 items to their collection
Deadly Strangers (1975)

have watched

6/10

The Frozen Dead (1966)

4/10


3 years, 11 months ago
The Frozen Dead (1966)
A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third Reich. The plot of this movie feels full of potential, but rather than concentrate on the pseudoscience or crazy scientist, the story instead spends the vast majority with the niece who goes amateur sleuthing when her friend disappears without a trace. Anna Palk is okay in the role, but given that the viewer knows what is going on and is always one step ahead of her, there is nothing exciting or intriguing about her investigation. Some of the severed head imagery is pretty good with glowing blue lights, and the initial descriptions of the freezing and resurrecting processes are fascinating, but once the niece becomes the centre of the story it goes downhill. A shame really.
3 years, 11 months ago
The Being
 The Being 2/10
3 years, 11 months ago
The Being
Toxic waste dumping in a small Idaho town turns a young boy into horrible mutant monster. The town’s police chief and a government scientist team up to stop the monster, which is quickly killing off the town’s citizenry. Martin Landau and Jose Ferrer get top billing in this ridiculous piece of 80's trash. It is is one of the sorriest, most random pieces of crap you're ever likely to witness. The movie opens in promising style, a Twilight Zone narration leading into a splatteriffic scene in which a teenager gets his head yanked clean off by a mutant. From then on, it all goes seriously pear-shaped. While some of the hokey gore is admittedly fun, The Being is just too scatter-shot, disjointed, and slapdash to work as a whole, even if it's supposed to be a lightweight piece of tongue-in-cheek schlock. Not worth bothering with.
3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago
The Real McCoy
Karen McCoy is released from prison with nothing but the clothes on her back. Before being incarcerated Karen was the bank robber of her time, but now she wishes for nothing more than to settle down and start a new life. Unfortunately between a dirty parole officer, old business partners, and an idiot ex-husband she will have to do the unthinkable in order to save her son. A largely forgotten heist movie directed by Russell Mulcahy. It begins with an interesting set-up before slowing down a little bit before it picks up again in the second half as the heist operation at a big bank goes down. It’s a decidedly familiar premise to many viewers but Mulcahy delivers a good enough caper movie that benefits substantially from its smattering of engrossing sequences and the uniformly engaging performances with Kim Basinger in the leading role ably supported by Val Kilmer and Terence Stamp. All in all, this was a decent thriller which does deliver on excitement at times. Worth a watch.
3 years, 11 months ago
Tiger Bay
 Tiger Bay 7/10
3 years, 11 months ago
Tiger Bay
In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting the crime to the authorities, Gillie merely pockets a prize for herself — Korchinsky’s shiny black revolver — and flees the scene. When Detective Graham discovers that Gillie has the murder weapon, the fiery young girl weaves a web of lies to throw him off course. This is a movie that I’ve been aware of since I was very little, but one that I’ve never got round to watching until now. It is a thoroughly entertaining and suspenseful crime thriller, with some Hitchcockian flourishes, and an overall solid sense of direction thanks to J Lee Thompson. Father and daughter John and Hayley Mills take two thirds of the leading roles with Horst Buchholz taking the other. Bucholz's onscreen chemistry with Hayley Mills (who was 12 years old at the time) is fantastic. Even though he's a killer, the story leads you to view Korchinsky as a victim rather than a villain. The movie doesn’t pull its punches but keeps a nice balance between the darker tone and lighter moments. Overall, this is a very good movie with a brilliant debut from a young actress that would light the big screen up with her performances in the future.
3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago
The Beast of Yucca Flats
A refugee Soviet scientist arrives at a desert airport carrying secret documents, but is attacked by a pair of KGB assassins and escapes into the desert, where he comes in range of an American nuclear test and is transformed into a mindless killing beast. A total shitfest! Quite rightly considered as one of the worst movies of all time. This movie is very short, but it seems like a very long movie. It is pointless, tedious and nobody should have ever thought of it. If you don't believe me, you'll just have to take my word for it because there is no way I would recommend this to any sane human being. There's barely any story, the acting is awful, the scenes are boring and the characters are unnecessary like the entire movie. For the rest of my life I will stay as far away from it as possible!
3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months 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, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months 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, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months 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, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago
AKB48Fan added 2 items to their collection
Dark Tower

have watched

4/10

Dawn of the Mummy

3/10


3 years, 11 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, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 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, 11 months ago
Riff-Raff
 Riff-Raff 8/10
3 years, 11 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, 11 months ago
AKB48Fan added 2 items to their collection
The Day the Fish Came Out

have watched

3/10

The Black Panther

7/10


3 years, 11 months ago

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