Explore
 Lists  Reviews  Images  Update feed
Categories
MoviesTV ShowsMusicBooksGamesDVDs/Blu-RayPeopleArt & DesignPlacesWeb TV & PodcastsToys & CollectiblesComic Book SeriesBeautyAnimals   View more categories »
Listal logo
AKB48Fan voted for list
Future Noir FIlms (35 movies items)
3 years, 4 months ago
AKB48Fan voted for list
Film Diary 2021 (210 movies items)
3 years, 4 months ago
Cairo Road
 Cairo Road 4/10
3 years, 4 months ago
Cairo Road
A police chief stationed in Egypt sets out to crack down on drug traffickers along the frontiers. With his assistant, he attempts to block the smugglers’ passage along the notorious Cairo Road route into the country. This is an exotically located British crime melodrama which is sadly lacking in any real excitement and it is the cast and the Egypt locations that partly compensate for the creakiness of the thriller and the woodenness of the production. Laurence Harvey at the start of his career and Eric Portman take the leading roles and make this movie more bearable. This movie had the potential to be an exciting thriller but it's a big disappointment in the end.
3 years, 4 months ago
3 years, 4 months ago
Only When I Larf
Three con artists try to fool an African militant by selling him a bogus shipment of arms. Things go awry however, when the three have plotted to double-cross each other in trying to take the money. This is an enjoyable light hearted caper movie that has everyone donning disguises and playing multiple characters as part of their elaborate con games. The trio playing the main roles are Richard Attenborough, Alexandra Stewart and David Hemmings. The actors invest a lot of nuance into their thin characters, which puts it a step above most movies of this genre that just focus on the heist plot, but the movie never goes beyond the fun of a life of crime. The speedy, precise pre-credit con is particularly well executed. I thought it was an entertaining movie and well worth watching.
3 years, 4 months ago
Danger Route
 Danger Route 4/10
3 years, 4 months ago
Danger Route
Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new assignment-the assassination of a defecting Soviet scientist. In the course of the dangerous mission, he discovers a mole has infiltrated British intelligence. A sub-par James Bond like movie with a dour secret agent as the hero. The movie takes ages to get going with 45 mins gone before any action takes place. Even then there's no wild shootouts, crazy car chases, or mad geniuses determined to take over the world. At least Amicus went against the grain to all the other 007 copycats. The problem with this is it makes the spy game out to be a dirty, unattractive profession that is anything but fun or adventurous. There's also almost no humour in the story whatsoever and no high-tech gadgets to get Wilde out of trouble. Richard Johnson (who does look a little like a young Sean Connery) plays Wilde as a surly, cynical man who wants nothing more than to get out of his "business" once and for all. There is a good supporting cast in Diana Dors, Sylvia Syms and Gordon Jackson. No wonder this movie is largely forgotten as it's not an exciting spy thriller.
3 years, 4 months ago
3 years, 4 months ago
Percy
Percy, the man with the world’s first penis transplant, discovers that his sexual services are needed when all the of the world's men go impotent after an environmental disaster. The sequel to the 1970 movie Percy. It is an abysmal movie in which all copies of it should be burned. It shows what a rut the British movie industry was in the mid 70's. The movie's humour, a predictably endless series of double-entendres, is generally tedious but at least it doesn't pretend it's anything other than a bawdy sex comedy. Replacing Hywel Bennett as Percy in this movie is Leigh Lawson who is rather bland in the lead role. Harry H Corbett must have been desperate for work to play the British Prime Minister here. He is terrible in the role. Other performers include Barry Humphries (as Dame Edna Everage), Ronald Fraser, Denholm Elliott and even Bernard Lee. There is nothing particularly funny about this movie one bit. It is just dross all the way through. All in all, a total waste of time.
3 years, 4 months ago
AKB48Fan voted for list
Red Sails (20 beauty items)
3 years, 4 months ago
Neon City (1991)
A group of people led by a bounty hunter are trying to escape across the wastelands to a safe haven called Neon City after a solar disaster that has decimated the Earth. This has been called by some people as being an updated sci-fi version of John Wayne’s Stagecoach. It's more like one of those 80's post-apocalyptic Mad Max like movies that were being made left, right and centre at the time. The story is basically a group of people being attacked every so often by mutants called Skins as they make their way across some wastelands. The action scenes are OK but a lot of the movie is about the interpersonal relationships between all of the characters on the journey. Michael Ironside plays a good guy for a change. The rest of the characters are a collection of movie stereotypes but it was nice seeing Juliet Landau in a role before she would achieve fame as Druscilla in Buffy The Vampire Slayer. I would say in the end that this is a rather mediocre entry to the post-apocalyptic genre. It meanders without much of a plot, and rather sparse action sequences, but it still provides a little bit of enjoyment to be watchable for some.
3 years, 4 months ago
AKB48Fan added 2 items to their collection
Neon City (1991)

have watched

4/10

Cry of the Banshee (1970)

5/10


3 years, 4 months ago
Cry of the Banshee (1970)
In 17th century England, Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household. A bit of a misleading title for this movie as there is no banshee at all in the story. It should have been changed to the more appropriate Cry Of The Howling Wolf. I think the film-makers probably just decided it was just too good a title to pass up. If you're expecting another Witchfinder General movie then you're going to be disappointed. It may have Vincent Price as an evil magistrate who is after witches and there is some cruelty against women seen but it is not as brutal as WG. The story isn't that bad - fairly basic but entertaining enough. There is some horror but not enough in my opinion. Overall, it's an enjoyable example of classic horror that fans of the genre should enjoy. It's not brilliant, but it has its moments and anything with Vincent Price is worth the price of seeing isn't it.
3 years, 4 months ago
Crescendo
 Crescendo 6/10
3 years, 4 months ago
Crescendo
An innocent project transforms into a perilous nightmare when researcher Susan Roberts arrives in France in search of information on a deceased composer. She contacts his widow whose mental deterioration, precipitated by the death of her husband, manifests itself in psychotic dementia. This Hammer production isn't that fondly remembered with many saying it's rather dull but I quite liked it. It's Stephanie Powers' turn in this movie to stumble through the freak mansion which here is presided over by the Joan Crawford lite matriarch and her two sons. The story has been copied from other movies and the viewer will be able to piece things together way before the supposedly surprising climactic revelations. One problem with the movie is the pace - it takes a good hour before things pick up. Stephanie Powers looks great but she's not the best performer in the movie. That belongs to Jane Lapotaire as the creepy/sexy French maid. If you give the movie some time, it does eventually grow on you. I can see how it has become one of Hammer's most obscure movies.
3 years, 4 months ago
3 years, 4 months ago
Creature from Black Lake
Two young men from a university head to the Louisiana swamps to prove the existence of a Bigfoot-type creature. Totally cashing-in on the unexpected success of the much superior Legend of Boggy Creek and boy does it show. Nothing wrong with that of course and the movie does separate itself by being a more straight laced movie as opposed to a drama/documentary. You still get that Southern atmosphere, swamp locations, cautious and scared townsfolk and shots of the creature lurking about in the shadows with a terrifying roar. However, I don't think it's that frightening compared to Boggy Creek and the acting from the cast isn't great either. It might scare young kids perhaps. Below average stuff.
3 years, 4 months ago
Cannonball
Coy “Cannonball” Buckman and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which there are no rules, no speed limits and no heed for the law. This is a well made and colourfully filmed race movie, with plenty of chases, pile-ups, fights, and fiery crashes to enjoy (if that’s your thing), as well as some some get-back-at-the-cops action. It's not a comedy movie like The Cannonball Run. The competitors in this race will do anything to win even murder the opposition if they have do. The movie has a rather basic, simple story without a ton on its mind, but the characters all have a lot of charm and prevent there from ever being a dull moment. David Carradine takes the lead role and sleepwalks through the movie. His martial arts fights look lazy. There are a load of cameo roles from the likes of Sylvester Stallone, Martin Scorsese (both playing a couple of Mafia thugs devouring Kentucky Fried Chicken!) and Roger Corman. In the end, it's worth giving it a whirl if you enjoy 70's era car movies.
3 years, 4 months ago
AKB48Fan added 2 items to their collection
Cannonball

have watched

6/10

The Brother from Another Planet

7/10


3 years, 4 months ago
The Brother from Another Planet
An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience. John Sayles's quirky sci-fi drama is about a mute three-toed alien who lands in Ellis Island and goes on to explore the neighbourhood of Harlem. It's got the feel of a 70's blaxploitation movie to it but it's actually more of a hangout movie, a snapshot of Harlem at the time and the characters that inhabit it. There's not much of a plot really, with the alien putting his extraterrestrial healing powers to use by getting a job fixing old arcade machines and gradually learning about human ways. It sounds pretty uneventful, and in a way it is, but there's just something that is kind of magical about it that I can't quite put my finger on. Joe Morton is brilliant as the expressive mute along with the oddball characters he meets. A very enjoyable movie to watch.
3 years, 4 months ago
3 years, 4 months ago
Mutant on the Bounty
The crew of an interplanetary commercial freighter beams aboard a now horribly mutated saxophone player who has been adrift in space for over twenty years. He starts to get along with the crew, and very close with an alluring journalist. But that’s when two criminals are beamed aboard, taking the ship hostage. One of the lamest sci-fi b-movie comedies I've had the misfortune to watch. The opening is promising then it runs right into a wall with unfunny jokes and crap dialog which is a shame as the production values on the movie are rather good. One of the characters has definitely been ripped off from the BBC comedy Red Dwarf. He looks like Arnold Rimmer from Season 1 and even acts likes him. The only difference I could see was Rimmer is a hologram and the character in this movie is an android. The acting is abysmal from the entire cast. Seriously, avoid this movie like the plague. It's that bad!
3 years, 4 months ago
3 years, 4 months ago
Murder Without Crime
A man gets in trouble when he accidentally kills and covers up a murder of a girl he meets after a big fight with his wife. His landlord who suspects something is up tries to blackmail him. A slick noirish thriller atmospherically directed by J. Lee Thompson based on a stage play. In fact the story is fairly stagebound with much of the action confined to a flat where the murder takes place. The movie is ruined a little bit by an annoying American narrator. Despite having a plot which stretches the bounds of credibility, the psychological duel between the guilt-ridden tenant and his blackmailing landlord alone makes this movie worth watching. And of course there is one final twist in the tale right near the end as well. The cast perform well but it is Dennis Price and Derek Farr that takes centre stage. All in all, this is a great movie that deserves to be seen more.
3 years, 4 months ago
3 years, 4 months ago
Trent
When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicide is really a murder, and becomes highly interested in the young widow and the dead man’s private secretary. A remake of a movie that was previously made during the silent era, this version is boosted enormously by a strong cast and especially the distinguished presence of Orson Welles. It has a fairly brisk pace about it and the story is fairly interesting. Michael Wilding and Margaret Lockwood are good in their roles but I was more interested in the very brief cameo of Kenneth Williams. This was his movie debut and although uncredited, he is amusing in playing a gardener with a Welsh accent. Unfortunately if you're expecting a great ending, that never happens. It finishes rather flat and peters out. Overall, it's an OK time waster and nothing else.
3 years, 4 months ago
Passage Home
 Passage Home 6/10
3 years, 4 months ago
Passage Home
Set in 1931 aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew members. An interesting movie mostly based on a love triangle between two of the ship members and a female passenger. The story also revolves around the crew's reactions to their stern captain's emotional dissolution in the face of feminine charm. Apart from the staff threatening mutiny due to bad potatoes being served to them as food, nothing exciting happens until the end when the ship has to go through an almighty storm. The movie has an impressive cast led by Peter Finch as the drunken captain ably supported by Geoffrey Keen, Anthony Steel, Hugh Griffith and an early appearance by Patrick McGoohan. Diane Cilento is stunning as the only woman aboard the ship. Even though it isn't the most exciting of movies to sit through, there's plenty of drama to entertain the viewer and it's worth watching in my opinion.
3 years, 4 months ago

« Prev 1... 22 23 24 2526 27 28 » 38 » 176 Next »
Explore Content

Lists
Reviews
Pictures

Update feed
 Other
Contact

Privacy policy
Terms of Service
Copyright/DMCA
© 2024 Listal.com