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AKB48Fan rated As Long as They're Happy

 As Long as They're Happy 6/10

4 years, 8 months ago

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A US singer named Bobby Denver, who is known as the "Crying Crooner", stays with a stockbroker's family by mistake when he comes to England with the youngest daughter falling in love and wanting to marry him. A decent enough musical comedy with an all star cast. I can't say it's brilliant or even laugh out loud funny but all these years later it does have some charm. The story is overly silly and the plot does not stretch very well to the one and a half hour length. Carry On fans might notice there are 3 of their ranks here in Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques and Joan Sims (as a fainting maid). The sexy Diana Dors vamps it up as an actress and even Norman Wisdom turns up right at the end in a cameo scene but he's rather irritating to be honest. If you're after some undemanding fun then you could do worse than watching this movie.

4 years, 8 months ago

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Emma Woodhouse, is a young woman who lives in Georgian and Regency era England and occupies herself with matchmaking in sometimes misguided, often meddlesome fashion in the lives of her friends and family. I really liked this new version of Jane Austen's classic novel even though I felt like the movie struggled to find its footing for the first 10-15 minutes but thankfully it did pick up and I was able to get into it without much issue. The cast were excellent. Anya-Taylor Joy is very good as the title character Emma with Mia Goth coming a close second as her friend Harriet. Two 'Sex Education' stars in Tanya Reynolds and Connor Swindells have small roles in the movie but don't have any scenes together. All in all, this was a stylish and a very well made movie. It was also charming and quite amusing with stunning costumes. Well worth taking a look.

4 years, 8 months ago

AKB48Fan rated Emma.

 Emma. 7/10

4 years, 8 months ago

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A World War II evacuee returns years later from the US back to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder. There's not a great deal to get excited about here, it's a routine mystery/thriller that is based in Liverpool but drafts in two American name actors to supposedly perk things up. It never really gets off the ground for dramatic impact, sending main star Van Johnson on a mission of truth and justice without ever really putting him in jeopardy. There is a good noirish atmosphere to proceedings with night scenes set up with an air of unease. Two 007 actors in Bernard Lee and Geoffrey Keen get some bit part roles. Overall, it makes for a good 80 min time waster.

4 years, 8 months ago

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Backstreet snooker player Billy Kid challenges seven times world champion Maxwell Randall (the Green Baize Vampire) to a money-making championship duel. I'd never heard of this bizarre and obscure snooker musical until recently. The two main protagonists are modeled on real-world snooker legends Ray Reardon (whose nickname was "Dracula") and Jimmy White. As sports movie go it's not bad but neither is it great. Perhaps the most unfortunate thing about the movie is that the real snooker world was throwing up its own unparalleled sporting drama at the time with the dramatic black ball finish in the early hours of the morning between Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis in the 1985 World Championship. The cast with Phil Daniels as the cocky upstart Billy Kid and Alun Armstrong as Maxwell Randall are good. As for the music, well, it's a little bit uninspired but there are one or two good numbers. It depends if you like quirky musicals if you'll enjoy this or not. You'll definitely not see anything like it in your lifetime I guarantee you that!

4 years, 8 months ago

AKB48Fan rated The Giant Claw

 The Giant Claw 2/10

4 years, 8 months ago

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AKB48Fan rated A Touch of Larceny

 A Touch of Larceny 4/10

4 years, 8 months ago

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Virginia Killain is engaged to Sir Charles Holland, but rakish Commander Easton develops a passion for her. He decides that she won't dump Holland for him because he is not rich, but fortunately he has a plan. He will make things appear as if he has sold secrets to the Russians, disappear, and when he reappears, will sue the newspapers for libel. This is a low key comedy with everyone playing their roles as if it is a straight drama, and suffers from it. George Sanders comes off as boring and dull as Holland and James Mason as Easton could play things amusingly, but doesn't. The result had me waiting for a moment when I could crack a smile but it never happened. It makes me wonder why this was billed as a comedy. Perhaps director and co-screenwriter Guy Hamilton's idea of comedy is different from mine but this was a complete misfire of a movie.

4 years, 8 months ago

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The wife and son of a Mexican drug lord embark on a vengeful quest to kill all those involved in his trial and imprisonment - including Miami Detective Mike Lowrey. When Mike gets wounded, he teams up with partner Marcus Burnett and AMMO, a special tactical squad to bring the culprits to justice. But the old-school, wisecracking cops must soon learn to get along with their new elite counterparts if they are to take down the vicious cartel that threatens their lives. The 3rd Bad Boys movie is definitely better than what I expected. Returning 17 years after Bad Boys II, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are still a terrific pairing with great comedic chemistry. However, this threequel manages to pack in more heart and maturity than its predecessors. Bad Boys for Life brings all of the explosive fun the series is known for, but takes the franchise in new and exciting directions by choosing to be more reflective in nature. As for the plot, well, there isn't anything incredible about it, it's a serviceable plot for what the movie sets up to achieve but let's be honest here, nobody goes to these sorts of movies expecting a thought provoking or life changing experience. All in all, a worthy movie to finish off the trilogy but is the franchise over? Judging by the last ever scene, it looks like it may continue but with a new partner for Will Smith's character.

4 years, 8 months ago

AKB48Fan rated Hinterland

 Hinterland 8/10

4 years, 8 months ago

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An American college student joins her Italian boyfriend for a romantic weekend trip in the Alps. Along the way, they pick up a voluptuous female hitchhiker who turns out to be a maniacal demon! This excessively gory Italian horror exists because director Andreas Marfori somehow got access to a steadicam and just started to film stuff and decided to turn this into a shameless Evil Dead ripoff, filled to the brim with some gore and a lot of padding and horrible acting by Italian actors trying to speak English. For your money's worth you'll see a man get his dick ripped off by a claw that comes out of a woman's vagina, limbs being chopped off, blood spurting out of severed arteries, zombies and people screaming, cackling and going crazy! The plot is devoid of any sense or logic. I was really hoping to find a gem with this, especially since I enjoy Evil Dead rip-offs but this one I'm afraid wasn't great. Gore hounds will no doubt love it.

4 years, 8 months ago

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A local law enforcer Lu arrests a playboy named Chang. They make a deal after realising that they are both in search of the same man, and have similar goals. Their similar goal is to stop the evil Spider Chang Yi. Together the two fighters decide to try their luck against Yi. What they don't expect is the power and speed of his invincible Spider Kung fu. Together can they stop the spider or do they get caught in his web? Taiwanese director Lee Tso-Nam decided to make a sort-of sequel to a movie he made 4 years previously (The Hot, The Cool And The Vicious) in the hope that he could recapture some of the old magic. Three of the actors in that movie come back as new characters with the stage set once more for some friendly rivalry and rip-roaring battles. In the action stakes, this movie is certainly a worthy successor and has a lot to offer. The fights are exhilarating action thanks to the collection of captivating combatants, but the story certainly leaves a lot to be desired. If it's just the fights you're into and you couldn't really care about the plot then you'll enjoy this movie. Overall, a decent kung fu movie and worth sticking with just to see the closing fight sequence.

4 years, 8 months ago

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AKB48Fan rated The Fiend

 The Fiend 4/10

4 years, 8 months ago

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Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son spiralling into madness. This British horror despite having a good amount of nudity and startling deaths (one woman is found in a cement truck, another is found hanging on a meat hook) is actually pretty routine and the pacing can be tedious at times. Despite the fairly nasty piece of work though, the minimal gore is pretty poorly done and unconvincing. It's trying to be a character drama and an exploitation movie at once, and neither result really works. The killer in the movie could have been written better as well. He brutally kills women that he deems immoral and sinful in order to cleanse their souls, keeping audio recordings of the killings and hanging the victims' underwear in the cellar! It may have sleaze, religion and exploitation in one package but I felt totally unsatisfied with this movie.

4 years, 8 months ago

AKB48Fan rated The Keeper

 The Keeper 3/10

4 years, 8 months ago

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The Keeper is the sinister administrator of the secluded and exclusive Underwood Asylum where the community's wealthiest families have entrusted their mentally-disturbed relatives to his unique care. However, these families soon begin to die under grisly and unusual circumstances. A private investigator is hired by a mysterious client to investigate Underwood Asylum and he soon discovers the connection between The Keeper's therapy and the millionaires' deaths. This Canadian movie was never released theatrically but finally appeared on US TV after gathering dust in a vault for 9 years. It's not hard to see why it wasn't released. Not even the great Christopher Lee can save this clunker. The movie does not quite make it's mind up as to whether it is a serious horror movie or comedic horror spoof. Some of Lee's scenes show him at a huge control panel torturing his hapless patients electronically and those are a little bit disturbing. Other scenes, particularly the ones involving exchanges between the police and the private investigator Driver are intended to be humorous but come off as embarrassingly amateurish. The dialogue is disjointed and poorly thought out. It's got to be one of the worst movies that Lee has ever done. This is a movie that is worth watching only for die-hard Christopher Lee fans, or for those that like to watch rare and awful movies for the sake of it.

4 years, 8 months ago

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Three Shaolin monks with three deadly styles - the Shaolin Buddhist Fist, Thunderkick, and Silver Cannon Fist, respectively battle it out in a violent showdown. With a storyline done to death about honour and revenge, this great martial arts movie has Dragon Lee fighting against the minions of Korean martial artist Hwang Jang Lee after his master is killed. The story starts out slow and there's a good 15 to 20 mins before a fight occurs but thankfully the fight choreography throughout the movie are great and varied. It builds up to the inevitable showdown between the man left for death against his attacker. A decent enough kung-fu movie for those that enjoy the genre.

4 years, 8 months ago

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Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks with journalists hot on their tail. If you loved the first movie and thought it was a great with the exception of the low budget and occasionally bad acting then you might not like this movie very much. Capturing none of the lurid, campy macabre that made the first movie a cult classic, this one switches awkwardly between dark comedy and trying to be "Freaks" for Generation X. The family of freaks that the viewer is introduced in this movie are annoying. The creature designs are good don't get me wrong but they got on my nerves quickly. The storyline is quite frankly boring and come the ending you realise virtually nothing has happened of interest throughout. A very disappointing sequel.

4 years, 8 months ago

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A Chinese boxer takes revenge on a gang of Japanese karate thugs who decimated his martial arts school and killed his teacher. aka The Hammer Of God. This is a great old-school kung fu movie by Shaw Bros and one of the first of it's genre to make it way over to the West. It is packed with all the crazy action and excessive violence that you could hope for in a martial arts movie. Sure, the plot may be familiar and simple stuff to any genre fan, with the typical Japanese portrayed as the cruel bad guys and a young, everyday Chinese guy becoming the hero and training to take on the bad guys by using the usual methods of running with iron bars attached to his ankles and sticking his hands into a cauldron of red-hot iron filings. However, the direction also by star Jimmy Wang Yu, who wrote the story on top of this is lively and imaginative, the fight sequences nicely choreographed and the settings, which include a wintry landscape complete with falling snow, is quite picturesque. All in all, this is an entertaining and violent kung fu romp with all-out action for the genre fan to enjoy. Simple, yet fun.

4 years, 8 months ago

AKB48Fan rated The Chinese Boxer

 The Chinese Boxer 6/10

4 years, 8 months ago

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4 years, 8 months ago

AKB48Fan added 17 items to The 2020 TV Show List list

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