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alexlincs 29th Sep 2023		Cinema The Cell (2000)	@Magic Marmalade I remember liking it and it's total eye-candy. At the time there were a lot of stylish, but soulless horror films like "In Dreams" and "Stigmata" and while The Cell is better than most of them, it just leaves me cold.
alexlincs 14th Sep 2023		Book Roald Dahl - Switch Bitch	Despite this version of the paperback being published since the 1980s I suspect this one dates from 2000 due to the inclusion of web addresses and an introduction references 2000 World Book day.
alexlincs 28th Aug 2023		Cinema The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)	Proper title screen now added
alexlincs 8th Aug 2023		Cinema Dance Craze (1981)	I didn't have high expectations for this, but the concert footage is absolutely fantastic. It was previously classified as U for cinema, but got a 12A/12 for the BFI release. Has a great booklet as well. Well worth it for people interested in the 80s UK Ska Revival.
alexlincs 6th Aug 2023		Cinema Mr. Nanny (1993)	[YouTube Video]
alexlincs 26th Jul 2023		Cinema Hardcore Henry (2015)	@Magic Marmalade I always thought it was an attempt at turning an FPS action videogame into a movie. I've not seen Doom, but I've heard this is better. Really fun popcorn movie.
alexlincs 14th Jun 2023		Cinema Teenage Hitchhikers (1974)	Claude Goddard is an alias of Jerome S. Kaufmann, but I don't think he's ever released a film under that name.
alexlincs 28th May 2023		Cinema Outland (1981)	@ Magic Marmalade I agree criminally underrated as a Sci-Fi, an action film or as a Sean Connery film. I only found out about it after someone recommended me it. It didn't do big business at the box office, but made profit about 1 million profit. I saw it as being Dirty Harry in space.
alexlincs 3rd May 2023		Cinema Lesbian Vampire Killers (Vampire Killers ) (2009)	[YouTube Video]
alexlincs 25th Apr 2023		TV Little Britain (2003 - 2006)	As a bit of trivia Little Britain has been re-added to iPlayer and BritBox, but both the Ting Tong character from Series 3 and Desiree DeVere have been removed. The first episode runs nearly 5 minutes shorter than the DVD.
alexlincs 25th Apr 2023		Cinema The Amazing Transplant (1970)	Rubbish ending on this film and way too dialogue heavy. The film has a kitschy and camp charm though.
alexlincs 17th Apr 2023		Cinema Hundra (1983)	Upgraded title screen from Blu-Ray now added.
alexlincs 8th Apr 2023		Live Music Def Leppard @ Don Valley Stadium	This was the first gig at Don Valley Bowl.
alexlincs 3rd Apr 2023		Cinema Loving Highsmith (2022)	[YouTube Video]
alexlincs 29th Mar 2023		Cinema She Will (2021)	Rated 6/10 She Will gained a lot of critical acclaim. It was voted film of the week by Mark Kermode in The Guardian and had largely favourable reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. I think it's mediocre at best. An ageing actress goes to a remote highland retreat after a double mastectomy with her assistant played by Kota Eberhardt. Weird stuff keeps happening. There's some stuff with crystals which is never explained, sludgy liquid coming out of the earth and Alice Krige has flashbacks. The film was billed as a feminist witchcraft film. We learn Veronica (Krige) was the victim of sexual abuse as a 13 year old in her early film Navajo Frontier, it's never explained if she did a film since or was simply a childhood actress. Which begs the question why is she still front page news in her golden years. We also see Desi (Kota Eberhardt) have suffer some sexual abuse by a man in a pub. In this scene we learn Veronica is protecting Desi with witchcraft and the man gets drowned in the muddy ground. Veronica sexually abusive director also dies by falling off a set of stairs which is called suicide. The director played by Malcolm McDowell is obviously based on Roman Polanski and possibly Harvey Weinstein. The message could be rapists must die. It's clumsily handled and very unsubtle compared to a film like Darling which has a similar message or even more unsubtle films like Dirty Weekend or A Gun For Jennifer which are more rape and revenge films it seems a bit dull as we've seen it all before. The film has a lot of atmosphere and a great Clint Mansell soundtrack which sounds like the fairytale music of Danny Elfman with an electronic edge. The film for me isn't clever, intelligent or unique but it is well made. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
alexlincs 27th Mar 2023		Video Game Alien 3 - Arena	For trivia fans cover art work is from the teaser poster. The artwork used for the final film poster was Ripley next to the alien queen.
alexlincs 15th Mar 2023		Cinema The Loves Of Carmen (Los Amores De Carmen ) (1948)	Blu-Ray Title screen now up.
alexlincs 9th Mar 2023		Cinema A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)	@Elizabeth Lapicola Scene of the bullying gym teacher being whipped with a towel was a hoot
alexlincs 7th Feb 2023		Live Music T In The Park 1997 @ Balado	DJ Sneak didn't play due to the British Airways strike affecting flights from America according to Muzik magazine.
alexlincs 5th Feb 2023		Cinema She Will (2021)	[YouTube Video]
alexlincs 24th Jan 2023		Cinema Somewhere In Dreamland (1936)	Massive upgrade to title screen from new streaming version
alexlincs 23rd Jan 2023		Cinema Babylon	Rated 7/10 This review will be uploaded to Imdb and contains spoilers Babylon (obvious nod to scandal book Hollywood Babylon) is a very (post)modern take on old Hollywood. Lavished with profanity, many gross-out scenes and occasional moments of beauty. It's an uneven mix of style over substance. This film has all the elements and many great bits, but as a whole it is coherent, but bloated and not as clever as it should be. Diego Calva play Manuel Torres, a young Spanish man who seems to be a sort of fixer for rich people, from this slow start he becomes a runner on Hollywood films after befriending a drunken Jack Conrad (Brad Pitt) at a party. At the party he meets Nellie LaRoy (Margot Robbie) a young woman from the sticks with big ambition to become a star. The film is about Hollywood actors not being able to make the transition from Silent film to the Talkies which was a real problem at the time. There's a Pygmallion inspired plot with Nellie LaRoy being taught how to speak proper. This subplot would be more tragic if it wasn't played for laughs. Jack Conrad being Hollywood's hot property and a raging alcoholic; a sort of hybrid of Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks and echoing Charlie Chaplin (who famously wasn't as successful in Talkies). It's nice to see Brad Pitt given a chance to test his acting chops with something meaty. Sadly the character is underwritten and always feels a bit one-dimensional, he has a divorce and a marriage within 30 minutes of screen time. When the emotional gut punch arrives, we could spot it a mile off. Margot Robbie as Nellie LaRoy is one of the multidimensional characters along with Diego Calva as Manny Torres. She's sort of Mildred June, Greta Garbo, Theda Bara and of course Louise Brooks - all of which get referenced. More interestingly I was reminded of recent starlets like Courtney Love and Lindsay Lohan. She's a woman who is possibly a victim of her own actions as well as her upbringing and ultimately we learn she never learns. Diego Calva is Oscar worthy for sure with a surprisingly understated performance amongst many which are deliberately larger than life. A man who fixes other people's mistakes and manages to get recognised for doing it, but ultimately gets dragged down by Nellie. The film is sort of a patchwork quilt of old and new. As mentioned the deliberately profanity laden script, pop culture references were most characters could be from any era of Hollywood. One highlight was Manny being chased through a series of tunnels in LA's A-hole which was blatantly a reference to Dante's Inferno and possibly the film Irreversible. The real star of the show is the cinematography (a gorgeous palate of browns, reds and burnt oranges) and jazz soundtrack. Even the soundtrack had a modern twist featuring on one track which I suspect used an electronic drum beat. There's also been a recent trend of shock elements in drama and this film has it in spades - a man getting sprayed with elephant dung immediately followed by the last days of Rome party scene: there's a dwarf on a phallic shaped pogo stick spraying white foam into the crowd, a reference to Fatty Arbuckle and a young girl, champagne bottle up the Aris' and later on we have projectile vomiting and some gory scenes. Much like how non-horror films took elements of Slasher films and put them in thrillers we have scenes that wouldn't be out of place in a gross out teen comedy or even a porn film in a mainstream big budget release and I'm not a prude, but you need a strong stomach to get through this one. I'm a huge fan of films that are "the American dream gone wrong" and I recalled films like Sunset Blvd. and L.A. Confidential both better films. Another meta reference was Manny watching a film in the 1950s, immediately reminding the viewer of Cinema Paradiso (a much better film) and that summed it up. While the film is clever in places and knowing there's not much heart and soul to it. While it is more fun than Silent-era homage "The Artist" it never rises above feeling like its beating the audience over the head with a canapé tray to get the message across rather than being subtle. Quite what the message is supposed to be is open to interpretation: Hollywood is a mean place that will steal your soul, but look at the escapism and artistry on offer. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
alexlincs 20th Jan 2023		Live Music Ultramarine @ Academy	Megadog is actually the name of event. They also hosted events at Brixton academy.
alexlincs 7th Jan 2023		Cinema Spirited	1080p Title Screen upgrade added
alexlincs 4th Jan 2023		Cinema Katakuri-ke No Kōfuku (The Happiness Of The Katakuris) (2001)	Title screen now added
alexlincs 19th Dec 2022		TV Ads Infinitum (1998 - 2000)	RIP Victor Lewis-Smith
alexlincs 18th Dec 2022		Cinema I.D. (1995)	Proper title screen now added from DVD
alexlincs 8th Dec 2022		Cinema Unholy Ground (2016)	Rated 5/10 Unholy Ground is a bizarre one. The merging of gory horror and pornography is nothing new. Anybody who has seen Porno Holocaust or Texas Vibrator Massacre can attest to that, but those films are nowhere near as dialogue heavy and while all three are sincere, Unholy Ground seems serious. To be honest I missed the finer point of the plot. In an unnamed Austrian village the townsfolk are struck down by what appears to be the plague and some of the villagers summon the devil in a ritual. The film is not sex heavy with not much other than a bit of topless nudity happening for 20 minutes. The sex on offer is hardcore with explicit oral sex, penetration and money shots. We've seen it all before in La Bête (1979) and the masturbating with a crucificx would be shocking if it wasn't done better in The Exorcist and the uncut version of The Devils. The gore on offer is also very graphic with tongues being ripped out, skin peeling and heads being chopped off. Definitely wouldn't be out of place in the slew of straight to video horror put out in the last decade. The acting is straight out of a LARPING or amateur dramatics society. Despite German not being my native language you can tell it is straight up bad for the most part; coupled with a dry script it makes the dialogue scenes a chore to sit through, but I suspect most viewers will fast forward them. This film would have been shocking about 40 years ago, but with mainstream films featuring explicit sex and a ton of much more disturbing and equally gory horror films like The Terriffier coming out this is a largely tedious, two hour endurance test. I can't recommend it, but it is a strange curio and gains an extra point for a surprisingly dour ending. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
alexlincs 25th Nov 2022		Cinema Classical Period (2008)	Film features no title screen
alexlincs 20th Nov 2022		Cinema Violent Night (2022)	[YouTube Video]

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