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Member	Movie		Comment / Review
zabadak 2nd May 2024		Challengers (2024)	Review Independent review :read: ✔︎ Helpful Review?
zabadak 2nd May 2024		Love Lies Bleeding (2024)	Review Independent review :read: ✔︎ Helpful Review?
zabadak 1st May 2024		Let It Be (1970)	Trailer :happy: [YouTube Video]
alexlincs 1st May 2024		A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)	Rated 5/10 One of the worst in the franchise. It has many references to popular films at the time: The A-ha Take On Me music video, The Omen, The Exorcist, body horror like Tetsuo Iron Man & Society, Judge Dredd and Dark Horse comics. Robert Englund is always fun to watch, but for the most part his one liners are forgettable. It is clear to viewers he has become a parody of himself. Due to the popularity of the franchise this film and Dream Master also feel more "child friendly" with less gore and more fantastical effects. It's worth mentioning this film was cut by the MPAA and the cut version was carried over to Blu-ray and streaming media. Even without the cuts the kills while inventive especially a comic book fight with Freddy lack the menace of earlier films, making Freddy look like a loveable Uncle. The film was a box office success making almost triple its 8 million dollar budget. However, it is often panned by both genre critics and fans as being the worst in the series after Freddy's Revenge. It's difficult to argue, but there's still a good deal of invention and style to this bookmark of 80s slashers. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
jakal68 ● 28th Apr 2024		Valimo (2006)	[YouTube Video]
jakal68 ● 27th Apr 2024		Being Josh (2008)	[YouTube Video]
jakal68 ● 25th Apr 2024		Cabine 11 (1992)	Viewable on Youtube: NSFW
jakal68 ● 25th Apr 2024		Mirage (1993)	Viewable on Youtube: NSFW
alexlincs 23rd Apr 2024		La Grande Bellezza (2013)	Rated 8/10 Honestly they don't get that much better. A 65 year old writer throws parties and goes soul searching in Rome. I think what makes it stand out is just how cack-handed most films are in the treatment of existentialism. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
zabadak 18th Apr 2024		Bones And All (2022)	Independent review :read:
MR B PAGE 18th Apr 2024		The Towering Inferno (1974)	R.I.P. O.J. Simpson who plays Jernigan in the 1974 film.
Magic Marmalade 16th Apr 2024		Song Of The South (1945)	Rated 6/10 I found a home made rip / burn copy of this in the charity shop the other day, with what looks like a cut down VHS cover fitted in a CD jewel case... ...Knowing what it was, and certainly with no clear memory of ever having seen it, even back in the day, I grabbed it, to see what all the controversy was. The copy I have seems to be at least DVD quality, possibly moving toward Blu-Ray quality, in terms of sharpness and clarity, so I don't think it came from a VHS rip. (I believe it was released on Blu-Ray in Spain, at least, so half suspect this is from that source, ripped from that disc, then burned to DVD) Now of course, I'm not really going to go into all the sociological issues with this, being neither capable or qualified to do so, and this not perhaps being the appropriate forum for that debate - after all you start a discussion along those lines and very soon we have to get our heavy modding wellies on! - Except only to say, that the principal sin committed here is that it makes the time, place and circumstance a litlle more... rosy than it should be. ...That said, there are certain hard-wired circumstantial elements that no amount of varnishing can clear away - the big house plantation is owned of course, by a white family, and the the servants, are, of course, black, and everyone knows their place without having to mention it (and don't), and everone seems of course, Disney-chipper about it... So yes, anyone can see how this would be "problematic". I cannot say, however, that, given all the furore, there was anything over and above this that was in danger of prompting an outrage based aneurism, nor did my jaw hit the floor in incredulity... As there is nothing here really that doesn't exist, and indeed, persist in other movies and content elsewhere - eyebrow raising, certainly. (Django Unchained, it ain't... Nor 12 Years a slave) Looking for a moment (if possible) beyond these issues, just at the basic plot, in terms of the movie as a story, it is a pretty good one: Undefined tension between Mummy and Daddy causes them to escort their young child to Grandma's house, where Mummy intends to live with him, while Daddy moves back home without them... child is bereft, and doesn't understand, feeling lost, and so intends to run away back home to be with dad... here he meets Uncle Remus, raconteur and teller of fabulous tales about Br'er Rabbit and his run ins with the fox and bear, who want to do horrible things to him - These tales being, of course, analogies containing little tricks and life lessons for the kid to learn from, and learn to cope, in the best traditions of the fable. I can't help thinking the solution to this problematic movie might be something that Disney is doing already with their back catalogue whether asked for or not: Remake it. ...And indeed, refurbish it, re-position it or do whatever to make it less troublesome. (In fact, while watching it, I frequently thought of the Coen brothers for some reason... just a thought!) As is though, as my find demonstrates, both in the finding, and the fact that I was aware of this movie because of all the bother about it, if you ban something, you are likely to create a mystique about it, even if it is not any more deserved than others of it's kind. Had I not known about this, I would have simply left it on the shelf, rather than be prompted by curiosity. After all, as I said at the start of this ramble, the principle sin is that it seeks to ignore or rewrite historical realities in favour of making things a little more rosy... ...But then, isn't banning a movie outright because if this, doing exactly the same thing? 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
henry29 15th Apr 2024		Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)	Title Image from the movie added. H.
henry29 15th Apr 2024		Dune: Part Two (2024)	Titles from the movie added. H.
Dr Doom SUBS 15th Apr 2024		The Beach Girls And The Monster (1965)	Not according to Soundtrack Collector
swbcfc 15th Apr 2024		The Beach Girls And The Monster (1965)	Does anyone know if the soundtrack of this film was ever issued on record or CD ?
zabadak 14th Apr 2024		Men (2022)	Rated 7/10 Guardian review :read: ✔︎ Helpful Review?
zabadak 13th Apr 2024		Civil War (2024)	Alex Garland interview for the Guardian :read:
zabadak 13th Apr 2024		Civil War (2024)	Trailer :happy: [YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 13th Apr 2024		Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)	Thanks for the pointers Henry :) There was a shelf of oldies in the local charity shop where I got this on a whim, so I'll go back and look a little closer at their selection, I'm sure one of those will be there somewhere. (Got a small stack of DVDs: "to be watched" which I'm going to get a shift on with soon as I can)
Dr Doom SUBS 12th Apr 2024		Il était Une Fois Le Diable (1985)	Review One of those films that's so bad that it's....AMAZING! Yup, this one really lives up to it's cult status. The film opens with a Zombie member of the SS growling and butchering motorists but this is no straight ahead Slasher or Zombie movie. Instead it throws up a ghost pirate ship, a Mummy, a mysterious Black Cat which miaows A LOT and it repeatedly cuts to scenes of an old French fella in camouflage failing to shooting a Black horse from close range. He's either the worst shot in France or the horse has magick powers but you will never know as like everything else in the film there's NO EXPLANATION whatsoever. Very little dialogue, very little narrative and yet this film certainly has....something! It's also pretty damn gory and it's a mercy the low budget means the gore is more comic book than horrific otherwise the Mummy squeezing the guts out of one poor victim could really haunt you. The repetition and the feeling that absolutely anything could happen at any point makes it a truly surreal watch. Get some nice cheese and wine in for a French themed movie night and enjoy your Psychedelic Nightmares!!!! 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
henry29 11th Apr 2024		Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)	The next films you need to see MM, are White Heat, Yankee Doodle Dandy and The Strawberry Blonde. These have a steller cast. Comedy plus great songs In two of them. H.
Magic Marmalade 11th Apr 2024		Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)	Today I saw my first James Cagney film... and it was this... and it was good! I'd always avoided him, as his somewhat cartoonish acting (from what I'd known or had seen in snippets) of the apparently ultra-ham style, always put me off. But this was a revelation, in that I see his most overt moments in context of the story, the acting style of the time, his character, and what others in the movie were doing, but also, at last, getting to see his more subtle and nuanced acting, which is really quite great at times. Unbelievably ambitious crane shot for the time, at the beginning, and a great story, of course, but one of those that in the first few minutes, I'd have rated about a 6 out of 10, but as it goes on, gathers an extra rating point here and there... probably would rate it higher after a couple more viewings, and certainly now intrigued to see more of Mr. Cagney's movies, now I am assured that there will be more to it than a cartoon icon at work.
alexlincs 8th Apr 2024		From A To Z-Z-Z-Z (1954)	Upgraded title screen from bluray
Magic Marmalade 5th Apr 2024		Alien 3 (1992)	Rated 7/10 Never understood the hate for this one... ...Granted, it had a lot to live up to, in the wake of the masterpiece of claustrophobic space horror of the original movie, and then the more actiony sci-fi franchisement of sequel: Aliens, which I think did a lot to skew expectations of this, which, of course, a return to a more claustrophobic space horror origins would fail to meet: "Hey, where's the zap and pow, and action etc!?!" ...and so forth. ...But I thought it was a very strong character study, and found it thoroughly engrossing in the cinema on release, and no repeated viewings over the years have dissuaded me from that. Yes, the set-up is a little contrived, where Ripley's pod crash lands on an all but deserted planet which happens to be a prison planet, full of bad dudes, and absolutely, the ending (will say no more) is a mite toe curling and overblown in concept, but everything in between is solid stuff in my book. Also, I did try something the other day which seemed to bring even more out of this, and gave the movie an extra dimension, which you may wish to try: I messed about with my colour settings in order to make this completely Black and White, removing all colour, and making the blacks and whites in high contrast to each other, and it was great! So it seems there's a great black and white horror creature feature trapped inside this already grim palleted movie. Anyway, food for thought. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
zabadak 3rd Apr 2024		Tetris (2023)	Jon S. Baird interview from WhyNow :read:
Record Collector 3rd Apr 2024		Tommy (1975)	If you look at the Thumbnail it should have read as Columbia Pictures and Robert Stigwood Presents that should have been inserted.
mikewn ● 3rd Apr 2024		The Truth About Season Four (2001)	Credits derived from this youtube video:[YouTube Video]
Juke Jules SUBS 29th Mar 2024		Wicked Little Letters (2024)	Review In a small English seaside town beset by xenophobic prejudice, Irish woman Rose arrives with her fatherless daughter and black boyfriend, but her outgoing friendly personality soon endears her to her neighbours, until some start receiving insulting and obscene letters. The offences are referred to the police, who are at the heart of all the prejudices, including against one of their own staff who is not only of Indian origin but worse, a woman. Woman Police Officer Gladys Moss becomes the 'Harry Bates' of the story, contesting the injustice of the accusation. Will justice prevail? Tension to the very end, concluding with a glorious outburst of very wicked words. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Magic Marmalade 29th Mar 2024		Before Midnight (2013)	Rated 7/10 A philosophy of love... ...And relationships, and how they change. So I finally caved in on this one, as it just wasn't turning up in the charity shops, and decided to just stream it, to round out the trilogy. Got to say I was dreading it, as I didn't want to spoil the magic of the first two, as I kind of had a hunch that reality would come crashing in at some point, and here it is. However, the reality, is a well considered one, and is just as well written as the others, this has not just been tacked on to finish the trilogy...indeed these may be among the finest screenplays ever written, the kind that I should image any actor would hack off a limb to be a part of... ...And from this perspective, this may be the best written, and possibly best acted of the three, due to the actual drama and contention that now exists between the two lead characters, now living together with twin daughters, and on holiday in Greece... and the tension of unspoken, and as yet unsaid acknowledgement of trouble having grown in paradise over the intervening years... Jesse, torn between a desire to have deeper relationship with his son from his previous marriage, and being with the love of his life, and their daughters in that new life, while Celine doesn't feel how "present" he has been in their lives because of this, leading to her stifling the complaint she justly has about this... ...A storm is brewing, and the tension will surely cause it to break at some point. What these movies do well, is the unspoken things, as well as the spoken, and what lies behind them, as the first two thirds of the movie seems to be moving along ok. with the idyllic life, with only apparent minor "quibbles", which only in the final third, you find out that what they were both really thinking about the situation, and everything they did prior to this section of the film, was not what they were saying, or how they were acting or behaving at the time. So, quite masterfully, the scenes later, lend a new context, and meaning on what you saw before, and call to mind those previous scenes and make you reflect on them while you watch. ...But also, this applies to the trilogy of films as a whole, as there are both overt, direct references to their previous experiences in those other films, as well as subtle allusions... "easter eggs" which those who have seen them will understand, and so feel the poignancy of. In fact, rather than simply ruin our daydream of that first, perfect romance, this, I feel, may have the effect of shedding a new light on the other two... knowing what is to come, may add to the power of the experiences of the first movie, and the second, just as each of those has a very powerful affect on how you view this one, which, if you didn't know the romantic past they share, may casue you to view this as a more purely bitter experience - there is, therefore, a kind of cross-chatter between the movies in this trilogy, as you recall events previous as you watch this, and as said, I expect may affect the I view the others in future when I watch them again... giving, together, a "God's eye view" of a whole relationship, and complete working diagram of love, and how it changes over time.... for better, and worse. This, like the others, is also constructed around the prolonged set piece conversations between them, as they by turns, talk in a car for a good twenty minutes, talk at a dinner party table with friends for another twenty odd minutes, then talk while walking through the local town and surrounding landscape, before the final scene in a small hotel room. So it has all the familiar look and feel, and makes a perfect circle of movies. Whether you like this one or not, will very much depend on what kind of person you are, and your own appreciation of the experiences they have, based on your own, as well as if, like the two protagonists, are idealistic, cynic, or realist, or any of those things (sometimes together) at different times. I'm pleased this exists, and it does add a lot, to make this one of the all time great trilogies, as well as each part having a claim to being among the best romantic movies ever made... But... Once I've watched the three together in sequence once again, I will mostly only watching the first two (especially the first ) in future... I guess I just want to believe in the romance more than the reality. :) 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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