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albert 22nd Aug 2016		Cinema Wings Of Fame (1990) (1990)	Review Its what happens when you die, maybe. Playing about with the fickle nature of fame, your stay in the afterlife and the comforts that you enjoy there will be governed by how well you are remembered and loved back in the land of the living. Valentin, a once great movie star enjoying the last years of his life sometime in the 1960s is murdered by anonymous writer Brian Smith, furious that Valentin stole and claimed his work as his own. Smith also dies in the ensuing chaos and both end up in a very grand hotel populated by the likes of Hemmingway, Einstein, Lassie, and a bunch of others who may be famous dead people, or may be inventions to avoid lawsuits (like the anarchists). Valetin and Smith play a cat and mouse game of minds and both chase the same woman. There are philosophical questions to be asked, religious notions to debunk, charlatans to expose, and much fun is had with the changing parameters of fame such as humiliating room swaps and the fear of an eternity swimming in limbo. But for a lucky one there is also a chance for a second life, now in the 1980s present. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 21st Aug 2016		Cinema Malpertuis (1971) (1971)	Review In a huge decrepit house somewhere in another time, another place, a dying old man gathers a strange collection of people to hear his will and final judgement. The people shall be rich but they must never leave Malpertuis forever. I cannot say any more without spoiling the plot, lest to say this is one of the strangest and most intriguing arthouse films you are ever likely to see. Mystery, myth and madness, the story is pure fantasy but played straight, the ending when it comes is a bit disappointing but then you realise you've witnessed something that will stay with you for a long time. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 10th Aug 2016		Cinema La Horripilante Bestia Humana (Night Of The Bloody Apes) (1969) (1969)	Review This is just your average gorilla-heart-transplant-into-human-experiment-gone-berserk, with added female wrestling, rape, bloody murder and eye-gouging mayhem type of film. The DVD I have from Something Weird Video features the American version with real open-heart surgery inserts for added fun. Really, you cannot describe this film without it sounding like the sickest thing ever made, it might make you cover your eyes, it might leave you shell shocked for a while, it might even make you want to shower afterwards, but you cannot but laugh when the sickly kid transforms into mr muscle (with a monkey head) and jumps out the window for the first time. I would put a link to the trailer but it could cause offense. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 10th Aug 2016		Cinema The Reflecting Skin (1990) (1990)	Review What is THIS! its a film about childhood, and about traumas, nightmares and hideous unseen danger, and what is real and unreal. If this was a conventional thriller, you would have the gang of sick hoodlums raping and killing around the countryside while being pursued by the one-eyed sheriff who dispenses justice in his own way. But instead we follow Seth, through the eye of the storm, the gang making fleeting appearances and looking cool, the sheriff appears threatening and brings torment and anguish in his wake. Seth is withdrawn, has a difficult mother and hero-worships his brother, he thinks his neighbour is a vampire and she plays along with it, he finds a mummified baby and believes it is an angel. There is so much strangeness this could be mistaken for a David Lynch film, but it is unlike any other, the photography is astounding, the soundtrack sparse and just right, if there is a film guaranteed to polarise an audience this could be it, personally I love it. 7 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 10th Aug 2016		Cinema Meet The Applegates (The Applegates) (1990) (1990)	Review When deforestation by humans threatens a colony of giant mantis-like bugs, the bugs plot to annihilate humanity with a nuclear catastrophe. Taking on human form and learning the ways of men the hyper-intelligent bugs integrate into suburbia to carry out their scheme but soon succumb to human ways and vices. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 29th Jul 2016		Cinema De Noorderlingen (The Northeners) (1992) (1992)	Review A droll black comedy about the occupants of a new housing estate by the edge of a wood, with a postman who steals people's mail and various jobsworths and layabout people. Quite good fun but like most of Alex van Warmerdam's films pretty much impossible to get on DVD. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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