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Member	Item		Review/Comment
albert 6th Oct 2016		Cinema Carry On Cruising (1962) (1962)	Trailer [YouTube Video]
albert 6th Oct 2016		Cinema Carry On Regardless (1961) (1961)	Trailer, (problems with framing) [YouTube Video]
albert 6th Oct 2016		Cinema Carry On Constable (1960) (1960)	Trailer [YouTube Video]
albert 6th Oct 2016		Cinema Carry On Jack (1963) (1963)	Quite a good one in the series, screenplay by Talbot Rothwell. [YouTube Video]
albert 6th Oct 2016		Cinema Carry On Again Doctor (1969) (1969)	Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell. Trailer [YouTube Video]
albert 6th Oct 2016		Cinema Carry On Doctor (1967) (1967)	Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell. Trailer: [YouTube Video]
albert 6th Oct 2016		Cinema Carry On At Your Convenience (1971) (1971)	Going down the pan, the puns were getting cornier and the trade union stuff was a bit of a misfire. Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell. [YouTube Video]
albert 6th Oct 2016		Cinema Carry On Matron (1972) (1972)	The 4th hospital-based Carry On, (others were Nurse, Doctor, Again Doctor). Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell. [YouTube Video]
albert 6th Oct 2016		Cinema Carry On Screaming! (1966) (1966)	Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell, one of his better ones. Trailer, (something wrong with framing) [YouTube Video]
albert 6th Oct 2016		Cinema Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (Don't Lose Your Head / Carry On Pimpernel) (1966) (1966)	Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell with some of his best puns. Looks like they spent a bit more than usual on the production: [YouTube Video]
albert 6th Oct 2016		Cinema Carry On Cowboy (1965) (1965)	Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell. Trailer: [YouTube Video]
albert 6th Oct 2016		Cinema Cleopatra (1963)	Dear me, if this was the 1963 trailer then no wonder nobody went to see it... [YouTube Video] boring boring boring, absolutely deserves the Carry On send-up.
albert 6th Oct 2016		Cinema Carry On Cleo (1964) (1964)	Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell. One of the best of the Carry Ons, they re-used the sets from Liz Taylor's Cleopatra which is why it looks kinda familiar. [YouTube Video]
albert 6th Oct 2016		Cinema Revenge Of Billy The Kid (1992) (1992)	A head-on collision between an earthy British comedy and a creature-feature horror results in a messy ending, turning funny haha into funny huh? This film is similar in style to early Peter Jackson ones mixing laughs and gore and is really quite hilarious for those in the mood for some lowbrow British humour. Be prepared for stereotypical depictions of farm yokels, lots of dirt, terrible puns, more dirt, and lard as a lubricant. Trailer, if you dare. [YouTube Video]
albert 6th Oct 2016		Cinema Revenge Of Billy The Kid (1992) (1992)	Review Living on an island are farmer Gyles MacDonald, his wife, Grampa (who passes away early on), and 3 offspring Ronald, Ronald and Ronald (though she prefers Ronnie), oh and the 4th kid, Billy, who is a bit of an animal. Billy grows fast, scavenging food, however he pushes his luck when he goes for Gyles' moonshine and is chased from the farmhouse. Out in the wilds Billy fends for himself but develops a taste for human flesh …soon he will return to the farm looking for more food! 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 3rd Oct 2016		Cinema Ein Kitten für Hitler (A Kitten For Hitler) (2007) (2007)	Ken Russell and Melvyn Bragg have a bet on censorship, something along the lines of 'a script that would be so offensive that even Ken would want it banned'. Ken wrote a script and Melvyn agreed that it was very offensive and Ken won the argument. But years later Ken did make the film, therefore he lost the argument. Or something like that. Anyway, it was all a fairly pointless exercise as most scripts don't ever get made into films, but "it will cause offense" isn't usually the reason why. Ken did however have problems making the film as he could not get a child actor to play the part of the child. Here is the film, the blackest of black comedies, but typical Russell nevertheless, Warning, it may cause offense: [YouTube Video]
albert 3rd Oct 2016		Cinema Savage Messiah (1972) (1972)	Caught this halfway through on TV donkey's years ago and loved it, but it took me a good many years to discover its title and the director. Now I'm hoping it will eventually come out on DVD, ....but please not another widescreen version squashed onto 4:3 like most of Ken's recent DVD releases.
albert 19th Sep 2016		Cinema Mondo Cane N. 2 (Mondo Pazzo) (1963) (1963)	YouTube has the whole film if you look for it
albert 18th Sep 2016		Cinema Africa Addio (Africa Blood And Guts) (1966) (1966)	Has some of the most wretched images of the whole series, the hunting scenes are not for the faint hearted, the war-mongers and cruel dictators and the real killings are as you can expect.
albert 18th Sep 2016		Cinema Mondo Cane (A Dog's Life) (1962) (1962)	The whole film, starting slow and relatively sweet for the first 15 minutes then comes the first savage wallop, this is the uncut version so keep the smelling salts close at hand. [YouTube Video]
albert 18th Sep 2016		Cinema Mondo Cane (A Dog's Life) (1962) (1962)	Review "Tired of being on the heights I deliberately went to the depths in the search for new sensations" so wrote Oscar Wilde. In 1962 Mondo Cane served up an exquisite piece of trash for the jaded cinema goer and spawned a whole new genre in the process, (though non match the punch of the original). You want to see an ugly world, a primitive world, the destruction that man is capable of, the odd, the bizarre, the wretched, or to see what the rich get up to behind closed doors, its all here, with a cynical carnival-barker type narrator, glorious cinematography and a lush score (including a worldwide hit). The film now looks a little dated but remains a must-see, some scenes are unsettling and guaranteed to leave you ruffled. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 17th Sep 2016		Cinema Death May Be Your Santa Claus (1969) (1969)	Review A radicalised black man is ejected from college and fantasizes after a mixed racial relationship. Meanwhile in London somewhere, machine gun toting revolutionaries force a bishop to beg with a suckling baby, a man endures a cannibalistic castration, a hippy chick prances and much racist babble is shouted at Hyde Park corner. Light relief comes from a freaky band who practice in a derelict house in a soot-encrusted street, and who also soundtrack much of the film. 7 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 17th Sep 2016		Cinema Death May Be Your Santa Claus (1969) (1969)	The existence of this film was disputed for years until it was included as a bonus on the Joanna DVD (BFI Flipside). The enticingly weird plot and the fact that it included early versions of the songs by Second Hand (the band) made it a hot wish-list item. Nothing available on YouTube (videos get pulled very quickly).
albert 17th Sep 2016		Cinema The Holy Mountain (1973) (1973)	What can I say about a film that defies description, an original Midnight Movie, setting the bar too high for any other in its wake. Maybe not recommended for animal rights activists. The thief's journey to the Alchemist's lair is far more eventful than the ascent up the mountain, but I don't want to write an essay. The ending is a bit disappointing though I guess the build up made the finale something that would be insurmountable anyway. [YouTube Video]
albert 17th Sep 2016		Cinema The Holy Mountain (1973) (1973)	Review Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream. Jodorowsky's visual stream of consciousness is splurged before our eyes in an avalanche of dazzling, bewildering and grotesque images that make for a uniquely enjoyable cinematic experience. I am sure there are mystic and allegorical references aplenty for the enlightened ones to spot but when Jodorowsky finally leads his bald-headed followers out of the freak show and up the Holy Mountain things become crushingly mundane until eventually reality calls a halt to the proceedings. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 15th Sep 2016		Cinema Optinen ääni (Optical Sound)	Fascinating, hypnotic, here it is... [YouTube Video] (well, most of it)
albert 13th Sep 2016		Cinema Weekend At Bernie's (1989) (1989)	[YouTube Video]
albert 13th Sep 2016		Cinema Weekend At Bernie's (1989) (1989)	Review Two lowly computer dudes in a financial institution discover irregularities that prove a money laundering fraud and excitedly report their findings to Bernie, the big cheese. However Bernie is well aware of the fraud as it involves his gangster cohorts, and schemes to have the boys eliminated while they party at his swanky beach-house for the weekend. Unfortunately for Bernie, the gangsters see him as too much of a liability and it is he who ends up as cold meat. The boys arrive but cannot resist the temptation to party on, since nobody but them seems to notice that Bernie is dead, and this ultimately leads to complications with the hitman who is eager to finish the job. Tasteless yes, but the slapstick comedy and indignities that pile onto the unfortunate Bernie make this irresistibly funny. 7 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 13th Sep 2016		Cinema Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996) (1996)	hmm, what does this remind me of? [YouTube Video]
albert 13th Sep 2016		Cinema The Matrix (1999) (1999)	Browsing some old VHS videos looking for stuff to dump, I came across Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace and gave it a quick viewing. It's not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination, but then it struck me that it does have some similarities to The Matrix. (I didn't get to watch it all though as it was fairly dire). By the way The Wachowski Brothers are in fact sisters. EDIT: I stuck a trailer on LM2, so you can judge for yourselves.

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