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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Dr Doom SUBS 1st May 2020		Cinema Nothing But The Night (The Resurrection Syndicate) (1973) (1973)	Rated 6/10 I thought this was nearly great. It's hard to say exactly what it's about without giving spoilers but let's just say that it begins like a straight ahead murder mystery thriller and then takes several turns along the way. Unfortunately, for me, It doesn't quite take those turns fast enough and seems to drag despite the fairly short running time. Still, It's well worth a watch. It has a great ensemble cast including a very manic and angry Diana Dors. The film is especially worth seeking out for fans of The Wicker Man. There are obvious similarities between the two and it's interesting that they were both released in 1973 (in the UK) with neither making a huge impression (at the time!) 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS 27th Apr 2020		Cinema A Place To Go (1963) (1963)	'I should Coco'
Dr Doom SUBS 26th Apr 2020		Cinema White Cargo (1973)	Rated 2/10 This gets a meagre 3.2/10 on IMBb and I have to agree. This is one stinker of a film. Ostensibly it's a sex comedy but in manages to fail on either count and given that Imogen Hassall and David Jason are the two main actors that's quite a non achievement! 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS 26th Apr 2020		Cinema The Witch's Fiddle (1924) (1924)	The full 7 minutes here.... [YouTube Video]
Dr Doom SUBS 21st Apr 2020		Cinema It's In The Groove (1949) (1949)	A short documentary about the early days of the music business. And featuring the birth of the 45! [YouTube Video]
Dr Doom SUBS 7th Apr 2020		Cinema Storie Sulla Sabbia (Stories In The Sand) (1963) (1963)	[YouTube Video]
Dr Doom SUBS 7th Apr 2020		Cinema Il Demonio (The Demon ) (1963) (1963)	[YouTube Video]
Dr Doom SUBS 7th Apr 2020		Cinema Roy Colt And Winchester Jack (1970) (1970)	[YouTube Video]
Dr Doom SUBS 22nd Mar 2020		Cinema Diego Maradona (2019) (2019)	Review An excellent documentary that I'm sure is of interest even if you hate football. You could describe it as a rise and fall story but there's much more to it than that. What strikes me is how little protection he is given, both physically as a player getting kicked off the pitch and mentally as he is swamped by fans and reporters with no visible PR team to shield him. Some might argue that Maradona was his own worst enemy but I think that's harsh. He was such an incredibly talented footballer that you can't help thinking what could have been if he'd obeyed the Barcelona hierarchy and curbed his 'lifestyle'. Instead he joined Napoli where he turned an underdog team into league winners but at an incredible cost to himself as the local camorra encouraged his worst off pitch excesses. he eventually left Italy in disgrace, both loved and hated, with not much inbetween. 7 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS 28th Feb 2020		Cinema Spanish Fly (1976) (1976)	Rated 2/10 Compellingly dreadful A ludicrous plot involving two ex-public school boys who meet by chance in Menorca and agree upon a rogue's deal involving a thousand cases of aphrodisiac wine. I know 'things were different' in the seventies but this is at best ridiculous and at worst offensive (The gay photographer Juan is 'cured' upon drinking the wine) I've always hated the term 'guilty pleasure' but seen as I actually quite enjoyed this stinking turd of a film I think this fits the bill! hee hee 8 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS 17th Feb 2020		Cinema The Killings At Outpost Zeta (1980) (1980)	Rated 4/10 An ultra low budget science fiction film. It's a competition between the script and the 'special' effects as to which is the clunkiest. By far the best thing about this film is the drifty Moogy soundtrack. This film has a certain cult appeal partly due to Electronica artist Boards Of Canada using an image from it for their Twoism EP 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS 10th Feb 2020		Cinema Not Tonight, Darling! (1971) (1971)	Added screengrab of The Cross Keys pub in Hammersmith which is still open... Website I don't expect they'll be putting up a blue plaque mind you
Dr Doom SUBS 12th Nov 2019		Cinema Live It Up! (1963) (1963)	Review Not a great film by any means but it's harmless fun to play spot the popstar (Including a very young Mitch Mitchell) This film is also a must see for anyone who is a fan of Joe Meek with many of the tracks and artists featured being products of his Holloway Road production line. 7 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS 8th Oct 2019		Cinema William Buys A Parrot (1963) (1963)	[YouTube Video]
Dr Doom SUBS 8th Oct 2019		Cinema William Buys A Parrot (1963) (1963)	Review To say there isn't much to this VERY short film would be an understatement. Unless you are a massive fan of William Burroughs or Parrots then there's not much to get excited about. But seen as the film clocks in at under 2 minutes it's worth watching just to say you have! 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS 20th Feb 2019		Cinema Sessomatto (How Funny Can Sex Be?) (1973) (1973)	I'm pretty sure this film would be dreadful but the trailer (and it's funky theme tune) are amazing! [YouTube Video]
Dr Doom SUBS 9th Nov 2018		Cinema Anorac (2018) (2018)	Rated 8/10 An excellent snapshot into the Welsh language music scene. Presented as a road movie in which Huw Stephens discovers a bright yellow Anorac in a Cardiff charity shop and then sets off to explore his homeland. The film is made to look as if the journey took 4 days but the film actually took years to make, the yellow anorac providing continuity so you don't notice Huw's changes of footwear and quiff. It's not a comprehensive history of all Welsh language music, which is probably a good thing otherwise it may have been a dry old Welshcake of a documentary. Instead it focuses on artists making Welsh language music now and mixes it up with the pathfinders who made this possible (Y Blew, Meic Stevens, Datblygu and Anhrefn as examples) The two main things that both hold the film together and make it a cut above a standard music documentary are 1. Huw Stephens - His love and enthusiam for Wales, the language and the music is obvious, heartfelt and therefore completely infectious and 2. Wales itself - with some beautiful shots of the remote and picturesque far corners of the country. The cinematography is good enought that it even manages to make Cardiff city centre look quite magical ! 9 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS 11th Oct 2018		Cinema A Sketch On Abigayl’s Belly (1968) (1968)	Warning! NSFW short film [YouTube Video]
Dr Doom SUBS 30th Apr 2018		Cinema Freelance (1971)	Basil Kirchin music... [YouTube Video]
Dr Doom SUBS 23rd Apr 2018		Cinema Naughty! (1974) (1974)	Review Originally posted by HelBic in the notes section.... I saw this movie with my then girlfriend in the mid 70's and frankly, it was the closest thing to a porno movie you could see without attending a 'specialist' cinema - none of which I knew where to find at the time. In the 70's it was pretty risque as there was a lot of nudity in it. Now it'd probably be shown on the Disney channel! 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS 26th Mar 2018		Cinema The Peking Medallion (The Corrupt Ones) (1967) (1967)	Killer theme song by Dusty Springfield... [YouTube Video]
Dr Doom SUBS 20th Nov 2017		Cinema The Florida Project (2017) (2017)	Rated 8/10 Set in the underbelly of Florida within the shadows of a Disney World that seems more of a fantasy land than ever. This is a story of people doing whatever they need to do to get by, a day at a time. The film focuses on a group of urchin children who live and play around a seedy motel. The kids are somewhat feral but loveable underneath their foul mouthed bluster. The child actors are excellent and at first the film is as close to a feel good comedy as you can imagine given the poverty involved. Slowly though, the underlying hardship and desperation comes to the surface and you are left with an uneasy feeling of dread, waiting for something terrible to happen. Without giving too much away it's fair to say that it does and it doesn't and the last quarter of the film is pretty heavy going unless you have no human empathy. 8 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS 28th Jul 2017		Cinema Not Now Darling (1973) (1973)	Rated 5/10 Wow! They don't make them like this anymore. Although perhaps post-Brexit they will and we can return to this amazing simultaneously kinky and yet utterly repressed England which surely even at 1973 must have seemed unreal?! I really enjoyed this film, it's dreadful, BUT it's so unashamedly dreadful that if you go with the flow then you can enjoy it. A good cast hamming it up with an unrelentingly cringey script - Beaver (the mammal) and Tit (the bird) jokes feature heavily. It's basically a carry on film with a mere smidge of nipple. That's progress! Or was it........ 7 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS 26th Jul 2017		Cinema Decadence And Downfall: The Shah Of Iran's Ultimate Party (2016) (2016)	Some things are certainly in the grey area. This is feature length so I included it. imdb has release dates for UK, Netherlands and Sweden which suggest some kind of cinema showing before it's appearance on the small screen. It's often the case that something like this will get a one off screening at a film festival in advance of it's TV broadcast. imdb class it as a film and that's as 'authoritative' as things can be I guess....
Dr Doom SUBS 8th Jul 2017		Cinema Adventures Of A Plumber's Mate (1978) (1978)	Rated 3/10 I've not seen a 'Confessions' film for at least 20 years and having just watched this one I'm finding myself strangely fascinated with just how terrible it was. A young plumber gets into various sexy scrapes in an effort to pay off his gambling debts and avoid the least threatening gangster of all time - Arthur Mullard! It's hard to imagine this was ever funny or erotic in any way and it certainly isn't now. Some of the scenes of 'slapping birds about' or getting them to get out of bed to make a cup of tea are pretty amazing to watch nowadays. This was 1978! It'd be hard to argue that this film is anything other than a load of crap which given the subject matter is very apt. 7 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS 7th Jul 2017		Cinema Visual Training (1969) (1969)	NSFW [YouTube Video]
Dr Doom SUBS 4th Jul 2017		Cinema Decadence And Downfall: The Shah Of Iran's Ultimate Party (2016) (2016)	Rated 7/10 A fascinating documentary concerning the opulent 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire in 1971 with a grand banquet awaiting those invited monarchs and heads of state from around the world. The whole thing was staged in a desert area of Iran with huge amounts of money spent to import trees, plants and even birds in an attempt to make a forest in the desert. As one of the talking heads says 'It was like something out of a James Bond film' The argument is that the consequences of this overindulgence are still being felt today. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS 1st Jul 2017		Cinema Locke (2013) (2013)	Review You may think that a film in which 99% of the scenes are shot inside a car and where the dialogue consists exclusively of phone calls with only one actor shown on screen (Tom Hardy) sounds a bit boring but this film is far from it! Tom Hardy is excellent (yet again) as a deeply driven and moral man (Ivan Locke) who finds himself in difficult personal circumstances which literally turn his career and family life upside down in the space of a drive between Birmingham and London. The film is almost unbearably tense with phone calls and problems streaming in from all sides threatening to break the ever dependable construction site manager's 'man of steel' resolve. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Dr Doom SUBS 6th Jun 2017		Cinema Uf Yeh Beevian (1977) (1977)	[YouTube Video]
Dr Doom SUBS 16th May 2017		Cinema Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amélie Poulain (Amélie) (2001) (2001)	I've removed the [2001] after the title. The other film entitled Amélie is a short from 2002 which IMDb has very little information about.

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