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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Magic Marmalade 15th Mar 2023		Cinema Manhattan (1979) (1979)	Great movie, but given subject matter... capital YIKES! (Great if you can get past shifting very uncomfortably in your seat about Woody Allen's character dating a school-girl)
Magic Marmalade 17th Dec 2022		Cinema Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof / Grindhouse Presents: Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof) (2007) (2007)	>The more I think about it, the more I think this is about Harvey Weinstein!!!< (Veiled analogy for his various misdeeds, that those who, at the time, would know what they were seeing... making the end of this movie eerily prescient, or prophetic)
Magic Marmalade 10th Dec 2022		Cinema Alien (1979) (1979)	The simple reason why subsequent instalments in this franchise fail to matchthe original concept is actually right there in the title: ALIEN That is to say: Unknown, strange, not within your experience or understanding. From this, the horror, and terror is born, and is it's essence... how the film acts on your imagination. Tapping to that same primitive psychology that anyone who has walked through the woods on a pitch black moonless night has experienced, where the darkness is so thick it presses close in on your very eyeballs... devoid of information, the human mind begins to cast shapes into this unknown, to account for what may be there, as part of our basic survival kit... ...imagining the worst, gives a better chance of surviving. Using that in film, can therefore evoke the terror in the audience. ...That is, unless you make more movies, each one, explaining a little more of, and showing a little more of the Alien and that which is alien about it (backstory and so on). Doesn't it stand to reason then, that the more you familiarise the audience with it, the less *alien* it becomes, horrible though the creature may still be? To mind mind, the creature only serves to illustrate the meaning of that word and explore the concept it concerns.
Magic Marmalade 3rd Dec 2022		Cinema Love Actually (2003) (2003)	I've just discovered that it helps to watch this film if you drunk... Very drunk. (I recommend a couple of real ales and half a bottle of Malbec red :)
Magic Marmalade 29th Jul 2022		Cinema The Gray Man (2022)	...So, this is The Bourne Identity....again?
Magic Marmalade 15th Jul 2022		Cinema Hard Eight (1996) (1996)	Added other, "original title" : Sydney. Found the DVD at a boot fair for 20p (seems quite a rare DVD), very solid early work by PTA, at the centre of which is an incredible performance by Philip Baker Hall... worth seeking out on any media / platform just for that!
Magic Marmalade 26th May 2022		Cinema Blade Runner 2049 (2017) (2017)	Interesting note on names here I've noticed... Gosling's Blade Runner is called by a serial number beginning with: "K", and is referred to this letter for most of the film... ...In the major works of Franz Kafka, the Protagonist (usually lost in those famously nightmarish, apparently inescapable realities) is called "K", or "Joseph K", so naming the principle character here that way is seemingly an obvious allusion to those works. ....In addition, it is his personal hologram: "Joi" (Ana De Armas) who later renames him "Joe", although it could be possible that the allusion here is that she is actually calling him "Jo"... add the "I", and you have, of course: "Joi"... the indication being that she is essentially an avatar of his own "soul" (Even the billboard she appears on blinks up the "I" in her name). (Just thought I'd share those musings with you :)
Magic Marmalade 2nd Apr 2022		Cinema Tropic Thunder (2008) (2008)	I watched this again the other day :) Apparently, you can get t-shirts with: "I'm a lead farmer, Motherf*£%er!" ...on them! I want one so badly!!! :)
Magic Marmalade 24th Mar 2022		Cinema V For Vendetta (2005) (2005)	I haven't seen these masks about for a while now. [YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 24th Jan 2022		Cinema Dunkirk (2017)	Interestingly, there are only a couple of German soldiers visible during the entire movie, and they are only in the final scene of Hardy's character. It would be interesting to study the changing depiction of Allied and German soldiers in the second world war over time... from Saving Private Ryan, through: Inglorious Basterds, to this.
Magic Marmalade 14th Jan 2022		Cinema Blade Runner 2049 (2017) (2017)	I've watched this a few times now (more than is perhaps healthy! :), and it's totally won me over now... ....A great addition to the original Blade Runner idea. However, one point in particular I think needs emphasising, is the performance by the actor who plays the "new born" android, who flops out of her synthetic "birth canal" on to the cold floor, before being examined, and hen dispatched by Wallace, is frickin' amazing! Possibly the best piece of physical acting I can recall ever having seen! She has no lines, is literally born, then dies, but captures that new born calf type of essence immaculately...flopping onto the slab, all gangly, shaky, and shivery, uncoordinated, and with the exact floppy, bewildered, unformed minded shock of birth that you see on new born creatures, whether in the farmyard or elsewhere. She absolutely captures that "new-ness" in the world to perfection. Why is it so difficult to find out out who this actress is? ....Why did she not win heaps of awards for this performance? .....Why is she, on the strength of this, not cast in everything you could get her in? Her name should be in every conversation about this film, and every one that speaks of physical acting. F£%$ing genius performance! Who is that girl?!!!
Magic Marmalade 29th Aug 2021		Cinema Akira (1988) (1988)	Essential viewing! :) [YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 21st Jun 2021		Cinema Midnight Run (1988) (1988)	My favourite scene in this brilliant movie.... comedy Genius :) [YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 14th Apr 2021		Cinema Apocalypse How (2008) (2008)	Maybe they just meant the world would end at twelve minutes past eight... and never actually specified a date :)
Magic Marmalade 12th Apr 2021		Cinema Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) (2020)	Sorry to be "that guy", but it also occurs to me that Wonder Woman has sex with a man without his knowledge or consent in this... ...erm... yikes!
Magic Marmalade 25th Mar 2021		Cinema Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) (2020)	Yes... Spoiler alert! (heh heh heh :)
Magic Marmalade 20th Feb 2021		Cinema Stan & Ollie (2018) (2018)	Yes, very good movie. Wasn't holding out much hope for it to be honest, but nicely done, lightly handled, without just driving a wrecking ball through established reputations (usually one of main excuses for such a film), or a paper thin cash in where the idea has a story tacked onto it. But very warm, easy watch, that does good service to it's subjects I think.
Magic Marmalade 27th Jan 2021		Cinema Pleasantville (1998) (1998)	I watched my DVD of this again last night... painfully reminiscent of current events around the world. Along with 12 Angry Men, needs to be shown on TV soon, and regularly thereafter, as part of a good, wholesome civil education... lest we quite forget ourselves as a people entirely.
Magic Marmalade 29th Nov 2020		Cinema Jerry Maguire (1996) (1996)	The odd thing about this movie is that it's littered with memorable moments that have permanently entered modern culture... yet the sum total is a film that's... well... Ok-ish. The sum is less than the parts.
Magic Marmalade 26th Nov 2020		Cinema Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) (2020)	[YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 26th Nov 2020		Cinema Joker (2019)	[YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 26th Nov 2020		Cinema Shallow Grave (1995) (1995)	[YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 26th Nov 2020		Cinema Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004) (2004)	[YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 26th Nov 2020		Cinema Hail, Caesar! (2016) (2016)	Something of a return to form for the Coens... but this scene is an absolute classic as good as anything they've ever done.... cracks me up :) ...Would that it were so simple! [YouTube Video]
Magic Marmalade 24th Nov 2020		Cinema Love Actually (2003) (2003)	Yes, A little immoderate of me I must admit... sorry about that. ...But I stand by the sentiment. It makes my toes curl so much I could feasibly hang from a tree by my feet!
Magic Marmalade 14th Nov 2020		Cinema Smoke (1995) (1995)	Little lost gem from the nineties I'd like to see again.... just basically chatting in a tobacconist's, people coming in and out of the store... life.
Magic Marmalade 8th Nov 2020		Cinema Moonstruck (1987) (1987)	Still a nice easy watch... bit odd now in places, but generally a good rom/com, and a cosy comfort food of a movie.
Magic Marmalade 8th Nov 2020		Cinema Saturn 3 (1980) (1980)	Got around to recording this last night, having found it on a VHS tape :) Did a little reading up on it though online, seems it was a beleaguered production, and not the finished product anybody hoped for... Always liked Harvey Keitel's performance / accent... turns out it wasn't him, but an overdub! Crying out for a remake / modernisation, as the essential idea still holds up well.
Magic Marmalade 17th Oct 2020		Cinema Thor: Ragnarok (2017) (2017)	Finally found this on dvd in the charity shop while gathering some movies yetsreday, in anticipation of another lockdown, and watched it... (knew I just had to wait it out, and it'd turn up eventually! :) ...Does wrong foot you slightly based on previous instalments... bit more humorous and less taking itself seriously, but while this does add to the fun, it also, as you say HelBic detract a little at the same time. ...But still in the established mould of Marvel films, and now I understand why Avengers: Infinity War opens how it does... and I've seen the whole avenger story ark now...phew! Good fun though, and a solid, garishly coloured, 7 for me. (Good to see DC finally getting their mojo back now though, rather thanjust trying to be another Marvel, and do what they are doing... The Batman trailer looks good! :)
Magic Marmalade 28th Sep 2020		Cinema Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets (2017) (2017)	At last, a decent, recognisably Luc Besson movie, more in the spirit of The Fifth Element! Just three things to say about it though: 1. Dane DeHaan can't carry a movie as lead actor. 2. Cara Delevingne can... (Seriously... she's a surprisingly excellent actor!) and this film ought to be retitled after her character's name! 3. At the risk of being anyone's MeToo moment, gentlemen, please strap your jaws shut in anticipation of Rihanna's mind bending, and eye popping dance sequence!

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