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Last night I watched the French thriller En Face, starring Jean Hugues-Anglade, the utterly bewitching Clotilde Courau and Christine Boisson who I remember from Emmanuelle. It is a film that has been on my radar for years, and I finally picked up the DVD as part of a bundle from a French seller on Ebay a short while ago. I enjoyed the film, which has many twists and turns, is well shot, features a great cast and has a great sense of erotic menace. The French DVD features optional English subtitles, a good quality anamorphic transfer and a number of interesting special features.

Before watching En Face I watched Cloverfield on TV. I remember the film coming out at the time and almost went to the cinema to see it because of the involvement of J.J. Abrams who produced the TV drama Lost, which I used to watch with my ex-girlfriend. I have to say that I was very impressed indeed. I really enjoyed the hand-held faux documentary concept of the film, thought the set design was fantastic, the special effects worked well and the sense of dread and powerlessness was very pervasive.

I recently watched the Female Prisoner Scorpion #701 quadrilogy. I had seen the first couple of films once before but I'd never previously seen the third and fourth films. In short they are very well scripted, exciting, sleazy, wonderfully shot and inventive exploitation films. In a sense referring to them as exploitation does them a disservice because they are genuinely well made and interesting films. Meiko Kaji's performance as the wronged woman looking to survive and kept going by her desire for revenge is first-rate. She is a very attractive lass as well!