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Watched a couple of different films tonight. Cube - one of my all time favourites, shows that not all low budget horror sucks! Curse Of Chucky - a fresh and welcome return to the original film's tone without the comedy of Bride/Seed. |
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Alien I watched Alien with my flatmate who had never seen it before, he's a sucker for a strong female lead so I knew he'd love this one. Immediately he was drawn into the film and every time I looked over he was biting his fists with tension! He gasped out loud when Lambert slapped Ripley (we were watching the Director's Cut) and he seemed to be very concerned over the fate of the cat It never ceases to amaze me how well made this film is, to be able to make a haunted house film set in space, to make it scary and tense as well as very human is a good skill. My flatmate commented on how modern it looked and he expected it to look quite old fashioned for a film made in the 70's - I have to agree, apart from 'Mother' and the computer screens on display, there isn't much in the film to give away the period of filming. The Maze Runner I was going to go see this on the big screen, but at the last minute got cold feet, worried that it was going to be crap and £20 down the drain. Now it's on Sky Movies so I gave it a go. It's firmly in the "not as bad as I was expecting it to be" camp. I actually found myself quite enjoying this teen adventure movie which is both well made and well acted, in the most part. I suppose that the premise of the film is it's worst attribute, I found myself jokingly saying to my mate during the film "I've seen Lord of the Flies already", "I've seen Labyrinth already" and funny enough "I've seen Alien already..." in reference to the creatures inside the maze. That being said, the action was well orchestrated and the tension was well executed, and I found myself holding my breath while scenes unfolded! Not a perfect film but very enjoyable and I'm intrigued about the checking the books out afterwards.
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Wrong Cops Amer Eden Log The Voices 3 Iron Life & Death Of A Porno Gang The Apple Taxdermia
__________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] [B] "... the days ahead will be filled with struggle ... and coated in marzipan ... "[/B] |
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Watched Electric Boogaloo (2014, Mark Hartley) What a hoot, from Lemon Popsicle to buying up Cannes, the whole hair raising story (well....). Recommended!! Tender & Perverse Emanuelle (1973, JF) Grubby, venal, sordid. But enough about my weekend. Who killed her? With Jack Taylor's face getting in the way of the investigation, we may never know.....the somewhat washed out print may add to this. Recommended?
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Watched the amazing Russian film, Край (2010) released in the UK with the daft title of The Edge of War and the usual cover-art trying to sell a film as an action packed war movie. Instead it is a beautiful arthouse production, darkly ethereal, set in a remote forest internment camp deep in Siberia for those considered traitors by Stalin for having been captured by the Germans during the war. Trains race through long endless forests, a strange abandoned locomotive sits on an island across a river, the main character struggles to find it and discovers a feral German woman hiding aboard. Very little happens, yet so much does. If you like smart movies, this is one for you - The Edge review. The Horizon DVD is meh, but the best available with English options. Also, that was my 500th review!
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Saw Class of 1999 last night. This dumb schlocky 1990 flick with Stacy Keach, Pam Grier, Malcolm McDowell and Fright Night II sex goddess Traci Lin sees three humanoid androids sent into reinstill discipline into a school overrun by gang violence, but they soon go out of control and start killing the students left, right and centre. Have fond memories of this, and there's some fun to be had, especially in the first half, but it gets a bit tedious toward the end and hasn't aged all that well. Keach is having fun hamming it up as the mad scientist behind the project, and Traci Lin is gorgeous, but compared to FNII there's not much to her character and she has little to do. A bit meh.
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