quite a few films viewed over the last two weeks...
QUATERMASS 2
Very good british sci-fi from Val Guest with a stern performance from brian Donlevy as Quatermass and very eerie atmosphere. Worth watching for the creepy SS Doom troopers who guard these massive domes.
LOCKOUT
What do you get if you cross the whit of John McClane, the anti-establishment mentality and badassery of Snake Pliskin, The Smoking habit of Cracker and the Special FX of a video game....LOCKOUT!....TOTALLY AWESOME BUT TOTALLY DUMB! 5/5
THE ROCKETEER
Incredible fun and harmless adventure film with a great premise and some good performances especially Timothy Dalton. Really good production design and the airship are pretty cool too.
RAIDERS OF ATLANTIS
This film was awesome, it was balls out action and some pretty cool post apoc sets. Why isn't it available properly in a remastered version.
ASYLUM
Pretty good Amicus offering ruined by final tiny robot finale and a obvious twist, best segment was the Peter Cushing bit but still a good fun ride.
ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS
watched the dutch blu-ray which is of course a port of the Criterion transfer and wow did they do a great job on this. Very good film with some stunning cinematography and great direction from Byron Haskin (War OF The Worlds)
SHOCKWAVES
A little bit overrated but still pretty good fun. Brooke Adams in a bikini is a wonderous sight.
OUTPOST 2: BLACK SUN
As good if not better than the first which expands the Outpost universe and looks more into the rise of the new reich and more about the electro-machine. Some great direction and action scenes and some really good performances. Can't wait to see what they do with the 3rd film.
SAFE
Full throttle action with the Stath on top form, just mental action sequences with some fantastic action scenes and some great direction from Boaz Yakin
(repeated myself there)
IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS
Very good Carpenter movie with a fantastic central performance from Sam Neil and some great Lovecraftian monsters.
THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY
bit crap in all honesty, Bruce Willis is in it for like 10 minutes but Henry Cavill was pretty good it's just a shame we've seen all of this before and better.
THE 3 WORLDS OF GULLIVER
Decent enough Charles Sneer production let down by abrupt inconclusive ending that confused me. Kerwin Matthews is good as Gulliver though.
ESCAPE FROM THE BRONX
bigger and badder than the first, top notch action and this time around Mark Gregory doesn't look like a fabio-esque male model. Pretty damn good stuff
THE NEW BARBARIANS
Decent enough Post-apocalypse action from italy, dragged down by low budget and over use of shoulder pads.
HARPOON: REYKJAVIK WHALE WATCHING MASSACRE
Actually pretty good Texas Chainsaw at sea horror film with some awesome gore moments and some pretty good performances.
THE HUNGER GAMES
Very good futuristic action thriller aimed at teens but obviously borrows heavily from 70s science fiction, most notably THX1138 and Logan's Run and mixes those with a Battle Royale style covered in Twilight sheen, but unlike the sparkly vampire, The Hunger Games is actually worth watch. Quite violent for a kids film though.
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