"Bowanga Bowanga", a 1951 trip into the dark heart of Africa which is full of out of place animals courtesy of a lot of stock footage, girls in shammy leather and animal print bikinis and a comedy Italian. Not too bad as these things go, plenty of singing and dancing, cat fights and tastefully posed women against jungle backgrounds.:)

"Forbidden Daughters" a silent short nudie cutie from the 1920s. A woman travels to Africa to win back her man from a native Princess. Though set in Africa, the majority of the film is taken up with women dancing in a harem. The whole thing is a pleasure from start to finish.

I loved it too but would not call it film of the year.

I just seen Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

Very average I thought, the CGI apes were kinda let down but I knew this from the trailer. Could have been a better movie but I still prefer the last one to this. :lol:

ok then, its MY film of the year :lol:
only because i never got to see Tree of Life....
otherwise the film i most enjoyed seeing was THC2...:laugh::lol::pound:

:lol:

fair enough

Maniac Cop. An excellent mixture of a police thriller and a horror movie. Great pace, good actors (Tom Atkins! :clap:), clever dialogues, and a nice car chase in the end - add quite a bit of gore, and you'll understand why this is a really enjoyable movie. :nod:

3 out of 4

Recommended.

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That's why I like it so much I think, it's a bit of a slasher, bit of a thriller bit of an action film and with an excellent chase at the end. Really must pick up Arrow's bluray of this soon.

I watched Silent Night Deadly Night 3:Better Watch Out. last night.

Very poor. Ricky the killer from the first film is woken from a coma and pursues a blind girl and her relatives at their Christmas retreat.

Its best described as a slasher film without any slash or any of the ingredients that make a decent slasher flick. The killer appears to be wandering about with a goldfish bowl on his head to boot.

As my first Christmas film of the year its a poor start.

It has good picture quality, no signs of an overuse of DNR or the like, and - most important - an excellent uncompressed Stereo soundtrack! :nod:

I think I'll post some Blu-ray stills later today.

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I think I'm gonna work my way through all of these over the coming weeks. I remember seeing the awful Pinocchio Toymaker one years ago with Mickey "I'm going to write to the producers and condemn Silent Night, Deadly Night" Rooney*


* I mean, he was in it, I didn't go to see it with him as a date or anything. Honest

watched The Lift aka the elevator last night ,not a bad film quite enjoyed it rather silly and slow at times but overall good original fun. :clap:

I also had the misfortune to have 90 minutes of life wasted watching the diabolical pile of crap known as colony of the dark,the print made vipco look like Blu-ray!! no colour to it at all,the audio was muffled,the acting and camera work a joke,and the film as a whole pathetic :fear::doh:

And finally saw He Knows you're alone,not a bad classic slasher but I found it started off with promise and fell flat fast too slow moving also. :pop2: