What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[SCM]

Originally Posted by Delirium

Why would they think you're stupid? Cronos is a wonderful film and you obviously see the intelligence in it.

I wish I knew

[bdc]

To my great surprise I've found time to watch a lot lately so just will do some quick reviews.

Curse of Evil (1982)

Beware that there is a censored unsubbed version doing the rounds and an almost complete subbed version.
The censored version has better colours though.
A family with a curse,only a few surviving relatives...more will die soon...
Not bad at all and has some really jaw dropping moments (I'm used to watching these kind of films but still),would have been slapped with a cat III rating for certain a couple years later.

Flashback - Mörderische Ferien (2000)

German post-scream slasher,was having doubts about picking it up but glad I did...the facts that Elke Sommer was in it and that the original screenplay was by Jimmy Sangster won me over.
Enjoyable and some nice visuals and gore.
Watched in German with subs,probably will have a silly English dub.

Jocks (1986)

80's comedy (with some nudity thrown in) about a college tennis team.
The (short) championship matches are probably the weakest moments but overall good fun.

The Student Body aka Classroom Teasers (1976)

"Carrie, Mitzie,and Chicago get in trouble a lot in the women's prison,but are offered early parolement if they agree to become subjects of a study on human aggression and antisocial behavior at a Kansas City college.
Dr. Blalock,the professor in charge of the study,is accepting money under the table from a shady government contact to use an experimental drug on the women."
Somewhat weird but interesting film,again there's some nudity thrown in for good measure.
And there's penguins.

Not of This Earth (1957)

Corman again working wonders with a minuscule budget.
Enjoyable 50's scifi which may actually be helped by it's budget limitations.

[oaxaca]

Just watched J Lee Thompson's HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME, struck me how similar GLENN FORD looks to Lou out of Neighbours

[BAKA]

Originally Posted by Edgeworth

Baron Blood & Citizen Kane tonight. (Joseph Cotton double!)

I watched Shadow Of A Doubt last night, coincidentally. I'm always amazed Cotten wasn't a much bigger star. He manages to creep up in so many of my favourite films. Aside the aforementioned, The Third Man, Gaslight, Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Heaven's Gate, etc.

[demonknight]

Watched Knightriders over the weekend on Bluray.
Great transfer, well done Arrow. Nice selection of
extras. Not one of my favourite Romero movies, but
it's still very watchable, despite the long running time.
Enjoyed it more this time in HD. Very happy with this purchase.
Highly recommended

[bdc]

Joanna (1968)

Really glad I picked this up because it's the kind of 60's counter-culture film I personally like.

I can however understand people not liking it.

Loved the ending btw.

[SShaw]

Tonight a double bill of The Collector and The Collection both on German Blu-ray. I really like the sequel which I saw at Fantasy Film Fest Days earlier in the year (see my Diary thread for my thoughts then). The Collector while watchable does not manage to climb to the same heights - so one of the few examples of a sequel outshining the original.

[Sam]

Originally Posted by SShaw

Tonight a double bill of The Collector and The Collection both on German Blu-ray. I really like the sequel which I saw at Fantasy Film Fest Days earlier in the year (see my Diary thread for my thoughts then). The Collector while watchable does not manage to climb to the same heights - so one of the few examples of a sequel outshining the original.

I watched The Collector over the weekend and, whilst it was watchable and delivered on the gore, it never really grabbed me for some reason. I think the lack of time taken on character development didn't help in that respect. Still looking forward to seeing the sequel, which I won on here a few weeks ago.

[Beyond72]

Life

The story of two criminals (Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence) who discover the value of life after being wrongfully sentenced to life imprisonment.

I'm not usually a big fan of Eddie Murphy, but I really love this one.
Rather watch it any day of the week over "the best film ever made".

[Beyond72]

Originally Posted by oaxaca

Just watched J Lee Thompson's HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME, struck me how similar GLENN FORD looks to Lou out of Neighbours

Ha, it even plays like a soap at times!