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Old 7th March 2021, 05:45 PM
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Yep i wasn't keen on obsession either.
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Daddy Day Camp

Eddie Murphy is fired therefore he opens up a Day Care Centre with 2 of his friends. Follows the usual clichés where they can't handle it only to get through it. Along the way they encounter a tough Prep School Headmistress played by Angelica Houston. Not bad but not great.

Men, Women And Children

A Jason Reitman Film based on multiple stories focusing on how Technology is influencing and affecting Adults and Teenagers from Adam Sandler hiring Escorts, his Wife signing up for a Dating Website and his Son looking up Porn. There is also Jennifer Garner going too far regarding constantly checking her Daughters Texts and E-Mails, from a Teen on a RPG, A Mother helping her Daughter's Website and a Teenage Girl, who has a Eating Disorder.

This is a more serious version of films like Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve and thankfully I found this on Film 4 as I thoroughly enjoyed it. Emma Thompson narrates.

A Prairie Home Companion

Robert Altman directed film which follows a live Country Music Radio show which appears top be it's last show. Meryl Streep, Woody Harrelson and Lindsey Lohan are the main stars. I enjoyed it but there were a couple of elements I didn't like.
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Old 7th March 2021, 11:03 PM
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A Time to Kill (1996)

Joel Schumacher's take on John Grisham's powerful story of a murder trial and the racial tensions and violence it brings to a small Mississippi town is a brutal incendiary thriller.

A stellar ensemble cast on top form - McConaughey, L Jackson, Bullock, Spacey, both Sutherland's, to name but six of them - bring this classic drama to life.

A Time to Kill is one of those films that when watched could be discussed for hours such is it's subject matter, but i won't. I will simply say it's a fantastic movie that holds so much emotion and is up there with the very best the nineties... no, cinema as a whole, has to offer. A terrific movie which is sadly just as relevant today 25 years on as it was back then.

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Old 8th March 2021, 03:27 PM
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Irma Vep (1996)

An interesting piece from director Olivier Assayas starring Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung playing herself as she gets a role in a French film - a remake of silent classic Les vampires - and all the struggles and strifes that come with making a movie with a distinctly odd director (Jean-Pierre Léaud).

Having re-watched Asia Argento's Scarlet Diva recently it remains in my thinking and Irma Vep felt and looked like a continuation of that way of thinking. Semi autobiographical, ad-hoc script, complete Guerrilla film making.

Maggie suffers a sense of isolation being the only non-French speaker among the cast and witnesses the on set turmoil and petty jealousies first hand. In some way it's an essay on French cinema of the time, in fact an interview Maggie does with a French journo sums it all up beautifully as they couldn't give a damn about the Les Vampires remake and are more interested in Maggie's more familiar roles alongside Jackie Chan.

There's a lengthy scene shot in a Paris sex shop as Maggie and a couple of costume women from the film kit her out in a skintight latex catsuit. It's all very impromptu and natural and not as pervy as you might expect (or hope). Yet it's the catsuit that eventually gives Maggie the power to come to terms and navigate the snobbishness of French film making at the time. The scenes of her (and her stunt double) prowling the rooftops in their latex outfits are especially memorable and although clearly objectified she is quite obviously liberated from all the bullshit.

Irma Vep isn't perfect by any means. Some scenes are overlong, even in a ninety odd minute movie, and it's largely unfocused , jumping randomly from scene to scene. But it is a provocative and at times quite funny satirical look at cinema.
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Old 8th March 2021, 07:37 PM
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THE HAUNTED STRANGLER (1958)

Boris Karloff investigates The Haymarket Strangler, who was hanged 20 years before. Karloff is sure that someone else was responsable for the murders and finds himself transformed in to the murderer after finding a scalpel buried with the corpse..
Good horror with some intense knife slashing. Boris goes really insane in this one. Mad as hatter!
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THE HAUNTED STRANGLER (1958)

Boris Karloff investigates The Haymarket Strangler, who was hanged 20 years before. Karloff is sure that someone else was responsable for the murders and finds himself transformed in to the murderer after finding a scalpel buried with the corpse..
Good horror with some intense knife slashing. Boris goes really insane in this one. Mad as hatter!
Tsk! Grip of the Strangler to the British among us.

I really like the film actually even if Karloff's idea of transformation is to simply bite his lower lip.
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Snake Eater (1989, George Erschbamer)

Lorenzo Lamas flick.
What's a man to do when you find your sister in the arms of some podunk redneck sorts?
Rampage?
A tad staid this one sadly, though it got two sequels so what do I know?
It's the Renegade after all
The baddies are spectacularily inbred for all that.
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Seven Sinners (1936)

An intriguing and at times genuinely thrilling British murder mystery based on a play by Arnold Ridley and Bernard Merivale.

Edmund Lowe plays an American detective trailing a criminal gang from France to the UK, along the way he meets up with insurance investigator Constance Cummings as the duo attempt to avert disaster striking.

Featuring some witty dialogue and likable performances from Lowe and Cummings, the gripping story zips along culminating in a superbly realised breathtaking train wreck.

When approaching a movie such as this from the thirties, British and lacking a big Hollywood budget you kind of know what to expect. Well Seven Sinners confounded all my expectations. I thought it was a real gem of a movie.

The dvd which i bought in a previous Network sale now seems to be out of print. Providing it's still with Network this will be highly recommended should it get a future blu-ray release.
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Old 8th March 2021, 08:56 PM
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Seven Sinners (1936)

An intriguing and at times genuinely thrilling British murder mystery based on a play by Arnold Ridley and Bernard Merivale.

Edmund Lowe plays an American detective trailing a criminal gang from France to the UK, along the way he meets up with insurance investigator Constance Cummings as the duo attempt to avert disaster striking.

Featuring some witty dialogue and likable performances from Lowe and Cummings, the gripping story zips along culminating in a superbly realised breathtaking train wreck.

When approaching a movie such as this from the thirties, British and lacking a big Hollywood budget you kind of know what to expect. Well Seven Sinners confounded all my expectations. I thought it was a real gem of a movie.

The dvd which i bought in a previous Network sale now seems to be out of print. Providing it's still with Network this will be highly recommended should it get a future blu-ray release.
Dem you are a bloody genius, my dad was asking me about this film the other day and I couldn't remember the title,
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Old 8th March 2021, 08:57 PM
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Dem you are a bloody genius, my dad was asking me about this film the other day and I couldn't remember the title,
You should watch it with him. It's fantastic.
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