What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demoncrat]

Sword Of The Valiant (1984, Stephen Weeks)

Miles O'Keefe as Sir Gawain? Must be Cannon time again then ....
Brits litter this semi mystical landscape as a man with a right bleedin' heraldic barnet sets off on the obligatory quest and that.
Steptoe! Bond!! Van bleedin' Helsing!!! among many others ....
Ahem. Decent enough production values, it's just a tad flat imho. The lead exudes his usual teakness. All it needed in places were some French kniggets to tip it right over into parody
Another one off the list for all that.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Wake of Death (2004)

A decent Van Damme effort made just before he crossed over to the dark side of direct to dvd actioners, which sees him up against Chinese Triads who killed his wife and kidnapped his son whilst at an LA restaurant.

Although it takes a while for the action to take off this is actually a decent effort and Van Damme gets to actually act as well as fight whilst Hong Kong legend Simon Yam makes for a quality adversary.

In comparison to the likes of Bloodsport (1988) and Universal Soldier (1992), well it doesn't, but the action scenes are frenetic and brutal, including a rather fun car chase, and on the whole this was a classier affair than you might expect.

The Kaleidoscope blu-ray looked impressive to me.

[MrBarlow]

The Survivor. 1981.

A 747 crashes not long after take off killing 300 on board, pilot Keller escapes and is unharmed, wracked with survivor's guilt he teams up with a psychic Hobbs and a priest to uncover the mystery.

Based on James Herbert book of the same title, it was a great read, very dark and intense ghost story/mystery,I watched the film on BBC 2 about 10 years ago, wasn't really mesmerized by the film and came across it today on YouTube and gave it another chance. No disrespect to Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter, their acting has always been great to watch or to David Hemmings for directing this, but this was a bit slow to watch, yes there was moments where suspense was built up then fizzled out, the climatic finale was tense in the book but in the film it really didn't play off very well and pretty much disappointed, very glad I didn't buy in the sales last year for Angela.

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[MrBarlow]

The Being. 1983.

A mutated creature created by toxic waste goes on a killing rampage, a police chief and a scientist try to stop it.

For someone who had no experience in writing or directing a film, Jackie Kong really did try, you have to start at the bottom and work your way up got to give her credit for that. There is the usual suspense built up with keeping the creature partially hidden and seeing small snippets right up to the finale then it's revealed with a something of a wiggly eye. Whoever did create it obviously had no high hopes for the film. Aside from the poor lighting used, the bad acting and a good appearance by Martin Landau, this was a bit entertaining.

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[Linbro]

Turkish horror film 'Baskin', via the Severin blu. Really, really liked this. I love ambiguous supernatural stories, they work so well for me. Will definitely be rewatching this, as well as the short film it's based on, which is an extra on the disc.
4/5

[J Harker]

Watched Christopher Nolans Tenet last night. What the hell was that about? I've enjoyed all of Nolans movies with the exception of Dunkirk which I've yet to see. I wasn't overly keen on the end sequence of Interstellar either but the film as a whole managed to succeed I thought.
Tenet however, well hands down the most confusing plot I've ever come across. I can't say it isn't an entertaining film but so much time is spent trying to work out what the hell is going on it becomes almost impossible to keep interest. It also felt like for all I know it was chock full of plot holes but it would be impossible to identify them for all the overcomlex toss going on.

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[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by Linbro

Turkish horror film 'Baskin', via the Severin blu. Really, really liked this. I love ambiguous supernatural stories, they work so well for me. Will definitely be rewatching this, as well as the short film it's based on, which is an extra on the disc.
4/5

Got this on my shudder list , might watch it tonight!

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by J Harker

Watched Christopher Nolans Tenet last night. What the hell was that about? I've enjoyed all of Nolans movies with the exception of Dunkirk which I've yet to see. I wasn't overly keen on the end sequence of Interstellar either but the film as a whole managed to succeed I thought.
Tenet however, well hands down the most confusing plot I've ever come across. I can't say it isn't an entertaining film but so much time is spent trying to work out what the hell is going on it becomes almost impossible to keep interest. It also felt like for all I know it was chock full of plot holes but it would be impossible to identify them for all the overcomlex toss going on.

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I wasn't a fan at all, but a couple of scenes were very exciting, the opening in the Opera House was one, and the backwards car chase was another. Over all though, it was annoying and confusing.

[Demoncrat]

My main gripe with that Tenet is that Tesco have still got it for sale since release (dvd/BD/4K) since obviously nothing else has come out of note

And it's shit

[Dave Boy]

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THE TELL TALE HEART (1960)

Good (very loose) adaptation of the Poe story which I think is somewhat forgotten, what with all the Corman movies. Nicely shot in black and white.
Edgar spies Betty in her bedroom window. Shy Edgar manages to pluck up enough courage to ask her out where she works at a flower stall. At first clumsy Edgar, not good with the ladies mucks things up somewhat by being too forward.
Betty gives him another chance and soon they are out dancing. Edgar introduces Betty to his best friend Carl, and soon Carl and Betty are having a secret affair. Edgar spots them both from his window. While visiting Edgar, Carl is murdered by Edgar and hides him under the floorboards. Soon Edgar hears a beating heart through the house..