JOHN AND THE HOLE – John being a blank-faced rich kid who puts his family in a hole in the woods for reasons that never fully surface. He’s pretty puny, but I guess he drugged ‘em up and pushed them there in a wheelbarrow or something – we never get to see what goes on, this ellipsis being emblematic of a film that scatters its many dots before we can join them. It came out a year or so ago, and I get the feeling it was passed over a little by critics who sometimes seemed to imply that its Euro arthouse inflections hid an inner vacancy, thereby confusing the film’s essence with its subject. I don’t know, I really liked it. It is chilly and mannered in a Haneke-esque way, but its refusal to lay down its cards might evoke a simmering dread as much as divert from a lack of content. Everything here remains a mystery in the end. The opaque motives of the child, the weird fairy tale quality that strings it all together, the atmosphere that feels cryptic, then ominous all resist scrutiny, but the ultimate success of ‘John And The Hole’ lies in its enveloping feeling. Unease seeps from the frosty interiors and the Valium pulse of the electronic score. Far from empty arthouse posturing, I thought ‘John And The Hole’ offered a peek into parts of life that might be indecipherable, such as the voids that open inside big houses, and within the woods that surround them.

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Iron Eagle II

Lou Gossett Jr. is recruited to help supervise a mission where American and Russian Pilots have to team up in order to blow up a Nuclear Facility, obviously they can't get along at first. A decent watch.

See How They Run

A Comedy Noir about a murdered Film Director and the investigation into the many suspects. Starring Sam Rockwell and Sairose Ronan, whilst it's not bad, it's not as clever, it thinks it is.

Fire Down Below

Steven Seagal is a E.P.A Agent who investigates the illegal dumping of Chemical Materials in a Kentucky town. A simple story but down in an entertaining way, really enjoy one man easily defeating incompetent thugs.

Pleasure

A Swedish Girl travels to L.A in order to become a Porn Star. The Film follows her exploits as she goes through many trials and tribulations. A good effort with some uncompromising scenes.

Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach

The gang (Minus Mahoney) travel to Miami in order to celebrate a award for Commandant Lazard. Some Diamond Thieves kidnap him however he believes that it's a demonstration exercise therefore gives them advice. It's definitely slapstick but I still find it fun.

Wilderness (2006)

A group of juvenile offenders who's cruelty to a fellow inmate result in his suicide, are taken to a remote island by their warder (Sean Pertwee). The island formerly used for army training is a place to teach the inmates life values. Once there they soon discover a group of girls with their warder, a former soldier, Alex Reid. It becomes apparent that the delinquents are not the only ones on the island. Someone else is there with a pack of hungry dogs.

Wilderness is a film full of anti-heroes led by Kong: Skull Island (2017)'s Toby Kebbell as the most likable inmate, if likable is indeed the right word. The rest are mainly dog food although Steven Wight stands out as a truly sadistic bullying piece of work and the main villain of the piece.

Set mainly outdoors, Wilderness is a cracking horror survival thriller, linear in it's plotting, it's not hard to work out who is hunting the youths or the reasons why, but this doesn't take anything away from what is a lively and fast paced film. Like many survival horror films, Wilderness is very gruesome in places with some savage dog attacks, legs snapped in two, decapitations... you know the sort of thing. It's a film that should delight should delight the gore fans out there.

For a film i've watched several times over the years it remains of those i can easily revisit for some mean spirited fun and games and is one of my favourite British horror films since the genre's 60's/70's heyday.

Dementer (2019, Chad Crawford Kinkle)

Liked the title sequence which didn't really tell you anything except Larry Fessenden was in it :rolleyes::nod:
PTSD be damned in this tale of ... hmmm .... what was it again? A cult survivor seemingly gets a job working with vulnerable adults without a background check. Suspend that disbelief dagnabbit!!
When visions of her past life start to intrude, she uses her memories to ward off ... something. The imagery used in these flashbacks is slightly cliched (indoctrination) and the ending is horribly vague, and not in a good way either.

I don’t think I’ve seen any police academy after 3rd, I keep meaning too, are any of them actually any good? Or worth watching.

I'd say so, 4-6 are just as silly and zany as the others.

Number 7 is rubbish however.

We had 'Assignment Miami Beach' in the cinema when I was working there, and it was one of the few films where the auditorium was totally empty for a number of screenings!

I saw the 7th one while on holiday at Butlins, that holiday was memorable not for Police Academy 7 but the hurricane that ripped through the UK and took half of Butlins with it :lol:

It was actually the 6th film haha I don’t think I’ve seen the 7th, carry on everyone haha 1989