Cult Labs

Go Back   Cult Labs > Film Discussions > General Film Discussions

Like Tree179015Likes

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
  #59981  
Old 21st January 2023, 07:40 PM
J Harker's Avatar
Cult Addict
 
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Deepest Darkest South Wales
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs View Post
I really like Cold Skin. Way better than The Lighthouse if you ask me.
Totally agree, Cold Skin was a decent if not extraordinary watch. The Lighthouse was just lobbucks
nicholasrope likes this.
Reply With Quote
  #59982  
Old 21st January 2023, 10:16 PM
MrBarlow's Avatar
Cult Veteran
Good Trader
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Dundee
Blog Entries: 2
Default

Pound Of Flesh. 2015.

Van Damme shows he can still be a lead actor in this solid B direct to video movie. Here he travels to Beijing to donate a kidney to his niece, only to wake up and someone has stolen it. Naturally anyone would be upset but our hero is a ex soldier and teamed with a old friend and his brother to track down those who stole it.

The fight scenes are decent in this even though I do wonder if there was a double in some of them, Darren Shahlvavei who plays the main bad guy manages to keep the pace going with the finale and unfortunately passed away just after making this film. This is worth a watch.

PoundofFleshMovie.jpg
__________________
" I have seen trees that look like tortured souls"
Reply With Quote
  #59983  
Old 21st January 2023, 11:00 PM
Demdike@Cult Labs's Avatar
Cult King
Cult Labs Radio Contributor
Senior Moderator
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Lancashire
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBarlow View Post
Pound Of Flesh. 2015.

Van Damme shows he can still be a lead actor in this solid B direct to video movie. Here he travels to Beijing to donate a kidney to his niece, only to wake up and someone has stolen it. Naturally anyone would be upset but our hero is a ex soldier and teamed with a old friend and his brother to track down those who stole it.

The fight scenes are decent in this even though I do wonder if there was a double in some of them, Darren Shahlvavei who plays the main bad guy manages to keep the pace going with the finale and unfortunately passed away just after making this film. This is worth a watch.

Attachment 244417
Love this.

Especially the fact that minutes after Van Damme wakes up with a wound in his side realising he's missing a kidney that he's running down the street leaping over cars.
Reply With Quote
  #59984  
Old 22nd January 2023, 12:07 AM
MrBarlow's Avatar
Cult Veteran
Good Trader
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Dundee
Blog Entries: 2
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs View Post
Love this.

Especially the fact that minutes after Van Damme wakes up with a wound in his side realising he's missing a kidney that he's running down the street leaping over cars.
He does move well after having a major organ removed
__________________
" I have seen trees that look like tortured souls"
Reply With Quote
  #59985  
Old 22nd January 2023, 04:24 PM
Demdike@Cult Labs's Avatar
Cult King
Cult Labs Radio Contributor
Senior Moderator
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Lancashire
Default

The African Queen (1951)

Based on the novel by C.S. Forester, this adventure classic is all the more remarkable given that director John Huston's mind and more often than not his body as well were not particularly invested in making the film. See Clint Eastwood's excellent 1990 film White Hunter, Black Heart for the story behind the filming.

Somehow though Huston and stars Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn came up with an adventure yarn that is superb to this day. It's a fairly straightforward story of an English teacher forced to flee an African settlement when German colonial troops ransack it and kill her brother Robert Morley. She does this by hooking up with Charlie Allnut (Bogart) and they escape on his small steamboat The African Queen. It's not long before the two concoct a plan to turn the boat into a torpedo in a crazy bid to destroy a German gunboat preventing the British attacking at a lake at the mouth of the river.

The two stars are both excellent even though neither weren't particularly well. Hepburn from illness she picked up filming and Bogart with his health generally deteriorating (He died six years later aged just 57) although he proudly boasted that he and Huston were the only ones of the cast and crew to escape dysentery because they drank whisky rather than the local water. And yet their undeniable chemistry holds the whole film together. Hepburn gives off an air of sexiness that's not really present in too many of her other films whilst Bogart seemingly doesn't give a damn and gets on with it in a role many younger actors would have struggled with. Their bickering which turns into romance is believable and a huge part of why this is such a well loved film.

Filmed on location in Uganda and the Congo, it was clearly a grueling shoot and it's noticeable that the filming under the water was done in England but it all adds to the brilliant escapism, as does the thrilling plot to destroy the German war ship which for all intents and purposes would have turned the two stars into suicide bombers given that the plan was to ram the warship with the African Queen laden with home made torpedoes. It's not a spoiler to say this isn't how the film ends with their deaths.

Seventy years on, The African Queen remains a beautifully acted, scripted and shot film enhanced by the Eureka Blu-ray i saw last night which made the film seem like a first time viewing all over again.
Attached Images
File Type: jpg 008255R1.jpg (96.1 KB, 3 views)
Reply With Quote
  #59986  
Old 22nd January 2023, 07:18 PM
MrBarlow's Avatar
Cult Veteran
Good Trader
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Dundee
Blog Entries: 2
Default

Mark Of The Witch. 1970.

A witch that was hanged at the gallows returns 300 years later for revenge on the decendants

Why do we love these old low budget films? This one does shows why you shouldn't read from a strange old book as you never know who or what you may summon. This does have its flaws and one or two noticeable goofs but to be honest aside from some wooden acting I found this enjoyable.

mark-of-the-witch-tom-moore.jpg
__________________
" I have seen trees that look like tortured souls"

Last edited by MrBarlow; 22nd January 2023 at 08:02 PM.
Reply With Quote
  #59987  
Old 22nd January 2023, 07:38 PM
Demdike@Cult Labs's Avatar
Cult King
Cult Labs Radio Contributor
Senior Moderator
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Lancashire
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBarlow View Post
Mark Of The Witch. 1970.

A witch that was hanged at the gallows returns 300 years later for revenge on the decendants

Why do we love these old low budget films? This one does shows why you shouldn't read from a strangle old book as you never know who or what you may summon. This does have its flaws and one or two noticeable goofs but to be honest aside from some wooden acting I found this enjoyable.

Attachment 244421
Well? Was she?
nicholasrope likes this.
Reply With Quote
  #59988  
Old 22nd January 2023, 08:07 PM
MrBarlow's Avatar
Cult Veteran
Good Trader
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Dundee
Blog Entries: 2
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs View Post
Well? Was she?
Well Anitra Walsh would have been a sweet little something to summon up
nicholasrope likes this.
__________________
" I have seen trees that look like tortured souls"
Reply With Quote
  #59989  
Old 22nd January 2023, 08:18 PM
Demdike@Cult Labs's Avatar
Cult King
Cult Labs Radio Contributor
Senior Moderator
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Lancashire
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs View Post
Well? Was she?
Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBarlow View Post
Well Anitra Walsh would have been a sweet little something to summon up
You missed my point.


Was she an innocent co-ed or the bride of the devil?
Reply With Quote
  #59990  
Old 22nd January 2023, 08:33 PM
MrBarlow's Avatar
Cult Veteran
Good Trader
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Dundee
Blog Entries: 2
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs View Post
You missed my point.


Was she an innocent co-ed or the bride of the devil?
Both Jill (Anitra Walsh) can show she can be sweet and innocent one minute then a good vixen the next, just a shame she died at a young age though.
__________________
" I have seen trees that look like tortured souls"
Reply With Quote
Reply  

Like this? Share it using the links below!

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On



Our goal is to keep Cult Labs friendly. If you feel discouraged from posting by certain members' behaviour then you can e-mail us in complete confidence.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.8
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.6.0 PL2
All forum posts are contributed by members of the site; Cult Labs cannot take responsibility for all content posted on the site. If you have an issue with content posted on the site please click the 'report post' button.
Copyright © 2014 Cult Laboratories Ltd. All rights reserved.