What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by J Harker

Seems you can even book overnight ghost hunts at the place.

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Hmm. Not sure i'd want to do that.

[Demoncrat]

Cocaine Bear (2023)

All I wanted was a silly film about ... well, you know, what you get is another faaaaamily flick. Lawdy. Some fun is to be had, but not much.



Horror In The High Desert (2021)

Mockumentary. When a hiker goes missing, a search is launched to no avail, but an entry in his blog might hold the key. Decent enough. The performances are all believable etc.



Operation Fortune Ruse de Guerre (2023, Guy Ritchie)

Another caper in a familiar style. Stafam hits some folk, and Hugh Grant practises his Rigbsy impression (it's not good ). On another day, I might have crucified this, but enjoyed it instead. Undemanding.

[iank]

Concorde: Airport 79. Robert Wagner is a dodgy arms dealer who'll try anything to destroy an entire passenger plane to get one woman - and some very incriminating documents. But he's reckoned without the best pilot on the planet, George Kennedy baby! The 4th and final in the Airport series gets some stick, but I rather liked it. You can definitely see it's got a lower budget than the others - there are some very dodgy effects - but the unusually unpredictable plot, actors - including the great David Warner - and general 70sness made it still very watchable and entertaining to me. Have to be honest, I enjoyed all four of these!*

[MrBarlow]

The Mummy. 1999.

The 1930s Mummy with Boris Karloff was a thing of horror and then Hammer decided to do their version with Christopher Lee that was a nice little touch to the screen then universal decided to do a remake with a bigger budget. Although this isn't a masterpiece and relies on CGI that actually does work well.

Arnold Vosloo steps in as the Pharoh's priest Imhotep that is stupidly resurrected by Rachel Weisz in the desert after finding his sarcophagus and his rotten skeleton. Brendan Fraser plays the Foreign Legion soldier who helps Rachel and brother John Hanna to find the lost city and treasure along the other treasure seekers. There isn't much horror in this except seeing a few rotten skeletons, some good comedy and laughs, but certainly better than the Tom Cruise version.

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[MrBarlow]

Originally Posted by iank

Concorde: Airport 79. Robert Wagner is a dodgy arms dealer who'll try anything to destroy an entire passenger plane to get one woman - and some very incriminating documents. But he's reckoned without the best pilot on the planet, George Kennedy baby! The 4th and final in the Airport series gets some stick, but I rather liked it. You can definitely see it's got a lower budget than the others - there are some very dodgy effects - but the unusually unpredictable plot, actors - including the great David Warner - and general 70sness made it still very watchable and entertaining to me. Have to be honest, I enjoyed all four of these!*

Like your good self i enjoyed these films but with the effects this installment felt like a T.V. Movie rather than a theatrical film.

[nicholasrope]

Dawn Of The Dead (Argento Cut)

Argento's version of George A. Romero's classic Zombie Movie, his version trims a few minutes off to make it a bit more faster paced. I didn't mind it, the gore was still there and the Zombies are how they should be, slow but scary looking. This also had the Goblin Soundtrack, I found it got repetitive after a while.

I didn't realize that the original version got a re-release from EIV and got confused when the new Trailer was advertised on Films that were released after Day Of The Dead was. That Trailer is really good, made it look nasty and scary (I was young at the time)

Rising Sun

When a American Woman is found dead during a party held by a Japanese Company, Detective Wesley Snipes is teamed with a Liaison played by Sean Connery. The investigation takes many turns as they have to deal with Japanese customs. Co-starring Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and Harvey Keitel, this is a rather enjoyable Thriller with great performances from the cast.

[MrBarlow]

The Mutations. 1974.

A somewhat strange and possibly forgotten little British film with Donald Pleasance as a college/university biology lecturer and a also mad wanna be scientist who is doing cross-genetics study on his students. Tom Baker stars as the mutated Igor who picks up people and brings them to his mad master to work on and uses his experiments in a freak show.

Probably back in the day this may have been seen as a shocker and a mix of Tod Browning's Freaks but by today standards it's nothing new. The make up design on some of the cast is decently done even for Mr Baker but this is a low grade B movie that was certainly entertaining to see Donald being a Frankenstein wannabe.

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(This was also titled The Freakmaker)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Hancock (2008)

Starring Will Smith as John Hancock who is basically Superman with an alcohol problem who couldn't give a shit until he meets up with Jason Bateman's PR guy who persuades Hancock he needs a better image with the general public so they'll treat him as a genuine good guy rather than a superhero without a cause.

A lot of fun with some crazy superhero shit such as Hancock dropping a car full of bad guys on top of the Capitol Records building in Hollywood. Will Smith is likable as an unlikable superhero. He's funny and crude and basically Deadpool before Ryan Reynolds and Marvel decided to get in on the act a decade later.

Or perhaps more accurately Hancock is Superman crossed with Bad Santa.

Entertaining stuff. Seen this a few times on dvd but last night was a first in HD.

[MrBarlow]

The Squeeze. 1977.

Nicely crafted gritty British crime thriller with Stacey Keach as a ex policeman who has hit the bottle big time only to get involved with rich man Edward Fox who's wife and daughter have been kidnapped by a ruthless gang lead by David Hemmings.

This is a cracker of a movie. There are good performances all round, and some stylish direction from former documentary film-maker Michael Apted. Watch out for some shaky camera work in some scenes. There is scenes of sadistic mind games but the last 15 minutes or so the tension is really built up well.

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

The Squeeze. 1977.

Nicely crafted gritty British crime thriller with Stacey Keach as a ex policeman who has hit the bottle big time only to get involved with rich man Edward Fox who's wife and daughter have been kidnapped by a ruthless gang lead by David Hemmings.

This is a cracker of a movie. There are good performances all round, and some stylish direction from former documentary film-maker Michael Apted. Watch out for some shaky camera work in some scenes. There is scenes of sadistic mind games but the last 15 minutes or so the tension is really built up well.

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Is this on Blu at last or streamed?