Satan un Bouche Coin.

10 minute short, avant garde film from the late 60s that plays with transgression but never gets beyond a flaccid penis! That said the penis is cross cut with a child's face to startling but somewhat humorous effect. Other delights include light whipping, nude rolling in wine and a man removing his glass eye! The ideas are there but the lack of artistic talent shines through making it feel like Doris Wishman thought she could make some cash after reading about but not watching Kenneth Anger. It's on YouTube for those who like this sort of thing. Recommended.

Hugo Stiglitz appears to have a really limited range of facial expression. He generally looks really serious or intense. Either that, or he looks pained in a manner I can't quite describe, but which makes it seem like he's midway between taking a constipated dump and stabbing a rapist.

This made me laugh my tits off Frankie, great review as always.;)

I disagree Dem, I like "Batman Begins" for many reasons.
Treating the batman character as a real person and giving him some depth, but as a Batman film i think it fails because he isn't actually Batman hardly. The Scarecrow is great but hardly used and i kind of find Raz a guhl(?) a non entity villain.
Also Katie Holmes is shite.:nono:
Dark Knight is the stand out film from the Nolan trilogy and i honestly can't think of many flaws, apart from being slightly too long. Also if we're being picky the Joker doesn't really display many Joker traits, but as a performance it is great.
In my opinion Jack Nicholson is the closest film joker in spirit if not looks, and probably the best screen representation i've seen is from the batman Arkham games.
Also i think Tommy lee jones Two face is absolutely appalling, he comes across as just another psycho on nitrous oxide, laughing like a purple twat.
I'm sure in the comics he had a green half face,can't even get that shit right.;)
Nolans two face was i agree kind of irrelevant but at least he had the coin/fate thing going on.
I do think that "Batman and Robin" is enjoyable in a 60's throwback, Plan 9 kind of way, so i'll give you that.:pop2:
Oh and also Nolans films are too realistic to be comic book, which is bizarre, i mean you're either going to make a comic book film and go with it or don't bother.:confused:
Nolan's films seem slightly embarrassed by it's comic origins.
"Batman Returns" is still my favourite, although even there the villains aren't true to the comics, although i actually prefer Burtons take on the Penguin and Catwoman.
Returns has a weird carnival hyper-real but dark atmosphere that suits batman in my opinion, a twisted world where you feel these heroes and villains could actually exist.:nod:

Legacy of Dracula

Aka Fear of the Ghost house. Directed by Michio Yamamoto for Toho studios this is the first of three unconnected films dubbed "the bloodthirsty trilogy" for their attempt to make horror films more thematically connected to European gothic horror than traditional Kaidan Eiga pictures that focused on Japanese folklore.
A young doctor, Sagawa, heads out into the country to visit his sick girfriend Yuko . Arriving at her family's european style mansion in the midst of a thunderstorm he encounters Yuko's mother and her mute butler. Yuko's mother reveals that Sagawa is too late and Yuko has passed away. Stricken with grief he agrees to stay the night and later that night is called outside to Yuko's grave where he encounters her stood in the cemetary.
The film then cuts to Sagawa's sister concerned over her brothers disappearance so heads out to the mansion with her boyfriend to investigate and they begin to unravel the mystery of Yuko leading to a horrifying conclusion.
Legacy successfully manages to capture the gothic horror popularised in European cinema. The set design is magnificent, the plot is lifted from The facts in the case of M Valdemar and the bloody conclusion hits the spot. The only real problem is the occasionally overdone exposition but overall its a solid slice of Japanese Gothic.

Lake of dracula

The second bloodthirsty film, this one opens with a beautifully shot dream sequence where the main protagonist Akiko chases her dog through a cave and then some woods and stumbles upon a rundown gothic mansion. Confronted by a sinister old man she manages to avoid him and enters the mansion to pursue her dog only to encounter the corpse of a woman propped up at a piano and a golden eyed vampire.
we then cut to the older, grown up Akiko who is an artist and is haunted by the dream of the old mansion. Her dreams soon begin to manifest into the real world when a truck delivers a coffin to a local house and soon women begin showing up drained of blood. Like Legacy this is successful at creating a gothic atmosphere. The opening dream sequence is worthy of Directors like Mario Bava for its visual style and the ressurected victims of dracula manage to be genuinely creepy.

Are you replying to me or just arguing with yourself here, nos?

I consider 'Batman Begins' and 'The Dark Knight' to be both great films. I rank the trilogy in the order they came out. BB is one of the greatest comic book superhero origin stories ever filmed and TDK is one of the greatest sequels ever of any genre. BB just edges it for me though.

'The Dark Knight Rises' is merely pretty good and therefore disappointing when considering the quality of the first two films. I think Christopher Nolan got lazy with that one and was on autopilot just wanting to get it over with. Nolan paid careful attention to detail with the first two (there's some plot holes in the TDK) but there's so many flaws in TDKR you could play a game pointing them out...


My ratings of the trilogy:

Batman Begins ****1/2 out of *****

The Dark Knight **** out of *****

The Dark Knight Rises *** out of *****

EARLY DAVID CRONENBERG
I for one am glad that these early Cronenberg shorts have been given their own blu ray release, as I missed out on the original VIDEODROME set and have wanted to see them, ever since reading about them way back in HOUSE OF HAMMER magazine.
We're not talking blockbuster entertainment here, but it's fascinating to see nods to his upcoming full length features SHIVERS and RABID. Indeed, if he hadn't been able to find his feet with these experimental films, SHIVERS may not have turned out as brilliant as it was - who knows?

THE FIRM
Gary Oldman gives a fantastic performance as the leader of a bunch of middle class London based football hooligans, who are in constant battle with another 'Firm' to see who can be top dog.
This BBC play was censored before it was broadcast, but this bd set from the BFI includes the original director's cut, which includes the ( still shocking ) scenes of violence.
There is a slight dip in quality with these scenes, but it does not detract from what is a powerful piece of television.

Watched Firm recently as much as its a good film, didnt think it was as violent as made out to be and if it wasnt for odd scene here and there you wouldnt think it was about football violence more about two people who have a vendetta against each other. And found it was a tadge short for a film as well.

I love The Firm, excellent stuff. Nick Love's trainers and tracksuit fetish remake is pretty good too, taking the same storyline but making it into a rites of passage tale that works quite well.

Bait of both, i think.:rolleyes:

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PHANTOM SHIP/MYSTERY OF THE MARIE CELESTE (1935)

Early Hammer film in which Bela and the crew of the Marie Celeste fight among themselves as they try to find out who is responsible for the deaths on board...
Enjoyable mystery, quite atmospheric in the dark old cabins as the storm howls outside.

Against my better judgement of to see suicide squad tomorrow on the plus side I'm not paying for it

Freebie on CEX?

:lol: no. I paid for who I went to see finding dory with, so its there turn to pay, mentioning cex I have to go past three of them to get to the cinema we are going to so unlike I said earlier I might be buying something else this week

You know how to manipulate the outside of the emergency exit?

I said CEX not sex....

Bait? Is that to reel him or the fish in?

Is there something up with 88films as experiment camp blue ray. Play it and 42nd street memories starts

Edit
It was just a trailer but strangely I couldn't skip it and the player said the runtime was 3 hours

Saw Jumanji last night. Robin Williams and a very young Kirsten Dunst star in this silly but fun family adventure flick about a seriously screwed up board game. And you thought Monopoly sucked! Wow, I haven't seen this movie in forever. Good 90s fun. :nod:

Night of the Living Dead (1990)

***1/2 out of *****

Decision at Sundown (1957)

Bart Allison (Randolph Scott) rides into a sleepy town named Sundown with the intention of killing local boss Tate Kimbrough (John Carroll) by sundown.

Some years earlier Kimbrough had an affair with Allison’s wife who later committed suicide. Tensions build as sundown approaches, not just between Allison and Kimbrough, but among the townspeople as well.

Decision at Sundown is another Budd Boetticher film again teaming up with Randolph Scott. However it's a different beast altogether from the usual plain galloping mayhem the duo usually give us. Although not studio bound it's set solely in town following the opening scenes.

Scott, playing against type is a mainly unlikable character his sole focus is killing Kimbrough and the tension rises during the first half hour, however it grinds to a halt soon after with Scott holed up in a stable and nothing much really happens until the conclusion which plays out as a damp squib with the inevitable showdown failing to materialize and Kimbrough and Allison leaving town in different directions to start new lives elsewhere.

ID2 - Shadwell Army

ID2: Shadwell Army (2016) - IMDb

A young British Asian, Mo is a fast-rising police officer who goes under cover infiltrating Shadwell's resurgent hooligan element, who are fired up by Shadwells's takeover by a Russian oligarch and their unlikely adventure into European competition. Mo quickly becomes embroiled in the local schism between the BNP and EDL and plans to build a new mosque in the shadow of the Shadwell ground creates an explosive environment in which football and political violence form a perfect storm of social unrest. In the midst of this, Mo is faced with the essential existential question of of who he really is and where he really belongs. It's 20 years on and clever Trevor is now chief super, but what happens to the rest of the gang?




Now i loved the first ID film watched it so many times and still quote it amongst friends, so it was going to be difficult to follow it up with something just as gripping and entertaining, and for me that's proven right, its nice to see some of the actors back Gumbo, Trevor and Eddie (3 of them) but Reece Dinsdale and Sean Pertwee and noticable in their abscence, and obviously Warren Clarke (RIP). Its not a disaster of a movie i just found it hard to like the main Character, and the story is really just a rehash of the first with EDL ties added in, you just never get the sense of friendship with this group.

THE BASEMENT – 'The Basement' has a slightly odd history in that it seems to have been partially made in the late eighties, shelved, then completed around 2010. It comes across as a fannish labour of love, an amateur production maybe a notch or two up from Nathan Schiff, but essentially operating out of the same backyard with the same dodgy 8mm camera. It's about four people who find themselves in a basement – or rather, in THE Basement. They meet a grim reaper type who tells them that they're going to have to face up to their 'future crimes', which we get to witness case by case as the film unfolds in portmanteau fashion. 'The Basement' is quite a jarring experience. It was obviously made by horror nerds (I notice J R Bookwalter gets a credit for something, and no-one but a horror geek is going to come up with a line like “fu*k you and fu*k George Romero!”). Alas, in this case the horror nerds in question appear to have no real feel for the terrain. Tonally, 'The Basement' veers from sophomoric humour to gory excess. I can take technically bad cinema (obviously), but it has to fall together on some level, or be potent or just aggravating... in the right way. 'The Basement' doesn't have any of this going for it. It has a few surges and delivers some visceral thrills, but then fires blanks and messes around. Some bad decisions were made on the post production side of things - the recently added dubbing for example, which unfortunately seems to be going for a 'humourous voice' angle and really harms the more serious bits. Aesthetically, a couple of the individual stories are just lame, like the opener with the swimming pool that 'eats' people. One thing they did get right was the fx work, which is primitive but full on back-of-the-VHS-box type prosthetics and obviously had a lot of time and effort spent on it, make-up effects being one of the areas that the new generation of horror fanboys used to distinguish themselves in the eighties. It's a shame 'The Basement' couldn't quite harness the imagination and energy evident during the second and fourth of its stories, for it is in these places that the film comes into its own as a gleeful parade of the grotesque. Ultimately, it's less a realised whole and more a series of fragments, images and ideas that sometimes work, more often don't. The same could be said of a lot of no budget genre filmmaking, however. 'The Basement' is worth checking out as a curiosity, and I guess as a testament to the enthusiasm of fans, and I feel that it's best summed up by the music that plays over the end credits – out of tune and out of time heavy metal, played badly for laughs maybe, maybe not.

I thought for a second you were going to review the Danny Dyer film with the same title!

Nice to hear you're still on your Dyer kick. I've seen it, can't remember much about it though apart from him going around London in a car for an hour and a half.

... on seconds thoughts, that was 'Deviation', another film close to your heart...

Yep, The Basement is just a couple of people in a basement that tested my Dyer love and endless scenes of corridors. I think Dyer took it after being shunned by the UK film scene for being himself!

I quite like how Dyer can either look really dense or quite psychopathic depending on his expression. Other than that, I don't really rate him. I'm sure I'm missing something, MTDS.

Nope, what you see is what you get with Dyer.

Yeah, but not everyone has seen him naked like you have. :nod:

Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)

*** out of *****



Dawn of the Dead (2004)

**** out of *****

Suicide squad

Just got back from watching it and I must of been watching a different film than everyone else because I actually enjoyed it, granted it had plot holes you could f!y a star destroyer through and you could see were stuff had been cut from the film and half of task force X members are boring and forgettable, but Harley Quinn and deadshot ( smiths best role for sometime) were great, LetosJoker was fantastic truly unhinged and unsettling shame he is only in it about 15 minutes. The villains were very interesting even if they didn't have enough back story or screen time, but the baddest of the bad and the person who had the biggest set of balls in the room was Amanda Waller who does what has to be done to keep the world safe even if that means killing a room full of innocent people. Was great to see a cameo from affleck and really interested in his solo batman film. Is a classic? No is it better than the best marvels? No. But far from awful and a hell of a lot better than batman vs superman. Also the soundtrack is fantastic. A definite step in the right direction for DC 7.3/10

couldn't agree more

Nice one. I said you would like it. :thumb:

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THE CRIMSON GHOST (1946)

The Crimson Ghost sets out to use Cyclotrode X, an atomic ray that can stop and destroy electronic devices.....

Every episode of this serial is a real joy. Action all the way with gunfights, car chases, non stop fist fights and chairs smashed over peoples heads.
Awesome !

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Eddie the Eagle (2016)

The true life tale of British ski jumper Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards and his quest to jump at the 1988 winter Olympics in Calgary.

Taron Egerton seemed, from distant memory, to portray Eddie in a realistic performance even if his looks are a little out but that's to be expected. Although the events in the film are fictionalized from true life it's still faithful in many respects with only the places different. For a small British film it boasts a fine cast. Hugh Jackman is excellent as a washed up former jumper who trains Eddie (His night time ski jump whilst smoking is pure rock n' roll) and there's a charming cameo from Christopher Walken as Jackman's former coach.

I really liked this delightful biopic. Enjoyable from start to finish and whilst not particularly laugh out loud funny i watched it all the way through with a smile on my face.

If you liked the brilliant but slightly sillier Cool Runnings then you'll definitely enjoy this.

I watched this a few days ago and felt exactly the same as you. It's a typically British 'feelgood' film with some wonderful moments, a fine central performance from Taron Egerton and, along with the actors you mentioned, memorable support from Tim McInnerny, Mark Benton and Jim Broadbent (the first two who splendidly portray the members of the BOA who desperately want to keep Edwards from embarrassing the country and Olympic contingent). Dexter Fletcher has proven himself to be quite adept at directing (Wild Bill, Sunshine on Leith and now this) as well as an accomplished actor.

I don't know whether Eddie the Eagle stands up to repeated viewings, but I know my parents have seen it twice and thoroughly enjoyed it both times.

007 Spectre

another great Bond form Craig, fast paced with some great set pieces. a film that blends both old and new bond together, only downside i should of watched the other Craig movies before hand as knowledge from them is needed to follow the story fully. 8/10

The Dead Next Door

the story for what it is after on zombie outbreak a group of survivors set out to find a cure from the work of a scientist responsible for the outbreak and end up tangling with a cult and its insane leader. but its really just an excuse to get from one graphic gore scene to another, influenced heavily by Day of the Dead and we can see the film makers have great love of the horror genre with characters named King,Carpenter, savini, romero etc. 6.6/10

Now watching Critters which, i've not seen for about 10 years, after that microwave massacre which i have never seen before

Critters

A group of creatures escape from a prison on asteroid in the far reaches of space. The ship they stole crash lands on earth and they begin to terriose and feed on the population of small hick town, luckly for the townsfolk a duo of space bounty hunters have been sent to kill them. Fast paced with likeable characters. Not hard to see it was heavily influnched by the superior gremlins. 6.9/10

Tried watching microwave massacre but gave up after 15 minutes some oif the worst acting I have ever seen espiaclly from the lead, not funny in the slightest and plays out like some awful 70s sitcom

So have decided to watch tower of evil instead

The Thing (1982)

****1/2 out of *****


The Thing (2011)

**1/2 out of *****