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Old 21st July 2014, 07:57 PM
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Force of one

A early Chuck Norris movie about a karate instructor who is hired by the police force to teach karate after a number of police officers are killed by a karate expert . A little slow and some of the acting is dreadful and chuck is as wooden as a rocking horse, but some how it works because of him, only other downside is that he doesn't have a another fist beneath his beard( which he is minus here ) 7/10

Next up another Chuck movie which I've never seen before the octagon
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Old 21st July 2014, 08:07 PM
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The Hunt (2012).

Mads Mikkelsen plays a new teacher at a small town Kindergarten. Word gets out that he sexually assaulted one of the children in his care and mass hysteria breaks out in the town.

The Hunt is a film that pulls you in from the very first scene and never lets go. It's utterly compelling viewing that drags you from one emotional state to another as it moves along. It's a very disturbing film portraying how a lie can escalate tensions and panic in a small community through whispers and do-gooders who have no idea of the situation. It's a film showing true horror through wrecked lives and is a far scarier proposition than all the knife wielding maniacs the horror genre can throw our way.

The acting from everyone is superb, especially Mikkelsen and Annika Wedderkopp, the young girl at the centre of it all. As with many great films, and make no mistake this is a great film, it would spoil it for others to discuss the plot too deeply here, but its one of those films that leaves the viewer on the edge of their seat from the beginning to the bone crunching final scene.

As a first time viewing this is easily the best film i've seen this year.
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Old 21st July 2014, 08:11 PM
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The Hunt (2012).

Mads Mikkelsen plays a new teacher at a small town Kindergarten. Word gets out that he sexually assaulted one of the children in his care and mass hysteria breaks out in the town.

The Hunt is a film that pulls you in from the very first scene and never lets go. It's utterly compelling viewing that drags you from one emotional state to another as it moves along. It's a very disturbing film portraying how a lie can escalate tensions and panic in a small community through whispers and do-gooders who have no idea of the situation. It's a film showing true horror through wrecked lives and is a far scarier proposition than all the knife wielding maniacs the horror genre can throw our way.

The acting from everyone is superb, especially Mikkelsen and Annika Wedderkopp, the young girl at the centre of it all. As with many great films, and make no mistake this is a great film, it would spoil it for others to discuss the plot too deeply here, but its one of those films that leaves the viewer on the edge of their seat from the beginning to the bone crunching final scene.

As a first time viewing this is easily the best film i've seen this year.
Just checked and this is on netflix so will be watching this sometime in the next few days
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Old 21st July 2014, 08:16 PM
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The Hunt (2012).

As a first time viewing this is easily the best film i've seen this year.
It is so good because it is so plausible; a teacher who worked with my mum at a secondary school was suspended because a girl said he touched her inappropriately. After suffering a nervous breakdown and going off work with stress, the allegation was found to be groundless. He never taught again.

Thomas Vinterberg's film was easily one of the best films I saw last year and, even though The Great Beauty is brilliant, I thought The Hunt deserved to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Feature.
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Old 21st July 2014, 11:15 PM
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INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2. I quite enjoyed this, it rattles along at a good pace and never takes itself or its subject matter too seriously unlike the glut of other possession/ghost films doing the rounds. Worth a look if you have Netflix to which it has recently been added.

GREGORY'S GIRL. Quite simply one of the greatest films to come from these Isles.
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Old 22nd July 2014, 04:14 AM
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Got out some essential Summer flicks

THE BURNING
LAST JAWS
MALIBU BIKINI SHOP
HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP
PIRANHA
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Old 22nd July 2014, 08:47 AM
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The Hunt (2012).

Mads Mikkelsen plays a new teacher at a small town Kindergarten. Word gets out that he sexually assaulted one of the children in his care and mass hysteria breaks out in the town.

The Hunt is a film that pulls you in from the very first scene and never lets go. It's utterly compelling viewing that drags you from one emotional state to another as it moves along. It's a very disturbing film portraying how a lie can escalate tensions and panic in a small community through whispers and do-gooders who have no idea of the situation. It's a film showing true horror through wrecked lives and is a far scarier proposition than all the knife wielding maniacs the horror genre can throw our way.

The acting from everyone is superb, especially Mikkelsen and Annika Wedderkopp, the young girl at the centre of it all. As with many great films, and make no mistake this is a great film, it would spoil it for others to discuss the plot too deeply here, but its one of those films that leaves the viewer on the edge of their seat from the beginning to the bone crunching final scene.

As a first time viewing this is easily the best film i've seen this year.
I just watched this last weekend and wholesomely agree!
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Old 22nd July 2014, 10:48 AM
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Managed to watch The Wild Geese yesterday evening. Bloody great film.
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Old 22nd July 2014, 05:54 PM
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Don't know if this is right place, been looking on netflix and just noticed American ninja, is it anygood? ( I might of seen it but would of been decades ago so can't remember )
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Old 22nd July 2014, 06:07 PM
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Don't know if this is right place, been looking on netflix and just noticed American ninja, is it anygood? ( I might of seen it but would of been decades ago so can't remember )
I would watch it just for the sheer fun it is for a low budget film
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