What was the last movie you saw?
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I thought that Nigel Kneale's TV show, Beasts, while very very dated, was really interesting.
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Timetrap
A young family go looking for someone in a cave but something odd is going on outside, and they are trapped.
An interesting take on the time distortion story. Different!
A young family go looking for someone in a cave but something odd is going on outside, and they are trapped.
An interesting take on the time distortion story. Different!
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Was there a character in it called Ulala? A pink haired DJ ? I loves her, I do. Also I thought Tails was a girlfox not a boyfox??
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Was there a character in it called Ulala? A pink haired DJ ? I loves her, I do. Also I thought Tails was a girlfox not a boyfox??
You're thinking of Space Channel 5 maybe? Gayest game in the world? Tails is a boy, his real name is Miles.
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What happened to Monday?
Interesting future-set tale of over population controlled by imposing a 1 child per family policy
Interesting future-set tale of over population controlled by imposing a 1 child per family policy
You're thinking of Space Channel 5 maybe? Gayest game in the world? Tails is a boy, his real name is Miles.
No wonder she’s so fabulous
I play her in Sonic Allstars Racing Transformed. She’s a ledg!!!
Tails sounds like a girl in the game. Also her car drives like crap.
No wonder she’s so fabulous
I play her in Sonic Allstars Racing Transformed. She’s a ledg!!!
Tails sounds like a girl in the game. Also her car drives like crap.
I've got a mate who's obsessed with Space Channel 5. I can guarantee that whenever he rings me he will, at some point, play Space Channel 5 music down the phone to me.
Tails does sound like a girl.
Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun 1966 - George Ardisson returns in this James Bond rip-off which features a blonde Robert Shaw lookalike as one of the villains. Some of the fighting scenes are intense otherwise one of the more middle of the road spy clones.
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VAMPYR (1932) I may have dozed-off occasionally, or perhaps have been distracted, because I could not make sense out of this film. The 1st half was o.k., but the end left me scratching my head.
The villain entered what was a small cage (for lack of better word) in what may have been some kind of mill. I could see no reason for entering the cage, other than to trap him and kill him by suffocating him in the powder that fell from above. Then, once he was inside, gears began turning, and powder fell from above. Now he realizes he is trapped & begins shouting for help. Eventually, he is covered and the film ends.
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The Forest (1982)
Ultra-cheap slasher. After two random folks get killed while hiking, we cut to our main characters, two women and their husbands. After a lot of discussion about whether or not women can go backpacking on their own, they decide to go off together, the women in one car and the men in another. The men have car trouble, so they get to the camping site after dark. Meanwhile, our knife-wielding maniac has killed one of the women. In a bizarre twist, the women have already been visited by the ghosts of the madman's wife and children. The men find the killer in his cave, where he's eating a chunk of the dead woman's flesh, telling them it's "doe." We eventually get our explanatory flashback. Guy found his wife in bed with lover, so he killed them both, the kids killed themselves. The electronic soundtrack and pop/rock songs are really out of place. Not a good film.
Ultra-cheap slasher. After two random folks get killed while hiking, we cut to our main characters, two women and their husbands. After a lot of discussion about whether or not women can go backpacking on their own, they decide to go off together, the women in one car and the men in another. The men have car trouble, so they get to the camping site after dark. Meanwhile, our knife-wielding maniac has killed one of the women. In a bizarre twist, the women have already been visited by the ghosts of the madman's wife and children. The men find the killer in his cave, where he's eating a chunk of the dead woman's flesh, telling them it's "doe." We eventually get our explanatory flashback. Guy found his wife in bed with lover, so he killed them both, the kids killed themselves. The electronic soundtrack and pop/rock songs are really out of place. Not a good film.
DER ZINKER 1963 The English title isn't much better: The Squeaker. An Edgar Wallace krimi about a killer who uses mamba venom to zap his victims. Could have done without the sequence of a live rat being put into a tank to be snatched by a boa constrictor but otherwise, it was pretty good--and better dubbed than most of these I have seen. Usually the English version has very boring performances.
A MAN COULD GET KILLED 1966 - Mostly painful spy comedy starring James Garner. They made so many comedy spy movies. I don't think the humor in James Bond movies is what made them so popular at the time. I notice in Hollywood films they loved portraying British characters as good-natured but eccentric to the point of idiocy. The ubiquitous Terry-Thomas routine. I say, what.
A MAN COULD GET KILLED 1966 - Mostly painful spy comedy starring James Garner. They made so many comedy spy movies. I don't think the humor in James Bond movies is what made them so popular at the time. I notice in Hollywood films they loved portraying British characters as good-natured but eccentric to the point of idiocy. The ubiquitous Terry-Thomas routine. I say, what.
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THE UNSUSPECTED (1947) RADIO crime host Victor Grandison (Claude Rains) has suffered the loss of his secretary through what had been assumed to be suicide, but was later confirmed to be murder. Other people also die. Very entertaining mystery / drama.
Supporting cast includes Fred Clark, who portrays Richard Donovan, a friend of Grandison who is later revealed to be a Police Detective. Muller followed the film with some details on Clark's work, mainly films, but omitted mention of his role in a certain TWILIGHT ZONE story about a special camera. One of my favorite TTZ stories, and a character actor who usually plays scoundrels/ frauds.
Supporting cast includes Fred Clark, who portrays Richard Donovan, a friend of Grandison who is later revealed to be a Police Detective. Muller followed the film with some details on Clark's work, mainly films, but omitted mention of his role in a certain TWILIGHT ZONE story about a special camera. One of my favorite TTZ stories, and a character actor who usually plays scoundrels/ frauds.
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The Delinquents (1957)
Robert Altman's first film features Tom "Billy Jack" Laughlin in an early role. His girlfriend's father says she's too young to go steady, so he forbids him from seeing her. While sitting alone at a drive-in movie, he gets wrongly accused of slashing somebody's tires, so he gets beaten up. The delinquents of the title, who we've seen busting the window of a nightclub when they got thrown out for being underage, come to his rescue. The seemingly nice one offers to pretend to be dating his girlfriend so she can sneak out with him. They wind up at a wild party in an empty house. The cops show up, and he gets blamed for ratting on them. They force him to drink a bottle of booze and dump him at a gas station after knocking out the attendant. As he staggers home, the gang kidnaps his girlfriend. This all builds up to our hero going all Billy Jack on the gang's creepiest member, and then the seemingly nice one. There's a surprising lack of campiness for a youth-in-trouble film, except for the opening and closing narration, which goes on and on about society having to deal with the problem of delinquency, etc.
Robert Altman's first film features Tom "Billy Jack" Laughlin in an early role. His girlfriend's father says she's too young to go steady, so he forbids him from seeing her. While sitting alone at a drive-in movie, he gets wrongly accused of slashing somebody's tires, so he gets beaten up. The delinquents of the title, who we've seen busting the window of a nightclub when they got thrown out for being underage, come to his rescue. The seemingly nice one offers to pretend to be dating his girlfriend so she can sneak out with him. They wind up at a wild party in an empty house. The cops show up, and he gets blamed for ratting on them. They force him to drink a bottle of booze and dump him at a gas station after knocking out the attendant. As he staggers home, the gang kidnaps his girlfriend. This all builds up to our hero going all Billy Jack on the gang's creepiest member, and then the seemingly nice one. There's a surprising lack of campiness for a youth-in-trouble film, except for the opening and closing narration, which goes on and on about society having to deal with the problem of delinquency, etc.
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House on Willow Street 2016
After a young woman is kidnapped, her captors soon come to realize that in fact they may be the ones in danger and this young woman has a dark secret inside her.
Not bad but a lousy ending
After a young woman is kidnapped, her captors soon come to realize that in fact they may be the ones in danger and this young woman has a dark secret inside her.
Not bad but a lousy ending
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Countdown
A predictable YA 'horror' about an app that tells you how long you have left. Yawn
A predictable YA 'horror' about an app that tells you how long you have left. Yawn
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The Search for Bridey Murphy (1956)
Dramatization of the best-selling book based on a thoroughly debunked "true story" of hypnosis causing an American woman to recall her past life as a 19th century Irish woman. It's very professionally made, well-acted, and so forth, but the attempt to make what the woman said under hypnosis (taken from actual transcripts) exciting doesn't always work. (The real American woman, it seems, was basing her knowledge of Ireland on what a woman told her as a child, so it's pretty vague.) In the movie, at least, she also recalls her own death, afterlife, and rebirth. Interesting for a portrait of what seized the American imagination at the time.
Dramatization of the best-selling book based on a thoroughly debunked "true story" of hypnosis causing an American woman to recall her past life as a 19th century Irish woman. It's very professionally made, well-acted, and so forth, but the attempt to make what the woman said under hypnosis (taken from actual transcripts) exciting doesn't always work. (The real American woman, it seems, was basing her knowledge of Ireland on what a woman told her as a child, so it's pretty vague.) In the movie, at least, she also recalls her own death, afterlife, and rebirth. Interesting for a portrait of what seized the American imagination at the time.
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