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 Posted: 09 Feb 2022 at 1:05am |
 Mixed feelings here. On one hand its a compelling watch with great cinematography, but on the other it presents a mystery that not only is never solved (the protagonist's first husband's apparent suicide), she doesn't actually make any real effort to solve it, instead steadily building toward a breakdown. Not exactly what the film was billed as on Prime, which implied that there might be foul play involved and that she'd search for the truth. I dunno, it kinda feels like half a movie to me. I did still enjoy what it actually was though.
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Posted: 10 Feb 2022 at 1:04am |
 AKA She Wolves of the Wasteland. Yeah, don't watch this movie. It's a waste of an hour and a half. It's so bad it's not even so bad it's good. Basically, there's no men left after several disastrous wars. And not many clothes left to go round either. Bands of women go round fighting each other in badly choreographed fights, and also shoot each other with plastic guns. And that's about it.
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Posted: 10 Feb 2022 at 10:22am |
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adg211288
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Posted: 10 Feb 2022 at 11:02am |
 Crap.  Not bad. Don't think it's a re-watcher though.  A pretty good Japanese drama from the 1940s. I did better with this one than I did with my first taste of this director, but I may re-watch Tokyo Story sometime due to my ever evolving interests.  Utterly terrifying. One day there really will be a planet killing rock headed our way. Someone will show the powers that be this film. And they will ignore it.
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Posted: 11 Feb 2022 at 12:04am |
 Don't fuck with Gurkhas.
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Posted: 11 Feb 2022 at 10:17pm |
 Well this was pretty fucking meh. Great premise, awful execution.
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Posted: 12 Feb 2022 at 2:28am |
 Brilliantly disturbing look at Romania under Communist rule. Not an easy watch.  Darkly comic crime film. It won't take much of your time, and doesn't have any pretensions over what it is. Very solid fun with the ever underrated Michael Smiley playing the lead.  More like Suckage the Hedgehog. As a long time Sonic fan, whose video games defined my childhood, I felt compelling to give this a watch, even though I had zero expectations. However I didn't expect it to be quite this bad.
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Posted: 12 Feb 2022 at 9:36am |
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Posted: 12 Feb 2022 at 3:09pm |
 Preferred Late Spring. Still pretty solid, but retreads a lot of the same plot points as the first film.  Great atmosphere. A few wacky things. Plot pretty much absent.
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Posted: 12 Feb 2022 at 9:17pm |
 OK, not sure about this movie at all. It's long and seems to drag a bit, and there's not really very many likeable characters. There's some great set pieces, like the battle scenes, and it's cinematically outstanding. It's just not very enjoyable.
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Posted: 13 Feb 2022 at 1:04am |
 Talkies didn't kill off Charlie Chaplin like a number of other silent movie stars. There's still plenty of physical humour and slapstick, and the parody is razor sharp. Hitler hated it and it was banned in Nazi Germany, so mission accomplished.
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Posted: 14 Feb 2022 at 1:08pm |
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Yesterday's viewing, both rewatches to unwind after a long day cataloguing my book collection so I know what I've got and haven't read (a scary 386 books, which is more than I've read in my entire lifetime).
 It wasn't that long ago I last watched this, but I've started to go through them again in anticipation of getting to see Afterlife. This first one is a movie I can watch any time though.  You'd have to watch this on slo-mo to see every pop culture reference I reckon. And today:  A South Korean crime film. It's actually a remake of a French film, but it changes the central plot to become a serial killer movie. It's no Memories of Murder but it's very solid and recommended for fans of Korean film.  Taking place mostly in one room in a police station (and never going beyond it further than the back of a police van which quickly gets turned around), this Kirk Douglas led film noir turned out to be quite the gem, as lives spiral out of control across the course of a single day.  This was a very good western, the last of them made by John Ford and loosely based on actual events. It has many known names in the cast including Richard Widmark as the lead, with support from Edward G Robinson, James Stewart, Karl Maldon, and Patrick Wayne (son of John Wayne).
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Posted: 14 Feb 2022 at 1:32pm |
 The cover of Queen's News of the World comes to life! Very loosely based on Ted Hughes' "The Iron Man" (there's a giant robot from outer space that eats metal, and that's it!). It was just the sort of lightweight "park you brain and enjoy" movie I needed last night.
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Posted: 15 Feb 2022 at 12:09am |
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Posted: 15 Feb 2022 at 1:41am |
 A couple of great songs, Gene Kelly and Olivia Newton-John dancing together... and a whole pile of arse. Shit story, awful acting (including Olivia Newton-John), and roller skates weren't cool even when they were cool!
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Posted: 15 Feb 2022 at 1:51am |
I remember watching this one and finding it a nice movie.
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Posted: 15 Feb 2022 at 2:17am |
I've never seen this movie, but I remember when I was like 12 or so I saw the title and thought it had something to do with the Rush song lol. Thankfully my mom told me what the movie actually was, and I was spared the disappointment.
Edited by Unitron - 15 Feb 2022 at 2:17am |
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If I say fuck two more times that's forty-six fucks in this fucked up rhyme
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Posted: 16 Feb 2022 at 2:15am |
 This is 90 minutes long, so I suppose it's a movie. Anyway, this one is called Seamen, and it sees the three idiots boat through Cambodia and Vietnam - no cars involved.
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Posted: 16 Feb 2022 at 10:59am |
I basically consider these guys a comedy act these days.
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Posted: 16 Feb 2022 at 8:08pm |
 First screened 16 February 1922, so it's 100 years old. Creepier than the 1931 Dracula, but a bit sillier in places, with some of the silent actors overacting too much. Hadn't realised it was an unauthorised adaptation of Dracula. Bram Stoker's heirs sued, won, and ordered the film destroyed, but copies survived.
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