Recently Watched Films

Saw this about 30 years ago. Turns out it's even sillier than I remember. Still, some good tunes, and Ozzy Osbourne as a televangelist is a nice touch.

Not sure I'll be able to watch actor Sebastian Stan (the MCU's Winter Soldier) the same way again after this role. Disney+ sure harbours some dark and disturbing shit under the Star banner. A good film if you can stomach it though. 

I thought I'd seen this, but on watching it I don't remember any of it. Anyway, it's Hitchcock at the peak of his powers, and Cary Grant was perfectly cast in the lead role.

Liked this a lot. It gives Millie Bobby Brown more scope to show off her acting range than Stranger Things. It's also good to see an understated Henry Cavill, Helena Bonham Carter showing off unconventional parenting skills, and a perpetually confused Adeel Akhtar.

I never realised as a kid just how overtly racist this is. And a bit sexist too. 

The remake is probably going to suck, but this is the first instance where I actually understand Disney wanting to remake one of their older films. 

This was fucking uncomfortable to watch. 

OK, gotta admit I didn't know what the fuck was going on for large parts of this movie, but it's got that cool mysterious sci-fi vibe like Close Encounters of the Third Kind or Arrival or the 1970s Quatermass.

Cute but weird, and somewhat cruel (the cruelty is all simulated - the dog wasn't harmed!). Follows a gormless dachshund as the link between number of different owners in this compilation movie. Features Julie Delpy, Ellen Bursteyn, Kieran Culkin, and best segment goes to Danny DeVito. Be warned: DON'T watch if you're a sensitive animal lover.

Not the most compelling movie you'll ever see, and Jimmy Stewart is entirely unconvincing as a baseball player, but he's right on the mark as a pilot as he'd been one during WWII, and eventually retired from the air force as a brigadier general. The planes are excellent too, if you're a plane nerd. These are of the forgotten generation between the B-29 which finished off WWII and the B-52 which is still flying today, and show off some of the engineering and designs used as bombing went from conventional to nuclear. Harry Morgan (Colonel Potter from M.A.S.H.) also pops up.

Uneven anthology movie written by (and starring) Stephen King with George Romero. There's a few more interesting names here too - Leslie Neilson, Ted Danson, Adrienne Barbeau. I don't think it's aged all that well.

A largely forgotten adaptation of a P. D. James novel. Supposed to not do the book justice, but having not read the book, I rather enjoyed it. Great atmosphere. Something like a country noir. 

I've not been posting re-watches lately but I thought I'd include this one, since I liked it more this time. I didn't dislike it before, though it is a touch watch. A piece of must see British cinema though. 

A very quirky crime comedy, which the RYM genre police say isn't a comedy. 

Very obviously made to capitalise on Dirty Harry, but it's a fun action crime thriller, with Charles Bronson taking on the cop who plays by his own rules.