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"Rule number 1 of Jack Murphy's law...Don't #&$^ with Jack Murphy!"
Bronson plays Jack Murphy a hard boiled detective framed for multiple murders. He's teamed up with Arabella; A car thief whom he arrested a few hours earlier. Together they have to track down the killer who framed Murphy.
It's your typical 80's Bronson flick. Not perfect but always 100% fun to watch. Bronson movies always had the most satisfying endings. :)
8/10. Recommended if your bored.
Also best moment in the film. ;)
Rise of the planet of the Apes - First time watched it on Bluray, looks astonishing good film though Ceaser is the star of the show.
Opening with the sight of a perfectly formed,bikini clad Carol Lynley emerging from the sea armed with a spear gun.* It's a case of Ursula who...? And if that wasn't enough, the film ends with the same sight. Lynley is better in Bunny Lake Is Missing, but here, she can play one hell of a psycho.
*It's almost on par with Elke Sommer emerging from the sea in Deadlier Than The Male. Almost.
Or this perhaps? ;-)
It took me years to watch this movie - I would start it, get twenty minutes in, and get occupied with something else - but finally, I watched it all the way through tonight. I'm a fan of sci-fi/dystopian future type films, and this one was pretty good. Nice to see our own Sean Bean in this, albeit for only a short time, but I enjoyed this all the way through. Some of the scenes were chilling in that you see characters who cannot 'feel' finally give in to records and the beauty of small things such as a globe or a red ribbon. I like how the film wrapped up, as well. My only gripe with it was the action sequences: poorly shot and incredibly goofy. I couldn't get into them. Other than that, it was a good film.
Watching Murnau's 'Nosferatu' right now.
** out of ****
Quentin Tarantino's favorite Bond movie spoof. Putting it in terms Major D. Smythe would understand, I would say KTGAMTD is better than "Some Girls Do" but a far cry from the high quality of "Deadlier Than The Male". Mike "Mannix" Connors(who probably would've made a good Felix Leiter back in the '60s and '70s) plays the hero while "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" vets Dorothy Provine and Terry-Thomas play his allies. There's also some interesting similarities to MR as this article discusses:
http://jamesbond.ajb007.co.uk/mr66/
Check out the youtube thread. I just posted the links for it.
Sadly, it doesn't look like it's had a DVD release.
Rob Zombie's directorial début film became an instant favourite of mine when I first saw it. Weird and slightly exploitative, House is most of all an amusing film for people who, like me, occasionally enjoy a venture into the realm of the absurd. Many people will find this movie offensive and / or incomprehensible, a waste of time. I, however, embrace it for Zombie's creativity and his love for the 70s horror film, a love we both share.
Sid Haig as Captain Spaulding, Bill Moseley as Otis B. Driftwood and Sheri Moon as Baby Firefly are extremely enjoyable characters. Zombie's soundtrack is a musical delight and some of the production design, especially in Dr. Satan's cabinet, is absolutely magnificent if you dig this kind of weirdness.
I'm a fan but I don't expect all people to be. ;-)
After several weeks of a one episode per night regime, I finally put a full stop to this childhood delight of mine with the two features, Thunderbirds Are Go and Thunderbird 6.
I can't help being still very much enthusiastic about Thunderbirds, despite my age. I have such fond memories of watching the series in my boyhood days, that reliving them now, over 20 years later, was nothing short of fun. And to tell the truth, the engineer in me took a few notes from the series. ;-) Let's just say I enjoy some of the faux technical stuff very much. But many episodes bring such a wonderful atmosphere to the game, often resembling the 60s Bond films, that I genuinely like them even without the nostalgia factor sinking in.
The two movies tend to disappoint a little, but not enough for me to dismiss them as worthless. Even Thunderbird 6 has something to offer, a beautiful second act first and foremost.
Okay, I haven't watched the live action adaptation yet and something tells me I shouldn't. But I'm a completist so we'll see about that. ;-) Anyway, F A B, Thunderbirds! F A B ...
Actually, thinking about it now, the Captain Jack character on Doctor Who and Torchwood is very similar. He's an immortal alien killing captain.
I bet Steven Moffat and Russel T Davies watched it when they were younger.
First the good things:
Sophia Myles, Ben Kingsley, Ron Cook, the vehicles and Tracy Island.
Everything else is atrocious though. I'm a fan of the original series and I have been warned about this film but I wanted to give it a fair chance. Too bad the film isn't all that fair to me. I wanted Thunderbirds, not Thunderspykids! This film is an insult to my Thunderbirds fandom. It hurts. The CGI worked and some of the casting decisions (see above) were spot-on so if Frakes and the screenwriters had stuck to the original, this might actually have been good. But they toned things down for the -12 crowd. Why else does Brains' son (?) Fermat get more screentime than Brains himself? Why else do I see more of young Vanessa Hudgens as Tin-tin than I do of Scott, Virgil, Gordon, John and Jeff? Where are those cool planes or machines in peril? Why am I being lectured about friendship and how the nerdy kid has more to him than meets the eye? Seriously buggered is how I feel. What a disappointing conclusion to my reconnection with this childhood favourite of mine. Ugh! Rarely have end titles felt so liberating. Why am I taking all this abuse? :O
Note to self: plug in a DVD of the original series - any will do - and watch at least four episodes as therapy.
Still a great, enjoyable film, albeit a bit overhyped after going to college and seeing the poster on almost every dorm room I entered. This still stands as one of my favorite films of Dafoe's - the man is a genius in it - and the action sequences throughout are great and entertaining.
paranormal suspense / demonic possession thriller based on actual events that occured to someone who witnessed paranormal disturbances. Ron Silver makes an early appearance and Barbara Hershey plays the lead role
Obviously intended to shock early 1980s theater audiences, it seems very dated from a 21st century perspective, but still has scenes that some will find upsetting and it's not for kids, but can't compare to time-tested classics such as The Exorcist or The Amityville Horror. Worth a watch if you've yet to see it, but shocks, while existent, are in short supply, and this movie would seem to have lost it's shock appeal many years ago
Batman Year One 5.5/10
This one was okay but lacked any real character. Had it been about 20 minutes longer it probably would have been better. Ben McKenzie didn't do the role of Bruce/Batman justice.
Justice League: Doom 8/10
I've never been a Justice League fan but this film was pretty darn good. With Kevin Conroy at the helm of Batman this movie was on my good side before I watched it. Conroy will always be Batman to me, more so than Bale and Keaton.
Batman Under the Red Hood 8/10
This one was great as well even without Conroy. If Conroy can't play Bruce/Batman I would want Bruce Greenwood to take over. He did an amazing job and even sounds a little like Conroy.
Missing in Action - Been twenty years since i watched this. Interesting that one scene was very very similar to a scene in Bourne Identity, and a scene reminded me of Quantum of Solace. Its all about Chuck, he is walking granite, unfazed by anything. Chuck is the real deal, tough as hell. I would even go as far as say there are echoes of Chuck in Craigs Bond in CR and QoS. The difference being Craig is acting.
I quite like the film to be honest. Director Sidney J. Fury gave me my Superman IV traumas but for the most part, this film is effective as a horror film. I love Barbara Hershey in the film to be frank. ;-)
Rust and Bone: Excellent French drama about the relationship between an arrogant amateur boxer and a whale trainer who loses her legs after an accident. Terrific performances from Matthias Schoenaerts and Marion Cotillard (who I recognised from Inception and TDKR) 8/10
Broken City Entertaining yet conventional political corruption drama starring Mark Walberg and Russell Crowe on especially slimy form 7/10
Alpha Papa Funny big screen adventure for Alan Partridge, though I still feel KMKYWAP was his finest hour 7/10
Sudden Death
It's a movie from my childhood. I tried to like it, I really did - but it's just not very good. Sloppy editing and plot, stereotypical situations, Van Damme was eh. I do like Powers Boothe as the baddie and the fight with the Penguin mascot. Otherwise, not too much to see here.
4/10
A highly controversial film upon its release, effectively terminating director Michael Powell's filmmaking career in the UK, Peeping Tom has gained much more praise over the years. And correctly so for it is a prophecy of what the horror genre would bring in the next 50 years. Slasher films and their notorious POV shots, torture porn, shock exploitation cinema... In all cases we, as an audience, behave as a collection of peeping toms. The terror in the eyes of the victims on screen is precisely what amuses us in these horror subgenres and Powell more or less predicted that this would play a progressively bigger role in the darker and more perverse films of the coming decades. Some called it a sick film at the time but many now regard it as a true masterpiece.
I love Peeping Tom. It's a well made, well acted and well told story about a man whose Freudian complexities result in a weird affection with the fright of others. Karlheinz Böhm, despite his loathsome character of Mark Lewis, elicits sympathy from us much in the twisted way that Peter Lorre did in Fritz Lang's brilliant film 'M'. In a self-reflective moment, we might from watching him understand the notion of repressing one's perversities. After all, we enjoy seeing sickening and twisted events in films because we can hide behind the excuse that it's just a movie, whereas deep down inside we live secret fantasies that those films bring to life.
The music and colour scheme provide Peeping Tom with a certain dynamic that help to suck you into the guilty voyeurism with a sense of fascination. Though it isn't a film for everyone - some people, even today, hate to be confronted with their own filthy desires - it is a very relevant portrait of the kind of people we have morphed into through progressively more exploitative cinema and the advent of the Internet. The taste of watching real people go through chilling experiences from a distance is so good, some of us frantically search the Internet for shocking pictures and user generated material. Voyeurism is everywhere and the worst part of it is that many folks don't even realise it or have grown desensitised about it. Perhaps Peeping Tom can confront them with this...
Please be sure to post your review after you see it.
Pretty boring bad film. 4/10
It was on the Horror Channel last night, following Beyond Re-Animator. It's always nice to see the great Pat Troughton outside the TARDIS. I like all of Hammers Dracula films to some degree, well... expect Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires, which I didn't like at all.
Sudden Death is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me too. Gotta love Powers Boothe. He oddly reminds me a bit of Leslie Grantham from Eastenders.
"Fire...man"
Another film I'd left sitting on the Sky Box for ages. Something interesting is that it actually had a simultaneous release, coming out on DVD, the cinema and being shown on telly at the same time.
Very weird, dark film. I was disappointed to be honest. Loved Kill List but I couldn't get into this.
There was stuff I liked, don't get me wrong. Good cinematography, good performances, interesting setting, some genuinely creepy moments and I liked the trip bits.
But overall I found it pretty boring, confusing and pretentious.