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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 2, 2020 9:16:08 GMT
ONCE A THIEF 1950 June Havoc is a poor working girl who out of desperation gets involved in shoplifting and then turns straight. She even takes another poor girl in as a roommate (Marie McDonald). But then she meets Caesar Romero who is a conman and ladykiller who preys on poor working girls. Lon Chaney, his good-hearted partner in an illegal gambling racket tells him he should target wealthy ones at least. Romero is such a cad he tries to pawn a watch she had stolen and kept as a memento--when he learns it is hot, he reports it to police (I assume to collect the reward money), unaware that she was going to return to jewelry shoplifting to get money for him so they can get married! She ends up in prison where she learns her roommate is now seeing Romero. She assumes it was her roommate who reported her so she wants to escape to kill her for stealing her boyfriend! Complicated but a good watch. Whenever Romero starts lying the music indicates it with a quirky flute melody.
PULP 1972-- amusing narration at first but gets too esoteric and ultimately falls flat for me. The Humphrey Bogart lookalike in it is pretty good--someone like that with a digital enhancement could probably be a convincing doppelganger (if used sparingly).
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Post by louise on Feb 2, 2020 18:12:33 GMT
Rockets Galore (1957). Pleasant comedy about an island in the outer Hebrides that is in danger of being turned into a guided missile base.
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Post by louise on Feb 3, 2020 12:59:57 GMT
Nor the Moon by Night (1958). Alice, a nurse (Belinda Lee) goes out to Kenya to marry her fiancée Andrew (Patrick McGoohan), a game warden. But Andrew is busy and so he sends his brother Rusty (Michael Craig) to meet her instead, and on the long and eventful journey Alice and Rusty fall in love. Meanwhile Andrew is pursued by Thea (Anna Gaylor) who loves him. And there are lions and elephants and poachers and witch doctors and a lot of excitement. it's a ripping yarn.
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Post by koskiewicz on Feb 3, 2020 16:22:32 GMT
The Kino restored version of "Nosferatu" (1922) Incredible restoration of this classic by Kino !!!!
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Post by louise on Feb 4, 2020 15:35:00 GMT
the Birds (1963). All the birds in a small seaside town suddenly start attacking the human inhabitants. No explanation is given as to why these birds have suddenly become so crafty and highly organised. And the human inhabitants seem to be strangely helpless - nobody thinks of getting a gun and shooting the birds for instance, and where are all the cats? I found it very unsatisfactory.
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Post by hi224 on Feb 6, 2020 6:15:12 GMT
Get Carter.
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Post by hi224 on Feb 6, 2020 6:19:46 GMT
Rhythm Section.
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Post by louise on Feb 6, 2020 10:14:03 GMT
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988). Geena Davis has a close encounter with three aliens when their spaceship lands in her swimming pool. Silly but quite amusing comedy musical.
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Post by louise on Feb 6, 2020 17:49:40 GMT
Down and Out in Beverley Hills (1986). A tramp called Jerry (Nick Nolte) wanders into the house of wealthy couple Dave (Richard Dreyfuss) and Barbara (Bette Midler), and tries to drown himself in their swimming pool. When Dave saves him he ends up staying with them and creates havoc all round. Fairly amusing comedy.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Feb 7, 2020 7:49:11 GMT
Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020).
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Feb 7, 2020 12:54:21 GMT
Mary Poppins Return (2018)
I liked Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins but i did not really like the movie itself, i rate it 3.5/10
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Post by teleadm on Feb 7, 2020 18:31:31 GMT
With the end of Kirk Douglas, I watch Spartacus and Tough Guys.
Spartacus is over 3 hours, but still worth it.
Tough Guys, while not the best Kirk and Burt ever did it's such a joy seing Burt and Kirk together once again
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Post by politicidal on Feb 8, 2020 19:12:43 GMT
Blue Steel (1990).
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 9, 2020 21:03:34 GMT
MITCHELL 1975 - When we first see Joe Don Baker (after the bizarre credits with his face in distraught poses) he is in the back of a police car looking like a suspect under arrest. Only when they get to the crime scene do we learn he is in fact a detective. He's a worn out grumpy cop but he does want to get the job done, and somehow he does. Seems very unfair for the film to be ridiculed as it is since the filmmakers were being semi-serious themselves. One IMDB review says: "And that's the whole point of Baker's character in "Mitchell": he doesn't look like anyone's idea of an 'action hero', but underneath the flab and the bad attitude is an incorruptible 'real man' who can kick the pretty boys' butts when the chips are down and who stays the course in spite of every obstacle and distraction that would stop a lesser, 'metrosexual' blow comb user. And if the movie does anything well, it at least gets this point across."
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Feb 9, 2020 22:45:29 GMT
FATE Is the Hunter (1964).
8/10.
I DON'T drink coffee, BUT I do drink and LOVE tea...so tea would be the possible and probable CULPRIT IF I were the pilot.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Feb 10, 2020 2:04:21 GMT
Aloha (2015) - 5.5/10 Scream (1996) - 4.5/10 Godzilla (1998) - 4/10
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Post by millar70 on Feb 10, 2020 22:55:20 GMT
MITCHELL 1975 - When we first see Joe Don Baker (after the bizarre credits with his face in distraught poses) he is in the back of a police car looking like a suspect under arrest. Only when they get to the crime scene do we learn he is in fact a detective. He's a worn out grumpy cop but he does want to get the job done, and somehow he does. Seems very unfair for the film to be ridiculed as it is since the filmmakers were being semi-serious themselves. One IMDB review says: "And that's the whole point of Baker's character in "Mitchell": he doesn't look like anyone's idea of an 'action hero', but underneath the flab and the bad attitude is an incorruptible 'real man' who can kick the pretty boys' butts when the chips are down and who stays the course in spite of every obstacle and distraction that would stop a lesser, 'metrosexual' blow comb user. And if the movie does anything well, it at least gets this point across." I went through a Mystery Science Theater 3000 phase in the 90's, and the "Mitchell" episode may have been the funniest one, so much so that we named one of our cats Mitchell. Honestly, one of the dumbest movies ever made.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 10, 2020 23:05:55 GMT
I went through a Mystery Science Theater 3000 phase in the 90's, and the "Mitchell" episode may have been the funniest one, so much so that we named one of our cats Mitchell. Honestly, one of the dumbest movies ever made. Except they edited the film to make it more incoherent. And it is no worse than many other exploitation films of the period. And the jokes about Joe Don Baker's sex scenes with a prostitute--how was Walter Matthau's in Charley Varrick any more plausible? At least they had the sense to put Baker under a sheet for most of it!
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Feb 11, 2020 23:03:57 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 13, 2020 4:29:16 GMT
I had planned to watch SPARTACUS this year anyway but was an appropriate time to revisit. Still holds an emotional punch--some well calculated heart-tugging moments despite being a little overzealous in its message projection.
Peter Ustinov's character Batiatus is much in the same vein as Captain Renault in Casablanca. The same kind of likable pragmatic scoundrel who stands out in a story with so many political intrigues. I noticed when he first returns to the gladiator school and passes his servants, he pauses to affectionately lift the head of a sad-looking slave girl. Charles McGraw is one of the great screen assholes in this. The moment when Douglas grabs him after being whipped in the face is one massive jolt of catharsis.
But what is it with all the Kubrick groupies these days who seem to find endless anecdotes and tidbits about his direction? IMDB claims that when Kubrick was hired, he fired a German actress and replaced her with Simmons because the other actress wasn't emotional enough-and he had to convince Douglas of this. Er, every Kubrick movie I have seen has never been particularly heavy in the emotional dramatics so I am highly skeptical that Kubrick would be making the casting decisions on a film which Douglas was the star and executive producer of. More like the other way around. Now, I had heard that George Kennedy had a brief role in this and I had hoped to spot him and was disappointed when I couldn't, until, there he was. "I'm Spartacus!" Yet IMDB says it is not him--it sure looks and sounds like him!
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