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Post by Carl LaFong on May 24, 2023 21:08:38 GMT
The New Kids (1985)
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Post by politicidal1 on May 24, 2023 21:29:17 GMT
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Post by jeffersoncody on May 24, 2023 23:34:36 GMT
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Post by Teleadm on May 25, 2023 5:23:31 GMT
Fire Over England 1937 directed by William K. Howard. British history as a romantic adventure movie. During the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), a young man's (Laurence Olivier) fervent devotion to the crown and to his sweetheart, a lady-in-waiting (Vivien Leigh), lead him to battle for England's victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588. Rather entertaining movie with Olivier as a swashbuckling romantic hero. Though there is a few flaws and one shouldn't see it as a history lesson, it's filled with great actors and grandeur (sets) to make up for that and makes 90 minutes go by easy. Great cinematography by legendary James Wong Howe. Watched the restored BFI version.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on May 25, 2023 5:46:33 GMT
Reminiscence (2021).
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Post by jeffersoncody on May 25, 2023 7:18:41 GMT
The New Kids (1985) Cool exploitation film Carl, with a bit of an edge and some seething brutality, have you seen the similarly themed Tuff Turf (1985) - with James Spader and Robert Downey Jnr.? If violent eighties cheese-fests are your thing it's a must see.
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 25, 2023 7:20:38 GMT
I haven’t seen Tuff Turf,jc, no.thanks for the rec. The New Kids was pretty good. Certainly violent enough!
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Post by politicidal1 on May 26, 2023 2:04:01 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on May 26, 2023 3:35:39 GMT
Vamps, 2012, dir. Amy Heckerling. I’m not sure I should write on this because I’m fairly sure the TV print I watched cut some scenes (either that, or Vamps is the choppiest movie ever). But when I saw it was on TV I had to tune in because it was written and directed by Heckerling, whose Clueless I love. It also has Clueless star Alicia Silverstone, adorable and funny both in that movie and this one. Heckerling is so good. I love how she plays with language—a critic I like compared Clueless’s dialogue to Damon Runyan—yet, at least in Clueless (and, to a lesser degree, Vamps), makes the jokes come off as real dialogue grounded in character, rather than laugh lines. Vamps has this one monologue for Silverstone that cracked me up—the character’s, and Heckerling’s, take on iPhones and social media—but I bet it doesn’t seem so funny when written down:See? Not that funny in print, but when Silverstone says it, hilarious. Vamps is no Clueless, that’s for sure, but it doesn’t deserve its 33% audience score (how?!) on Rotten Tomatoes either. It’s charming and sweet and funny and all of the actors are playing this like they actually care. Heckerling isn’t a showy director, but she’s a good director, and she pulls off some fun moments (a parody of a De Palma-esque swirling camera) and a neat montage at the end. Unfortunately, Vamps suffers from a weak story—Sigourney Weaver is in this, but her villain is such a nonentity and so easily axed—and poor special effects. Poor to the point of taking the viewer out of the movie. Even Buffy the Vampire Slayer had better vampire effects, and that was ’90s TV. But it has some good Heckerling scenes and performances (she’s good at directing actors, I think—from Silverstone and especially Dan Hedaya in Clueless to Michael Keaton and Joe Piscopo in the odd but funny gangster-film parody Johnny Dangerously). It’s just a nice little fantasy. If only someone in Hollywood would, you know, give Heckerling more work. Sigh.
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Post by Teleadm on May 26, 2023 5:52:12 GMT
Man in the Middle aka The Winston Affair 1964 directed by Guy Hamilton. In India 1944 during WWII, a US officer confesses the murder of a UK officer. A military veteran (Robert Mitchum) is appointed to defend him. Everything looks simple, until he starts investigating the circumstances of the crime and realizes that facts don't fit, and a key witness is suddenly relocated to another camp far away. That the murderer is a son-in-law to a U.S. Senator doesn't help matters either. It feels like an in-between middle movie for all involved, but it was produced by Marlon Brando's production company Pennebaker and that made me wonder if at some point Brando himself had plans to play the lead character. Robert Mitchum is solid as usual and so is Trevor Howard and Keenan Wynn as the murderer, who is either a nut or a delusional racist bigot or both, who would never had been appointed an officer without political connections. The movie doesn't really succeed in creating the tensions that is needed for a story like this. It's not an uninteresting movie and is worth a glance.
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Post by politicidal1 on May 27, 2023 15:25:32 GMT
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Post by LeBeauSerge on May 27, 2023 19:31:44 GMT
Masculin féminin (1965)
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Post by politicidal1 on May 27, 2023 20:19:04 GMT
Back-to-back Vincent Price.
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Post by jeffersoncody on May 28, 2023 20:30:54 GMT
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Post by politicidal1 on May 29, 2023 1:20:06 GMT
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