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Many of these are on YouTube or filmboards.com (search) with subtitles with any language

Man On The Tracks - 8/10
Passenger - 7.5/10
Die endlose Nacht - 6.5/10
Black Peter - 7/10
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One - 6/10
Irwin and Fran- n/a (anything about the great Professor Irwin Corey is cool, but it's not well-made)
Hand in the Trap - 6.5/10
Chilly Scenes of Winter - 7/10
Rocky - 8/10
The World, the Flesh, and the Devil - 5/10
Insiang - 8/10
Lucia - 6.5/10
Memories of Underdevelopment - 7/10
Magic - 7/10
The Razor's Edge - 5/10
Rebel Without a Pause - 5/10
Return to Glennascaul - 7/10
Old Dads - 5/10
Heroes For Sale - 7/10
I Will Buy You - 6/10
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^Seems to be a general opinion


Never been a massive fan of Snyder anyway, Batman v Superman was virtually unwatchable in my opinion, Sin City 2 was not as good as the original film and Watchmen was basically just okay but lacked any real flare (IMO). However he does have the biggest dosconnect in Hollywood between fans and critics. His films do really well box office wise but often get panned by critics. I doubt I'll ever watch this as I don't subscribe to Netflix but I can see why they would want to put this film out.
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Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon: Part One A Child of Fire
Sci/Fi
(Sofia Boutella, Ed Skrein, Djimon Hounsou)
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YAWN !!! Sleepy
Zack Snyder pours all his DC cred into this Star Wars wanna be Saturday afternoon matinee. The movie has lackluster dialog, a weak, overdone plot and few truly interesting characters. The fact that he had to use an entire movie to set up the 'real story', which I assume they'll present in Part two, and spent this one 'building the team' (Justice League anyone?) was a real disappointment. It has all the visual capacity of hisbetter movies, but none of the substance.
Recommended only if you are seriously bored.
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Silent Night, Bloody Night - surprisingly dark and twisted proto-slasher, starring Mary Woronow and featuring other Warhol Superstars as well.

Triple 9 - dark and violent action thriller, very good. 

See No Evil - blind woman vs. psycho killer. Giallo-ish and quite silly in the end. 

Curse of the Demon - horror classic. Psychological horror parts works well, supernatural ones much less so. 
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

The Holdovers (2023)

Drama/Comedy
Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa
9/10

A story of unlikely friendships at an English prep school over the Christmas holidays in 1970. Lots of great background music as well.
Fantastic film. Period !
Just watch it.

Giamatti doing an English accent presumably?! Thanks for the recommendation, will check out!

It's a New England prep school apparently and the relase date in the UK is 19 January 2024 so I will need to wait a little longer.
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Porco Rosso - good fun
Earwig and the Witch - disappointing in both story and animation
The Sword and the Claw - 70s Turkish historical action, absolutely brilliant, a lot like a kung fu or wuxia film, only set in ancient Turkey
From Beyond - body horror classic, slimy and disgusting fun
Count Yorga, Vampire - boring vampire film
Trader Hornee - funny nudie spoof of jungle adventure films. "It's Horn, the e's are silent!"
The Acid Eaters - I couldn't figure out if the trip was good or bad?
American Splendor - brilliant biopic of comics writer Harvey Pekar
Early Man - from the makers of Wallace & Gromit, fun stuff with superb animation


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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

The Holdovers (2023)

Drama/Comedy
Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa
9/10

A story of unlikely friendships at an English prep school over the Christmas holidays in 1970. Lots of great background music as well.
Fantastic film. Period !
Just watch it.

Giamatti doing an English accent presumably?! Thanks for the recommendation, will check out!


Edited by richardh - December 10 2023 at 21:02
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Godzilla Minus One

Though it has a slow start and conducts itself much like a Japanese after-War drama, this prequel to Ishirō Honda's 1954 masterwork is the best rendition of the franchise since the Heisei series of the 1990s.   Dealing with the realities of postbellum Japan, the discovery of a constantly growing sea organism forces citizens & ex-sailors to handle the deadly beast themselves without help from a war-weary U.S.   Top shelf sci-fi drama without the sentimental nonsense present in so much kaiju cinema.   Surprisingly satisfying, and recommended.

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The Holdovers (2023)

Drama/Comedy
Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa
9/10

A story of unlikely friendships at an English prep school over the Christmas holidays in 1970. Lots of great background music as well.
Fantastic film. Period !
Just watch it.
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Napoleon

Ridley Scott's utterly inaccurate & unrealistic non-biopic on the French military prodigy is surprisingly entertaining, which is what a two and-a-half hour movie should & needs to be.   Unlike the equally long but lugubrious Oppenheimer, this is a period piece that moves, fascinates, and filled with the little details Scott is so good with---  the two bridled horses used by scouts, the unipods under a sniper's rifle for accuracy & balance, the lettuce in Marie Antoinette's hair before her head comes off and is held up for all to see [and yet just a few years later the French would have another King and be right back where they started].   Joaquin Phoenix's unexpected and quirky performance is appreciated and the limited love scenes with Vanessa Kirby's Josephine welcomed.   Despite its shortcomings and failures, Napoleon must be judged as the film that it means to be, not what the world expects from it.





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It was a well-meant but ill-conceived TV movie.
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

^ You could watch The Godfather Saga which combines the first two movies re-edited into one chronologic format, but I prefer them separately.   I agree James Caan was excellent as Sonny---  DeNiro auditioned for the part but his portrayal was so disturbing Coppola went with Caan and gave DeNiro the part of young Vito Corleone in GF II.


Interesting, didn't know that even existed but may check it out at some point.
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^ You could watch The Godfather Saga which combines the first two movies re-edited into one chronologic format, but I prefer them separately.   I agree James Caan was excellent as Sonny---  DeNiro auditioned for the part but his portrayal was so disturbing Coppola went with Caan and gave DeNiro the part of young Vito Corleone in GF II.

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The Godfather 1972

I intended to watch the whole saga again in one go but the first film is near 3 hours long so had to cancel that idea. 
My thoughts (in bullet point format)
Is Marlon Brando really that great in this?
Jimmy Caan tends to be overlooked as 'Sonny' but is as good as Brando and Pacino imo
It still shocks in all the right places and doesn't seem dated.
I laughed at times (this is important as it makes it more 'authentic' in my mind)
The 3 hours pass very quickly!






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Final Cut 2022 (French with English subtitles)

The idea is a film crew are filming a zombie flick and then are attacked by real zombies. I do like a well made spoof horror film and this is one of the better ones. The structure of the film works well and any questions you have for the first 30 minutes are all answered by the end. It's almost lifting the veil off a very clever magic trick. I liked it. 7/10


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Chariot (2023)

So low budget they couldn't afford a proper ending it seems. 7 strangers find themselves waking up on a plane with no recollection of how they got there. Sounds crashingly unoriginal but I always get suckered into watching these sort of things. Didn't hate it but can barely recommend it either. Good time passer at 95 minutes and didn't get bored but then that 'ending'... oh dear. 6/10.
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It's a 2013 movie NOT 2023

Thanks, it was trending on Amazon (No 8 in the UK) so I assumed it must be a new film. Also I didn't recognise any of the cast from anything else. 
Apparently it was made for $42,000 which is very impressive in this day and age. As I said it's not bad but I would have liked an ending that was not ambiguous. I felt that a negative ending was appropriate, often those though are shelved after screen tests but would they have even been able to afford screen testing I wonder? It would have been cheaper to do as well. No ending was dissapointing for me.
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Chariot (2023)

So low budget they couldn't afford a proper ending it seems. 7 strangers find themselves waking up on a plane with no recollection of how they got there. Sounds crashingly unoriginal but I always get suckered into watching these sort of things. Didn't hate it but can barely recommend it either. Good time passer at 95 minutes and didn't get bored but then that 'ending'... oh dear. 6/10.
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Chariot (2023)

So low budget they couldn't afford a proper ending it seems. 7 strangers find themselves waking up on a plane with no recollection of how they got there. Sounds crashingly unoriginal but I always get suckered into watching these sort of things. Didn't hate it but can barely recommend it either. Good time passer at 95 minutes and didn't get bored but then that 'ending'... oh dear. 6/10.
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Just saw 2 Ken Russell films. Mahler I had seen before, but had never written a review for it. LISZTOMANIA I had avoided for a long time, as for my tastes with TOMMY, Ken Russell became a sort of cartoonist, and I kinda lost interest, thus never bothered. I did buy the early BBC set of disks, it has a couple of things in it that I really liked. The ELGAR special is great. And one of my favorites had been the DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI film, which was very nice and far out.  Also very nice in this set was his film on Isadora Duncan, which was really good.
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My wife and I have just finishing watching Mission Impossible : Dead Reckoning Part 1. It's a truly stunning film  - the best of the series so far for me. Everyone was terrific in it too and there wasn't a minute of dullness. Breath-taking. I loved it 10/10

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