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An old BBC2 doc about Archaos. Absolutely wonderful. Wish I still had my tape of their last tour :(


Oh, and Be Kind Rewind at the weekend, loved it and don't understand why it got panned.
 
Eastern Promises. Pretty poor. The premise was interesting but unbelievably poorly executed. Some real dodgy acting and some of the worse Russian accents I have heard in my life-I struggled to understand what some of them were saying.

After a History of Violence (again a great premise that starts well but goes rather silly to the end) its safe to say Cronenberg is losing it at a rate of knots. :(
 
The Day Today, some classic stuff but the odd bit filler. But when it's good its fantastic, like coppers sending in a lion to break up a noisy party!

I thought Eastern promises was really good apart from the scenes where Dawn had to leave the room ie the barbers at the start. But i agree the accent were hard to understand in places, as was the plot
 
American Gangster. Surprisingly (after its luke warm reviews) I really enjoyed it. Slightly overlong but nevertheless an enjoyable movie.
 
Been watching Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, enjoying it (love Aaron Sorkins snappy dialogue) but apparently there wont be a second series.

Yeah, I watched this when it came out and loved it. Some interesting info on Wiki as to why it got cancelled.
 
Tattooed Tears. A documentary by Nick Bloomfield? about a Californian Prison Youth Training School in the early seventies.

It's brutal and has some horrific scenes of kids talking about getting 3 months and ending up doing 3 years, 16 year olds with learning difficulties doing 35 days solitary, rectum searches etc

Well worth a watch though and on catch up if anyone has virginmedia.
 
Eastern Promises. Pretty poor. The premise was interesting but unbelievably poorly executed. Some real dodgy acting and some of the worse Russian accents I have heard in my life-I struggled to understand what some of them were saying.

After a History of Violence (again a great premise that starts well but goes rather silly to the end) its safe to say Cronenberg is losing it at a rate of knots. :(

I saw this last night and I agree - I'm so very disappointed with Cronenburg for turning into a hack thriller director - I thought better of him
 
Watched 'In Bruges' the other night. I wasn't expecting much as I'd read some bad reviews somewhere, but, after a slow start I thought it was pretty good.

Also started watching an old scifi classic, 'Forbidden Planet' but fell to sleep half way in. I'll Try again later though.
 
Watched In Bruge the other night which was fairly toss and rarely hit the targets it was aiming for. Last night I watched "The 36 Chambers of Shaolin" which was ace.
 
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