Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
The remake.
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The remake.
Reno
The In Kraut
One of the rare horror remakes that drastically improves on the original and a really underrated film. It was originally R-rated and then the studio cut it to get a PG and it shows a little. I wished they'd restore the gore.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
I've never seen the original. There's some quality, very entertaining acting in there. At least one f-bomb in the version they showed on film four, but I guess that could still be a PG...
Reno
The In Kraut
I love Crispin Glover, he should be in more films.
Private Storm
Smell The Glove
End of Watch. Loved it, just terrific interplay between the two leads.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
The Aristocats or The Aristocrats? Two very different films - wouldn't want to get them confused 
Reno
The In Kraut
Searching for Sugarman - so glad this doc was made, amazing story
Much of the documentary is fraudulent to make its point. The guy had a successful career and was touring while he was apparently forgotten. Shame this manipulative, fraudulent crowd pleaser won the Oscar over more worthy documentaries this year.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
he had minor success and did a couple of tours of Australia thirty years earlier. So they werent really being 'fraudulent'
I'd just started watching A Generation, but have paused it to take in the pleasure of another far right-winger copping it
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Are you having a Warsaw week in commemoration?
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Sightseers -I liked it alot. I think Ben Wheatley has a lot to offer British cinema. Demonstrating that you can achieve a lot with a small budget and refrain from having to 'hollywood' your films to get results.
Reno
The In Kraut
After having recently revisited Assault on Precinct 13 on Blu-ray, I did the same with Carpenter's Escape From New York last night. Still fun, but it feels a little slack when compared to Assault, which is better paced and where I found the dynamic between the three main characters far more interesting than the characters in Escape. Some nice supporting performances, especially from Borgnine and Isaac Hayes pimp-mobile still rocks. That thing, with its candelabras as head lights and a disco ball hanging from mirror, is one of the greatest rides in the movies.
avu9lives
famous five member
Prison (1988) Bloody good fun and one of the underated horrors from 80s. am sure ive seen Lane smith play the warden role before in sum other films of which i cant remember but hes good in this one,. so is viggo moreteson. Great special effects fer an 80s film anawl loved the bit were the guy gets a scaffoldin pole drilled into his head and then falls through floor while their havin the dinner/slop. Horror films are really not my thing but i enjoyed it.
Yetman
Cheesecar Fucksquad #1
that's got a blu ray release:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Prison-Coll...ie=UTF8&qid=1365537872&sr=8-4&keywords=prison
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Skyfall. Not as good as Casino Royale, better than QoS (what isn't?). A good Bond film with the requisite nudy shots, action scenes (non-cgi?) and so on but takes the risk of telling us more about 007, his family and child-hood, which was interesting. And it introduced MP well.
Visually the best Bond film I can recall.
Visually the best Bond film I can recall.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Welcome to the Punch.
Meh.
McAvoy didn't convince at all (perhaps Ben Drew should have been in this and McAvoy as George Carter in the Sweeney!).
Whilst Mark Strong is always watchable, he's always watchable playing the same stoic tough nut with brains and a thin line of zen or a husband with a secret. If he doesn't broaden his range soon he'll become the almost-thinking man's Danny Dyer. He's got another crime film on the way with Paul Bettany and I predict he'll play the same character again!
Johnny Harris dials in another dead eyed performance (look, my eyes are dead, I'm grinning a bit through my big weird beard, I'm gonna commit sin against you....quietly).
David Morrisey is on auto-pilot, as was Peter Mullan.
Andrea Riseborough demonstrated some depth, but even then she came across like a 15 year old pretending to be all grown up.
London looked shiny.
It's a flimsy, low rent Heat really?
Meh.
McAvoy didn't convince at all (perhaps Ben Drew should have been in this and McAvoy as George Carter in the Sweeney!).
Whilst Mark Strong is always watchable, he's always watchable playing the same stoic tough nut with brains and a thin line of zen or a husband with a secret. If he doesn't broaden his range soon he'll become the almost-thinking man's Danny Dyer. He's got another crime film on the way with Paul Bettany and I predict he'll play the same character again!
Johnny Harris dials in another dead eyed performance (look, my eyes are dead, I'm grinning a bit through my big weird beard, I'm gonna commit sin against you....quietly).
David Morrisey is on auto-pilot, as was Peter Mullan.
Andrea Riseborough demonstrated some depth, but even then she came across like a 15 year old pretending to be all grown up.
London looked shiny.
It's a flimsy, low rent Heat really?
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
It's when it's a flimsy, low-rent LA Takedown you really have to worry.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
What annoys me is with that cast and a half decent yarn, a sensible budget, locations, etc, they still managed to make a London crime film look like a flashy but plodding episode of The Bill. The Sweeney was the same.
Wasted opportunities.
Yetman
Cheesecar Fucksquad #1
Lasted 10 minutes
Then we watched the Bay instead. Lasted half an hour (I was actually into giving it a chance but the mrs started complaining and threatening to 'get her book' so we turned it off). Might stick the rest of it on now actually. Still, it's a bit slow so far....
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