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Originally posted by Andrew Monroe View PostFACCIA DI SPIA aka CIA SECRET STORY - Wow, it's a tall order to describe how bizarre this film is. A semi-documentary style look at how the CIA has its fingers in everything from the Kennedy assassinations to anti-commie actions in South America. Aside from some mondo-style footage of decapitated heads in the opening moments, the first hour or so is mostly a tame but fascinating look at Che Guevara's time in Bolivia among other things (Claudio Camaso aka Volonte as Che, haha), then the last half hour turns into a hideous array of torture methods - live dismemberment, needles into dicks, eels into vaginas, rape, etc...it's all extremely graphic and nasty. Weird shit like seeing Lou Castel as a rapist/torturer in an almost hardcore scene (I'm certain a body double was used for the near penetration sequence. Just a really strange film. Ends with a scene of blood running down the World Trade Center towers, a scene that chills in ways the director didn't intend these days. Lots of left wing conspiracy theories are posited. I'm not sure if it's a good film but it's damn sure something you'll never forget!
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Originally posted by Clive Smith View PostHmm. I've never heard of this one - colour my interest piqued. I've just ordered the German DVD which has the English track.I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Originally posted by Ian Jane View PostMothers Day (remake) - this was more of a home invasion/Last House sort of deal than I expected it to be but I didn't hate it. Parts of it are well done, there were a few decent twists, some good gore, and couple of decent performances. It wasn't bad.
SAPPHIRE - A woman is found murdered in a London park. It's discovered that she was passing as white and the multiple stab wounds indicate an enraged killer. There's no shortage of suspects as the police meet her circle of friends and former friends. I love stumbling on an excellent film like this, didn't really know much about it other than the director was Basil Dearden. Done in a police procedural manner, this really hooks you from the start and has genuinely top notch performances from the whole cast. A nice look at 1960s London too. Wow, this was great.I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Originally posted by paul h. View PostUp to episode 4 of Boardwalk Empire. So far, so good. I love my HBO soaps.
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Originally posted by Ian Jane View PostMothers Day (remake) - this was more of a home invasion/Last House sort of deal than I expected it to be but I didn't hate it. Parts of it are well done, there were a few decent twists, some good gore, and couple of decent performances. It wasn't bad.
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Originally posted by Ian Jane View PostNewt, it comes out in the US 5/8/12.
Last night... Rocky V. The things we do for those we love. It's still a bad movie. The street fight at the end is well edited I think and I like the fact that it deals with Rocky's fall from grace but man is it hokey.
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SOUL VENGEANCE aka WELCOME HOME BROTHER CHARLES (Jamaa Fanaka, 1975). It's not KILLER OF SHEEP. It's really not. But damned if it's not something like.
WHEN THE DALTONS RODE (George Marshall, 1940). About as much a Randolph Scott movie as A NIGHT AT THE OPERA is a Kitty Carlisle movie: Randolph Scott gets top billing, but he's just there for the obligatory romance. No horse, no gun, hardly even a hat: he's a fancy-suit back-east lawyer and at one point he cowers behind a post. Kay Francis as his telegraph sweetheart gets a couple of moments, but nothing like her precode ballsiness; nice to see her, though. All the real action's Broderick Crawford, Brian Donlevy (who does a pretty good take) & lady's man Andy Devine as the Three Stooges: George Marshall had just made DESTRY RIDES AGAIN and GHOST BREAKERS, so yep, it's a comedy. Goofy and slow at first, it accelerates into pretty good slapstick action with horse stunts up the Yakima (RIP, horses). Hardly any one-on-one western-style showdowns, shootouts, fisticuffs, but a lot of madcap crowd action (group hugs, pile-ons, lynchings). Like all good comedies, it starts with a dance and ends with a massacree. SPOILER, but it's history so you know everybody's old and dead now anyway. Up front, they say it's part tales and part fiction, so history might be stretching it some. Edgar Buchanan narrates.
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The Story of Rock N Roll Comics - I remember having a bunch of issues as a kid and still have a few kicking around. Didn't know all the details behind the publisher or the murder, so this was pretty interesting.
Followed up with The Vampire (aka It's Always Darkest Before The Dawn) which was fun, albeit very, very goofy.Rock! Shock! Pop!
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This afternoon I watched Fuckenstein, a Burning Angel XXX parody of Frankenstein. See, Dr. Frankenstein is fucking his wife and slips a finger up her bum - she goes nuts, so he builds a monster so that they can DP her. Ha. It was pretty much what I expected. Funny and stupid and done on the cheap but for what it was, it was fun.Rock! Shock! Pop!
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