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Maniac. I just watched it again after my audition for the remake the other day. Fingers crossed!!!! I would just die to be in that movie...pun intended.

-Christine

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I watched this at my friends house today. I used to think it was really lame and cheesy. I still do but now i actually like it for that reason.

Bunraku (2010)

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>>: B+

Born to Race (2011)

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Pretty formulatic but not bad as a teen fast car race flick.

>>: B-

Thorne Sleepyhead (2010)

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Oh, it's good to see a Natascha McElhone film after quite a long time. No matter she did Feardotcom, she'll be in my final list of 100 Horror Hotties!:)

>>: B

Panic Button (2011)

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The premise may sound pretty ridiculous but it was entertaining.

>>: B

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Man, I love this movie. Probably my favorite gangster flick of all time.

Love that flick. Could never get into the TV series.

I loved the TV series and used to not like the movie. I just found myself laughing the last time i watched it though. So corny.

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Yummm..

Best thing about that movie :D

If you have always loved your Tintin comics, then the film will certainly meet (or even exceed) your expectations. Flawless characterisations of Snowy, Capt. Haddock, Thomson & Thompson and even Tintin himself looked like they arrived straight out of Herge's comic books. The 3D effects were also done wonderfully well and blended nicely with the story and the visuals, and were not like the in-your-face 3D stuff we find in other recent movies. My only regret - I missed Professor Calculus terribly. Otherwise, makers take note - THIS is how you make a perfect live-action comic adaptation.

Go with your family and have a blast, like I did.

"Billions of blue blistering barnacles! Remember to keep the popcorn hot, you ectoplasms, troglodytes, jellyfishes!"

Rated - * * * * ½

Btw, can we look forward to a similarly treated Asterix movie as well?

pontypool 7/10
terri 4/10
vinyan 6/10
dead snow 6/10
joshua 5/10
panic button 6/10 (not bad for a low budget movie)
hunger 3/10

The Coverup (2008)

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>>: B

The Stone Tape (1972)

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Combining aspects of science and superstition was a frequent & fantastic theme in Nigel 'Quatermass' Kneale's works and followed by that, his 1972 BBC Telefilm The Stone Tape concerns a team of scientists who move into their new research facility, a renovated Victorian mansion that has a reputation for being haunted. Especially, one particular big empty room that they wanted to make their computer room turned out spooky! Investigating & sensing something wrong in the place; they gradually learn that the haunting is a recording of a past event stored by the stone in that room. Believing that this may be the key to the development of a new recording medium, they throw all their expertise and high-tech equipment into learning how the stone tape preserves its recording. However, their investigations serve only to unleash a darker, more malevolent force.

Directed by Peter Sasdy (Taste the Blood of Dracula & Hands of the Ripper) with a good cast of actors, this is somewhat a thinking person's horror film, very low on body count with zero gore and not so much concentrated on jump scares but still effectively delivers an intelligent ghost story. Even, since its broadcast on BBC Two as a Christmas ghost story in 1972, the hypothesis of residual haunting - that ghosts are recordings of past events made by the natural environment - has come to be known as the "Stone Tape Theory" by para psychological researchers (Info source: Wikipedia).

But sadly, this critically acclaimed & so much significant gem of magnificent 70s Horror somehow didn't get much attention from the genre fans. Most probably for its plot structure & unavailability of DVDs, I guess.

Like a M.R. James story, this fascinating tale of supernatural strangely grows spookier minute by minute, particularly when it comes close to its chilling final revelations.

>>: A-

The Task (2011)

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>>: C

"Catlow" (1971)
-Yul Brynner, Richard Crenna, Leonard Nimoy

Plot :IMDB

Marshall Cowan and the mercenary Miller are both separately hunting the outlaw Catlow. During the Civil War both Cowan and the always smiling Catlow were comrades. Catlow helps Cowan, when he is wounded in the right leg by an arrow from the Apaches, despite Cowan hunting him. Catlow escapes with help of his gang. Catlow then robes a Mexican gold shipment, worth $ 2,000,000. Catlow flies with the stolen gold through the dangerous territory of the Apaches who besides of Miller, Cowan and the Mexican cavalry, are hunting for him and his gang of outlaws.

Phantom's Review: While it's kind of strange to see Yul Brynner in a western NOT wearing his traditional black hat and outfit, this is still a fun,light hearted film. Plenty of good western action and stunts. A good story (based on a Louis L'Amour novel) and some fine acting. It's a treat to see Nimoy as the bad ass bounty hunter looking for Brynner's outlaw. Brynner had a great charm and it really shows in this film. Not a classic, but highly entertaining.

The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (2009) 9/10


This is probably the most insane documentary I have ever seen. The people featured in this film are like nothing I had seen before. I've seen hillbillies, rednecks, and white trash before but nothing like this. I actually had to double check and make sure this wasn't a mockumentary because of the outrageous family.

I give this movie a 9/10 just because it was so damn entertaining. Really there isn't much point to the movie but it kept me mesmerized.

Yup The Stone Tapes is a great film...

Great Documentry. You should check out Dancing Outlaw 1+2 as well. Not half as good but its interesting to see the deterioration of Jesco White.

I loved the scene with Hank III singing 'Punch Fight Fuck' with JW dancing on the table.

i have been avoiding the task for ages, was going to watch it the other day cus run out of movies to watch, by the looks of things u dint think much to it.

Not too bad, there are few interesting set pieces but overall, it's one of those time wasters when you got nothing better left to see.

The Dead (2011)

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An American military engineer washes up on the coast of west Africa after his evacuation flight crashes. as the sole survivor he attempts to reach a northern military air field to re-attempt his escape, and runs into a soldier of the African military who is trying to find his son during a zombie-outbreak.

This is a pretty Good zombie-road movie set against a beautiful African landscape which is a nice change from all those abandoned busy city streets & houses of any recent zombie films. With a plain & simple story of survival & hopelessness, it comes with a small but good cast of actors and some great cinematography. Somewhat like the film itself, you'll find slow moving zombies after quite a long time in this film that comes with a decent amount of gore & sfx works. Inspired by Romero's classic "...of the Dead" masterpieces, the directors really did a quite convincing job overall, IMO.

Check it out, asap.

>>: A-


The Devil's Rock (2011)

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Though the ending was somewhat flat but this is a well made, nice WW2-occult-horror flick from New Zealand.

>>: B

Yeah I thought The Dead was really good. Need to watch it again I started it to late at night and was struggling to stay awake. It's up there in my top films of the year. I'm really surprised there hasn't been more talk of it. The film seems to have slipped under everyone's radar.

Agree with you about ending of The Devil's Rock really flat and throw away defeating what they had built up.


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Didn't think this was as bad as a lot of people are making out. A bit slick and hollow but it was pretty entertaining. It really lacked the dark tone of Oliver Stone's script for the original. The finale was pretty underwhelming and could've been better. This would've been a better watch at the theatre I think. Still there's some cool moments and I thought the first quarter of the flick was really well done.

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The Manitou

I really enjoyed this. Total 70s cheesy space effects made it even better.

Going to give The Devil's Rock a go. I cannot resist the mixture of the occult and Nazis.

I agree with you on Conan for he most part an dyup the start of the film witt Kid Konan was excellent.

It didn't slip under everyone's radar at all-It was premiered at London's horrorfest 2010 and I mentioned a while back that I was dying to see (as did a couple of other people) it as soon as the dvd came out.

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I like this movie, but i just feel that some of the acting on the mother's behalf is peculiar...
I think she thought against ans suspected Delia way too early when she definitely wasnt showing any signs of being the Anti-christ at that point in time. I just found that her disbelif of normal childish intentions just wayyy too early on in this film.
And i feel that it was just too short and not as in depth as the preciding films had been. I just wish it would have gone just as deep.

otherwise i liked it.

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Really slow at first, but helluva good ending.

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7/10 this movie was so trippy different from his usual style of movies

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7/10

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4/10 bored the hell out of me

Mysterious Skin (2004)

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>>: A-

Page Eight (2011)

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An intelligent, politically charged spy thriller with dark humor; where Bill Nighy plays Johnny Worricker, an old school MI5 agent - decent, uncorrupted but who's being forced to deal with the realities of the post-Iraq world. Rachel Weisz as his striking next-door neighbor and political activist, Michael Gambon as his old friend & boss, the director of MI5 and Ralph Fiennes as the prime minister of England...stellar cast!

Interesting thing is last year he co-starred with another stunning beauty Emily Blunt in Wild Target and now, this year he has done this BBC TV movie with Rachel Weisz...great going, Mr. Nighy! ;)

>>: B+

"Stagecoach To Dancers Rock" (1962)
-Warren Stevens, Martin Landau

Plot :IMDB
Six passengers in a stagecoach are abandoned by their driver when he thinks that one of them has smallpox.

Phantom's Review: Well acted, but predictable low budget film. Very little action and even less logic make up this movie. Feels almost like it was made back in the '40's by Monagram or Republic Studios. Worth one viewing if your a western fan, but after that, forget it.

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My girlfriends favorite movie. I had never seen it before so we sat down and watched it last night. This movie is really amazing. The songs, the choreography, and the story are excellent. Even if you're not a fan of Beatles music, i'd still recommend this.

Well that slipped under my radar.

Great movie.

Szamanka (1996)

Mine too, Elvis.

I think he was just saying that this was a great film that many of us missed. Hell, if not for HDC i wouldn't know it existed...

Agreed! I had to turn it off, and I almost never do that with films.

Phil The Alien 7/10

A goofy little flick but fun. It cracked me up the secret agent was using an old Nintendo Duck Hunt gun painted silver. I looked it up on imdb.com and I guess I'm not the only one who noticed, lol!

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All I will say is, if you are a fan of Oldboy & the Mr. Vengeance films, you are going to love this. A raw, unflinching, dark and gritty revenge tale.

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Recommended as well. A nice little film (albeit a bit predictable) made on a shoestring budget.

* * * ½



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Very few films have genuinely appalled me, and this is one of them. To term this movie as "disturbing" would be - stretching the definition of the word to as extreme as it can get, which basically means the highest level of "disturbing" as you can think of. If there is such a phrase as "very alarmingly disturbing", this would be it. You will feel revolted, disgusted, shocked beyond your wits, jaw will drop to the floor, but you will also feel a lot of admiration for the makers. It is not an easy film to watch, be warned.

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Yeah, it was kind of 'disturbing' but it didn't shocked me that much in terms of torture, gore or disturbance whatsoever; I thought it was quite decently done, liked some parts but overall, nothing new (in terms of disturbance) to the genre.

Had The Woman on my HD for awhile now... just grabbed it randomly but now you've sparked my interest in it. Better get round to watching it :D

Watching Deep Blue Sea right now

I strongly disagree, but to each their own. I leave it to others to evaluate the film.

I thought the Woman wasn't bad alot better than the film version of the previous book.

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Someones Knocking At The Door

I really liked this, getting killed by penetration...

That flick is creepy as hell!

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Loved it. Good horror comedies are hard to come by, and this is right up there with the best of the contemporary.

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And I thought things couldn't get better! Superb film, and highly recommended. Right up there with Shaun, Zombieland, et al. You are going to love it.

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