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THE TURNING (2020) 2/10
This weeks version of The Turn Of The Screw is the limpest and worst yet.
Boring, dull, un-scary and worst of all, confusing and muddled, without an actual ending.
It's like the producers ran out of money, or even worse...ideas.
The stars it gets are for the little girl who plays Flora, who was really good/natural and the glimpse of Mackenzie Davis in underwear near the end.
Otherwise, it's absolutely terrible and a complete misfire.
AVOID as if it's Jeremy Clarkson.
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Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978.
A prime cast of Segal, Bisset, Robert Morley and a host of British luminaries is rather undercooked and wasted in a largely unfunny lukewarm comedy, energised only occasionally by dollops of a lively Mancini score. The sprinkling of mildly amusing bits were the withering dialogue of Robert Morley.
4 out of 10.
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The Outpost: good intentions, but not really as grippings as it could have been. The last 30 minutes were strong though. 6/10
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Ministry of ungentlemanly warfare
2024
Similar plot to Guns of Navarone - handpicked allied misfits travel in dodgy boat to target aiming to blow everything up. The action aspect to the film was reasonable enough, especially the finale at the harbour as the commandos steal a supply boat for u-boats, but the dialogue in the film was corny and risible. Every character was a live-action cartoon and it owed a lot to the same smug slickness as inglorious bastards. And every German was a "Nahtzee". 6.8 out of 10
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I love Woody Allen‘s Radio Days, it‘s such a fun look at the Golden days of radio with lots of wonderful characters coming and going. Just watched it yesterday again. 9/10
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As a kid, I loved the water-worthy car...and Barbara Bach. 
I still love it… okay, still a big kid in me.
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Dec 8, 2024 - 11:03 AM
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eriknelson
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DESERT FURY (1947) 8/10
Technicolor film noir starring Lizabeth Scott, Mary Astor, Burt Lancaster, John Hodiak and Wendell Corey. Scott is a rebellious college girl whose mother (Astor) owns and operates a gambling casino in a podunk Nevada town. Lancaster is the sheriff who has taken a shine to Scott. Enter Hodiak and Corey, two hoodlums renting a nearby ranch as a respite between capers. Scott takes a shine to Hodiak, but does not get along with Corey who is jealous. The gay subtext is inescapable. For example, when Scott asks Corey how they got together..
"It was in the Automat off Times Square, about two o'clock in the morning on a Saturday. I was broke, he had a couple of dollars, we got to talking. He ended up paying for my ham and eggs."
"And then?"
"I went home with him that night. We were together from then on."
It's hard to believe that got past the censors in 1947. Needless to say, none of this ends well. It's film noir after all. This film is really quite berserk. It should be a cult film. And it has a score by Miklos Rozsa that perfectly matches the overwrought dialogue.
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Saw Godzilla Minus One Minus Color in Japan. Went to the Osaka Umeda Toho Cinemas. It's not the 1st time I've seen a Gojira flic in Japan (Shin Godzilla in 2016), but it just feels awesome to me as an amerikajin. Like f4real! They were running both the '54 film and Minus One in November. The sound quality was first rate as in every theater I've visited in JP.
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Saw Godzilla Minus One Minus Color in Japan. Went to the Osaka Umeda Toho Cinemas. It's not the 1st time I've seen a Gojira flic in Japan (Shin Godzilla in 2016), but it just feels awesome to me as an amerikajin. Like f4real! They were running both the '54 film and Minus One in November. The sound quality was first rate as in every theater I've visited in JP.
Do please give a mark out of 10 for your film, michaelware or I will report you to the thread starter. Lol
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Dec 9, 2024 - 11:21 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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THE WILD ROBOT (2024) – 7/10
This film is another story of an extraterrestrial being stranded on earth. In this case, the E.T. is “ROZZUM unit 7134” ("Roz") (Lupita Nyong'o), a service robot shipwrecked on an uninhabited island who must adapt to her surroundings, build relationships with the local wildlife, and become the adoptive mother of an orphaned goose, “Brightbill” (Kit Connor). She is aided by “Fink” (Pedro Pascal), a cranky but well-meaning mischievous red fox.
THE WILD ROBOT is a film with no real negatives. The voice work is top notch; some of the forest scenes are beautifully rendered in color; and Kris Bowers has provided an affecting score, his first for a fully animated film. Pepper the film with jokes, throw in a few heart-tugging scenes, and you have a perfectly fine family entertainment.
While the story is a simple one, the rest of the production keeps one’s interest from flagging during the somewhat longish (for an animated film) 101-minute picture. The film was brought in for a thrifty $78 million and has chalked up a worldwide gross of $322 million.
The film has received four Golden Globe nominations: Best Motion Picture – Animated, Best Original Score - Motion Picture, Best Original Song - Motion Picture (“Kiss the Sky”), and a newer category, Cinematic and Box Office Achievement.
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Mr. Clarkson and the BBC parted company a few years ago but not for the same reason as that re: Mr. Edwards. 
