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Nobody
2021
With bob odenkirk from Better Call Saul.
Outrageously violent but funny movie about a rather weird quirky family guy who seems a bit disengaged from his family n job. Turns out hes an ex Cia cleaner - kind of a john Wick - whos been dormant for years. A house burglary activates him and then he becomes a target of some Russian mafia. Black comedy, super violent but bloody hilarious. 7.8 out of 10
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Mitch - the acting of the dinosaurs was worth more than 2 out of 10! And Nascimbene's theme is wonderful. Even raquel welch's scissored-snipped bikini is worth a point. And the script is unique. They fashion an entire dialogue with only three words..."Ugh," "Tumak" and "Luana." The scriptwriter is a genius.
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Jan 24, 2022 - 11:09 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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DESOLATION CANYON (2006) – 7/10
After an outlaw gang robs a bank and kidnaps a young boy, they are pursued by the sheriff (Patrick Duffy), the kidnapped boy's grandfather (Stacy Keach), and the bank owner (David Rees Snell) who is in love with the boy’s estranged mother (Kelly Overton). The catch is that one of the robbers is the boy’s father (and Keach’s son), played by Victor Browne. An additional complication is that there are a couple of bounty hunters (Franc Ross and A Martinez) also after the gang.
This is a good made-for-cable western, shot almost entirely outdoors. There are also some interesting character dynamics, particularly involving Rees Snell’s banker, who is something other than the transplanted Eastern dandy he initially appears to be. The film is less violent than some, since it was produced for the Hallmark Channel. Plenty of bad guys bite the dust, but nothing is too gruesome. Joe Kraemer gives the film a muscular score.
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Jan 25, 2022 - 10:16 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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APACHE AMBUSH (1955) – 7/10
This film is a little more complex than the title would suggest. It begins when “James Kingston” (Bill Willams), formerly an Apache Indian fighter and now a Union scout, and “Sgt. Tim O'Roarke” (Ray Teal), who had been a cattleman prior to the Civil War, meet with President Abraham Lincoln (James Griffith) in the White House. Now that the war has ended, Lincoln asks the pair to move the thousands of cattle waiting to be sold in Texas to Abilene, Kansas to feed the beef-starved people of the North.
But when the men arrive at San Arturo, Texas, they find the town divided and still seething with anger about the war; the local Union commander, “Col. Marshall” (James Flavin), barely able to keep order between the two sides; the area threatened by raiding Apaches; and a Mexican guerrilla leader, “Joaquin Jironza” (Alex Montoya), bent on taking over the territory and returning it to Mexican control. All these parties come into conflict over a smuggled cache of Henry repeating rifles, the newest available, which no one has and everyone wants.
This action-packed western has a lot going on in its 70 odd minutes. It does it with a veteran cast, which includes Richard Jaeckel as an ex-Confederate POW, bitter about the loss of an arm, Ray "Crash" Corrigan as the gun smuggler, Tex Ritter as his partner, and Clayton Moore as a still-loyal Southerner. Mischa Bakaleinikoff conducted the stock music cues.
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Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s bestselling novel about a New York private detective with Tourette syndrome – is a labour of love from its writer-producer-director-star Edward Norton, as Norton had been developing it for the screen pretty much since the book’s publication in 1999, and it is good that he get it over the finish line. However a flop at the box office on initial release. Which is a real pity because it's tense amd atmospheric, set in 50s New York. Strong performances, engaging narrative, nice use of wintry New York locations.
Superb score by Daniel Pemberton.
8/10
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Jan 26, 2022 - 3:15 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s bestselling novel about a New York private detective with Tourette syndrome – is a labour of love from its writer-producer-director-star Edward Norton, as Norton had been developing it for the screen pretty much since the book’s publication in 1999, and it is good that he get it over the finish line. However a flop at the box office on initial release. Which is a real pity because it's tense amd atmospheric, set in 50s New York. Strong performances, engaging narrative, nice use of wintry New York locations.
Superb score by Daniel Pemberton.
8/10
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My take:
MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN (2019) - 8/10
In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome (Edward Norton) ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend. In so doing, he runs into a CHINATOWN-like web of political corruption and intrigue. Edward Norton also wrote and directed this film, and he is onscreen for most of its slightly overlong 144-minute length.
Still, the film is a great period production, Norton has written himself a first-rate part (based on a novel by Jonathan Lethem), and the story, while complicated, is not impenetrable. Good support is provided by Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Willem Dafoe, and Bobby Cannavale, all of whom worked for free on the production as a favor to Norton. Daniel Pemberton's score starts out with a strong jazz/noir theme, but didn't seem to sustain itself through the long film.
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Jan 26, 2022 - 3:26 PM
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Rameau
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One Million Years B.C. (1966) ... 2+/10
#8 in the box set ... the reason I watched it. I was convinced I hadn't seen it (at least, past the first 10 - 15 minutes) but I found I had rated it on IMDb.
If Ray Harryhausen special effects are your thing I imagine this film has a chance of appealing to you. Not for me, regretfully, and since the film features a number of such scenes it was at a major disadvantage from the off. A simple storyline but my lack of interest meant I didn't follow what was happening beyond one brother leaves his tribe after his father almost kills him ... later on he gets the chance to kill his brother, who has attempted to kill their father.
Yeah, I saw this at the pictures when it was first released, I remember I was really looking forwards to seeing it, but I didn't enjoy it. One of the big problems was the location, it needed thick jungle, like King Kong, but the sparse Tenerife landscape just kill it (oh, & that fact that it's a very silly film). I saw it at the cinema again in the late sixties when Hammer re-released it on a double bill with She, a much better film.
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Cry of the City(1948) 8/10
With Victor Mature, Richard Conte
Conte is the crook who shot a coppa. He's in Ozzy with his wounds. He's being blamed for another job, so escapes to sort things out. Policeman Victor is on the case and is also a family friend, sort of.
Decent, low key effort, which adds to the overall effect. Nothing flash or over the top. No big shoot outs or punch ups. Just a decent story ,well acted by all. Even Victor played it well. Not much music and.what there was was big Al's street scene music, again.
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BELFAST - 9.5/10
Absolutely fantastic film.
As close to perfect as I've seen in years.
Heartfelt, bittersweet, just a lovely childhood fable about nostalgia and growing up.
The main kid is a revelation. Awesome performance. Everyone else is great too.
It's practically Branagh's CINEMA PARADISO, in its love letter to a child's affection of movies and cinema.
I loved how, although it's filmed in black and white, the scenes in the cinemas and theatres show the projections or stages in full colour.
It will strike a chord with anyone who was ever a child, or had parents and grandparents, or grew up in that cocoon of childhood innocence, wherein the world felt safe and amazing, unaware of its many dangers.
The score moments were mainly sax and synths, never really calling attention to themselves, as opposed to the songs, which played front and centre over montages and such like.
Quite possibly the film of the year for me already.
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Nice review,kEv. Except for one line - 'anyone who was ever a child' 
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Fantasy Island (2020) 0/10
After the absolute High of BELFAST, comes the absolute Low of FANTASY ISLAND, a horror version do-over of the old TV series from Blumhouse.
It's like the writers really loved all those aspects of LOST where they kept saying things like 'it's the island...the magic of the island...the island grants your wishes'...you know...the stuff that made NO SENSE WHATSOEVER and gave the wryters (sic) the chance to kop out whenever they wanted to.
It's just a horrible, terrible mess with rubbish characters, silly situations, zero suspense and NO DRAMA!
It played out like those hideous reality TV shows (Love Island?) with plastic, ugly wannabees indulging themselves WHEN NO ONE CARES!
Death To Ming!!!!
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