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- April 8th, 2014, 11:50 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
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Re: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
Today I watched "The Man in Grey" (1943) directed by Leslie Arliss. I've really enjoyed the "Gainsborough ghastlies" that I've managed to see. While this one wasn't as outrageously fun as "The Wicked Lady," it was still very enjoyable. All four of the leads were very go...
- April 6th, 2014, 8:23 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
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I saw "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" today with my son.
I enjoyed it a lot and I left my comments in the Sci-Fi & Fantasy section.
I enjoyed it a lot and I left my comments in the Sci-Fi & Fantasy section.
- April 6th, 2014, 8:22 pm
- Forum: Sci-fi and Horror
- Topic: What Horror and Sc-Fi films have you seen lately?
- Replies: 623
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Re: What Horror and Sc-Fi films have you seen lately?
My son and I saw "Captain America The Winter Soldier" (2014) today. I really liked it. It took a little while to get going, but I have to say that it completely won me over by the end. The cast is terrific, and it was fun to see Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Redford together. There are plen...
- April 1st, 2014, 8:28 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
- Replies: 8122
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Re: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
Today I watched "Under the Volcano" (1984) directed by John Huston. I had never seen the movie before. I only knew about "Under the Volcano" because a professor I detested said it was the greatest novel about alcoholism ever written. So I skipped the movie. I'm glad I finally gav...
- April 1st, 2014, 8:22 pm
- Forum: Sci-fi and Horror
- Topic: The Woman in Black
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10697
Re: The Woman in Black
I was very impressed with "The Woman in Black" when I saw it a couple of years ago. It did seem to owe a lot to Val Lewton in how it generated fright in the viewer. The 1968 Japanese movie "The Black Cat" is finally available in the US under the Japanese name "Kuroneko."...
- March 18th, 2014, 9:14 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
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Last week I watched "Rescue Dawn" (2006) directed by Werner Herzog. It is a dramatization of the story of Dieter Dengler, the subject of Herzog's "Little Dieter Needs to Fly," his documentary about the one American POW who escaped during the Vietnam war. "Rescue Dawn" i...
- March 18th, 2014, 9:10 am
- Forum: Foreign Films
- Topic: WHAT FOREIGN FILMS HAVE YOU WATCHED LATELY?
- Replies: 610
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Re: WHAT FOREIGN FILMS HAVE YOU WATCHED LATELY?
I've been watching "The Yakuza Papers" (1974) directed by Kinji Fukasaku recently. This was a Japanese TV miniseries based on the life of a real Yakuza (gangster). It is an interesting experience, the first time I've really enjoyed a Yakuza movie. It is very dynamic and at times feels like...
- February 26th, 2014, 8:20 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
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As for Henry King, I really liked "The Black Swan." It had a wittiness about it, particularly the battle of the sexes part, that I didn't really expect to find in a swashbuckler. (Now the first time I tried to watch "The Black Swan," I hated it, because the TV station cut the fir...
- February 25th, 2014, 10:21 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
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Today I watched "Captain from Castile" (1947) directed by Henry King. It started out with promise, but the longer this one went on, and it went on for two hours and twenty minutes, the less I liked "Captain from Castile." I found Tyrone Power's character oddly passive in this fil...
- February 22nd, 2014, 9:02 pm
- Forum: Sci-fi and Horror
- Topic: What Horror and Sc-Fi films have you seen lately?
- Replies: 623
- Views: 232608
Re: What Horror and Sc-Fi films have you seen lately?
Today, my son and I saw "The Lego Movie." It was good, and we had a good time. I don't think the movie is as wonderful as the critics had led me to believe. I found the main hero rather bland (although that may have been the point.) The movie picked up a lot for me when Batman (voiced by W...
- February 22nd, 2014, 9:54 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Odd thought of new movies.
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10241
Re: Odd thought of new movies.
I agree that "classic" Hollywood always had remakes. Besides "The Maltese Falcon," you had several films based on Robin Hood, Zorro, even the novel Captain Blood. (I know some people would say that remaking a silent film as a talkie isn't exactly a "remake" as, say, rem...
- February 19th, 2014, 9:50 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
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Yesterday I watched "The Royal Tenenbaums" (2001) directed by Wes Anderson. I didn't see this film when it first came out, and that's probably for the best. I had a real problem with this movie, which is essentially about a father who skips out on his family when the children are small and...
- February 17th, 2014, 5:56 pm
- Forum: Sci-fi and Horror
- Topic: What Horror and Sc-Fi films have you seen lately?
- Replies: 623
- Views: 232608
Re: What Horror and Sc-Fi films have you seen lately?
Yes, that was "Die, Monster, Die!" One of my favorite Karloff performances of the Sixties is in "Black Sabbath" (1964) directed by Mario Bava. It is called "The Wurdulak," and Karloff plays a Balkan vampire who preys upon his own family. That has always been my favorite...
- February 16th, 2014, 7:36 pm
- Forum: Sci-fi and Horror
- Topic: What Horror and Sc-Fi films have you seen lately?
- Replies: 623
- Views: 232608
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Today I watched "Die, Monster, Die!" (1965), directed by Daniel Haller. It was a letdown. I briefly entertained hopes, seeing that the script was by Jerry Sohl, who was a friend of Charles Beaumont and Richard Matheson, but the script was a lame copy of the AIP Poe movies with some Fifties...
- February 15th, 2014, 9:56 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
- Replies: 8122
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Today I watched "The Bridge at Remagen" (1969) directed by John Guillermain. "Film Comment" had a spotlight feature on Guillermain in the most recent issue, and that prompted me to watch "Remagen." The movie left me with mixed emotions. On the one had, the battle scenes...