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Post by dem on Oct 2, 2023 14:14:26 GMT
Or maybe you should take all your racist crap elsewhere, as God knows, you've posted enough of it.
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Post by Knygathin on Oct 2, 2023 14:22:04 GMT
Or maybe you should take all your racist crap elsewhere, as God knows, you've posted enough of it. Ok Dem, it is your board. Since you don't like my postings, I respect your will. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Oct 2, 2023 14:28:40 GMT
I watched TALK TO ME, the recent Australian* sensation about teenagers interacting with spirits by means of a severed hand. The basic premise, and the initial handling of it, is wonderful, but then it works its way to an ending I should have seen coming but did not, because by that point I had lost interest. I recommend the first half unreservedly, though! *Depending on how good your Strine is, you may have to turn on subtitles. Quite agree with you - a good flick though, and didn't mind the ending too much, or the Strine for that matter. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 2, 2023 16:13:09 GMT
I watched TALK TO ME, the recent Australian* sensation about teenagers interacting with spirits by means of a severed hand. The basic premise, and the initial handling of it, is wonderful, but then it works its way to an ending I should have seen coming but did not, because by that point I had lost interest. I recommend the first half unreservedly, though! *Depending on how good your Strine is, you may have to turn on subtitles. Quite agree with you - a good flick though, and didn't mind the ending too much, or the Strine for that matter. For some reason, I recognized Miranda Otto immediately, though I have no idea from where. A casual look at her filmography did not help. Edit: I should have looked at her television work instead. I know her from HOMELAND. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Oct 2, 2023 21:54:11 GMT
I watched The Strangler in the Swamp from 1946. A remake by Frank Wisbar of his own earlier German film FƤhrmann Maria (1936). Nice brooding swamp atmosphere to it. Odd little thing, made by a Poverty Row studio with minimal sets; too short really, the character interaction, particularly of the young female lead and her boyfriend could have been developed more, I'll probably watch the original to compare. Worth spending an hour of your life on.
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Post by jamesdoig on Oct 3, 2023 5:26:58 GMT
For some reason, I recognized Miranda Otto immediately, though I have no idea from where. A casual look at her filmography did not help. Edit: I should have looked at her television work instead. I know her from HOMELAND. The big one was probably Lord of the Rings. Don't think I ever watched Homeland. |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 3, 2023 11:53:41 GMT
Or maybe you should take all your racist crap elsewhere, as God knows, you've posted enough of it. Ok Dem, it is your board. Since you don't like my postings, I respect your will. Dem, that was an awful experience. He's always had an unpleasant aura of condescension and superiority. He turned out to be worse than I thought. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 3, 2023 13:14:02 GMT
For some reason, I recognized Miranda Otto immediately, though I have no idea from where. A casual look at her filmography did not help. Edit: I should have looked at her television work instead. I know her from HOMELAND. The big one was probably Lord of the Rings. Don't think I ever watched Homeland. I dutifully saw the LOTR films back in the day, but they did not leave much of an impression. Also, my computations suggest she was much younger then. HOMELAND I binge-watched a couple of years ago and was completely absorbed by. I was bereft when it ended. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Oct 4, 2023 6:02:16 GMT
HOMELAND I binge-watched a couple of years ago and was completely absorbed by. I was bereft when it ended. Sounds like I'll have to give it a go. I've been watching too much tv of an evening here - binge watching Outlander, which I'd never seen, and watching the new seasons of Wheel of Time and American Horror Story (haven't watched it for years, but this one isn't too bad). The latest big Polish drama is a lavish production of Dewajtis, but no English subtitles, so I've no idea what's going on - not a novel I'd heard of before: pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewajtis |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Oct 12, 2023 17:59:30 GMT
I watched Maniac from 1934. It was an early Challenger for the worst film ever made and is hard to describe. It is cheap, badly acted and totally Inept in all departments, and has been called an exploitation film, but it leaves a strange feeling after viewing. #/media/File:Maniac_filmposter.jpg)  |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Oct 12, 2023 18:42:04 GMT
I've sort of giving up reading at the moment to concentrate on my Halloween film horror fest. So get those film recommendations coming!
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Oct 12, 2023 18:55:11 GMT
Because every month is a theme in my movie marathon efforts in December I will be watching some of these: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Huggetts_(film_series)The have Jack Warner in them, who was in Dixon of Dock Green, which I've never seen, and Hue and Cry, which I have. Has anyone seen them? November is the worst month for me as it is action film month and I never watch them, so I don't watch many movies then. |
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Post by Swampirella on Oct 12, 2023 19:13:14 GMT
I watched Maniac from 1934. It was an early Challenger for the worst film ever made and is hard to describe. It is cheap, badly acted and totally Inept in all departments, and has been called an exploitation film, but it leaves a strange feeling after viewing. ![]() Here's a similar one I somehow sat through recently. From 1966, it's on Yo*t*be.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Oct 14, 2023 16:24:22 GMT
Here's a similar one I somehow sat through recently. From 1966, it's on Yo*t*be. I've added it to my list of possibles, as despite having Karloff in it, I'm afraid it looks awful. |
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Oct 14, 2023 19:54:18 GMT
Greatly enjoyed the new BFI Blu-ray of Targets, Peter Bogdanovich's early feature starring Boris Karloff as an aging horror film star who believes his brand of gothic chills are out-moded, and Tim O'Kelly as a young family man who snaps and goes on a killing spree. A justifiably lauded film that contrasts the make-believe horrors of cinema with real world horrors.
Karloff is tremendous in his last great role, which is basically a more world-weary version of himself.
I also rewatched Arrow Video's Blu-ray of Mario Bava's Black Sabbath, with Karloff playing both host, linking together the three stories that make up the film, and also Gorka, the 'wurdulak', feasting vampirically on his own loved ones. The Blu-ray features both the Italian and US versions of the film, which vary in some interesting ways, particularly in the story of a young woman receiving menacing phone calls, which is a ghost story in one version but not in the other.
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