Blue Is The Warmest Colour(2013)
A brilliant French drama about a young woman who discovers her sexuality as she enters into a relationship with another woman at the cost of loosing some of her college friends who don't approve.Featuring sensitive performances from Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux and some of the most realistically,erotic and explicit lesbian sex scenes ever filmed.
8/10
The Cars That Ate Paris(1974)
Peter Weir's first film is about Paris,a small town in Australia whose inhabitants make money from traffic accidents.
7/10
A Study In Terror (1965) Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson investigate the Jack The Ripper murders. John Neville makes an excellent Holmes and its a fine partnership with Donald Houston as Watson. The plot is agreeably ingenious and there's the usual enjoyable Holmes observations. A fine supporting cast too with Robert Morley as Mycroft and Frank Finlay as Lestrade. Also starring John Fraser & Barbara Windsor 8.5/10
The Tin Star(1957) Henry Fonda as the seasoned bounty hunter helping rookie sheriff Anthony Perkins tackle outlaws terrorising his town. Fonda is his usual excellent self and Perkins suitably naive, helped by a clever script. Neville Brand plays the main villain. 7/10
Kiss Of Death(1947) An ex-con (Victor Mature) tries to go on the straight and narrow but a gangster from his past threatens his new life. A riveting screen debut for Richard Widmark as the hysterically manic gangster but Mature matches him in his own understated way, Mature's domestic scenes with his lover, sensitively played by Coleen Gray, are very nicely done, contrasting well with the more darker noir scenes 8.5/10
(28-04-2016 12:07 )rpj316 Wrote: [ -> ]Blue Is The Warmest Colour(2013)
A brilliant French drama about a young woman who discovers her sexuality as she enters into a relationship with another woman at the cost of loosing some of her college friends who don't approve.Featuring sensitive performances from Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux and some of the most realistically,erotic and explicit lesbian sex scenes ever filmed.
8/10
^Seems like a great film to watch. Purely for the artistic merits of course.
30 Days of Night(2007)
David Slade directs this very good film about a group of vampires that besiege a small.Alaskan town in the dead of winter.Danny Huston is excellent and scary as athe vicious leader of the vampires out for blood.
7.5/10
Captain America: Civil War
Very good addition to the Marvel Cinenatic Universe which will have a massive devastating impact on the characters in the MCU including Agents Of Shield.
The special effects & action sequences are fantastic. Especially in the airport battle between Team Cap & Team Iron Man which is the best action I've ever seen in a comic book film. As always with the marvel studios films there is lots of very funny one liners & funny moments from start to finish along with the trademark cameo from Stan Lee
Chris Evans & Robert Downey Jnr are excellent as Steve Rogers/Captain America & Tony Stark/Iron Man. The other avenger regulars all are very good in their parts. Daniel Bruhl is good as Baron Zemo
Stars of the Show though are Chadwick Boseman as Black Panther & Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spiderman Both will be fantastic additions to the MCU. Tom Holland for me is the best Spiderman seen so far in the various Spiderman films over the years.
There are 2 extra scenes once the credits start, each sets up a different Marvel Film
9/10
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Robert Aldrich on top of his game directs Bette Davis who gives a fearless performance as an insane former child star Baby Jane Hudson,who lives with her crippled sister Blanche(played by an equally brilliant Joan Crawford)in Hollywood.Based on Terry Farrell's novel.
9/10
Captain America - Civil War 9/10
Superb movie, witty intelligent and action packed, this movie has set the bar very high for the rest of the summer blockbusters.
The Hot Spot (1990) An excellent and underrated neo noir directed by Denis Hopper where Don Johnson drifts into a small Texas town and soon finds trouble with the law and women (femme fatale Virginia Madsen & teenager Jennifer Connelly). Connelly & Johnson are good, but Madsen's enjoyable performance tends to steal scenes. The script is witty with some innuendo and you can almost feel the sultry, summer heat in the small town.There's an interesting soundtrack, a mixture of jazz,blues and 1990s music. Also starring Jerry Hardin & William Sadler 8/10
Hercules(2014) An unpretentious and enjoyable take on the often told story with Dwayne Johnson good in the title role backed up by such reliable performers as Ian McShane, John Hurt and Rufus Sewell. 6/10
Lift To The Scaffold(1958) A masterly French noir directed by Louis Malle as a businessman(Maurice Ronet) plans an ingenious killing of his lover's husband only for things to unravel in many unexpected ways..... A combination of tension,clever twists, great Paris night time noir cinematography and an excellent Miles Davis score. Also the amazing Jeanne Moreau as the lover, there's one scene where she walks through downtown Paris at night, looking for Ronet, with very little dialogue just Miles Davis in the background that tells you so much about their back story. 9.5/10
