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Drums of Fun Manchu(1940)

Henry Brandon stars as Fu Manchu this time in one of the greatest movie serials ever made.Thrilling chases and narrow escapes abound as Sir Nayland Smith(William Royce)battles the wily oriental.Directed by John English who as most of the directors involved in this series of films,opted to have a Caucasian in make up as Fu Manchu.

8/10

(29-06-2016 13:28 )HannahsPet Wrote:  Thats the first ten minutes of the film

Hence why it's says ten min preview lol

Batman vs Superman 8 1/2 - 10

Well finished it took me about 3 attempts really need to do it 2 chunks like the old skool cinema movies used to do no way i could have sat for 3 hours in a cinema

have to say its an improvmant on the shorter version in fact if they had released this then prob wouldnt have seen so bad reviews proberly

Sicko ( 2006 ) Michael Moore documentary about the US healthcare system. Makes me thankful for the good old NHS

8/10

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square(1979)

After being released from prison a man called Pinky makes a promise to himself to go straight.He accepts a maintenance job but because of his past,he begins to attract a lot of attention.Richard Jordan is very good as Pinky,also featuring good work from David Niven as you would expect.

7/10

The Madame Gambles(1961)

MacLean Rogers directs this comedy starring Petula Clark as the owner of a dress shop,who gambles her shop away to her bookie in a moment of madness.Also starring Ricard Hearne who puts in a funny performance.

7/10

Gojira(1954)

Hydrogen bomb tests disturb the titular beast from his deep sea habitat and,none to pleased,the 165ft lizard attacks Tokyo.Much darker than the sequels that came after,Ishiro Honda's film evokes the atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Opting for a man in a suit destroying miniatures because stop motion was too expensive and time consuming,Honda's visuals proved to be effective and even inspired George Lucas on Star Wars.Losing out to Kurosawa's Seven Samurai at the Japanese Oscars,Gojira like that masterpiece,stars the great Takashi Shimura,his brilliant performance as a palaeontologist really adds gravitas to an already sober but thrilling film.The American release cut all the World War 2 metaphors out and added scenes with Raymond Burr to make it into a straight forward monster film and it was remade years later in Hollywood by Roland Emmerich with disastrous results.Gareth Edwards's 2014 effort got the creature right,the characters however,not so good.The original will always be the best of the lot.

8/10

Batman vs Superman 3/10

BOLLOCKS! Waste of 3hrs. Ok so after Batman tries to kill Superman, in the next scene they are best buddies furthermore when he attends Clark Kents funeral Bruce wayne says he was glad to call Superman a friend.......what a load of shite!

THX 1138(1971)

George Lucas's first feature film was based on his student film,THX 1138 4EB.He shortened the title and upscaled his vision,delivering on its original release a box office flop that has since become the cultiest piece of work that he's ever done.Not an easy film to watch when compared with his later work,it provokes,interests and unsettles with its vision of a dystopian,sexless,hairless future controlled by faceless,merciless police.Unlike later Lucas,it tells rather than shows.Walter Murch's sound design replaces exposition.Also,unlike a lot of the 1970s films that focused on possible futures,it hasn't degraged into camp silliness.It even features one of Lucas's most evocative images,the sight of Robert Duvall watching the sun.

8/10

Batman 66