One of those films I watched loads as a child and then hadn't seen for some decades. My memory of it was pretty hazy and I was delighted to find how much fun this silly haunted house film remains.
Author Roger Cobb (a superbly comedic William Katt) moves into his deceased aunt's house, where his son had mysteriously disappeared some time before. Weird stuff starts to happen. There's Vietnam flashbacks, various rubbery monsters and next door neighbour George Wendt essentiallly…
Fezzik: Why do you wear a mask? Were you burned by acid, or something like that?
Man in Black: Oh no, it's just that they're terribly comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the future.
THE PRINCESS BRIDE LITERALLY PREDICTED COVID.
90 minutes of people poking things into the camera due to it being shot in 3D. Made the whole thing moderately amusing instead of, basically, quite dull.
It's better made than the first one but still a bit rough around the edges. First half absolutely zipped by and the second half made not one jot of sense. It's perfectly watchable though.
The nostalgia and influence do most of the heavy lifting because let's face it, it's pretty slow, the audio is so bad that dialogue is frequently indecipherable and it looks a bit cheap. Tom Savini does pull a couple of great makeup effects out of the bag though despite a no doubt severely limited budget.
Big, glossy Indian sports biopic based on a true story (with, I suspect, many liberties taken) of a boy who dreamed of Olympic gold. It's a film with a huge heart, its consistently entertaining and at times hilariously over the top. It contains no less than three training montages but just the one song and dance routine.
Director Jon Spira has dedicated his latest documentary to my late brother, so I was never not going to like it. But... The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee is, genuinely, a supremely engaging, thoughtful and at times laugh out loud funny telling of the actor's long life. Narrated by a black and white marionette of Christopher Lee who is voiced by Peter Serafinowicz (thankfully doing more of a homage to the great man than an out-and-out impression), the film…
So Prey is to Predator, Alien Romulus is to Alien - a back to basics focus on what made the first film so effective, although Romulus doesn't quite reach the heights of Prey. It very much feels like an Alien film for the next generation (and my 17 year old LOVED it and was particularly complementary of the fact that the dialogue actually reflected how young people talk to each other). There's a bit of every Alien film in here,…
A film whose intro promises so much (tits, gore) but delivers so little (no more tits, not much more gore). Woeful.
If I had one complaint it's that save for one seen when the US troops land on the beach, the film doesn't really give a sense of the scale of the battle. It feels like there's about 50 Japanese troops defending the whole island. That aside, Letters from Iwo Jima is a well-constructed, thought-provoking war film.