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  • The Naked Spur
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  • Death Journey

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  • Trancers

    ★★★½

  • No Name on the Bullet

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  • Out of the Fog

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  • North Sea Hijack

    North Sea Hijack 1980

    ★★★★ Rewatched 03 Jan 2017 18

    "Both my parents died tragically in childbirth."

    North Sea Hijack pretty much begins with Lloyds of London realising that oil rigs are a potential target for terrorists or criminals and that they bloody well ought to have a plan in place just in case.

    So they bring in ffolkes, a man with his own private band of marines, who figures out how one would go about hijacking a rig and from there, how he would foil such a plan.

    fflokes,…

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 03 Apr 2018 6

    Happy birthday to 2001, yes, it's been 50 years since it went on general release. Just think on that for a moment, 50 years. Think about how far cinema had come in the half century before Kubrick made this film and how far it's come in that same amount of time since then and you realise, if you hadn't already, what an extraordinary achievement it is.

    Now I'm sure there are people out there who like to decry the love…

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  • Death Journey

    Death Journey 1976

    ★★ Watched 23 Jan 2025

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    31. 8 films from Black directors 8/8

    Ex-cop Jesse Crowder, is called upon to transport a key witness in a mob trial from Los Angeles to New York.

    It's The Narrow Margin, but by car(s), bus, train, and plane, with our hero stopping off every once in a while to make sweet, sweet love to any willing lady who crosses his path. And let me tell you, they are all more than willing.

    The best that can be…

  • Trancers

    Trancers 1984

    ★★★½ Rewatched 22 Jan 2025

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    30. 7 Decades (Noir) 5/7

    Jack Deth is sent back in time, from the 23rd century, to hunt down Martin Whistler, who uses his psychic abilities to turn people into "trancers", who do his will, as part of his aim to kill the ancestors of the governing council members of Angel City, and thereby take control himself.

    It does feel as if Whistler is somewhat going around the houses to get the job done, particularly when it doesn't…

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  • Beware the Slenderman

    Beware the Slenderman 2016

    ★★★ Watched 27 Jan 2017 1

    The story of how two pre-teens, both of whom appear to be delusional and one of whom has been diagnosed as schizophrenic attempted to murder a friend of theirs believing that they are acting under the instructions of Slenderman.

    What that lies at the heart of their delusion and what makes it so difficult to break is exactly the same thing that lies at the heart of any religious belief you care to mention, which is the impossibility of disproving…

  • Live and Let Die

    Live and Let Die 1973

    ★★★★ Rewatched 25 May 2017 4

    007 Rank-A-Thon

    At last a realistic Bond villain, at least in terms of his aims and the method by which he's setting out to achieve it, flooding the US with a couple of tons of opium (it sounds much more charming than heroin) which will be given away for free thereby knocking out all the competition in one fell swoop. I'm not sure it would actually work out like that but it's not completely unrealistic and what's more the price…

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