What was the last film you watched?
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I´ve watched these two:
Ten years later this would have been a great movie.
And no, it´s not a Peter Jackson-directed one...
And from the perpetrators of "South Park", "Team America"
(Doesn´t this puppet character look like January Jones
after borrowing Linda Evans one wig from Dynasty?)
Ten years later this would have been a great movie.
And no, it´s not a Peter Jackson-directed one...
And from the perpetrators of "South Park", "Team America"
(Doesn´t this puppet character look like January Jones
after borrowing Linda Evans one wig from Dynasty?)
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Correction: I meant to write "10 years earlier"...Ooops!
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Rita, Sue and Bob Too.
I knew the song but I had never seen this 80s Brixploitation movie. It's a lot of everything but ultimately nothing in particular.
As a viewer, I experienced the movie in almost the same way the characters experienced their story - carefree laughs and not too impressed. I felt I was the comma after "Rita".
Even the Pakistani toddler in the trolley was funny.
I knew the song but I had never seen this 80s Brixploitation movie. It's a lot of everything but ultimately nothing in particular.
As a viewer, I experienced the movie in almost the same way the characters experienced their story - carefree laughs and not too impressed. I felt I was the comma after "Rita".
Even the Pakistani toddler in the trolley was funny.
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I Still Believe.
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THE TWO MRS CARROLS (1947) with Bogart and Stanwyck. … and Lady Jessica.
I never saw it before.
I never saw it before.
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Josephine and Men (1955) starring Glynis Johns
I know Glynis Johns primarily as the mother in Mary Poppins so it's interesting to catch up with some of her younger roles.
Here, her ditzy persona is used to good effect as a girl who always falls for the neediest man around, although one suspects that that it does not reach the extremes that the same material might have reached in American hands, possibly starring Doris Day.
Also featured are Jack Buchanan (England's Fred Astaire?), a little past his prime, and Peter Finch, yet to reach his.
I know Glynis Johns primarily as the mother in Mary Poppins so it's interesting to catch up with some of her younger roles.
Here, her ditzy persona is used to good effect as a girl who always falls for the neediest man around, although one suspects that that it does not reach the extremes that the same material might have reached in American hands, possibly starring Doris Day.
Also featured are Jack Buchanan (England's Fred Astaire?), a little past his prime, and Peter Finch, yet to reach his.
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Two fun HBO productions — “Grey Gardens“ [2009] starring Jessica Lange & Drew Barrymore about a wicked mother & daughter duo aging in a dilapidated Hamptons mansion:
...and “My Dinner with Herve” [2018] about the final interview of “Fantasy Island” star Herve Villechaize prior to his suicide starring Peter Dinklage & Jamie Dornan and I thoroughly enjoyed both movies.
...and “My Dinner with Herve” [2018] about the final interview of “Fantasy Island” star Herve Villechaize prior to his suicide starring Peter Dinklage & Jamie Dornan and I thoroughly enjoyed both movies.
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All The Way Up (1970)
From "Granada Films".
Very enjoyable. A great cast with many familiar faces of the time (Warren Mitchell at his smarmiest; Richard Briers giving great sexual frustration; Adrienne Posta; Frank Thornton; even Valerie Leon showed up), some nice lines and a decent plot.
A bit edgier than I was expecting. The strip joint got dangerously close to full frontal. And there's the whole "knocked up and trying to blackmail a man into marriage" angle.
The social climbing angle, with the aspiration to be "detached" was brilliant. All the outrageous lengths to hide the extreme family dysfunction from the neighbours, along with the one-upmanship. One of my favourite lines was when Mitchell's character was about to open champagne and asked his daughter to "open the French window so next door can hear the pop".
All this... and a theme song by The Scaffold. What more could you want?
From "Granada Films".
Very enjoyable. A great cast with many familiar faces of the time (Warren Mitchell at his smarmiest; Richard Briers giving great sexual frustration; Adrienne Posta; Frank Thornton; even Valerie Leon showed up), some nice lines and a decent plot.
A bit edgier than I was expecting. The strip joint got dangerously close to full frontal. And there's the whole "knocked up and trying to blackmail a man into marriage" angle.
The social climbing angle, with the aspiration to be "detached" was brilliant. All the outrageous lengths to hide the extreme family dysfunction from the neighbours, along with the one-upmanship. One of my favourite lines was when Mitchell's character was about to open champagne and asked his daughter to "open the French window so next door can hear the pop".
All this... and a theme song by The Scaffold. What more could you want?
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This one (scare alert at the end!). Much better than I thought, though "The Invisible Man" is superior and more sophisticated. Here is Piper from "Orange..." going through a "Rosemary´s Baby"-style story (not really...). She carries all the movie very decently...