Plummer is good, as he usually is, but Steiger to my mind goes OTT (though less than he did in, say, "The Specialist"). He could be spot on ("In The Heat Of The Night", for which he won an Oscar) but that became a rarity as time went on.
Cpt Marvel :
Perhaps all the other Marvel superhero movies have spoiled me, but I found this a very average superhero movie. It had
The usual big action sequences and special effects ........ but just average in my opinion.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot. I'm trying to remember the last time Kevin Smith made a worthwhile--or even good--film. This one continues the streak. . .
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I watched the Jet Li film My Father is A Hero (1995) aka Jet Li's The Enforcer as its known in America. It is quite a departure from the films Li is known for being set in the present day and having gunplay and explosions in addition to martial arts. Li plays a undercover policeman from Mainland China who wanting to protect his family lets them believe he is a criminal. He ends up going to Hong Kong to try and catch a dangerous criminal with a hair trigger temper. The action scenes are well done and the scenes of Li interacting his son are really great to watch as well. It is a shame that Dragon Dynasty (An American company that specialized in releasing Chinese action/ martial arts movies) was not able to provide the original Chinese language track for the film, so I had to watch it with the English dubbing.
same question, basically: is there a dvd?
I downloaded the documentary in two parts off youtube, Postie you might try looking for it there if you haven't seen it.
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EDIT: here's part 1
I cant seem to find Part 2
I don't know if it's an age thing but on watching Everything or Nothing, I get quite emotional when it
Gets to the parts of the passing of some of the pioneers of the series, and you think of all those from
The "Bond" family we've lost over the years.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Cockneys vs Zombies. I was looking for a Honor Blackman movie and watched this. It is so much fun and Honor must have had a ball filming this, blasting zombies to bits in a retirement home. There is an absolutely hilarious scene with Richard Briers and a Zimmer frame! Highly recommended
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
Directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne and Dean Martin. Slow paced Western, outstanding performances. Wayne plays the town sheriff, Martin his drunken deputy. Pretty much remade some years later as El Dorado with Wayne again plus Robert Mitchum in the part equivalent to Dean Martin, again directed by Hawks.... then again some years later as Rio Lobo, again directed by Hawks, again starring John Wayne with this time Jack Elam co-starring. The first one is the best!
Both of these were on the TV the other day.
Dean singing 'My Rifle, My Pony and Me'.
I watched 'Hunter Killer' recently. Really enjoyed it. I do like a bit of Gerard Butler .... ;%
I'd forgotten about this gem of a movie, I did see it at the cinema but re-discovered it today
on Amazon prime ( It's well worth a watch ) Antony Hopkins is a guy who kills his wife, is found
with the smoking gun in hand and even confesses ....... then the twist and turns begin.... -{
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Sir Sean and Catherine Zeta-Jones with Ving Rhames in a great Heist movie.
I've read this was made from a rejected script for the remake of The Thomas
Crown Affair.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
What I saw on Prime recently was Despite the Falling Snow. I was lured in by its promise of being a "Cold War spy thriller" and by the presence of the gorgeous, talented Rebecca Ferguson in a rare lead role. . .alas, this is little more than a tepid soap opera, and Ferguson is as wasted in the lead as she often is in her supporting roles.
The African Queen which of course takes its name from the ship used by haughty missionary Katherine Hepburn to chug down river with water rat Humphrey Bogart as the skipper, cast against type.
It's well shot on location by John Huston and you can or have to get by the fact that both characters are meant to be English, with Bogart as a cockney, but you wouldn't know it. David Niven tells a good story about this film in his memoirs.
It all goes a bit Fleming's Live and Let Die towards the end, not sure if this film preceded it.
* Yes it did, by just two or three years.
Shadow of a Doubt
Hitchcock, 1943
written by Thornton Wilder
The story of the two Charlies.
Uncle Charlie played by Joseph Cotton, being very creepy,
and young Charlie, played by Teresa Wright. Wright is not blonde, and is more of a wide eyed innocent than the usual Hitchcock heroine.
Young Charlie lives in a idealised small American town with her idealised small town family and friends, and is overjoyed when her favourite Uncle Charlie shows up to stay after not having been seen for years.
But Uncle Charlie keeps saying creepy things, and there's a pair of detectives hanging round, and young Charlie quickly sees that her uncle is not who she always believed him to be. And Uncle Charlie quickly sees that young Charlie sees that too, but the rest of the family is placidly unaware of the tension in the household.
And yes this one features a staircase, too.
Hitchcock named this as his favourite of his own films.
I found it quite watchable. Not 'Goodfellas' but it killed a couple of hours. Only just seen it took a hammering with the critics but I didn't think it was that bad. John Travolta was reasonable. Stacy Keach is always good. The only bit of casting i thought was a bit odd was John Gotti Jnr.
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Perhaps all the other Marvel superhero movies have spoiled me, but I found this a very average superhero movie. It had
The usual big action sequences and special effects ........ but just average in my opinion.
Still a fascinating look at the history of the Bond films.
Is this online or do you have the dvd
I downloaded the documentary in two parts off youtube, Postie you might try looking for it there if you haven't seen it.
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EDIT: here's part 1
I cant seem to find Part 2
Will try YouTube
Regards
James
Gets to the parts of the passing of some of the pioneers of the series, and you think of all those from
The "Bond" family we've lost over the years.
Some great moments - Lazenby / Babs / Connery / Brozzer stories
Doesn't have much of Daniel Craig in it but see he has his own documentary out soon I believe
Both of these were on the TV the other day.
Dean singing 'My Rifle, My Pony and Me'.
I watched 'Hunter Killer' recently. Really enjoyed it. I do like a bit of Gerard Butler .... ;%
His mind of course
I loved how he said in an interview
That all his publicity and autograph
Photos are him from 300, as He'd
Never look that good again.
I've never seen the actual movie but I did watch a behind the scenes thing that showed the cast working out and how intense their schedule was.
All this talk of Gerry (to his friends) is making think I may try and watch 'The Vanishing' in the next couple of days.
I'd forgotten about this gem of a movie, I did see it at the cinema but re-discovered it today
on Amazon prime ( It's well worth a watch ) Antony Hopkins is a guy who kills his wife, is found
with the smoking gun in hand and even confesses ....... then the twist and turns begin.... -{
Sir Sean and Catherine Zeta-Jones with Ving Rhames in a great Heist movie.
I've read this was made from a rejected script for the remake of The Thomas
Crown Affair.
It's well shot on location by John Huston and you can or have to get by the fact that both characters are meant to be English, with Bogart as a cockney, but you wouldn't know it. David Niven tells a good story about this film in his memoirs.
It all goes a bit Fleming's Live and Let Die towards the end, not sure if this film preceded it.
* Yes it did, by just two or three years.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Hitchcock, 1943
written by Thornton Wilder
The story of the two Charlies.
Uncle Charlie played by Joseph Cotton, being very creepy,
and young Charlie, played by Teresa Wright. Wright is not blonde, and is more of a wide eyed innocent than the usual Hitchcock heroine.
Young Charlie lives in a idealised small American town with her idealised small town family and friends, and is overjoyed when her favourite Uncle Charlie shows up to stay after not having been seen for years.
But Uncle Charlie keeps saying creepy things, and there's a pair of detectives hanging round, and young Charlie quickly sees that her uncle is not who she always believed him to be. And Uncle Charlie quickly sees that young Charlie sees that too, but the rest of the family is placidly unaware of the tension in the household.
And yes this one features a staircase, too.
Hitchcock named this as his favourite of his own films.
John Travolta version on Netflix.
I found it quite watchable. Not 'Goodfellas' but it killed a couple of hours. Only just seen it took a hammering with the critics but I didn't think it was that bad. John Travolta was reasonable. Stacy Keach is always good. The only bit of casting i thought was a bit odd was John Gotti Jnr.