1971 was a great year for British gangster movies. Not only did we get the masterpiece Get Carter but also the lesser-known Villain. These two films would usher in a new era of crime cinema and television. Richard Burton plays Vic Dakin, a psychopathic London gangster. He's planning on robbing a delivery of wages being …
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For this Top 10 I looked at the nominees for the Best Picture Oscar and chose the film that I felt should have won instead of the actual film that did win 10. LA Confidential (Titanic won) 9. Pulp Fiction (Forrest Gump won) 8. Dallas Buyers Club (12 Years A Slave won) 7. Secrets and …
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John and Laura Baxter travel to Venice following the death of their daughter in a pond outside their home. John has undertaken a job there involving the restoration of a church. Whilst in a restaurant, Laura meets two sisters, one of whom is blind but has the gift of second sight and can liaise with …
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Two things crossed my mind when I heard in the 90's that Gus Van Sant would be making a shot-for-shot remake of Hitchcock's Psycho. My first thought was 'Are you insane?!' My second thought was 'Shot for shot, huh? That could be quite interesting if it's handled right. A bit like some kind of cinematic …
Warning- this review contains spoilers. Ms 45 first came onto my radar due to it's inclusion in the fantastic horror compilation film, Terror In The Aisles. It would be years before I could actually see the film from start to finish, courtesy of a one-off rare film screening at a cinema in Hampstead when I …
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This article is another in my series entitled 'Is It Really That Bad?' in which I'm looking at films that are almost universally hated by audiences and critics alike. Do these films really deserve the terrible reputations they have garnered? I remember going to see Halloween H2O at the biggest West End cinema I could …
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A mark that you’ve made a great movie is when your film spawns a number of imitators. One such movie is The Exorcist. One such imitator is Beyond The Door. But whilst some imitators are pale and shoddy rip offs, this film is amazing. Starring esteemed actress Juliet Mills this deals with her possession and …
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A children's game goes horribly wrong and a child falls backwards from the first floor window of an abandoned building and dies. The remaining kids vow to never tell anyone about what happened. It's now 7 years on and the children in the gang are preparing for their Prom Night. They one by one start …
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A priest finds out through his study of the bible that the antichrist will be born on Christmas Day. He tries to commit as many sins as possible to summon the Devil and thus find out the place of the second coming so that he can kill the newborn. A surprise hit in its native …
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A young social worker takes on the case of Baby, a 21-year-old who acts like, the clues in his name, a baby. What she doesn't realise is that the family to whom 'Baby' belongs, the Wadsworths, keep him in that state by stopping his development via negative reinforcement in the form of an electric cattle …
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