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Favorite films

  • Suspiria
  • The Man Who Would Be King
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • The Devils

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  • Legal Eagles

    ★★★

  • Apartment 7A

    ★★★½

  • Twisters

    ★★★

  • Bird

    ★★★★★

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Total Recall

1990

★★★★½ 6

“See you at the party Richtor!”

After the success of Conan the Barbarian, Arnie had a great relationship with Dino de Laurentiis. After the success of the film Bladerunner, which was based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Dino had shopped around for other stories by the same author, Philip K Dick and he purchased the rights to We can sell your Dreams to you Wholesale.
Which was given the movie working title of Total Recall. 
When…

Aliens

1986

★★★★★ Liked 6

“Not bad for a human” - Bishop says sarcastically as his torn in half torso is bleeding out on the floor! 😂 

What a fantastic film. 
While The Terminator was in pre-production, a handful of directors were approached to pitch for a potential sequel to Alien. 
Gale Anne Hurd managed to get James Cameron into the room and what he allegedly did is the stuff of legends.
In front of the board of directors at 20th Century Fox. He walked…

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Legal Eagles

1986

★★★ Rewatched

This is a fun legal drama directed by Ivan Reitman, this is the film that he made between Ghostbusters and Twins. 


Starring Robert Redford and Assistant District Attorney Tom Logan. Debra Winger (An Officer and a Gentleman) as Defence Attorney Laura Kelly.
Her client Chelsea Deardon (Daryl Hannah, Bladerunner, Kill Bill) is the daughter of a famous artist, now accused of murder.
These two legal eagles must work together to uncover the truth.

Also featuring Terence Stamp (Superman, The…

Apartment 7A

2024

★★★½ Watched

Minni: “Aah, baby doesn’t like that. Baby wants to stay.” 


This prequel is an entertaining continuation of the Rosemary’s Baby universe. 
Natalie Erika James directs this really well. It is creepy, eerie and those ankle twists are extremely painful to watch.
It is a well constructed story that works well.
The locations and sets look great and it is all dimly lit so you never know where terror might be lurking.

Terry (Julia Garner) is a struggling young dancer…

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The Monkey

2025

★★★★½ 9

Lois: “Everybody dies. Some of us peacefully and in our sleep, and some of us... horribly. And that's life.”

The entire cinema laughed their heads off.
I was expecting a horror with some comedy.
What you get is an outright, hilarious comedy and some great cartoon violence.

Think, Home Alone but with real world consequences to the violence and you’ve got the idea.

Based on a story by Stephen King.
Written for the screen and Directed by Osgood Perkins. Who…

Twisters

2024

★★★ Watched

Glen Powell (Mugatu leans in) “So Hot right now!”

Another legacy sequel to grace our screens.
28 years after Twister this film is written by the legacy sequel King, Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy)

Directed by Lee Isaac Chung this tells a completely new story, there are no cameos from the original cast. (Thought the original truck pops up at the start)

Daisy Edgar-Jones (Where the Crawdad’s Sing) plays Kate, a talented storm chaser and meteorologist who has…