★★★ Watched02 Apr 2025
1975 In Review - March
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During the 17th century, shipwrecked English seaman Robinson Crusoe, after years of solitude, spots natives on his deserted Pacific island and befriends one who he names Friday.
Man Friday is a reasonably engrossing story of how Crusoe, shipwrecked for years on a barren desert island, befriends a savage and names him "Friday". As time goes by, Crusoe attempts to change Friday into a good, decent Christian, but is shown to be more irrational and…
★★½ Watched01 Apr 2025
1985 In Review - March
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A stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain.
Miranda Richardson plays Ruth Ellis, the last women to be hung in England. It is post World War II and she is a woman who has made a lot of mistakes in her life. Rupert Everett plays the epitome of British Aristocracy in the…
★★ Rewatched15 Jan 20215
1981 In Review - January
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Scanners are men and women born with incredible telepathic and telekinetic powers. There are many who exercise the benefits of their special gifts in a safe and judicious manner. However, there is a group of renegade scanners who plan to create a race that will rule the world.
This is a movie that is famous for one scene in particular, the head explosion one, that happens pretty early on. After that there’s not really…
★★★½ Watched28 Dec 202015
2020
After seeing countless reviews on here giving this film a good bashing, I went in expecting a film as bad as Green Lantern. This film isn’t anything like that, in fact it’s a lot of fun. I got a very distinct Richard Donner vibe from this it, it reminded me a lot of the original Superman film. Nothing too serious and a little goofy. Something that coming after this year has been, is greatly appreciated by me. Of course…
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