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Das Boot You live with the crew for so long you feel great for them when they finally limp the broken and battered sub back into dock in France.... Then the sirens scream.... The captain and his boat slowly expiring at the same time really ties the imagery of the whole film together. Classic..... L...

Artist and designer HR Giger has died after falling at his home on Monday. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27390345 The master and originator of the bio-mechanical gothic style, his work is probably best known through his work with Ridley Scott and the makers of Alien. Gigers designs ar...

TRUE DETECTIVE Nice little slice of Southern Gothic police procedural with a storming pair of performances by Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey as two busted up and broken down police officers who revisit a 17 year old cold case involving bizarre ritualized serial killings and a mysterious fi...

CITY OF GOD A little gem from Brazil released in 2002 I missed out on when it was released, but well worth a watch if you dont mind subtitles. Its sort of Boys In The Hood crime biopic without any of the bling, but unlike Boys is actually based on the semi-autobiographical tale of one of the writer...

Now for a robot flick that actually is worth watching (unlike the melty-man-splat-scene and funny ad free remake of Robocop) THE MACHINE A small budget Brit sci-fi flick about man's relationship with an AI robot, the interface between man and such a machine, and how science+military usually ends in ...

And here my pedigree chums is where Uncle Sandy watches his TV nowadays: http://www.merdb.ru/index.php and http://www.primewire.mx/ basically the same site http://www.couchtuner.eu/ - my fave http://watchseries.lt/ - the most comprehensive listing site I know with the most content http://www.watchse...

Ah, a couple I forgot and just watched the end of series 2 in one case THE FOLLOWING Grewsum Orrible Murders abound in this cop thriller about one broken down cops mission to bring down the worst serial killer ever. Kevin Bacon plays the cop whose life has been in shreds since he brought in the coll...

A sad loss of a truly great British actor. Whether it was the japery of Roger Rabbit, the tragedy of Mona Lisa, or the brutality of The Long Good Friday Bob shone like a lighthouse. Long Good Friday and Mona Lisa are still two of my most beloved gangland flicks - proper full on London Noir at its be...

A few to keep an eye on: TURN Ripping little costume drama set during the American Revolution which, instead of covering Washington et al, focussees instead on the intelligence battle behind the lines, and spy on spy action. Great stuff, off to a really promising start. Im hooked. THE BLACKLIST Jame...

Ok.... lets do a mini roundup of a few Ive watched recently ROBOCOP You pretty much know when Hollydud does a revamp on a beloved flick its going to end up badly.....and here it does. Its not that its a bad film - it has lots of biffs, bangs and whallops, and eye candy a plenty with cutting edge CGI...

THE PHYSICIAN Nice little medieval potboiler about a young boy who learns, as his mother dies, he has the power to be able to tell when a person is about to die. His mothers death leaves him determined to be a healer, and so he joins a Barber Surgeon as an apprentice, only to be disappointed at the...

MANGAL PANDEY: THE RISING I love costume dramas, and foreign films, so this is a bit of a perfect storm....even if, as its an Indian film, it has the obligatory Bollywood eye popping song and dance numbers scattered through it. The film tells the story of Mangal Pandey, one of the leaders/catalysts...

Steampunk Chap-Hop with a smile care of Professor Elemental http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkF_XpA5P48 but what's this? The Professor is being dissed..... time for the Fighting Trousers :twisted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iRTB-FTMdk and here is the bounder who has been doing the ragging, the f...

or (riffing on an Oscar contender) ONE HUNDRED YEARS A TRAMP This year, and in fact this week, marks another Centenary celebration and remembrance - a flipside to the dark remembrance of the outbreak of WW1. February 7th 1914 was the first time that Charlie Chaplin gave the world the iconic characte...

THE SLEEPER AWAKES Stealing the quote from one of my favorite sci-fi epic novel series DUNE, as Paul Muad D'Ib says: The Sleeper Has Awoken. After three years of drifting through the great beyond in "deep sleep" the ESA's Rosetta space vehicle, designed to monitor and investigate comets, h...