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North Sea Hijack 1980
"Both my parents died tragically in childbirth."
North Sea Hijack pretty much begins with Lloyds of London realising that oil rigs are a potential target for terrorists or criminals and that they bloody well ought to have a plan in place just in case.
So they bring in ffolkes, a man with his own private band of marines, who figures out how one would go about hijacking a rig and from there, how he would foil such a plan.
fflokes,…
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2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
Happy birthday to 2001, yes, it's been 50 years since it went on general release. Just think on that for a moment, 50 years. Think about how far cinema had come in the half century before Kubrick made this film and how far it's come in that same amount of time since then and you realise, if you hadn't already, what an extraordinary achievement it is.
Now I'm sure there are people out there who like to decry the love…
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Strange Voyage 1946
I'm not going to say this is incompetent filmmaking, just that there is a general lack of competence, and the air of a movie which has been generally thrown together, with very little regard for the finished product.
And that starts right at the very beginning, with the way in which the story is introduced, and told, in flashback, by a character who is barely in the story.
It is a treasure hunt, led by Chris, who has a map,…
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Get Millie Black 2024
It's a pity this story of Millie Black, returned back home to Jamaica after starting her career as a police office in London, who uncovers a human trafficking ring, arrived with such a fanfare. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite live up to all the hype that surrounded it.
There are times when it feels as if it gets too bogged down in it's sub-plots, and I'd rather it got on with the job in hand, particularly given that what Millie has…
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Beware the Slenderman 2016
The story of how two pre-teens, both of whom appear to be delusional and one of whom has been diagnosed as schizophrenic attempted to murder a friend of theirs believing that they are acting under the instructions of Slenderman.
What that lies at the heart of their delusion and what makes it so difficult to break is exactly the same thing that lies at the heart of any religious belief you care to mention, which is the impossibility of disproving…
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Live and Let Die 1973
At last a realistic Bond villain, at least in terms of his aims and the method by which he's setting out to achieve it, flooding the US with a couple of tons of opium (it sounds much more charming than heroin) which will be given away for free thereby knocking out all the competition in one fell swoop. I'm not sure it would actually work out like that but it's not completely unrealistic and what's more the price…
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