Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III 1990

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Guilty pleasure.
  Another twisted TCM family this time including a little girl and Aragorn from Lord of the Rings. Also included in the cast is the great Ken Foree. Not a great movie but one of the better TCM sequels, and in my preference, more enjoyable than part 2

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  The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  A classic for a reason

Popular reviews

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  Cape Fear 1962

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Dec 2020 6

  Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum star in this 1962 cat and mouse thriller directed by J. Lee Thompson. 

  Sam Bowden (Peck) is a married lawyer, with a beautiful wife, teenage daughter and not much worry in his simple life until one day convict Max Cady (Mitchum) is released from prison. Cady blames Bowden for being the one responsible for sending him to prison for 8 years and seeks revenge on the lawyer and his family. This tells the story of…

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  Never Take Sweets from a Stranger 1960

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 28 Nov 2020 4

  Bold is the best word I can use to describe 1960’s Never Take Candy From A Stranger. 

  Directed by Cyril Franklin, this British film was released by the famous Hammer Film Production studios and was adapted from the play The Pony Trap, by Roger Garis. The themes dealt with in this picture are pedophilia and the sexual abuse of children, which were very controversial topics of the time. 

  The film is set in a small Canadian town to which the…