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Sharu · December 25th, 2009, 09:16 PM

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0304722/

hf

**Wendigo** · December 25th, 2009, 09:46 PM

Stiff Odds - purely as it's next in the box set I'm working my way through.
Check this out; or, on second thoughts, don't....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDy_jxIs9hM

**haldane4** · December 26th, 2009, 10:24 PM

This evening I watched a long forgotten Claude Rains film called The Man Who Reclaimed His Head. Now this was extraordinary.

Set in France just before the First World War, Rains played a visionary author employed to ghost-write pacifist editorials and speeches for a prominent left-wing politician. Rains' prose lent the politician such gravitas that he became the most powerful force for peace in the country. An approach by several armaments manufacturers results in the politician being bought out and backing the call to arms; Rains winds up in the trenches at Verdun, a broken man - he decides to desert his post and return to Paris to assassinate the politician....

I'd advise anyone to look this film up. It is quite topical and the script could quite easily be recent, given current events. The title makes it sound like a horror film, and I suppose it is more horrific than any common horror because it portrays our politicians with utter contempt.

Rains turned in a brilliant, almost other worldly performance.

I'd like to see a good clean print of the film though - mine was 2nd generation VHS.

**captpike** · December 27th, 2009, 01:02 AM

I Just watched District 9 It was better than I thought it would be.

**almeidaCTU** · December 27th, 2009, 07:09 PM

Tropa de Elite

www.tropadeeliteofilme.com.br

**Wendigo** · December 28th, 2009, 12:49 PM

Johnny Sunshine - fresh zombies made to take part in sex movies then killed on camera. It's better than it sounds and the star Shey Bland is stunning.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1263687/

Geo3030 · December 29th, 2009, 02:43 AM

Watching Drive-Thru. Very funny horror movie IMO.

**Devius** · December 30th, 2009, 09:29 PM

Matrix Revolutions

**Oswald** · January 1st, 2010, 06:23 PM

I recently bought a 'Sherlock Holmes' boxset which features Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson. It features all the films that these two actors played in this series (1939-46).

**Devius** · January 1st, 2010, 11:53 PM

Just saw Se7en on the Alibi satellite channel. Definitely one of the best flicks of the 1990s.

December 25th, 2009, 09:16 PM	#141
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December 30th, 2009, 09:29 PM	#148
Devius Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: It's a London Thing.... Posts: 23,465 Thanks: 141,980 Thanked 228,138 Times in 23,501 Posts	Matrix Revolutions __________________ "I've had it with them, I've had it with you, I've had it with ALL THIS - I WANT ROOM SERVICE!* I want the club sandwich, I want the cold Mexican beer, I want a $10,000-a-night hooker!"* Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

January 1st, 2010, 11:53 PM	#150
Devius Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: It's a London Thing.... Posts: 23,465 Thanks: 141,980 Thanked 228,138 Times in 23,501 Posts	Just saw Se7en on the Alibi satellite channel. Definitely one of the best flicks of the 1990s. __________________ "I've had it with them, I've had it with you, I've had it with ALL THIS - I WANT ROOM SERVICE!* I want the club sandwich, I want the cold Mexican beer, I want a $10,000-a-night hooker!"* Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

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December 25th, 2009, 09:46 PM	#142
Wendigo Former Staff Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Blighty Posts: 113,748 Thanks: 259,843 Thanked 1,139,088 Times in 113,870 Posts	Stiff Odds - purely as it's next in the box set I'm working my way through. Check this out; or, on second thoughts, don't.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDy_jxIs9hM

December 26th, 2009, 10:24 PM	#143
haldane4 Vintage Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: 1977 Posts: 598 Thanks: 3,187 Thanked 7,055 Times in 592 Posts	This evening I watched a long forgotten Claude Rains film called The Man Who Reclaimed His Head. Now this was extraordinary. Set in France just before the First World War, Rains played a visionary author employed to ghost-write pacifist editorials and speeches for a prominent left-wing politician. Rains' prose lent the politician such gravitas that he became the most powerful force for peace in the country. An approach by several armaments manufacturers results in the politician being bought out and backing the call to arms; Rains winds up in the trenches at Verdun, a broken man - he decides to desert his post and return to Paris to assassinate the politician.... I'd advise anyone to look this film up. It is quite topical and the script could quite easily be recent, given current events. The title makes it sound like a horror film, and I suppose it is more horrific than any common horror because it portrays our politicians with utter contempt. Rains turned in a brilliant, almost other worldly performance. I'd like to see a good clean print of the film though - mine was 2nd generation VHS.

December 27th, 2009, 01:02 AM	#144
captpike Vintage Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TALOS IV or South Carolina Posts: 1,175 Thanks: 80,303 Thanked 47,305 Times in 1,164 Posts	I Just watched District 9 It was better than I thought it would be.

December 27th, 2009, 07:09 PM	#145
almeidaCTU Vintage Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 453 Thanks: 979 Thanked 17,928 Times in 459 Posts	Tropa de Elite www.tropadeeliteofilme.com.br

December 28th, 2009, 12:49 PM	#146
Wendigo Former Staff Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Blighty Posts: 113,748 Thanks: 259,843 Thanked 1,139,088 Times in 113,870 Posts	Johnny Sunshine - fresh zombies made to take part in sex movies then killed on camera. It's better than it sounds and the star Shey Bland is stunning. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1263687/

December 29th, 2009, 02:43 AM	#147
Geo3030 Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Thanked 8 Times in 1 Post	Watching Drive-Thru. Very funny horror movie IMO.

January 1st, 2010, 06:23 PM	#149
Oswald Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 13,112 Thanks: 51,073 Thanked 282,459 Times in 13,802 Posts	I recently bought a 'Sherlock Holmes' boxset which features Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson. It features all the films that these two actors played in this series (1939-46).