opinion: It´s raining, it´s wet and it´s grey in Newcastle, the coal mining city! In the local narrow pubs, working class people mixes with ruthless crooks in a ambient full of smoking, lies, double-crossing and drinking... After watching "Get Carter" it´s difficult to imagine any other movie star then Michael Caine for the role. He is Carter himself, … Continue reading Get Carter (1971)
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opinion: Twenty years later, Sir Alfred did another version in American soil. This early version is a low budget one and Peter Lorre first english speaking movie. It has some comic scenes mixed in the thriller. It´s not even one of the Master beter movies, but it has is own place on the silver screen history. … Continue reading The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
opinion: You can ran but you can´t hide forever. The man is on the ran... These are the last 8 hour of Johnny´s life. While the time ticks away on a dark, wet, muddy and snowing city, Johnny tries to escape his destiny. He is wounded and he will not escape his dead. He is aware … Continue reading Odd Man Out (1947)
opinion: Practically Nolan´s first thriller with borrowed USD 6.000 from his friends and I really hope they got their money back. What seems to be obvious it´s not obvious at all. After a while you still looking for film start point since it´s floating around. You lucky if you manage to find out where it starts … Continue reading Following (1998)
James Bond (007) is Britain's top agent and is on an exciting mission, to solve the mysterious murder of a fellow agent. The task sends him to Jamaica, where he joins forces with Quarrel and a loyal CIA agent, Felix Leiter. While dodging tarantulas, "fire breathing dragons" and a trio of assassins, known as the three blind mice. Bond meets up with the beautiful Honey Ryder and goes face to face with the evil Dr. No.
An unremarkable ghost-writer has landed a lucrative contract to redact the memoirs of Adam Lang, the former UK Prime Minister. After dominating British politics for years, Lang has retired with his wife to the USA. He lives on an island, in luxurious, isolated premises complete with a security detail and a secretarial staff. Soon, Adam Lang gets embroiled in a major scandal with international ramifications that reveals how far he was ready to go in order to nurture UK's "special relationship" with the USA. But before this controversy has started, before even he has closed the deal with the publisher, the ghost-writer gets unmistakable signs that the turgid draft he is tasked to put into shape inexplicably constitutes highly sensitive material.
It´s only a movie, he used to say! I got scared when I watched "The Birds" for the first time. I think I was 12 or 13 years old by the time. But somehow I got fascinated how this guy could produce this kind of fear on a black and white movie, when everybody wants Technicolor. … Continue reading Sir Alfred Hitchcock on my movie library
Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema with his wife and her teenage brother as a cover, but they know nothing of his secret. Scotland Yard assign an undercover detective to work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the gang.
opinion: The classic chase with the Mini Coopers in Torino; Michael Cane is the mastermind of the crime: Charlie. This is the first film I saw after upgrading to the new Plex ver 9 (2010). I just viewed the remake for 2 weeks ago.; rating: 4,0 of 5; when latest: December 3rd, 2010; where: Lagos, Nigeria quotes: “…Just remember … Continue reading The Italian Job (1969)
The Movies I have seen! 