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### **Review: *Locked Down (2021)*** **Score: 4/10** *Locked Down* is a fascinating cinematic artefact—a film so inextricably bound to the moment of its creation that it feels less like a movie and more like a high-concept, celebrity-stuffed time capsule. Directed by Doug Liman and penned by Steven Knight, it follows a London couple (Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor) on the brink of separation, whose pandemic-induced lockdown malaise turns into a plan to execute a high-stakes diamond heist. Despite the immense talent involved, the film is a tonally chaotic, self-conscious oddit…

(CASTELLANO) Aunque ya da la sensación de que no se va a acabar nunca, hay algo casi reconfortante en volver a ella. Sí, repite chistes, recicla situaciones y se apoya en latiguillos que llevan años funcionando, pero aun así sigue teniendo ese efecto raro de serie-hogar. Puedes ponerla de fondo mientras haces otra cosa y, sin darte cuenta, acabas riéndote otra vez. No importa cuántas veces hayas visto ciertas escenas: los personajes siguen ahí, como vecinos de verdad, formando parte del ruido cotidiano. El arranque fue flojo, incluso algo ñoño, demasiado pegado a su predecesora. Costaba…

My family bought "The Cat In the Hat" on DVD when it was first released on DVD. I suppose my kids were about 5 and 9 years old at the time. We watched it together but none of us liked it. The kids were bored. My wife and I were bored. We may or may not have even finished watching it. The only thing I recall for certain is that I threw it in a drawer. At the time, I recall asking my wife, "This is Dr. Seuss?!?" Now, some 10+ years later...tonight, I dug out the old DVD. Why? What compelled me to watch this? After over a decade gone by. With almost 200 movies cued up in my watc…

57/100 A 3-story anthology presented by John Carpenter, as a guy in the morgue for the wraparound tale, and as director of the first 2 tales with Tobe Hooper doing the third. "The Gas Station" - long-winded with no one acting normally. The ending was sufficiently gory but I almost turned it off before I got there. "Hair" - The highlight story, Stacy Keach is awesome as a man who is hopelessly obsessed with his thinning hair. This would have worked well as a Creepshow story. "Eye" - Common story used plenty of times but done effectively with horrific results. -- DrNostromo.com…

"The Company" is a testament, to how much Chinese series, have matured. This is a well crafted sci fi tale of time travel with a historical perspective grounded, unsurprisingly, in China's rich history. Characterisations are excellent with strong chemistry between the likable, cast of characters. What I found particularly interesting, about this series too, is it doesn't necessarily offer up convienient, pre packaged solutions to, at times, uncomfortable, historical truths. There is not always an outcome, that see's a happy ending for all. Downsides are a little predicta…

“I guess you know you broke up my home…”, “I didn’t know you were in a home, when did you get out?”. It’s the spatting between “Nasa” (Clara Bow) and “Sunny” (Thelma Todd) that brings this to life, and both can cat-fight with the best of them. The former hails from Texas via a fairly violent and circuitous route, is quite a street-fighter and no stranger to using her feminine wiles. Sadly for her, though, she runs out of options and ends up married to “Larry” (Monroe Owsley). The thing is, her father thinks she’s made an huge mistake and that’s proven to be correct when it swiftly emerges that…

Having been unable to convince the draft that some hereditary health condition should exempt him from army service, Argo Guthrie decides to hitch his way to an old church being re-purposed by “Ray” (James Broderick) and “Alice” (Patricia Quinn) for his last few weeks of freedom. His journey isn’t exactly uneventful, and just about everyone he encounters en route takes him for a long-haired waste of space. When he finally arrives at the commune, a bit bruised, he helps out “Alice” as she puts the finishing touches to her fine dining establishment that sells Boeuf Bourginon, don’t you know. What…

This is like a Nazi’s do the “War of the Worlds” as an idyllic Dutch scenario is suddenly trampled over by an army of metallic robots. From the ground they decimate all they encounter, they even have tanks and then from the air their aircraft drop incendiaries by the dozen. With their town in ruins, a priest is seen offering up a prayer for salvation and then something entirely mundane occurs, with startling results. I liked the style expressive style of the simple puppetry here, and it contrasts really quite effectively with a message delivered via two young and innocent children that isn’t w…

Based on the standard “Three Little Pigs” story, this quite entertainingly militarises that tale and then by nazifying the dreaded wolf, it gives us a character to loathe as he effortlessly reduces the straw house (“Gone with the Wind”) and then the wooden one, complete with outhouse, before arriving at the more heavily armed stone one. Much like the invasions of Europe themselves, this depicts the ease with which the vulnerable were overrun, and then with the wolf at it’s more voraciously confident, it meets more of it’s match and the fight starts coming to him instead. The pigs are annoying,…

Leslie Howard narrated this short feature about the Poles who’d been forced from their homeland by the Nazis. Now living throughout the UK, this illustrates how readily they integrated - despite a language barrier, and how determinedly they prepared for the day when they could take part in the liberation of their own nation. Along the way, we also see just how the British themselves were dealing with the destructive effects of the Second World War and by using archive of pre/post war Warsaw, General Sikorsky, King George VI and of their subsequent struggles this offers a sympathetic glimpse in…