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A Minecraft Movie
9/10 by johnrose40 January 10, 2026
i just watched the mind craft movie i really enjoyed it the actor's were really good 👍 well done. it was amazing the way they did the theme…
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Juke Box Jamboree
6/10 by CinemaSerf January 11, 2026
Quite a cute little mouse has quite cleverly adapted it’s trap into a comfy bed, and is trying to get some sleep - only the jukebox in the bar is on auto play and keeps waking him up. Finally losing his patience, he decides to incapacitate said machine but all that ends up getting him is dunked into a glass of something pink, with a cherry… He likes it. He likes it a lot. Next thing, he’s starting to see an whole array of objects come to life and perform their own musical numbers - including a cactus and a lobster with delusions of being Carmen Miranda. As the after-effects of the booze begin …
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To Be or Not to Be
7/10 by CinemaSerf January 11, 2026
So, a Polish acting company are busy putting on “Hamlet” whilst the Nazis are preparing something altogether more menacing across the border. “Joseph” (Jack Benny) and wife “Maria” (Carole Lombard) are the stars of the show, and she has no shortage of admirers including an air force officer “Sobieski” (Robert Stack) who bravely decamps to the UK following the invasion to join the RAF. Rather foolishly, as it turns out, the enthusiastic young “Sobieski” confides some highly confidential information about the resistance to fellow citizen “Prof. Siletski” (Stanley Ridges) who is about to return h…
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The Furies
7/10 by CinemaSerf January 11, 2026
“Vance” (Barbara Stanwyck) has been brought up, with two brothers, on the “Furies”. An enormous New Mexican cattle ranch owned by her father “T.C.” (Walter Huston). It’s fairly clear that he has plans for her to succeed him, but it’s not going to be plain sailing. For a start, he is running out of cash and with a mortgage payment looming and 20,000 head of cattle needing to be rounded up and hopefully sold, he hasn’t his work to seek. There are also some pesky squatters on their land, and one of them “Herrera” (Gilbert Roland) is a lifelong friend/admirer of “Vance” and then finally we also ha…
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Lambert the Sheepish Lion
7/10 by CinemaSerf January 11, 2026
When the stork takes a breather from delivering it’s hefty parcel, it gets seen off by a possessive ewe who decides to keep the occupant of the bundle and raise it as her own. The other sheep like to tease the newborn because, well even they can see it’s not a sheep. They don’t know what it is, but we know it's a lion cub - and a fairly placid one at that. Then enter a peckish wolf that sees the flock as easy pickings. What chance the now fully grown lion can grow a pair of claws and learn to roar? It’s good fun this animation, with a little bit of an understated moral to it and quite a bit of…
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Arthur Rubinstein: The Love of Life
7/10 by CinemaSerf January 11, 2026
So many documentaries that follow celebrated classical maestros end up delivering dry and adulatory fly-on-the-wall observations of their often aloof and pampered subject, but this one is really different. That’s because Arthur Rubenstein comes across as quite an engaging fellow to get to know. Aside from being an accomplished pianist, he also has a demonstrable sense of humour and he also has things to say about politics, history, music and importantly he acknowledges that “you are born with talent and develop it, you can’t learn it”. His travels are extensive and his performances include reh…
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Chance of a Lifetime
7/10 by CinemaSerf December 27, 2022
"Dickinson" (Basil Radford) runs a small foundry that makes farming implements in post-war Britain that has it's fair share of disgruntled employees. When they threaten a walk out after the stroppy "Bolger" (Geoffrey Keen) gets the push, he offers to let them try their hand at running the business instead. What ensues is a depiction of their valiant attempt to make a go of it, and what makes it interesting - aside from some characterful performances from Radford, Niall MacGinnis, Kenneth More and a smartly paced dialogue - is that Bernard Miles doesn't present us with a rose-coloured "co-op" s…
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No Way Out
7/10 by CinemaSerf January 11, 2026
Talk about biting the hand that would feed you! Two petty thieves end up in hospital after a robbery went wrong. “Ray” (Richard Widmark) is an angry and odious character who refuses to let the duty doctor “Brooks” (Sydney Poitier) anywhere near his injured brother. His protestations are ignored, but when the patient dies his brother begins to make all sorts of vile racist assertions against the doctor. These noises are soon being heard on the streets, and with racial tensions already running high the situation becomes dangerous for the doctor, his family, his hospital and amidst a community at…
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Our Very Own
6/10 by CinemaSerf January 11, 2026
After a bit of sibling spatting on her eighteenth birthday, “Gail” (Ann Blyth) is told by her sister “Joan” (Joan Evans) that she is adopted, and that mum (Jane Wyatt) and dad (Donald Cook) aren’t actually her real parents. The latter two overhear this cruel revelation and try to placate their daughter, but after some reflection she decides that she wants to contact her birth-parents. Her father has long since gone the way of the dodo, but her mother has got married and lives down the California coast. A meeting is arranged, but let’s just say it doesn’t quite go to plan and this leaves “Gail”…
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Johnny Guitar
7/10 by CinemaSerf January 11, 2026
“Vienna” (Joan Crawford) runs her bar on the outskirts of town earning the disdain of just about everyone else. When the stagecoach is robbed, a baying mob turn up accusing her of involvement. They haven’t a shred of evidence, but egged on by “Emma” (Mercedes McCambridge) whose brother had been killed, the sheriff (Frank Ferguson) and local kingpin “McIvers” (Ward Bond) are determined to take her in. Luckily, she has just hired “Johnny” (Sterling Hayden) to come and pluck some strings for the punters’ entertainment and so his, unarmed, intervention lessens the tension a little and then the loc…
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