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So what - we've got Frenchman (Christopher Lambert) playing a Scotsman; a Scotsman (Sean Connery) playing a Spaniard and an American (Clancy Brown) playing a maniacal Russian - what could possibly go wrong? Well, actually despite the odd casting, this isn't an half bad fantasy adventure that introduces us to a group of immortals who are having to deal with the "quickening" - a process that has driven them throughout history to combat (and decapitate) others of their race in search of the ultimate "prize". Lambert is "Connor McLeod" who has come a bit late to this party and is ostracised from h…

"McCabe" (Johnny Harris) is a former ABA junior champion, but he's lost his way in the intervening years and so now down on his luck, he turns up at the gym of his old mentor "Bill" (Ray Winstone) looking to get back into shape and into the ring. Reluctantly, and with conditions, "Bill" agrees - but "McCabe" needs a couple of grand now so approaches his shady old friend "Padgett" (Ian McShane) for a steak, a float and an opportunity to make some quick cash. That might be possible if he is prepared to head to northern England to be a punch bag for an up-and-coming fighter, but it's an unlicence…

Don't be put off by the rather convoluted title. This is quite a clever story of man's inhumanity to his fellow creature. Frank Cellier is "Wright" by name, but seldom by nature in this tale of a group of lodgers living in his old London boarding house. The occupant's lives vacillate between occasional joy but mostly misery, and he relishes in prolonging the latter states of affairs - especially for the young kitchen maid "Stasia" (a good effort here from Rene Ray) who lives an almost "Cinderella" style existence. Then a stranger - Conradt Veidt - arrives amongst their number, and slowly but s…

Other films have confronted the ethics of euthanasia with gravity and care; _Mar Adentro_ and _The Room Next Door_ come to mind, both thoughtful, both humane. But none have done so with the eloquence and surprising joy of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Guzaarish. This is a film about choosing death, yes, but it's more fundamentally a film about choosing how to live. Bhansali weaves the right-to-die debate into a canvas rich with magic, friendship, family, and above all, love. The result is a journey that's magnificent, touching, and never dull. Ethan Mascarenhas (Hrithik Roshan) was once a cel…

73/100 The kidnapper of a congressman's daughter insists that Alex Cross be brought into the case and things get squirrelly. Although probably not noticed by most, this is a intricately well written thriller that pretends not to be by giving us moments that you question as 'why would they do that' or 'that's funny', figuring it's just script quirks. But then Cross would start asking those same questions making you realize that you're catching clues, not quirks... and the film is full of them. Complex story, high tension, great acting and a twist that completely fooled me. Well done! -- …

**_Tame television precursor to “The Exorcist”_** This was Spielberg’s second of three TV movies before breaking into cinema as a powerhouse. Meanwhile star Darren McGavin just got done doing the first Kolchak movie, “The Night Stalker,” which would lead to a sequel the next year, “The Night Strangler,” and the TV series in 1974-1975, albeit just 20 episodes. It was influenced by Hammer’s “The Devil Rides Out” from a few years earlier, not just the devil and possession elements, but also the protective circle. It takes these ideas and meshes them with the milieu and television bu…

**_A New York woman inherits a cursed house outside of New Orleans_** This is southern gothic horror and the second in Lucio Fulci’s unofficial ‘gateways to hell’ trilogy, which all center around a portal to the underworld and include actress Catriona MacColl in three different roles (credited as Katherine MacColl). The first film was “City of the Living Dead” from the year prior, and the third one is “The House by the Cemetery,” which came out later the same year. They’re all self-contained. The gateway to hell in the basement element was ripped off from “The Amityville Horror” …

**_A TV newscaster gets dirt on a Supreme Court nominee_** Is the compromising information true? What causes the mysterious death of a key person in the investigation? Will journalist Paul Savage air the rumor and potentially destroy the nominee’s career and possibly ruin his marriage? Such questions are the driving force of this talky television drama/lowkey thriller. Martin Landau plays the reporter and Barbara Bain his producer. They were married in real life and appeared together in Mission Impossible and would also work together on the soon-to-come Space: 1999. Unfortunately…

With the handover of Hong Kong from the UK to China already largely agreed, nobody in the territory wants any complications at this late stage in the day. Well sadly that's exactly what the Organised Crime department of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force gets when the tenth uncle of the legendary “Poon” family is kidnapped. It's patriarch, “Sir William” (Gardner Tse Kwan-Ho) isn't a man to be messed with and so swiftly superintendent “M.B” (Terrance Lau Chun-Hin) is drafted in to try and rescue the man before the HK$600 millions is paid for what is more than likely to end up being a corpse! What…

When we first meet "Kikuo" (Soyo Murokawa) you get the distinct feeling that his Yakuza father isn't so impressed that he is performing as a kabuki actor at a luncheon. Well that doesn't matter for very long as that meeting is gatecrashed by a rival gang and the young man soon finds himself a fifteen year old orphan in the care of "Hanjiro" (Ken Watanabe) - himself reputedly the finest actor in all Japan. After a failed attempt to avenge his father, "Kikuo" (now Ryô Yoshizawa) and his now new brother "Shensuke" (Ryûsei Yokohama) overcome some initial hostility to become both friends and pupils…