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I usually found most of the Disney attempts at educational films a bit simplistic and reliant on dry narration, but the selection of "Donald" to take us all on a journey into some of the practical applications of mathematics has to be one of their more inspired. Using a cleverly crafted sequence of animations to illustrate the animation, our curious duck explores just how square roots, angles, percentages and graphs all play a crucial part in just about everything from building an house to flying a plane to playing a lute. We even have a go at explaining the concept of infinity! It doesn't sto…

This could have been one of those information films that got us sniggering at school, but instead it studiously avoids any reference to sex as it takes thirty minutes to do what nature takes nine months to achieve. Using some perfectly adequate animated drawings, we follow a lone ovum (I don't think the word egg is ever actually used) as it makes it's way out of it's harbour and into the path of millions of marauding sperm. The narration decides not to inform us of just how those little critters get into her tubes, but does inform us of one lucky cell that penetrates the ovum and that's how li…

Nothing particularly special here aside from the The Raid-style fight choreography, which is easily the film’s strongest aspect. The plot feels thin and generic, and the main character lacks the kind of presence that makes me sympathize with him. The villains and overall storyline are also painfully cliché. One thing I genuinely liked, though, was the lawn mower scene—it felt more intense than most of the actual fight sequences in the movie. Another thing: I honestly couldn’t find any real connection between the title and the story itself. Throughout the film, I kept trying to understan…

"Pickles" is a circus elephant who is neglected by his owner and left, caged, to survive on a diet of tinned dog food. Naturally, he's pretty unhappy with his lot so readily accepts the offer of freedom from "Leticia" - a woman famed for freeing animals from inhumane captivity. All "Pickles" wants to do it go home to India and so off via London (where we don't have yellow cabs!) he sets. His erstwhile owner "Leapin' Lord" wants his prize possession back, though, and so engages "Hit Pig" - the acclaimed bounty hunter - to get him back. There aren't that many elephants flying commercial, so trac…

When a bed-ridden professor's literary assistant is found dead, clutching only a pinch-nez (spectacles) with a particularly wide bridge, "Insp. Hopkins" (Teddy Arundell) is perplexed. He really hasn't a clue, so seeks the advice of "Holmes" (Eille Norwood) and "Watson" (Hubert Willis). They set off to visit the home of our enigmatic academic (Cecil Morton York) - a man who seems suddenly to have quite an appetite, and slowly piece together a mystery that involves some alleged last words, four lamb cutlets and some bookshelves. To be honest, the clues here are really just as easy for us to work…

63/100 An MMA hero, who rejected God as a child when his father was killed, finds himself the central figure in a war between an exorcist and a black bishop. Although somewhat long-winded, this was a compelling story with extremely rich and likable characters. As such, it's firmly character driven with less scares and action than you'd expect but still very effective with what they had. No surprises but certainly worth a watch and, with a modicum of violence, and practically no bad language, fairly suitable for young teens ...if they don't scare too easily. --DrNostromo.com…

**_What happens to a sergeant and a private during the Battle of Hurtgen Forest_** If you ignore some glaring issues, this is a decent tale focusing on a couple of war-weary soldiers in late 1944 on the border of Belgium and Germany (Aidan Bristow and Matthew James McCarthy). It was obviously influenced by “When Trumpets Fade” from twenty years prior and “The Last Rescue” from three years earlier, both of which are superior productions. One eye-rolling anachronism is a reference to ’Nam when America wouldn’t have troops there for another twenty years. I’m assuming it was a joke b…

I actually liked this one more than I assumed from the few things I had seen about it before. Seeing it independent of the Jackson Lord of the Rings movies: First off, being adapted from the books, the story and characters are classic and quite nice. Of course, considering they put two of three LotR book into just about two hours, there's a lot of the story's content missing. But I think the movies does a quite good job, considering that limitation, to show the big, most important parts. The characters look, considering the age of the movie, quite nice, the voice actors do a good…

When the "Old Man" who has provided "Chauncey" (Peter Sellers) with an home for most of his life dies, this erstwhile gardener finds himself homeless. Dressed in his finest handed-down suit and carrying his home in his suitcase, he emerges into the outside world without a clue. He has no money; he has nowhere to say, nothing to eat - he has no friends. He's like a full-sized infant whose only exposure to reality has been through the television. Luckily, he has a bit of a scrape with the limousine of "Eve" (Shirley MacLaine) and she takes him back to their palatial home to recuperate. She is in…

The eponymous rock star (Anne Hathaway - or perhaps Margot Robbie or Natalie Portman?) has had some sort of an incident with her erstwhile friend and fashion designer "Sam" (Michaela Coel) and so when she turns up unannounced at her home in the middle of a thunderstorm, she can't be too surprised that the reception she gets is just as wet. She needs a frock. A frock to end all frocks. She needs "Sam" to design it for her, as only she really understands her; knows her; yada yada... Barring a few interventions from her assistant "Hilda" (Hunter Schafer) and some briefly menacing scissor-wielding…