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Showing posts with label 1979. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1979. Show all posts
Sunday, 9 February 2025

Murder by Decree (1979)

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 "I prefer bad manners in the theatre to violence in the streets..." This film is an odd and intriguing beast. It's very well ...
Monday, 13 May 2024

Schalken the Painter (1979 TV Film)

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 "The darkness is unsafe..." This is an intrertestying little curiosity, a one-off Christmas ghost story broadcast on the BBC in l...
Monday, 1 January 2024

Motorhead- Overkill (1979)

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Happy New Year! I used to listen to this album a lot in my late teens, but for some reason haven't given it much thought for years. Hear...
Sunday, 11 April 2021

The Brood (1979)

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 "It has no teeth, but you'd get a pretty nasty bite from these beak-like gums..." Nasty divorces and unpleasant custody battl...
Sunday, 31 January 2021

The Mystery of Chess Boxing (1979)

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 "To play chess, one must be as calm as a mountain." This film, let us be clear from the start, is utter pants. The pace and tone ...
Saturday, 15 February 2020

Dracula (1979)

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“Oh, I loved to be frightened..” This was the last of the famous Dracula films I’d seen and, while it doesn’t rival the recent BBC TV se...
Friday, 31 May 2019

The Driller Killer (1979)

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“You should let him stick it up your ass once. Use KY jelly. It won't hurt." This is the original video nasty which, in this co...
Sunday, 1 July 2018

Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

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"He wanks as high as any man in Wome!" This is, surely, the greatest comedy film ever made. By miles. I suspect that’s an unco...
Sunday, 20 May 2018

Mad Max (1979)

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"They say people don't believe in heroes any more!" I'd never seen Mad Max until now. It's been a film I'd be...
Saturday, 9 September 2017

Apocalypse Now (1979)

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"I love the smell of napalm in the morning..."  I may have waited until I was forty but at last I can claim to have seen this ...
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Wednesday, 16 March 2016

Moonraker (1979)

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"I think he's attempting re-entry, Sir!" Meh. This is Bond by numbers. It's just a collection of barely connected se...
Sunday, 5 February 2012

Alien (1979)

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“You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you?” I should have reviewed this film ages ago. It’s certainly ...
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