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Clinic Exclusive (aka Sex Clinic) (1971)

Nice little thriller that goes through 2 distinct stages. The owner of a sex clinic uses her personal charms to give favours to the unsuspecting "patients" than blackmails them. This makes them rightly miffed so she really is doing it just for the money but making lots of enemies along the way. This part is a bit dull really and not in the least titillating even by 1971 standards. The 2nd is well written and tight as the therapist/madame get's her comeuppance. A good watch.

Late Night with the Devil
6.5/10.
Creepy.

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Anything, such as what you thought of it and if it's new or old or if it's good or bad or if it's in English or Russian or something. Why is everyone so bitter?

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You might try reading my full review in my review thread

I found the thread and read your review. I learned stuff about the movie. It sounds like you appreciated it for what it is and what it had to say. I don't know that it's my cup of tea though I'll forestall any judgment until I see the film, if I see the film.

I had forgotten that people have a spot for full reviews. Heh oops. Now I should remember.

Well I guess I’ll hold my breath awaiting your verdict

17-year-old Michèle Morgan's first major role in the pictures. I always liked her as an actress, and she was a natural right from the start. She plays a woman on trial for murder, Raimu's a local businessman who is serving on the jury. After the trial, and feeling fatherly sympathy for her, he gives her a job and a place to stay.

I was really enjoying this one, there's an easy charm to it, good acting, but it kind of unravels at the end. I get what it's doing and trying to say, but the execution was lacking - it felt off kilter, the conflicts had little bite to them and didn't lead to a wise and knowing capper.

For me, grades are often a quick shorthand to get an idea where I was on a film, rather than a set in stone absolute. but these types are difficult... my rating mindset throughout - 4, 4, 4... 2.5 - darn it. Average it out, with Michèle and Raimu being pluses

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Just an interesting aside, the lady that played the main character (Georgina Ward) was from fairly upper-class stock, daughter of George Ward, 1st Viscount Ward of Witley. She had to stand down from political aspirations after stills of this picture were released to the press.

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The Lavender Hill Mob - (1951)

There were many fun elements to The Lavender Hill Mob - amateur heisters Henry "Dutch" Holland (Alec Guinness) and Alfred "Al" Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway) make off with a fortune in gold bullion - £1 million worth, which in 1950 is quite the coup. They melt and recast it into paperweights to get it out of the country. Assisting are Lackery Wood (Sid James) and Shorty Fisher (Alfie Bass) - but of course not one single thing goes right, which means desperate improvisation. You can play "spot the stars before they were famous" - there's Audrey Hepburn in a small role, Robert Shaw, Desmond Llewelyn. It's action-packed, and Guinness absolutely smashes his performance out of the park.

8/10


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The Namesake - (2006)

Mira Nair directed Monsoon Wedding, which I didn't know about before watching this. I decided it might be worth a look, because The Namesake paints an interesting portrait of an immigrant family that spans a generation. Ashoke Ganguli (Irrfan Khan) marries Ashima (Tabu) in India, but they eventually settle in New York City where Nikhil "Gogol" Ganguli (played as a teenager/adult by Kal Penn) is born, marking a difficult transition from Indian culture to American. He also learns the painful truth of where his name "Gogol" comes from, sees a sister born and embarks on relationships that don't pan out. Full of sad, wistful moments that suddenly arrive in unexpected ways.

7/10


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Brigadoon - (1954)

This mystical, magical musical was savaged by the critics when originally released but you can hear a good word or two about it these days. I think age has helped mystify it even more. It's about a Scottish town which appears for only one day every century, and the two men - Tommy Albright (Gene Kelly) and Jeff Douglas (Van Johnson) - that stumble across it one ethereal day. I think being made in a studio makes everything look unreal, and that kind of helps build a dream-like atmosphere. In the meantime the songs and dancing aren't half bad at all.

6/10

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My wife and I watched On the Waterfront (1954, Kazan) this evening. Great, great movie. Even though I've seen it near a dozen times, I never really noticed or paid attention to the cat in Johnny Friendly's bar. Each time I watch that movie, I'm amazed at just how fast paced it is and I'll get to the iconic back of the cab scene and be thinking... "Holy shit! We're here already?" when it shows up at about 75 or 80 minutes into the film. It's a an A+ film and the older I've gotten, the more it has solidified its position as the better of the two iconic 1950's Brando films... the other of course being A Streetcar Named Desire. If you would have asked me at age 20, I would have answered Streetcar. Still both are great, but Waterfront resonates so much more with me these days.

Also I couldn't help but enjoy joking around with my wife as we were watching the very last scene and even though it's "film sacrilegious" the important thing to note is... OK, Terry has a busted rib, broken face, trouble breathing, likely concussion, can't hardly stand up or walk straight... buy hey, "You still comin' in to work today, right bro?"

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King of New York (1990)

It's sillier than I remember. Glam women nice clothes, like furniture. Seems like they're copying Miami Vice. This seems like a wannabe's vision of what gangster life is life. White guy, Walken no less (the whitest man alive, who is named "White" in the film) at the top of a black gang. The film is working hard to apparently argue that race is and is not an issue in this world. Mr. Chips is running the Crips. Everybody and their dog stars in this one. It's goofy world. Flash and style. Rules of winning have more to do with bravado than actual strategy or networking. Guy gets out of jail and just starts dropping bodies everywhere. Very cerebral... Film includes a clip of Nosferatu. So does Killing Zoe. Curious... This thing should've been titled, "Watch famous people play gangster." Fishburn chews the scenery so hard that he basically melts into a very unfortunate stereotype of an old school "G." He seems to know it, and just hams it up even more. He's got the volume turned up to 11. Oddest dammed movie.

The Merry Gentlemen (2024) Watched on Netflix. This is like a Hallmark Christmas movie combined with Magic Mike. It's silly and saucy, both naughty and nice. I'm not usually into buff shirtless dudes dancing around but I had fun with this.

I liked the trilogy.

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Slow burner in the first half, but worth waiting for. Excellent movie. For a boy born in Wales, Christian Bale is always believable as an American. Liked the movie so much I watched it twice.



Nice to see Mackenzie Davis in a lead rôle. Strange movie & James McAvoy very strange. Almost finished it & then didn’t bother.

1st Rewatch...Frank Sinatra had one of his best roles in this breezy adult romantic comedy. He plays Charlie Y Reader, a theatrical agent who has women running in and out of his apartment 24/7. but has a special place for a musician named Sylvia (Celeste Holm). He then meets Julie Gillis (Debbie Reynolds), an aspiring actress who gets cast in a show he is casting, but only considers an acting career a time-killer because her only real interest in life is getting married and having children. A subplot involves Charlie's childhood pal, Joe (David Wayne) moving in with him after leaving his wife and falling hard for Sylvia. This movie is a lot of fun thanks to a witty screenplay and a winning quartet of lead performances. And that Oscar-nominated title song is the best.

2nd Rewatch...This angry and violent docudrama seems to improve with each villain. F Gary Gray directed this sweeping epic that chronicles the beginning of gangsta rap through the development of a group of drug dealers and gangbangers who decide to channel their anger through music by organizing the group NWA. Things start to unravel when a smarmy music producer named Jerry Heller becomes their manager and turns out to not be taking care of business as he should be. I think a lot of scenes might be exaggerated in the name of entertainment, but if that was the mission, they nailed it. There are standout performances by Jason Mitchell as Easy E, Corey Hawkins as Dr Dre, Paul Giamatti as jerry Heller, and especially O'Shea Jackson, playing his real life father, Ice Cube.

6th Rewatch...This film version of the 1950 Broadway musical has a lot going for it, but I definitely have issues with it. I love the stage version, having actually appeared in three different productions of it, but this film has definite issues with the score and casting. Frank Sinatra, who plays Nathan Detroit, should have been playing Sky Masterson and his unhappiness with that comes through in his performance because Marlon Brando made a dreadful Masterson. Luckily Vivian Blaine and Stubby Kaye were allowed to reprise their Broadway roles as Miss Adelaide and Nicely-Nicely Johnson, respectively. The filmmakers also made some really unnecessary changes to Frank Loesser's iconic score, mostly in hopes of earning the film a Best Original Song nomination. Adelaide's "A Bushel and Peck" was replaced by the inferior "Pet Me Poppa" and "I've Never Been in Love Before" was replaced with the inferior "A Woman in Love". A song called "Adelaide" was written especially for Sinatra and adds nothing to the film. If Sinatra had played Masterson, they might have been able to leave in one of my favorite musical moments in the show called "My Time of Day", but there's no way Brando could have pulled that number off. Jean Simmons makes a lovely Sarah Brown, despite her less than thrilling singing voice and Michael Kidd's choreography is spectacular, especially that Crapshooter's Ballet in the sewer. Probably a better film if you've never seen it onstage. One of the very few movie musicals that I would like to see remade, which I hear is in the works.

1st rewatch.. Despite a terrific ensemble cast, this movie just doesn't work for me due to a confusing screenplay and some weird casting. The movie is set in Baltimore where we meet three women who work in the same advertising agency, navigating various relationship troubles. Beth (Jennifer Aniston) has been in a relationship with Neil (Ben Affleck) who refuses to even discuss marriage; Janine pretty much forced hubby Ben (Bradley Cooper) into marriage and now is driving him crazy because he won't quit smoking; Gigi (Ginnifer Goodwin) is a slightly pathetic girl who gets ghosted by Conor (Kevin Connelly( and starts taking romantic advice from Conor's roommate (Justin Long). The movie jumps all over the place and it's hard keeping track of who's chasing who and who's cheating on who and who's ghosting who. and Drew Barrymore's character seems to have drifted in from a separate movie. I also had trouble buying Long as this super stud expert on dating and relationships. I also discovered during this viewing that Jennifer Connelly is not the least bit funny, not an scintilla of comic timing. The appeal of this movie lies in your personal likability scale of the stars involved.

Yes, this is a strange film indeed. No real discernible structure which is not new for Ferrara who I'm not the biggest fan of anyway.