4.0
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Shock, R, 83 Mins Churned out during the slasher boom of the late ‘70s/early ‘80s, this drab and dated 1981 horror has a few minor points still worth mentioning: 1) Star Melissa Sue Anderson was best-known...
5.0
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Shock, PG, 126 Mins Co-writer/director (and former Monty Python member) Terry Gilliam had just emerged from the whole David and Goliath battle for his Brazil (1985) when he began work on this hopelessly...
8.0
Points
Shock, G, 507 Mins The box of this sweet four DVD set suggests that that the Rolling Stones are one of the greatest rock bands of all time, and after watching more than 12 hours of them strutting their...
8.0
Points
Shock, M, 536 Mins The Doors might have only been active from 1965 until 1973 (two years after the death of ‘Lizard King’ frontman Jim Morrison) and yet they remain one of the greatest and most mysticised...
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Paramount, M, 131 Mins It’s been four years since the fourth M:I epic (Ghost Protocol), and that’s more than enough time to whip up something fittingly and spectacularly silly for this fifth instalment...
6.0
Points
Paramount, M, 126 Mins The fifth Terminator film (in 3D, of course) is also a somewhat blurry rejigging of the first, and revels in absurd time paradoxes and complicated chronological rewritings to the point...
7.0
Points
Shock, MA, 105 Mins Character star William H. Macy’s debut as director (and co-writer, executive producer and co-star) is a tough and uncomfortably moving affair that hasn’t made many friends but still...
7.0
Points
Shock, M, 107 Mins One of the mightiest of all original cult/midnight movies, this stark, semi-factual B+W drama from 1969 was directed for a short while by a young Martin Scorsese (who was fired for being...
6.0
Points
Shock, M, 95 Mins Something of a lost classic , director Larry Peerce’s raw, uncomfortable drama must have seemed pretty confronting in 1967, and nowadays still feels tense, as his intriguing cast gets...
7.0
Points
Shock, MA, 99 Mins British cartoonist and graphic novelist Posy Simmonds’ Tamara Drewe (filmed by Stephen Frears) was a Thomas-Hardy-influenced attack on pretentious, snobby English types, and this movie...
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