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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER After a tough week, Tanya Kaitlin is looking forward to a...
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Doctor Who - The Early Adventures: 3.4 the Sontarans
Simon Guerrier, Lisa Bowerman, Toby Hrycek-Robinson and Peter Perves
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Scott Tostik (389 KP) rated Wrong Turn (2021) in Movies
Mar 17, 2021
Little did I know.
The 2021 edition of Wrong Turn doesn't have deformed monstrosities stalking their prey through the woods and hills of the North Carolina. It doesn't have a spider monkey inbred that could climb a tree in ,4 seconds.
What it does have is an entire community of people living in the hills. A community that has their own laws. Their own court. Their own due process. And the results are quite impressive.
Movie begins off innocently enough 6 friends backpacking through the woods and hills of the mountains.
What follows is a messy, twisted romp that reminds me of the short lived tv series called "Outsiders". But with an R rating and some eye gouging and throat slitting and blood spilling...
I'm not gonna say it's a welcome edition to the Wrong Turn franchise... But it's really not a Wrong Turn movie... It should've been called The Foundation... Or even Wrong Turn: The Foundation... Would've made more sense.
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Tales From the Crypt (1972) in Movies
Sep 11, 2020
The Plot: In the film, five strangers (Joan Collins, Ian Hendry, Robin Phillips, Richard Greene and Nigel Patrick) in a crypt encounter the mysterious Crypt Keeper (Ralph Richardson), who makes each person in turn relive the manner of their death.
Milton Subotsky of Amicus Productions had long been a fan of EC Comics' Tales from the Crypt and eventually persuaded his partner Max Rosenberg to buy the rights. The copyright owner, William Gaines, insisted on script approval. The budget of £170,000 was higher than usual for an Amicus production, and was partly funded by American International Pictures. Peter Cushing was originally offered the part played by Richard Greene, but wanted to try something different and played the elderly Grimsdyke instead.
And All Through the House, Blind Alleys and Wish You Were Here were all somewhat remade into episodes for the Tales From the Crypt television show. Blind Alleys and Wish You Were Here were both changed.
I love the fourth wall breaking in this film and The House That Dripped Blood. Talking to you the viewer.
Its a great film, but a better tv series.
Shadows of the Workhouse
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A fascinating slice of East End life, from the No.1 bestsellilng author of CALL THE MIDWIFE, soon to...
David McK (3857 KP) rated War Machine (2026) in Movies
Apr 26, 2026 (Updated Apr 26, 2026)
Which might sound as a strange thing to be saying about this 2026 Netflix action adventure movie, but there is a reason: namely, that it derives a lot of its selling power from the fact that the star of the Jack Reacher TV series (so not Tom Cruise) is the main lead in this.
In what is, effectively, a movie that very-much-s stick to the traditional three act structure: intro, and boot-camp training (with breadcrumbs dropped for future payoff), main body where the star and his colleagues - initially believing themselves still to be on a training mission - are hunted through the woods by the War Machine of the title (that looks a bit like a grown up ED-209 from Robocop), and a final confrontation between the star and his enemy where he uses his smarts to finally defeat said War Machine.
No clue is ever given as to why these alien machines as susceptible to earth-based physics, or why they are even attacking ...
Still, if you can put that aside and prepare yourself in advance for a bit of Jingoistic ra-ra-America, it's an enjoyable enough ride.