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A Murder Most French

Colleen Cambridge

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The City of Light is surging back to life in the wake of war, and its citizens are seizing every...

Andy K (10823 KP) rated Real Genius (1985) in Movies

Jun 8, 2018

Real Genius (1985)

1985 | Comedy

7.8

(4 Ratings)

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80s Comedy fun!

When you are super smart and your parents want you to go to college at 15, you hope you get a roommate like Chris Knight. Super smart, of course, but he has also learned street smartz and how to relax and have fun as well as work. Now the smart club, faces the challenge of getting a large, high-powered laser beam to work. What's it all for?

Maybe a little far-reaching plot aside, the film has so many funny moments like ice in the hallways, a random guy living in your closet and swimming with student beauticians not to mention a great 80s soundtrack, it is hard not to love it. I have to admit, every time I hear "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" I think of "Real Genius".

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Andy K (10823 KP) rated The Fisher King (1991) in Movies

Aug 9, 2018

The Fisher King (1991)

1991 | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

8.2

(10 Ratings)

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I miss him every day!

It's truly astonishing that on August 11th, 4 years ago already, we lost this genius. Taken before his time was up. He brought all of us so much joy. His comic and dramatic ranges were amazing. He could have us crying with laughter or tears at any moment. He was that good.

His range in The Fisher King is right up there with his best performances. He plays the tormented homeless man with such raw emotion. You are not sure what to make of him at first, but eventually you fall in love with Parry and want him to triumph over his extreme adversity in every way.

Jeff Bridges is also fantastic as both the straight man and the knight in shining armor (literally) who wants to rescue his new friend.

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Andrew Kennedy (199 KP) rated Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) in Movies

Jul 17, 2019

I love the Python team it's a throw up which is best this or Life of Brian.
King Arthur (Graham Chapman) is given a quest from God to retrieve the Holy Grail. Hilarity and irrelevance abound follow.
Wether it's Palin's Sir Galahad and his trip to castle Anthrax, Idles Sir Robin bravely running away or Cleese as Sir Lancelot slaughtering half a wedding in a rescue attempt.

Scenes like The Black Knight, The knights who say NI, Tim the Enchanter and the amazing Scene 24 have all become ingrained into fans minds.
Even the opening credits are source of humour plus typical little Python-esque animations.
The ending is crazy but it only befits the film that has come before it. You never would have thought there was so much to learn about Swallows, African or European.

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David McK (3562 KP) rated Inception (2010) in Movies

Nov 20, 2019

Inception (2010)

2010 | Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller

8.4

(131 Ratings)

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Remember Leonardo di Caprio from Titanic?

He's virtually unrecognizable here.

Mind-bending action/adventure by Christopher Nolan - who directed The Dark Knight trilogy - following a team of crooks who specialise in extracting information from their targets subconscious whilst said target is asleep.

When a job goes wrong, Cobb (di Caprio) is thrown a lifeline by his target (Ken Watanabe): rather than stealing information, he wants him to implant an idea in another persons subconscious i.e. Inception.

With a quite impressive cast list - Leonardo di Caprio, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, that-now-grown-up-kid-from-Third-Rock-From-The-Sun (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Cillian Murphy, this might take a while to get going but is undeniably visually impressive once it does!

(snap-poll: does the spinner stop spinning at the very end? Yea or Nay?)