Is this a remake of the 80's movie starring Stacey Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis?

False Trail (2011) Swedish thriller with Rolf Lassgard (of Wallander fame). Cop returns to hometown to investigate a murder. Stunning scenery/setting.
Decent movie 7.5/10

Reign of Fire -6.5/10- Matthew McConaughey goes out hard.

Otley - Another little-known, obscure British comedy/drama from 1969. I saw this on TV once years ago.

Tom Courtenay plays Otley, a down on his luck waster, wandering around doing not very much, sleeping on Friends floors etc. On one such night his friend is assassinated in the next room, and Otely wakes up 2 days later in a field, and soon finds himself wanted for murder, and being sought after by various shadowy agency types.

It was written and directed by Dick Clement, who along with Ian Le Frenais wrote many successful British sitcoms such as Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen Pet.

It's a sort of very typically late 60's, kitchen-sink-meets-spy stuff. The dialogue is quite sharp for the time, and it has a very good cast...Romy Schneider, James Bolam, Leonard Rossiter, Ronald Lacey, Alan Badel, Freddie Jones (As an extremely camp villain, the sort you would just not get away with these days), Geoffrey Bayldon, Robin Askwith and Keneth Cranham.

Surprisingly for a minor British movie of the time, it has some decent chases and action sequences, notably a hilarious driving test which turns into a car-chase.

Courtenay is also very good in the role, and there shades of his famous Billy Liar persona as he adopts an upper class accent to pose as a spy.

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) - Hadn't seen this since the '80s. Thought it was alright. Some of the acting seemed a bit ropey, but the Freddy scenes carried it. 7/10

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) - 7/10
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) - 7.5/10

Just finished watching A League of Their Own (give it 9/10)

Forgot what a good film this is and, of course, it produced the classic line "There's no crying in baseball!". Tom Hanks and Geena Davis were terrific. It's a good film and made me laugh more than a few times.

Thoroughly enjoyed watching it again for the first time since it was released!

Lone Survivor. Quite good but I'd have preferred it to have been more accurate and less like Rambo.

Fertile Ground [2011]. Director: Adam Gierasch

5/10

Haunted house/psychological thriller. Been there before.

*******
Time to Remember [1962]: Director: Charles Jarrott

6/10

Edgar Wallace crime drama with a good turn from Harry H. Corbett as a dodgy estate agent.

*******
The Babadook [2014]. Director: Jennifer Kent

5/10

Overrated horror thrilller derived from a much better short.

The Whistleblower

7/10

Blood Father - 6.5/0 - This is the type of role you want to see Mel Gibson play, just wish he was more violent in it.

The Secret Life of Pets - 7/10 -

So many times I've nearly watched this, I must give it a go.

Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky

Sci-fi meditation on love, reality and life type shenanigans.
7/10




Bicycle Thieves - Vittorio De Sica.

Charming if a tad overrated.
8/10

Silver Streak 9/10... brilliant film, one of my favourites...watched as a tribute to the late Gene Wilder !

The Package [2013]. Director: Jesse V. Johnson

5/10

Dumb action movie with Steve Austin and Dolph Lundgren

*******
Rob the Mob [2014]. Director: Raymond De Felitta

5/10

Based on a true story of a young couple who do what the title suggests. The ending comes as no surprise.

*******
The Nut Job [2014]. Director: Peter Lepeniotis

5/10

Brendan Fraser voices an animated squirrel.

*******
Grand Piano [2013]. Director: Eugenio Mira

3/10

Ridiculous sub-Hitchcockian thriller with Elijah Wood as a concert pianist tackling a kidnapper during a concerto performance.

Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV -7/10-

Romantics Anonymous - 6.25/10. It got an extra .25 for being within 1hr 15 mins, with credits!

X-Men - 6/10

Terminus 8/10.

I enjoyed this movie a lot.

NB If you decide to watch it on Netflix, make sure you have the subtitles on - you'll find out why.

IMDB says it's not, but I haven't watched either one so can't really say.

Finding Dory - Decent sequel - 7/10

David Brent - Life on the Road - Didn't work in parts but poignant & very funny in places 7.5/10

Star Wars Force Awakens for the 2nd time - A wonderful 9/10

Edge of Darkness -7/10-

Mother's Day [1980]. Director: Charles Kaufman

5/10

Slasher film from the brother of Troma main man Lloyd Kaufman.

*******
One in the Chamber [2012]. Director: William Kaufman (no relation)

5/10

Cuba Gooding takes on the Russian mafia (and Dolph Lundgren) in this Romanian shot action movie.

*******
The Cat from Outer Space [1978]. Director: Norman Tokar

5/10

Silly Disney movie. The title tells you what you need to know.

*******
The Equalizer [2014]. Director: Antoine Fuqua

5/10

Denzel Washington is way too good for this daft action pic, in the role played by Edward Woodward on TV.

*******
The Remains of the Day [1993]. Director: James Ivory

8/10

And Anthony Hopkins is wonderful in this classy Merchant Ivory production

Alice in Wonderland (1951) - 10/10

I recently watched a few episodes from the first series of the original '80s Equalizer, and I thought they were mostly poor, even though I remember enjoying the show back in the day. Much prefer Woodward as Callan.

Anway, I watched both of the Morgan Freeman 'Dr. Alex Cross' films, Kiss the Girls (1997), and Along Came a Spider (2001). They were both alright, but not great films. I'll give them 7.5/10 and 6.5/10 respectively.