The US vs John Lennon (2006)

This is a wonderful documentary by writer/directors David Leaf and John Scheinfeld. Shows up the hypocrisy of so-called democracies (in this case the US) that spout endlessly about freedom of speech and then immediately try to battle those who try to exercise that right.

I was left with a number of lasting impressions about this film:
- that Lennon was genuinely frightened of something happening to him (and backed off from his public appearances and support for groups like the Black Panthers as a result)
- astonishment that a man could spend over two years in prison for selling two marijuana joints
- that Nixon was easily the single most evil man ever to be elected to high office
- that the US voters were so out of touch with reality that they voted Nixon back into office in 1972
- that more than anyone else I can think of, Lennon touched a generation and the emotion over his death would not be seen until Princess Diana's death many year later.

While I don't agree with many of his methods or his style, the one thing Michael Moore achieved with the success of Columbine and Fahrenheit 911 was to raise the profile of the documentary. There have been some very good ones in the last few years and this is a beauty.


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Shoot to Kill (1988)

I always knew this film as Deadly Pursuit, but whatever it's name, this is a superior thriller from director Roger Spottiswoode (Tomorrow Never Dies). When a killer escapes into the mountains of Washington State to join a fishing party lead by guide Sarah (Kirstie Alley), FBI agent Stanton (Sidney Poitier) must enlist the help of mountain man Jonathan Knox (Tom Berenger). This is a 'fish-out-of-water' story, with city slicker Poitier struggling through the unfamiliar mountain terrain. But he gets his own back later in the film when the action moves to the city.

Spottiswoode keeps us guessing as to the identity of the killer, by throwing up some red herrings against all 5 members of the fishing party. Is the killer Andrew Robinson (Eastwood's opponent in the first Dirty Harry movie)? Or Richard Masur (who was in every second film of the 80s)?

Berenger is fine as the rough and surly Knox: as one character says "thank God for the wilderness - that's the only place someone like Jon Knox can feel at home!". But the film's highlight (apart from the spectacular scenery and wonderful score by John Scott) is Poitier. Has there ever been a more dignified actor to grace the screen? I can only think of Cary Grant as someone, like Poitier, who always seemed to manage to keep his dignity no matter situation the screenplay called for. Poitier was about 60 when the film was made, but you wouldn't guess it from the amount of hard physical work he has to do.

This one is a beauty!


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National Velvet (1944)

Ah, an old classic, this one. Elizabeth Taylor as the young girl with a love for horses, Mickey Rooney as the troubled young man, Donald Crisp as the wise father and a young Angela Lansbury well before her irritating "Murder She Wrote" days.

A timeless classic for all the family.


http://imdb.com/title/tt0037120/

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Down Periscope (1996)

I always feel like I need to apologise for liking this film so much. I know its completely predictable, I know some of the acting is dreadful, but I don't care.

I love silly movies that know they're silly eg Independence Day. I despise silly movies that try to pretend that they're not silly eg The Day After Tomorrow.

Down Periscope stars Kelsey Grammar (Dr Frasier Crane) as a submarine officer (Tom Dodge) who is overdue for his own command. He is given one last chance. The Navy in the person of Admiral Winslow (Rip Torn) wants to know if the defence systems could prevent a rogue diesel sub from an enemy country from launching an attack on the US. But Dodge's immediate superior, Admiral Graham (Bruce Dern) doesn't like Dodge and decides to take a hand by personally selecting a crew of the biggest losers and deadbeats in the Navy.

Grammar's enthusiasm carries much of the film. His broad grin and announcement "I love this job!" is infectious. I didn't recognise most of the cast with the exception of the usually obnoxious Rob Schneider as an over officious executive officer, Ken Hudson Campbell as the cook (he's Max from the Bruce Willis classic silly movie Armageddon), Harry Dean Stanton as the engineer and the always wonderful William H Macy as Dodge's war game opponent commander.

Lauren Holley plays the only female crew member, but the film is really stolen by standup comic Harland Williams as Sonar and Toby Huss as the radio operator (who does a great Sinatra impersonation).

I know it didn't get good reviews, but I love this one.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116130/

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When Eight Bells Toll (1971)

Alistair MacLean is one of those curious authors, much like Stephen King, who is incredibly popular as a writer but whose films tend to be great disappointments for their loyal readers.

I remember as a kid reading all of MacLean's books and enjoying them immensely up until his novels of the 70s changed from action thrillers to a band of guys spending more time talking (and drinking) than actually doing anything.

When Eight Bells Toll is a typical MacLean novel and was turned into a typical MacLean film. What the films could never capture was MacLean's 'boys own adventure style of writing that was exciting and tense and humurous. When Eight Bells Toll, the book, starts with the hero Calvert (Anthony Hopkins) confronted by a man with a gun in a dark room. We get a brief history of the Colt 45, as a reflection of the nervous ramblings of a man who may be about to be shot.

The film starts in exactly the same way, but without the ramblings its a somewhat flat scene, with no real tension. And that basically sums up the rest of the film. Robert Morley as Uncle Arthur, Calverts boss, tries to lighten the mood, Jack Hawkins appears as the millionaire Skouras and Corin Redgrave (to me the least known of the Redgrave clan, but imdb.com shows he's been steadily employed for a long time) plays Calvert's assistant Hunslett.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067976/

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Meteor (1979)

Between leaving James Bond in 1971 and the resurrection of his career in the mid-80s with The Name of the Rose and The Untouchables, Sean Connery made some real crap. Meteor is one such outing (although nowhere near as bad as Zardoz!) Connery plays Paul Bradley, a scientist who developed Project Hercules, a missile platform in space designed to destroy meteors that are going to hit the Earth. Of course, the bad guys (ie the military) have pointed the rockets the other way (ie China/Russia). Well, now a meteor is coming and Bradley has been asked by NASA head Harry Sherwood (Karl Malden) to come back and get Hercules working the way it should be. (Apparently NASA spent a fortune on this thing, but didn't bother getting a user manual!!!).

But wait, Hercules is not big enough for this rock! They must use Russia's equivalent platform. Bradley and Sherwood must fight the military in the person of General Adlon (Martin Landau) to get the help of Russian scientist Dr Dubov (Brian Keith!?) and his lovely translator/assistant Tatiana (Natalie Wood) so that the Earth may be saved.

Meteor is the kind of movie that could have been much better if only the writers Stanley Mann and Edmund North had thought through the logic of things a bt more. And the device of having Dubov speak only Russian may be realistic (not that realism belongs in this sort of film) but is really annoying.

And like all of these disaster movies, it has a cast that you instantly recognise and then almost as instantly realise that none of them had done anything worthwhile for a decade.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079550/

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Johnny Dangerously (1984)

Michael Keaton's 3rd movie (after Night Shift and Mr Mom) was Johnny Dangerously. This one is a great send up of gangster movies. Johnny Kelly (Keaton) is forced to go to work for Jocko Dundee (Peter Boyle) in order to pay for his mother's (Maureen Stapleton) never ending list of medical conditions. Johnny's younger brother Tommy (Griffin Dunne) is a lwayer and the two find themselves on opposites sides. Highlight is rival gangster Roman Malonie (Richard Dmitri) and his mangling of the English language - I think you'll enjoy this one you fargin bastich iceholes!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087507/

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