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Bloodsport

October 25, 2020by Alex Chafey Leave a comment

Jean-Claude Van Damme plays army officer Frank Dux (the missiles from Brissiles?), who enters an illegal and exceptionally brutal martial arts contest for reasons which aren’t entirely clear. Probably just […]

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Big

October 19, 2020by Dan Meier Leave a comment

13-year-old Josh Baskin (David Moscow) yearns to be big and learns the misery of adulthood when he wakes up as a full-grown George Osborne lookalike (Tom Hanks). Directed by Penny […]

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

October 11, 2020by Alex Chafey Leave a comment

A detective (Bob Hoskins) with a long-held grudge against cartoons, gets drawn into Toontown when popular actor Roger Rabbit (Charles Fleischer), who stars as himself in cartoon serials, is set […]

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Twins

August 4, 2020by Alex Chafey Leave a comment

In Arnold Schwarzenegger’s comedic debut he plays Julius Benedict, a genetically superior superhuman, who discovers his long-lost twin (Danny DeVito) made from all the genes that were left over. His […]

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Red Heat

May 26, 2020by Dan Meier Leave a comment

A Russian officer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and a Chicago cop (Jim Belushi) team up to bring down a drug kingpin (Ed O’Ross) in 1988’s Red Heat. There are parallels with Rocky […]

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Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger

February 7, 2020by Dan Meier Leave a comment

Two years before his death, this 1988 documentary spotlights one of the world’s greatest drummers and bandleaders.  Dick Fontaine and Pat Hartley’s fly-on-the-wall style avoids the usual retrospective approach by […]

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Jazz Odyssey: Bird

November 29, 2019by Dan Meier Leave a comment

This is a 1988 biopic of Charlie Parker (Forest Whitaker) directed by one-liner comedian and arch nemesis of Tim Westwood, Clint Eastwood. Bird fits in the Elephant Man/Gandhi category of […]

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Quiz Call: 976-EVIL

August 11, 2019by Dan Meier Leave a comment

Category is: ‘Films with numbers in the title’ – ironic that a Quiz Call answer would be a film about a cursed phone line. Freddy Krueger himself (Robert Englund) directs […]

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Rambo III

June 25, 2019by Alex Chafey 2 Comments

In his third outing (wisely not called First Blood: Part III) Sylvester Stallone’s traumatised vet turns Afghanistan into Afgunistan when he goes there to rescue his only friend, Colonel Trautman […]

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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

June 6, 2019by Dan Meier Leave a comment

The bastardisation of John Carpenter and Debra Hill’s masterpiece continues with Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, even though he already returned in the first film. Released and set […]

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