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Nate and Hayes 1983
AKA Savage Islands. Low-rent Indy ripoff with a well cast (and surprisingly adept at the rough and tumble) Tommy Lee Jones as a roguish, late 19th century, Pacific pirate. Loaded with 80s violence, largely flavourless and directionless, but a couple of good chases and exotic locales help, and it's still better than Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
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Texas Chainsaw 3D 2013
OK, here’s the thing. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, now almost 40 years old, is a paragon of grime and primal force still unmatched in horror cinema that no amount of remakes or rehashes can dilute. This latest cash-grab is linked by a prologue set immediately after the events of the original, which shows how the extended family members of saw-wielding Leatherface were essentially lynched by the townsfolk, with only a baby surviving. In the present day a young woman…