Steve P

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Favorite films

  • My Neighbor Totoro
  • Aliens
  • Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
  • Once Upon a Time in the West

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  • Talking Doctor Who

    ★★★½

  • Doctor Who: The Star Beast

    ★★★½

  • Marvel Super Hero Adventures: Frost Fight!

    ★★½

  • A Haunting in Venice

    ★★★

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  • The Marvels

    The Marvels

    ★★★½

    One of the best things about your children growing up, is you can finally go to the cinema with them to see films you actually have an interest in seeing.

    In comparison I had to suffer through the new Paw Patrol movie with 6 year old Jack last week, so I was very much looking forward to taking my daughter Sam to see The Marvels. It doesn’t seem long ago I was writing about her being a little girl. She’s…

  • Trancers: City of Lost Angels

    Trancers: City of Lost Angels

    ★★★

    Charles Band Filmography #053b

    I’ve now seen two out of three segments from the unreleased 1988 anthology film, Pulse Pounders. The Evil Clergyman served as a follow up of sorts to Band’s Lovecraft output From Beyond and Re-Animator and starred his regular Lovecraft actors Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton. Trancers: City of Lost Angels was the first follow up to Trancers and ultimately ends up being a bridge between the original and sequel. Just like The Evil Clergyman the source of…

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  • Dora and the Fantastical Creatures

    Dora and the Fantastical Creatures

    Swiper, no swiping!

    Said literally no one in the audience.

  • Crash and Burn

    Crash and Burn

    ★★½

    Charles Band Filmography #065

    Not quite sure why I’m on a science fiction b-movie kick. Crash and burn is another Charles Band directorial effort too but it’s definitely not Trancers level stuff. Set in the now not too distant 2030, we see a typical dystopian future, an inhospitable climate, a collapsing civilisation and a totalitarian mono-corporate state that’s outlawed computers and robots.

    Our hero, a Unicom dispatch rider Tyson Keen (Paul Ganus) is held up in a pirate TV station…

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  • Ice Age

    Ice Age

    ★★★½

    Much better than I remembered. Then again any film is improved by listening to my daughter laughing her head off throughout.

  • Thunderball

    Thunderball

    ★★½

    Nobody ranks Bond better for Bond-a-thon

    Quick question first... Is "You swim like a man" the worlds worst attempt at a pick up line?

    Right, I thought it would be fitting to review this one underwater... So scuba diving gear on... here we go

    The ....... prooobleeem ......... wwiiithh ......... shooooting .......... looots .......... of ........... thhhe ............ fiiilm .............. undeeer .......... waaater .......... is ............it .......... is ........ alllll ........... sooooo ............. slooow.......... It ........... gets ........ really......... booooooring.…