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• The Eagle Has Landed

  The Eagle Has Landed 1976

  

  Ethan Lyon ★★★★ 2

  1st John Sturges (followed by The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven)

  Comfort Food: Film Version. I've seen this something like four times now, though not for nearly ten years.…

• Lovers Like Us

  Lovers Like Us 1975

  

  Scott Kelly ★★★

  In the mid-seventies Catherine Deneuve was as beautiful and prolific as ever - but wasn’t exactly in the midst of run of masterpieces. Her typically icy and aloof persona is…

• Real Genius

  Real Genius 1985

  

  Scott Faulkner ★★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

• Absolute Beginners

  Absolute Beginners 1986

  

  Scott Faulkner ★★★½

  Set in the summer of 1958, ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS (from the novel of the same name) is a strange mashup of then-burgeoning "teen" culture and gang violence/racial unrest in England. It…

• The Aristocrats

  The Aristocrats 2005

  

  mrbalihai ★½ 6

  This is either your bag of filth or it isn't.

  I prefer this Bag of Filth.

• Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five

  Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five 2000

  

  mrbalihai ★★★★

  Sixty years before bands with names like Big Bad Squirrel Nut Cherry Poppin' Voodoo Zipper Daddies launched the swing revival's fifteen minutes of fame, Louis Jordan was frying up jumpin'…

• Road to Morocco

  Road to Morocco 1942

  

  mrbalihai ★★★★ 2

  We're off on the road to Nirvana
  That Kundalini was tough on our spines
  (hit me with a snake-bite kit, Dad)
  What's my Dharma, where's your Dharma?
  We're lookin' high…

• Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour

  Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour 1985

  

  Shaunna Quin ★★★★★

  I'm using this round of pandemic to time travel but where I only go to concerts OKAY????