Recently Watched Films

I expected to like this more. It was OK at most. 

I wasn't that sold on the first Cat People movie but I thought I'd give this a look since it was short and on iplayer. And I'm even less sold on this one. Apart from the same characters it barely has anything to do with the original (especially not cat people). It completely changed genre between films. 

Unfortunately the quality explains why the app is free. The movie itself is pretty great, but the score they put to it, while not entirely unfitting, felt a bit too modern for a 1924 silent film. I think I also just experienced the equivalent of dubbing on a silent movie, since the intertitles were all in English and the ones that are done to look like newspapers fade into English before going back to German, rather than sticking actual subs over them like the restorations I've seen of movies like Nosferatu have. 

This movie is in dire need of a quality blu-ray release like those. 

Not ever seen this before. It was about what I expected. It had it's moments, but it wasn't amazing.

Really quite disturbing, strangely interlaced with shots of great beauty. 

Slow burning German language folk horror set in the 15th century. It's a bit hard to really follow what's going on, but it's very atmospheric and oddly compelling despite also being light on dialogue. 

Probably should have stayed banned on grounds of being crap. 

Abel Ferrara came a long way by the time it came to gems like King of New York and The Addiction. 

First in a series of Yakuza movies. Very gritty stuff here. 

Part 2. Very slight edge on the first IMO. Plus it has Meiko Kaji in it. 

Weird little horror found on the Arrow player. Decent but hardly revolutionary. 

I grew up with my family being involved in musical theatre my whole life, and Show Boat was the first show I ever saw, at the age of 5 in 1977. I'm pretty sure I'll never see a live production of it again.

This couldn't be performed today because of the racial stereotypes in it, including blackface scenes. The story itself takes a poke at the racism of the southern US states in the late 19th century, but it probably still wouldn't wash with modern audiences. There's some corny old comic elements to it as well, which are great fun. There are some great songs though. "Old Man River" is the most famous.

This version also stars Hattie McDaniel as Queenie, who later became the first black actor to win an Oscar (best supporting actress) which she won for her role as Mammy in "Gone With The Wind".