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Favorite films

  • Yellow Submarine
  • A Hard Day's Night
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  • The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash

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  • Bone Bandit

    ★★½

  • Executioners from Shaolin

    ★★★

  • Challenge of the Masters

    ★★★

  • Self

    ★★★½

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Bone Bandit

1948

★★½ Watched

I like Pluto's imaginary blueprint map that appears at the start, and the side-on views of the underground burrow.

Executioners from Shaolin

1977

★★★ 1

I have to concur with some of the other reviews that say that this takes a while to get going, but that it does improve after its time skip.

There's a spectacular staircase leading up to a temple; at one point, a character rolls down its entire length, which I can only conclude is where John Wick 4 got that idea. I also liked the design of the training dummy, filled with grooves holding marked ball bearings, which is used…

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The Dark Knight Rises

2012

★★★½ Liked 5

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

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1969

★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

The first time I saw most of the Bond films was when ITV showed all of them over consecutive weeks in 1999, in the run up to the release of The World is Not Enough. However, even though I videotaped OHMSS at that time, it went unwatched for several years. I really regretted that, because when it was finally viewed, it turned out to be one of my favourite of all the 007 movies.

If there are three things that…