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Locked-Down Cinema
Film reviews of all the films I should have seen but didn't...
What do you do if you receive a Christmas present that is a membership to the British Film Institute when there's a pandemic on...?
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"Flash Gordon", Dir: Mike Hodges, 1980
I have to admit that despite eagerly anticipating the film, when I eventually saw it I was left with a feeling of disappointment...
Ravi Swami
5 hours ago5 min read
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"Thieves Highway", Dir: Jules Dassin, 1949
"Thieves Highway" is a little gem of a film that centres on communities struggling to make ends meet in the immediate post-WWI period of America..
Ravi Swami
May 194 min read
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"Black Mirror" Season #7 - Writer: Charlie Brooker
AI is a clearly a prescient and controversial subject and it's inevitable that a sci-fi series such as "Black Mirror"...
Ravi Swami
Apr 145 min read
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"The Electric State" Dir: The Russo Brothers, 2025
There are some films that I have to admit I will watch more out of a sense of duty, in this case because of my interests in robots..
Ravi Swami
Mar 164 min read
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"Heavy Metal", Dir: Gerald Potterton, 1981
"Heavy Metal" - the 1981 animated feature film based on the comic / prototype graphic novel "Heavy Metal"..
Ravi Swami
Mar 35 min read
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"Annie Hall", Dir: Woody Allen, 1977
..it's very likely that I missed seeing at the time of its release Woody Allen's "Annie Hall"..
Ravi Swami
Feb 253 min read
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"The Gorgon", Dir: Terence Fisher, 1964
"The Gorgon" (Dir: Terence Fisher, 1964) was a product of Hammer films, a British film company..
Ravi Swami
Feb 254 min read
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"The Gorge", Dir: Scott Derrickson, 2025
The gorge hides a dark secret hinted at by the outgoing operative of Teller's side, who describes it as the gateway to hell...
Ravi Swami
Feb 186 min read
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"Billion Dollar Brain", Dir: Ken Russell, 1967
"Billion Dollar Brain" did however mark the end of a 3 film cycle, the middle film being "Funeral in Berlin"..
Ravi Swami
Jan 193 min read
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"Don't Bother To Knock", Dir : Roy Ward Baker, 1952
As you might expect Monroe sizzles in the role of Nell, switching between being both alluring and vulnerable...
Ravi Swami
Jan 125 min read
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"Krull", Dir : Peter Yates, 1983
The plot enjoys a superficially novel premise that references the fairy tale aspect of the hugely successful "Star Wars" that preceded it..
Ravi Swami
Jan 123 min read
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"L'Amour Fou", Dir: Jacques Rivette, 1969
It's been described as a classic of French cinema and Rivette, being a writer for "Cahier's Du Cinema...
Ravi Swami
Dec 17, 20244 min read
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"Mississippi Mermaid", Dir: Francois Truffaut, 1969
Skimming through the plot, which concerns Belmondo as a wealthy but still single heir to a tobacco factory on the island of Le Réunion..
Ravi Swami
Dec 4, 20242 min read
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A Bunch of Belmondo's..
With free streamers, very often filled with unauthorised content, it's possible to view those films you've heard about but that aren't...
Ravi Swami
Nov 26, 20244 min read
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"The Party", Dir: Blake Edwards, 1968
I have to admit that I have avoided watching the 1968 Blake Edwards, Peter Sellers vehicle "The Party"..
Ravi Swami
Oct 14, 20244 min read
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Watch out!...It's "The Green Slime" !!, Dir: Kinji Fukasaku, 1968
Oh, "The Green Slime" is a film I've been searching for high and low on various streamers without much success..
Ravi Swami
Sep 23, 20244 min read
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"The Vast Of Night", Dir: Andrew Patterson, 2019
The aim here seemed to be to suggest that this is a tall story but with a likelihood of being about events that actually happened..
Ravi Swami
Sep 19, 20244 min read
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"The Organizer", Dir: Mario Monicelli, 1963
it features the actor in a very uncharacteristic role as a scruffy bespectacled academic in a film about 19th century Italian mill workers
Ravi Swami
Sep 11, 20243 min read
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"Pépé le Moko", Dir : Julien Duvivier, 1937
Julien Duvivier had directed Jean Gabin in a number of films prior to 1937's Pépé le Moko..
Ravi Swami
Jun 21, 20243 min read
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Belmondo, Belmondo, Belmondo !...3 films.
All three films share the fact that they were either written by or directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, as frequent collaborations..
Ravi Swami
Mar 12, 20247 min read
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