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Heads of State

  I do watch things created after 2002 I ended up enjoying this. It is silly summer film. It is smart enough to wink at the camera. It also takes a moment that there are real stakes involved here. We are reminded that people die. The red shirts get a few lines here and then The opening shot of the tomato throwing contest in Spain is ludicrous. Paddy Constantine for example walks through the fight barely getting hit.  As regards the plot the U.S President- Played by John Cena-Who does a decent job and the British PM have to team up to stop an international conspiracy - interestingly someone has been reading the news There is a move to undermine NATO. A pity they did not pick a pretty Italian actress to play Meloni Someone forgot Poland is a NATO member though.  Airforce One has gatling guns  It is interesting that it's unremarkable that Elba is playing a black British PM.  Elba is a tall, handsome man but can go jogging unremarked and unbothered in London, if he ...
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BAP Union

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The BAP Union visits London.  Barco Armada de Peru, An training ship built in Callao    
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Spaceballs

 So I got round to watching this I have never seen it all before. I think a few bits and pieces  Brooks has made better- I didn't laugh at many of the jokes here. That said this would have had a much younger audience. The film is quite meta but then Brooks always is- There is a video sequence where they fast forward to understand the plot.  The virgin alarm is interesting - I bet that won't fly in the sequel.  Oh its Joan Rivers as the C3P0.. Don't look at my can... Pizza the Hut was amusingly hideous. Good for John Hurt for doing that cameo I will make a point of seeing the sequel. I can cross it off my list
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Land of the Lost

 Forgettable Ferrell remakes a 1970s show- Which I have never seen. I have only seen referenced a few times. A pity because the premise of Land of the Lost, sounds interesting if played straight Why is a middle aged professor listening to show tunes funny for anyone but an 11 year old? Ferrell's character smokes a pipe - which I assume is lifted from the source material  You can have decent dinosaur effects with a budget of 100 million Ana Friel is still pretty This film was made during  a particular spot of dinosaur science when they thought the T-Rex was smarter than it was - They have a T-REX remember faces.  Oh there are lots of poo jokes Ferrell, Friel and Danny McBride mess about with CGI and props. There is very little new here. McBride and Ferrell are better elsewhere.
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Kiss Me Deadly

 I watched this on a recommendation of Conor Fitzgerald  Meeker I recognize from paths of Glory- I learn he was married to Salome Jens- the female changeling from Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Meeker is a fine actor. He is physically imposing- I can see why the censors felt compelled to cut a lot of the fighting and violence. Meeker does it too well Hammer slaps his way into getting what he wants. A teen bullies dream  The violence is hard. There is an an attempted mugging/murder on Hammer - and Hammer kills the man  This film left me uneasy and unsettled. It feels raw even after nearly 3 quarters of a century. There is a lot of Noir in Magnum P.I Magnum riffs, and rattles to the beat of Noir. You could even seen a similar relationship with Hammer and his mechanic, as TC and Magnum. People are wearing Hawaiian shirts Even the what'sit could be from Magnum P.I- Indeed Meeker is almost a facial hair free Tom Selleck  So it feels familiar but it is colder, sharper and...
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Harris Yulin

 1937-2025 Husband- Actor- UCLA graduate Sometime beau of Fay Dunaway  An Actor, who graced Deep Space Nine, Fraiser and Buffy  In Frasier ``a Word to the WiseGuy'' Dr. Niles Crane : You see, last week, my lady got on the wrong side of Larry Law, and since then, certain, shall you say, complications have arisen. And now things are hot, hot, hot. And we hear you're the man to turn on the air conditionin'. Jerome Belasco : I sense you're a film buff, Dr. Crane. Deep Space Nine: Duet Marritza : I am alive. I will always be alive! It's Marritza who's dead! Marritza, who was good for nothing but cowering under his bunk and weeping like a woman. Who every night covered his ears because he couldn't bear to hear the screaming... for mercy... of the Bajorans...
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Moonlighting ( Pilot)

  This is was different... I remember watching Moonlighting on its first run- and I remember seeing repeats at 11 am on weekdays during the 1990s. I watched the pilot with Robyn once Cybil Sheppard is radiant. The show makes no bones of this- Her character Maddie is a former model. The pilot opens with a montage of Sheppard's magazine covers. Strangely her character once she discovers she is penniless refuses point blank to go back to modelling - I get the feeling a contemporary  TV show would dive deeper into that reluctance  Sheppard changes costume a lot.  I finished this with a lot of respect for Sheppard-If for no other reason her climbing in high heels  She is great. It is interesting to see a female protagonist after watching Magnum, and Simon and Simon  Willis I found hard to take. The way he delivers dialogue I assumed he was doing coke  We have a comic Italian chef breaking plates. Which could be pilfered and exchanged for money  We also...
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