Inspector Waipong Wong has to put his life and resignation from the Hong Kong police department on hold to investigate his former partner’s mysterious murder. What he and his crack team of three other cops uncover is a plot far more sinister than they originally anticipated.Read More »
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Unashamedly nostalgic, and almost autobiographical, ‘My Favorite Year’ has a standout performance by Peter O’Toole, who was Oscar nominated. The clips we see of Alan Swann’s great roles come from O’Toole’s earlier films, Lord Jim and Great Catherine.
Produced by Mel Brooks, who wrote for Sid Caesar (Kaiser, geddit?) in the early years of television, the plot is a fictionalisation of Errol Flynn’s appearance on Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows”. In reality Brooks and Flynn never even met, and the show passed off without incident, but the film is a great alternative reality.Read More »
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A female friend of a sexually frustrated mother tries broadening her horizons with a sex orgy. Though avoiding it, the new feelings inside her cause her to force herself on her sleeping son. To her amazement, the seduction is mutual.Read More »
Sight gags, puns and non-sequiturs abound as bumbling Sgt. Det. Lt. Frank Drebin and his colleagues of Police Squad solve various puzzling cases.Read More »
After discovering that a group of car thieves may have something to do with his father’s untimely death, Steve pursues the criminals and attempts to capture them as well as prove his prowess as a racecar driver.Read More »
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Just married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a baby boy and generally struggle through life. Chen works long days in a restaurant, while Lily does the housekeeping, and daydreams of setting up their own business – which Chen does not want to do. When Chen lets his colleague Fok seduce him down a path of mounting gambling debts, he is recruited as a drug courier for a shadowy Chinese triad. Suddenly he realises that if he and Lily get their own enterprise this could be their only means of escape.Read More »
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Two elderly World War II buddies are living – and dying – together in their small home. One becomes a patient where salvage-worthy, older attributes are combined with useable, younger body parts. He returns, unrecognized by the other.Read More »
A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.Read More »
Nederlands Film Festival wrote:
Four difficult teenagers come into conflict with their bungling parents. The battle escalates when the mother tries to seduce her daughter’s tennis teacher and the children turn the villa into a heavily armed fortress. A classic theme, the struggle between parents and children, but in this black comedy it gets completely out of hand, in an unusual and bold way, while the parents’ authority is completely undermined and they eventually come off worst.Read More »