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North Sea Hijack

1980

Rewatched 03 Jan 2017 18

"Both my parents died tragically in childbirth."

North Sea Hijack pretty much begins with Lloyds of London realising that oil rigs are a potential target for terrorists or criminals and that they bloody well ought to have a plan in place just in case.

So they bring in ffolkes, a man with his own private band of marines, who figures out how one would go about hijacking a rig and from there, how he would foil such a plan.

fflokes,…

2001: A Space Odyssey

1968

Rewatched 03 Apr 2018 6

Happy birthday to 2001, yes, it's been 50 years since it went on general release. Just think on that for a moment, 50 years. Think about how far cinema had come in the half century before Kubrick made this film and how far it's come in that same amount of time since then and you realise, if you hadn't already, what an extraordinary achievement it is.

Now I'm sure there are people out there who like to decry the love…

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The Insider

1999

Rewatched 13 Jun 2026

This is a film which hits very different now to how it did in 1999; in fact, it hits very different to how it would have even in 2025.

It is, or at least this is how I thought of it, a film about Big Tobacco, about the lengths to which they were prepared to go in order to silence a whistleblower who was prepared to risk all, or all that he had left to risk after he had been…

Lancashire Luck

1938

Watched 11 Jun 2026

When Mrs Loveday hits the jackpot on the football pools to the tune of some £500, she decides to pack the family, her husband and two grown-up children, Betty and Joe, off to the country to a cottage she’s purchased off the local landowner where she plans to run a tea room.

There will be misunderstandings about the identity of Sir George Maydew, who sold them their new home; there will be a clash with Sir George’s mother, Lady Maydew,…

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Beware the Slenderman

2016

Watched 27 Jan 2017 1

The story of how two pre-teens, both of whom appear to be delusional and one of whom has been diagnosed as schizophrenic attempted to murder a friend of theirs believing that they are acting under the instructions of Slenderman.

What that lies at the heart of their delusion and what makes it so difficult to break is exactly the same thing that lies at the heart of any religious belief you care to mention, which is the impossibility of disproving…

Live and Let Die

1973

Rewatched 25 May 2017 4

007 Rank-A-Thon

At last a realistic Bond villain, at least in terms of his aims and the method by which he's setting out to achieve it, flooding the US with a couple of tons of opium (it sounds much less threatening than heroin) which will be given away for free thereby knocking out all the competition in one fell swoop. I'm not sure if it would actually work out like that, but it's not completely unrealistic, and what's more the…