I hope this fails spectacularly...it looks so artificial. That isn't the movie I grew up with, and I will happily keep my money in my pockets and not pay for this ridiculous bastardization.

Dodes'ka-den (1970) – The story of this film is about a group of people living in a slum area on the outskirts of Tokyo. Some of the inhabitants of the slum include a homeless beggar and his little boy who dream of owning their own home (their actual home is the frame of a car), a couple of day ...

Red Beard (19635). An arrogant young doctor named Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama), having been trained in a medical school in Nagasaki, aspires to follow in his relative’s footsteps and become the personal physician of the Shogunate. He is sent to a small rural clinic that caters to the poor; it is ...

Thanks for the encouragement Paul!

THE LOST WORLD is a filmic abomination that needs stricken from the record! :lol:


It's absolutely awful Michael, you're right.

Tell me what I'm missing, as these were my thoughts from the last viewing (which echoed what I thought the first time):

-Goldblum's character completely useless in ...

THE LOST WORLD is a filmic abomination that needs stricken from the record!

High and Low (1963). Kingu Gondo (Toshiro Mifune), an executive for National Shoes, is approached by some of his colleagues to help them take over the business. They want to make cheaper shoes in order to increase profits, but Gondo refuses (unbeknownst to them, he has secretly been planning to buy ...

I was always disappointed with SPACEBALLS. Watched it again with Theo and...yeah...it just wasn't that funny. Too little too late a decade after STAR WARS. Weak casting in Bill Pullman and Daphne Zuniga. Waste of John Candy and Rick Moranis' time too. The John Hurt bit at the end with the Looney ...

Wow - that is a heck of a set list. I am jealous!

Sanjuro (1962). In this sequel to Yojimbo , Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune) is asleep at a shrine when he is awakened by the conversation between nine young samurai who believe their clan has been corrupted. Iori (Yuzo Kayama) tells the others he believes his uncle, Lord Chamberlain Mutsuta (Yunosuke Ito ...

Yojimbo (1961). In the Edo period, a ronin named “Sanjuro” (Toshiro Mifune) wanders by chance into a small town in which two rival yakuza gangs are fighting for control of the gambling trade in the area: one led by Ushitora (Kyu Sazanka) who is aligned with sake merchant Tokuemon (Takashi Shimura ...

I've been DUNE-d out, though the packaging is cool!


I cannot get enough of it...lol...I have the Arrow special edition set but it does not include the extended 177 minute cut, something I woulf love to have. The price is insane for it...tempting but I don't want to spend all that money for a ...

Oh man, that Dune set is super tempting...

I gave the movie 4 ½ stars. Here’s my letterboxd review.

https://letterboxd.com/johnkholm/film/mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning/

The entire movie has an apocalyptic tone and is filled with religious and mythological imagery. All of humanity is threatened with extinction by an evil entity ...

The Bad Sleep Well (1960). In the midst of a massive bureaucratic corruption scandal, Koichi Nishi (Toshiro Mifune) marries Yoshiko (Kyoko Kagawa), the daughter of the Vice President of Public Corporation (a government funded entity). It seems that the company was involved in a major bribery ...