tim_dearing-1's reviews

What a wonderfully engaging film. It's a package of emotional loss and resettling, genuinely amusing side lines, light romance and drama with a one percent Science Fiction content used to tie it all together.

If you're expecting to watch a Sci-Fi indy film with all that may encompass, I suspect you're going to be one of the ones on here using the incredibly tired cliche about having wasted an hour and three quarters of their life.

The Sci-Fi element is more of a small Segway to bind all the other components. It's a weird spike - that's it, it doesn't need explaining, the film doesn't require it.

The acting, story, setting and outcome make up for what I was originally expecting in every way and left me with an emotional feel good lift that was far from expected and very much appreciated and enjoyed.

Highly recommended as a light but emotional feel good drama - with a teensy tiny bit of Sci-Fi thrown in.

Having just watched this, I can't help but feel it's being marked very low. The acting is certainly not terrible, the movie is well shot and by the end, you'll realise the story is pretty good.

However, if you're watching this thinking it's some kind of American Werewolf in London or any other film along those lines, you'll be sorely disappointed.

It's not lycanthrope based, it's not a horror, there are no thrills and...... thankfully, it's not comparable to Blair Witch project as someone bizarrely seems to have expected .

It is however fairly well made, and retains your attention throughout to an unexpected conclusion.

It's well worth a try.

Who doesn't like a good retribution film? I certainly do.

John Wick, The BeeKeeper, Nobody, there's plenty to choose from. Some are mildly entertaining, others an excellent on screen scrap with well choreographed fight scenes and awesome effects that leaves you thrilled and happy.

DMS has none of these points. What it does have is a build up which starts off with reasonably humorous conversations between the villains and some wonderful exchanges which establishes the realistic interplay between them.

But it doesn't take long to spiral down a steep and dark slope towards a visceral and completely gripping finish - oh and what a finish.

I don't want to spoil anything, but I can say I was taken in completely and revelation when it comes, is a jump in a very cold bath of realisation indeed.

If you think Jason Statham is a badarse not to be messed with, then I have to tell you that Paddy Considiness performance in this ultra realistic dip into nightmarish reality makes Jason's characters seem like your favourite uncle.

This film will not leave you happy, it will not leave you excited, it will however leave you with the rare sense that you've just watched a retributional masterpiece that will stay with you.

Incidentally, all the acting is wonderful, as is the bleak landscape and dwellings, but a huge big up to Toby Kebbell who evidently only had three days to get to grips with the script after the previous person to play the part dropped out. Great performance. The only other retribution based film to even get close to this is The Limey, but this has that pegged for sure.

Get it, watch it - remember it!!

Imagine if Wes Anderson, Roger Coreman and Tim Burton made a short budget Science fiction movie.

Cue "Explorer from Another World", a parody of every Sci-Fi B-Movie you ever saw and many you didn't.

It is a total blast from start to finish and with a run time of just forty four and a bit minutes, it just flys by.

It's gloriously hammy, beautiful to look at, has a great period soundtrack, it's full of humour, the cast ensemble are a total hoot, it's wildly gory and an absolute grin fest.

Pound for Pound more entertaining than many of the big money movies I've seen for the last few years on a chicken feed budget. And yet, it's professional and polished in every filming way.

If this is really Woody Edwards first film, then he's a genius in the making.

Do yourself a favour and watch it, go on, you know you want to......

Basically, if you're setting yourself up to watch your big Friday/Saturday night movie, this isn't the one to go for. Indeed, I'd give it a miss on several other days as well. Although, on one of those days when you're bored stiff, you've somehow managed to watch everything else that you fancied and this is the only thing available, then give it a go. The acting of smaller part players is quite laughable, the plot - dodgy though it is - is distinct madness, and many other aspects are also pretty grim.

However, on the plus side, it does contain several proper good laughs, the main two actors are not terrible, and in general, it has a quintessential charm that garage made movies can sometimes have.

Overall, far from the worst thing I've seen and given the budget of what looks to be about three hundred quid, not a bad job.

To see a film or TV series you really enjoy is a great feeling. However, to discover something this epic that was made 35 years ago that you previously knew nothing about it an incredibly rare treat indeed.

I bought a box of old DVD's for £5 in a charity shop. Must have been thirty discs in there in paper sleeves. Mostly rubbish or popularise TV series - couple of Friends discs, a few Kevin and Stacy etc etc. Then two discs called Nightingales. Looked at them, then for four months, didn't even put them in a player to see what they were. Oh my word, then I did!

I watched both discs right through all on that same evening. Finished at four in the morning and went to bed like a giddy school child.

These programs cut the mustard like VERY few other comedies. Father Ted, Black Books, maybe a couple of others. If you like your comedy main stream, to have a noble parable for an end, or to contain easy going situations that are more see-through than a piece of glass, then keep moving. If you like completely off the wall, unfathomable plots, great great acting with brilliant word play, then there is virtually no other series like this.

I am stunned, and in many ways sad that this series isn't better known or more available. Surely this is THE hidden gem of comedy series.

Find it - download it (if that's possible), buy the discs (if they are even still available), borrow it (if you have a friend who's taste is so great that they already have it), but what ever you do - GET IT & WATCH IT!

Trevor Oblong needs your views!

It starts off a little disjointed and doesn't flow as well as it might, but that may partly be because of course I'm reading subtitles and therefore may not be following as well as I may be as a native tongue. However, after twenty five minutes, it comes together very nicely and offers some great scenes. It has a decent level of suspense and a perfectly adequate sprinkling of dark scary effects. Acting is well on par with anything else at this level of cinema, and I've no idea why someone has whittled on about Japanese disrespect or that the female in the movie was just to tick a box. Some people are truly bizarre.

Overall, very enjoyable to watch and doesn't seem overly long even at two and a quarter hours.

Give it a go.

If you feel like watching this because it's a Liam Neeson movie and you think you know what to expect - then think again.

This is not the usual light but generally enjoyable tat that passes away an hour or so.

This has way more depth, a vastly superior story, characters that are far more fleshed out and where required, thoroughly loathsome.

Set in Ireland amongst the hight of the troubles that plagued them with tit for tat killings in the seventies. Each side with what they thought were justified reasons for killing.

With that in mind, also don't expect that it places Liam in the heroic part - I'll leave you to decide that for yourself.

It's a well made relatively slow burn film, that's certainly worth a watch, and offers a glimpse of the acting craft that you might be forgiven for normally forgetting that Liam Neeson obviously has.

This is one of the best U. S. series ever to be produced and this episode stands very tall.

The whole group perform well as always, but stealing the show by a wide margin is the genius that is John Astin. His performance is fantastic. No one comes close to be able to play a man who has a screw loose better.

Excellent.

Rinse and repeat.

This is one of the best U. S. series ever to be produced and this episode stands very tall.

The whole group perform well as always, but stealing the show by a wide margin is the genius that is John Astin. His performance is fantastic. No one comes close to be able to play a man who has a screw loose better.

Excellent.

I enjoyed this film a quite a lot. It has a great deal of quirky charm whilst covering a subject of mental illness without being maudlin.

The writing is witty and at times rather funny and the characters well portrayed and very well acted.

The resemblance to the Don Quixote original story is greater than you might expect, but it's modern setting does it justice.

Overall it is a gentle ride with a good story, fine acting and some good wit.

I can't really give it a 10, and it's certainly not for a general audience - no special effects, no murders, indeed, not much of anything of note, however in that lies its charm, so it definitely deserves a seven and a half and I suspect I will watch it again, which is the very essence of a good experience.

It's not really bad, but it certainly isn't really good either. There's some great people in it, but they just seem to using tired lines that all come from other movies. A number of times it's cringingly predictable. There's a barely perceptible laugh on one or two occasions, anything more, I find difficult to recommend. The likelihood of this film having the charm for a second viewing is slim beyond belief. It's a movie for the time you find yourself stuck in a house with nothing to do and you literally have no other choices. Under those circumstances, it'll just about make the grade, but only just.

So I found this almost by accident and I've got to say, I have seen films that must have cost 1000 times more to make, that are far less entertaining.

It's obviously been made on a bit of a shoestring budget, (indeed, during the end credits, it even points out that all of their gear was stolen the night before they started shooting) but they really did an alright job. There's no real bad acting and the story is more than acceptable.

It's hardly Oscar material, but you could do a whole lot worse if you're bored and want some Indi entertainment with some quirky laughs.

Well done to all involved.

Really, all the marks I give for this are based around the fact it contains some people that I've always liked. Ian Ogilvy, Lee Majors, Danny Trejo, Paul Barber, etc. And in essence, I have seen a lot worse films, but if you're expecting too much, you're in for disappointment. The plot is net curtain thin, the b part actors and henchmen are really pretty awful and the editing and dialog are pretty poor at times. Also, the lady who played the investigating police officer called Moore was really awful, plus she looked like maybe she was made up to look really odd, maybe it was the intention of the film as I can't imagine anyone would choose to have things done to make them look like that on purpose.

However, in the end, it provided a basic level of entertainment and there was a element of fun, so if you're caught short for something to watch, there are worse things out there........probably....... somewhere..........with a bit of a search.

Take a dash of Eraserhead, add a pinch of your most harrowing nightmare and throw in a dollop of mad as a box of frogs disturbing visuals and Voilà.

In a World full of thoughtless and woefully unimaginative movies comes a work of genius. So far from the mainstream as to be utterly ridiculous in the best possible way.

I can't imagine that this will be for everybody, or indeed, many at all, but for those who find its stunning visuals and incredible stop motion artistry appealing, I believe you will watch open mouthed from start to finish.

To even attempt to sum up its story would be foolish beyond belief. It is not a movie but an entire experience.

It's surreal brilliance and I can't recommend it highly enough.

The ver entertaining Car 54 hit a new hight with this episode with some wonderful mini sketches all pieced together under the guise of a Christmas show at the precinct for the officers family and friends.

Some surprisingly good singing, an excellent HMS Pinafore parody, and several other extremely well written and presented skits.

Nat Hiken really was a bit of a master.

Enjoy.

I cannot believe that nearly seventy years on this program is so powerful. I can only imagine the effect it had on the viewing public at time of release.

By far the best of the three versions of 1984 with Peter Cushing putting in an inspiring performance.

Hardly a cheery watch, but impressive nevertheless.

I am some what caught unawares by this film. It's certainly a TV movie by style, quality of picture and list of actors - with nothing derogatory intended - and yet it has managed to capture with its subject matter an entirely new take on old established facts.

I don't want to spoil anything or give anything away, but the thought that was put into writing the answers the main character gave when asked about things, were really quite excellent. They were almost without flaw and incredibly thought provoking.

Is it Sci-Fi? Not in the usual sense, but since it is fiction and uses a premise that is certainly away from fact, then the title suits it fine.

Don't expect bells, whistles or effects, it's not that kind of film. I'd give it a ten, but as a production, there were flaws, so it's only fair to mark it down one. Maybe it won't suit everyone with strong beliefs, but that's not for me to presuppose.

Really quite and entertaining film that is far removed from the normal fair.

Wow, that was not at all what I was expecting. It's not comedy, it's not horror, it is the very darkest of British black comedy, which means not much comedy at all. However, go into it without those previous preconceptions, and you've got to say, it's a pretty good film.

Don't rely on it for Christmas cheer, but for enthralling watching, good acting and a mostly unexpected layout, you'll get more than you bargained for.

Happy Christmas everyone, well perhaps not everyone.......

Tim Blake Nelson heads up a great Western treat. Complete with a good plot, great scenery and some good shooting scenes. A solid quality of acting backup means that the whole movie gels together well

If you like a good build up, a solid plot and a well concealed ending, then you are in for a whale of a time.

This really is a bit of old school and all the better for it.

This film has all the hallmarks of a future cult classic. The acting is not at all bad, the sets are relatively good for a movie with such an infinitely minute budget, the humour is great and the entire plot is one step to the left of box of frogs mad bonkers. What's not to love?

If you think you're going to be watching a movie with the effects of the latest Star Trek, the budget of Guardians of The Galaxy and the plot complexity of a John le Carré novel, you're in for a rude awakening. But if you love completely independent movies with wit, originality and a dose of mad cap Dark Staresque plot lines, you're in for a genuine treat.

Enjoy................. or not.

Completely unexpected gem. I can't see it being widely appealing, but its combination of dark humour, plot twists and excellent acting was a real treat.

Quintessentially English in its layout, but completely left field in the best possible way.

Four principle actors all turn in an excellent performance and first class writing. Plus Les Dennis - I wouldn't have expected it, but clearly he deserves a thumbs up. Well done chap.

Quite atrociously bad in every respect. No story to speak of, certainly no followable plot, absolutely no acting, and without seeming offensive (as I'm certainly no looker), some of the ugliest people I've ever seen on film that are supposedly attractive!

Add to the list of awfulness the fact that there is, visually speaking, NO shark attacks what so ever, then you get what is basically a lot of stock footage interspersed with chronic camerawork and no story line.

Seriously, put your body parts in a blender and watch them liquify - it's more fun to see.

This is a movie lovers dream, and I am a movie lover. Why? Because I'm nearly sixty years old, and for some reason, I've never seen it before, and more importantly, it is an incredible film.

To discover on your Sunday off a film that is so well made, so well constructed, so well acted and so intense is an unbelievable treat. And it is all of those things and much much more. This is the very meaning of edge of the seat stuff.

Forget what seems like the stone age technology of what is portrayed as cutting edge, pay no attention to the old fashion presentation, so far removed from todays slick standards, what matters here is the acting, the plot and the subject matter, and everything here is spot on.

Watch this film when you know you have the time, uninterrupted and without pause, and If it doesn't leave you with a cold tremor about how something like this could well have been representative, you're already dead!

A rare ten out of ten.

(as a foot note, I have subsequently watched the 2000 remake and, good though it is, it does not posses the outright tension and poignancy of the original).

This is an incredibly entertaining journey into ET sheep style. They doesn't miss a trick in including references to just about every Science Fiction film of note from the last seventy years, from Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (look out for Milliways - the restaurant at the end of the Universe - in the high street!) to Close Encounters and many many more. It's an absolute blast.

With a surprisingly touching ending and laugh out loud moments galore you'd have to be short on heart not to find this mix of beautifully crafted stop shot animation and Sci-Fi parody a winning way to spend ninety minutes.

Just as much a work of genius as many of the movies it emirates.

Enjoy.

The first show as an introduction was adequate, the second much better. The third now has the characters established and was completely laugh out loud excellent.

However - if you're expecting obvious humour, such as one might find with How I met your Mother, Friends, Big Bang Theory or Two and a Half Men, then you are watching the wrong program.

Unlike some on here, I won't tell you those programs are rubbish just because I don't like them, only that that style of humour is most definitely missing from this show. From where I sit though, this is a huge positive. This is proper sarcasm and back humour of a grand scale. Brilliant acting by Hugh Laurie et al. He has comments that would make Basil Faulty proud.

All the notable performances are wonderful and fitting, the set design is excellent as is the camera work, writing and directing. It's all first class stuff. Try it, it may just float your galactic boat, but if it doesn't, don't be an arse and say it's rubbish, just tell us you didn't like it.

I am genuinely looking forward to the rest.