Director Stephen Amis Starring Shane Jacobson, Magda Szubanski, Manu Feildel Rated PG Score 3/6 Laid-back suburban everyman Darren “Dazza” Cook loves to entertain his friends and neighbours with his weekly backyard barbecues, utilizing the ancient rum-barrel barbecue that family legend prescribes as having come from Cpt James Cook’s Endeavour. Unexpectedly thrust into the limelight by…
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Dear Dictator
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Director Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse Starring Michael Caine, Odeya Rush, Katie Holmes Rated M Score 3/6 When an outcast teen, Tatiana, gets a school assignment to write a letter to a person she admires, she jokingly writes to a foreign dictator named Anton because she likes his fashion sense. Anton takes to the admiration,…
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Director Vicky Jewson Starring Noomi Rapace, Olivia Jewson, Abdellatif Chaouqi Rated MA Score 4.5/6 A bodyguard and counter-terrorism expert Sam takes a job protecting Zoe a rich young heiress. Neither party is keen on the arrangement until a violent kidnap forces them to go on the run. I seem to remember that the reason why…
The Bombing
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Director Xiao Feng Starring Ye Liu, Bruce Willis, Seung-heon Song Rated MA Score 2/6 During World War II, five different Chinese people fight their way through Japanese Air Force attacks to protect an important military machine in Chongqing, 1940. This is another movie that is known by a couple of different titles. Its original title…
Hornblower Loyalty & Hornblower Duty
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Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Paul McGann Rated M Score 5/6 Hornblower is given a dangerous mission to deliver an emigre French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Paul McGann Rated M Score 5/6…
The Scorpion King: The Book of Souls
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Director Don Michael Paul Starring Zach McGowan, Peter Mensah, Nathan Jones Rated M Score 0.5/6 The Scorpion King teams up with a female warrior named Tala, who is the sister of The Nubian King. Together they search for a legendary relic known as The Book of Souls, which will allow them to put an end…
Hornblower: Mutiny & Hornblower: Retribution
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Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, David Warner Rated M Score Hornblower: Mutiny 5/6 & Hornblower: Retribution 5.5/6 Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but obviously mentally unstable captain and eventually must mutiny. In Hornblower Retribution Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica…
Hornblower: The Frogs and The Lobsters
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Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Antony Sher Score M Rated 5.5/6 Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France. The Frogs and the Lobsters is the last of the movies that had its name changed for the US market where it is known as…
Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil
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Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Cherie Lunghi Rated M Score 3.5/6 Lt. Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own. This is another one I liked, partly because its another example of Hornblower’s poor track record early on in his career…
Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
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Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Denis Lawson Rated PG Score 4/6 While Lt. Hornblower studies for his promotion examination, he is distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew. For those of you keeping track The Examination for Lieutenant is another one of the movies in the series to have…