white cargo (1973)

"I really don't think this is a good idea."
Daydreamer Albert Toddey (David Jason) manages to get caught up in the white slave trade in seventies suburbia, along with stripper (Imogen Hassall).
Sub-par comedy, watchable only if looking for that sleezy seventies vibe, or to spot some tv regulars such as David Jason, Dave Prowse and Sue Bond.

della (1964)

aka Fatal Confinment.
"Why should I sell my property...I'm not in need of money."
A property company wants to develop Royal Bay and they send Barney Stafford (Paul Burke), to meet the reclusive owner Della Chappell (Joan Crawford) and pursuade her to sell her section of it. Whilst there he meets Jenny (Diane Baker), her equally reclusive daughter, and they hit it off, but he soon realises that the pair are harbouring a dark secret...
Concieved as a TV series that fell through, so the enterprising producers turned this pilot into a film instead. It betrays its soap origins, but is lifted by Joan's smoldering performance.
American, Drama, Four Star,

irma vep (1996)

"You are mysterious like Irma Vep. You are beautiful like Irma Vep. You have magic like her."
This deconstruction of the film making process sees Chinese movie actress Maggie Cheung arrive in France to star in a remake of the French silent classic 'Les Vampires'. She soon finds herself caught in the middle of the films politics, ego's and intrigues. Whilst the director René Vidal (Jean-Pierre Léaud), struggles to get the film made.
An interesting take on French new wave, that goes nowhere, is a fun journey.

i'm a cyborg, but that's ok (2006)

aka Saibogujiman kwenchana.
"If only I had one reason for existance..."
Young-goon (Su-jeong Lim) is sent to a mental hospital, as she believes she is a cyborg, and plugging herself into the main's didn't do her much good. There she meets and falls for Il-sun (Rain), another patient, who spends his time playing table tennis, but can he get her over her fixation that cyborgs don't eat, before she dies of Malnutrition.
A quirky romantic comedy, directed with hyperreal verve by Park Chan-Wook.

the big knife (1955)

"I'm sure I'd much rather see a snake than a Hollywood producer."
Successful Hollywood actor Charles Castle (Jack Palance) is pressured by his agent into signing a contract with a low rent studio, in the guise of Stanley Shriner Hoff (Rod Steiger), against the advice of his wife (Ida Lupino). But they hold a trump card over him, a cover-up that could potentially ruin his career.
A melodrama that suggests Hollywood management are little better than that of gangsters, in their amoral pursuit of money and fame at all costs, in this downer of a story.

factory girl (2006)

"I think everyone wants to be famous."
The truely tragic story of the poor little rich girl Edie Sedgwick, who had plenty of psychological problems, which only worsened when she plunges herself into the ferment that was the sixties New York art scene and Andy Warhol's factory in particular. Edie (Sienna Miller) comes to the attention of Andy Warhol (Guy Pierce), due to her being from old money, whilst also being beautiful and an habitual scence stealer. All attributes that Warhol loved. But what happens when you are no longer the flavour of the month factory superstar?
The film in which Sienna Miller proves she does actually act. Unfortunately this plays loose with the real story and tries to provide drama by playing off Warhol against a Bob Dylan character, played with tedium by Hayden Christensen. More entertaining if you don't already know Edie's life story.

shrooms (2007)

"It's just a story, it's just a story."
Some American's head into an Irish forest to find and trip on magic mushrooms. One of their number, Tara (Lindsey Haun), unfortunately eats a deadly mushroom by mistake, but against all odds survives. This though doesn't prove bad enough to stop them taking a trip. Then one by one they start to disappear, with Tara foretelling each event. Can they hold it together long enough to find out what's happening, and is it really happening? After all they are tripping on 'shrooms!
Well made piece of hokum, that relies on you to go with the stupidity of the participants, for you to gain enjoyment from this. Otherwise you'll think this is an amalgam of horrors: a blending of horror's sub-genre's that manages to not satisfy any of them.