the magnet (1955)

"What you wanted for lad?"
Johnny Brent (James Fox) is an inquisitive and loveable 10 year old scamp, forever getting into scrapes. Then he trades an invisable watch to a younger boy for a powerful magnet, and trouble really starts.
A wonderful insight into the everyday life of boys of Britain at the time. A charming, gentle and underplayed comedy.

cleopatra jones (1973)

"Right on sweet sister!"
Special agent Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson) is one bad-ass lady, entrusted with the job of breaking up the drugs rings wherever they be. When a community drug treatment house is busted, Cleo focuses on drugs boss Mommy (Shelley Winters) and a clash is inevitable.
Expect lots of jive talk, bad acting, passable directing, outta sight clothes, and lame fight scenes...welcome to blacksploitation man.

night of the hunter (1955)

"Beware of false prophets that come to you in sheeps clothing."
A wandering preacher breezes into small town West Virginia. Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) speaks to God, steals cars and has a vocation to kill gulible widows for their money. One such is Willa Harper (Shelley Winters), whose husband was hung for robbing a bank of $10,000. $10,000 that was never recovered. Powell desires that money and finds out that her children may know where the money is. Now if only he could get them to talk.
An extraordinary film, that incorporates elements of film noir, expressionism, and horror into a childs fable; set in a slightly unreal and surreal world. A masterpiece directed with wit and imagination that needs investigating.

mix me a person (1962)

"Old enough to swing."
Teen juvinille delinquient around town, Harry Jukes (Adam Faith), is caught up in the murder of a policeman. Only one person seems to believe he didn't do it, Dr. Anne Dyson (Anne Baxter). When her husband (Donald Sinden), the defending QC and the police refuse to help her, she has to convince Harry's friends to help in her investigations.
A twisting plot, that relies on plenty of coincidences, is held together by an undercurrent of youth issues. Due to the budget there is much bad acting, and not necessarily from the 'kids'. I'm looking at you Sinden!

murder at the gallop (1963)

"Good morning, Inspector."
Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) is on hand to see the death of old Mr Enderby, and she is convinced that he was frightened to death by his morbid fear of cats. As the police are convinced otherwise, it is up to Mrs Marple to investigate, with Mr Stringer (Stringer Davis) in tow.
The second of four Miss Marple's staring Margaret Rutherford and another classic, mixing mystery, thrills, and comedy into a buddy movie, with the oldest detectives in town!

carry on at your convenience (1971)

aka Carry on Round the Bend.
"All right brothers we need to keep a full picket line."
Boggs and sons is a toilet manufacturer plagued by lightning strikes, due to a militant union representative. Because of this the owner decides to sell the firm. Something that the workforce are dead against...Meanwhile there is the annual works outing to the seaside...
This time the Carry On team, not known for its political nouse, attack the problem of union militancy in the 70's. Some moments of merriment, but mostly displays a lack of imagination. If you like the formula you'll love it, otherwise...

from russia with love (1963)

"Oh James, James... Will you make love to me all the time in England?"
James Bond (Sean Connery), the most obvious spy in the western world, slums it in the bars of Istanbul, with a Russian beauty Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi). All done so he can get his hands on the Lektor, a Soviet encryption device stolen by SPECTRE.
Bond is back, and the second Bond film sees the pattern set, with the first appearance of Q, Blofeld and instigated the now traditional pre-credits sequence which would be repeated ad nauseam for the next forty years and countless productions. As usual this is a fun spy thriller, where you disengage the brain and let it wash over you.