the cocoanuts (1929)

"Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've got a nickel in my pocket."
Hammer (Groucho Marx) runs a hotel in Florida, badly. Things can only get worse when Harpo and Chico turn up and a lady's diamond necklace goes missing. A script that betrays its stage origins, throwing in some chorus line work and some songs between the Marx Brothers quickfire patter, in their first outing on the big screen.
Whilst the musical interludes offer nothing much, it's the Marx Brothers that you come for and they offer up some tried and tested routines that never fail to entertain.

blood on satan's claw (1971)

aka Satan's Skin. The Devil's Touch.
"Angel has taught us some new games."
17th century England is a religious place, full of suspicious villagers. But the the young of the village start to turn against their elders after Angel Blake (Linda Hayden), finds an artifact, and starts to lure the other teenagers into forming a coven. The elders don't like the way things are panning out and bring in a judge (Patrick Wymark) to root out the evil.
A classic horror, playing up the atmosphere and the sexual allure of Linda Hayden.

"This here is a clean county."
Three prostitutes (including Uschi Digard), work the local truck stops, using a CB radio to tout for business. That is until a local journalist sniffs out a story, and tries to stoke up some outrage.
Only view if you want to watch a load of men getting drunk in a variety of fields, as not much happens other than that."

angels hard as they come (1971)

aka Angel Warriors.
"These guys love me." Long John (Scott Glenn) and his drug dealing biker friends hook up with The General (Charles Dierkop) and his biker gang the Dragons to party in the desert. All goes well until a hippy girl is killed and the General blames Long John.
Co-written by Jonathan Demme, this is like a 101 of biker films, with all the components of a good exploitation there, just lacking that little something.

lifeboat (1944)

"Maybe they can answer that."
A freighter is torpedoed by a u-boat, which itself is sunk. One lifeboat makes it out of the termoil, holding a businessman (Henry Hull), a journalist (Tallulah Bankhead), several crew from the ship (including William Bendix & Hume Cronyn) and one German from the submarine (Walter Slezak). Can they put their differences aside and survive.
Centered around a stunning performance by Ms Bankhead, who provides pathos and black humour to wrap around a script that provokes much thought.

a bay of blood (1971)

aka Twitch of the Death Nerve. Reazione a catena.
"I don't kill as a hobby like you do."
Following the murder of a Countess, her family scheme to take over her seafront property. Meanwhile a group of hippies arrive for a beach party, but are very quickly dispatched one by one.
Considered to be the grandfather of the slasher movie, this is a stylish experiment in exploring inventive ways to kill off it's actors, but shows little interest in using an engaging plot.

13 assassins (2010)

"lose your life, but make the enemy pay."
The brother of the shogun, Lord Naritsugu (Gorô Inagaki), is a psychopath, whose sadistic actions threaten to destabilise the government and the peace. So Shinzaemon (Shinzaemon Shimada) is enlisted to create a small team of samurai with one aim, to kill the lord.
A thoughtful drama interspersed with shock inducing violence and gore.