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The Hitman (1991) IMDb WikiData
The Hitman
director: Aaron Norris actor: Chuck Norris / Alberta Watson
other title: Omicidio incrociato / O Destruidor
After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts revenge on those who wronged him by going undercover as a hit man. He works to gain the reputation and trust needed in order to be accepted by the burgeoning Seattle-area criminal underworld, but it is all done in order to take it down from within.
A Separation (2011) IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB
جدایی نادر از سیمین
8.7 (7 ratings) director: Asghar Farhadi actor: Leila Hatami / Payman Maadi
other title: Nader and Simin, a Separation / Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer’s disease.
Beat Street (1984) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Beat Street
director: Stan Lathan actor: Guy Davis / Rae Dawn Chong
An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.
April 6, 2026 watched
Dance/musical movies not usually my thing, but I enjoyed this slice of 80s B Boy life from the Bronx.

Saw the start in the #SundayFunnies watch party on Mastodon, completed later.
Drama HipHop USA Musical RaeDawnChong
The Monster That Challenged the World (1957) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Monster That Challenged the World
director: Arnold Laven actor: Tim Holt / Audrey Dalton
other title: Il mostro che sfidò il mondo / O Monstro Que Desafiou o Mundo
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
April 6, 2026 watched
Has effects, characters and monsters not as terrible as the usual 1950s fare.

Watched in #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
Monster SciFi WatchParty Monsterdon Snail
An Eye for an Eye (1981) IMDb WikiData TMDB
An Eye for an Eye
director: Steve Carver actor: Chuck Norris / Christopher Lee
other title: Triade chiama canale 6 / Olho por Olho
Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.
April 5, 2026 watched
As an action fan, I've seen some real dreck. But this was actually a pretty well made thriller.

Sure it has its fair share of tropes, the fights aren't the most impressive I've seen, and I saw the twist coming a mile off, but it was coherent and well-paced and kept me engaged. After having just seen Norris in Slaughter in San Francisco and Lee in Starship Invasions, An Eye for An Eye was a relief!

(NB brief but delightful hamming from Stuart Pankin.)

Missed watching it in #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon, caught up with it later.
Mako SteveCarver ChristopherLee MattClark ProfessorToruTanaka
The Natural (1984) IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
The Natural
director: Barry Levinson actor: Robert Redford / Robert Duvall
other title: Il migliore / Den bedste
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.
Free and Easy (1930) WikiData IMDb
Free and Easy
director: Edward Sedgwick actor: Buster Keaton / Anita Page
other title: Le Metteur en scène / Easy Go
Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira with an agent, Gopher City's own Elmer J. Butz. Elmer likes Elvira and the shy Elvira likes him, but Mrs. Plunkett, a formidable woman, has little use for hapless Elmer. On the train west, they meet movie star Larry Mitchell, who takes a shine to Elvira and helps her meet MGM directors once they get to Tinsel Town. Elmer, meanwhile, wants to help Elvira with her career and he also wants to be her man. Movie stardom does come to the Gopher City entourage, but to whom is a surprise. And who will win the lovely Elvira's hand?
April 3, 2026 watched
Another early talkie where they were still throwing in everything & the kitchen sink. Just let Buster bust!

Watched in #Comedon watch party on Mastodon.
1930s BusterKeaton USA Comedon Comedy
Free Fire (2017) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Free Fire
director: Ben Wheatley actor: Cillian Murphy / Brie Larson
Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shoot-out and a game of survival.
March 31, 2026 watched
So there's this shootout... the end. :D

Does one thing, but does it well.

Trigger:
Mentioned on an episode of No Such Thing As A Fish
Action CillianMurphy UK 2010s MichaelSmiley
Starship Invasions (1977) NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
Starship Invasions
director: Ed Hunt actor: 罗伯特·沃恩 / 克里斯托弗·李
other title: Invasion der Raumschiffe / L'Invasion des soucoupes volantes
Captain Rameses and his Legion of the Winged Serpent brigade are out to claim Earth for their dying race. Out to save Earth is an alien guard patrol located in the Bermuda Triangle, the League of Races. LOR leaders warn Rameses that he's breaking galactic treaty rules. The alien villain responds by launching an invasion which telepathically drives Earthlings to suicide. The LOR implore UFO expert Professor Duncan to help them. Eventually, the two alien forces battle. Will the Earth be saved?
Critters 4 (1992) IMDb WikiData
Critters 4
director: Rupert Harvey actor: Don Keith Opper / Paul Whitthorne
other title: Critters - Seres do Espaço 4 / Critters 4 - Das große Fressen geht weiter
A super strain of genetically engineered mutants are designed to take over the universe, hungry to conquer the galaxy, with an appetite for mankind.
March 30, 2026 watched
Decent first act followed by... meh. Critters films need more critters!

Watched in #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon
Horror 1990s SciFi USA DonKeithOpper
Buddy Buddy (1981) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Buddy Buddy
director: Billy Wilder actor: Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau
other title: Amigos, Amigos, Negócios a Parte / Victor la gaffe
During a high-profile Mafia testimony case in Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed neighbor contemplates suicide over marital problems.
March 30, 2026 watched
Despite reuniting the classic comedy team of Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon & Walther Matthau, this US remake of a French hitman farce is a swing and a miss.

Watched in #SundayFunnies watch party on Mastodon.
BillyWilder PaulaPrentiss 1980s USA Comedy
The Foreigner (2017) Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb
The Foreigner
6.3 (7 ratings) director: Martin Campbell actor: Pierce Brosnan / Jackie Chan
other title: O Estrangeiro / El extranjero
Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car bombing. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.
Silent Rage (1982) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Silent Rage
director: Michael Miller actor: Chuck Norris / Ron Silver
other title: Terrore in città / Raiva Silenciosa
A mentally ill man in a small Texas town goes on a killing rampage and is fatally wounded by police. When doctors use an experimental serum to bring him back to life, the killer develops superhuman strength and the town sheriff must pursue him.
March 29, 2026 watched
A sub-Carpenteresque scifi-horror, not great but Chuck does manage to emote and is fully manscaped. Not enough martial arts.

Watched in #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon.
USA SciFi RonSilver Action Horror
Lockout (2012) Douban NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb
Lockout
director: Stephen St. Leger / James Mather actor: Guy Pearce / Maggie Grace
other title: Lockout - Máxima Segurança / Lock Out
Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security prison.
Get Low (2010) Douban WikiData IMDb
Get Low
director: Aaron Schneider actor: Robert Duvall / Bill Murray
other title: Get Low - A Lenda de Felix Bush / Am Ende des Weges
A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.
Soup to Nuts (1930) WikiData TMDB IMDb
Soup to Nuts
director: Benjamin Stoloff actor: Ted Healy / Moe Howard
other title: Die Drei von der Feuerwache / Sopa para los locos
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out; things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.
Cone of Silence (1960) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Cone of Silence
director: Charles Frend actor: Michael Craig / Peter Cushing
other title: La tragedia del Phoenix / Zone des Schweigens
A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for scientific reasons for the crashes.
Slaughter in San Francisco (1974) TMDB IMDb WikiData
黃面老虎
director: Lo Wei actor: Don Wong Tao / Chuck Norris
other title: Massacro a San Francisco / Yellow Faced Tiger (aka Slaughter In San Francisco)
A Chinese-American cop, skilled in martial arts, battles the most powerful criminal gang in San Francisco that is responsible for the death of his partner.
March 24, 2026 watched
Poor dialogue but good pacing & plenty of fights. But too much Chuck Norris body hair!

Watched in #MondayActionMovie watch party on Mastodon
ChuckNorris Action MartialArts LoWei HongKong
Kazaam (1996) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Kazaam
director: Paul Michael Glaser actor: Shaquille O'Neal / Francis Capra
other title: Kazaam - il gigante rap / Kazaam - Der Geist aus der Flasche
When Max fools a gang of local toughs, he finds himself in big trouble. Fleeing from the thugs, Max runs into an old warehouse and bumps into a boom box. By doing that, he manages to release Kazaam, a genie who has been held captive for thousands of years.
March 23, 2026 watched
"Shaq Raps!" Not as well known a phrase in the history of cinema as "Garbo Speaks!" but one far more horrifying to those who have seen this film!

Watched in the #MonsterMiru watch party after #Monsterdon on Mastodon.
AllyWalker FrancisCapra USA Comedy PaulMichaelGlaser
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
director: Gordon Hessler actor: John Phillip Law / Caroline Munro
other title: Il viaggio fantastico di Sinbad / Sinbads gyldne rejse
Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile, Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the interlocking golden map, and they mount a quest across the seas to solve the riddle of the map.