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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
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
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.
Avanti! (1972) Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Avanti!
director: Billy Wilder actor: Jack Lemmon / Juliet Mills
other title: Che cosa è successo tra mio padre e tua madre? / Avanti - kom ind!
A successful businessman travels to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father's body, only to learn that dear old dad died with his longtime mistress.
March 23, 2026 watched
Romcom spiced up with a little middle-aged nudity but still pretty mild and rather long.

Watched in #SundayFunnies watch party on Mastodon.
JulietMills BillyWilder USA Comedy JackLemmon
Street Wars (2011) TMDB IMDb
Street Wars
director: Wayne Rose actor: Steven Seagal / Kyle Cassie
other title: True Justice - Guerriglia urbana / Street Wars - Krieg in den Straßen
When Officer Elijah Kane and his team of undercover cops discover a new lab drug flooding through the nightclubs of Seattle, they struggle to eliminate it from the streets immediately. As if dealing with a dozen dead ravers isn't enough, the cops begin to act as security guards for an obnoxious documentarian. They quickly become privy to the filmmaker's arrogance as he attempts to make a film regarding Seattle's underbelly.
March 22, 2026 watched
A two-part episode from the TV show True Justice (2011-2012) marketed as a straight-to-DVD movie in some countries.

I went into it expecting crap and I was not disappointed!

Watched in #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon, whose denizens & jokes made it bearable!
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A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (1995) NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
大话西游之仙履奇缘
8.4 (23 ratings) director: Jeffrey Lau actor: Stephen Chow / Athena Chu Yan
other title: Sai yau gei: Sin leui kei yun / A Chinese Odyssey Part Two - Cinderella
This sequel to "Pandora's Box" continues director Jeffrey Lau's adaptation of the Buddhism saga "Journey to the West". Stranded five centuries in the past, Joker Monkey King must battle a variety of monsters, seductive women and super-powered villains to save the dying Pak Jing-Jing.
March 21, 2026 watched
Trigger: chat with student

I could understand and enjoyed Part 1. But in Part 2, maybe because I was a bit sleepy, maybe because I waited a week between watching the two parts, maybe because there was so much time travel, body swapping, reincarnation, love triangles, sisters & sisters-in-law etc, I just could not keep track of who was who, who was in love with who and so on. Until I just couldn't care anymore. 🤷‍♀️

https://watch.plex.tv/en-GB/movie/a-chinese-odyssey-part-2-cinderella
HongKong StephenChow 1990s Fantasy Action
John Q (2002) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB
John Q
5.6 (5 ratings) director: Nick Cassavetes actor: Denzel Washington / James Woods
other title: John Q. / John Q. - Verzweifelte Wut
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.