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Grindhouse 8/10

The Human Condition, Part 3: A Soldier's Prayer (Masaki Kobayashi - 1961)

10/10

The Human Condition, Part 2: Road To Eternity (Masaki Kobayashi - 1959)

8/10

The Human Condition, Part 1: No Greater Love (Masaki Kobayashi - 1959)

9/10 The first film in an epic nine hour trilogy, acclaimed as one of the greatest masterpieces of Japanese cinema.

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Alexander Witt - 2004)

10/10

Vampyr "The strange adventure of Allan Gray" (Carl Th. Dreyer - 1932)

8/10

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Zack Snyder - 2016)

9/10

Man Of Steel (Zack Snyder - 2013)

9/10

A couple more Japanese films

Branded To Kill (Seijun Suzuki - 1967)

9/10 Dismissed as 'incomprehensible' by the studio head, the director was fired. The film is now regarded as his masterpiece....

The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Ken Loach - 2006)

8/10 Like most freedom fighter films, this isn't without problems - the usual one of the 'bad guys' being presented as one dimensional thugs...

The Rambling Guitarist (Buichi Saito - 1959)

7/10

Red Pier (Toshio Masuda - 1958)

A curious film, which starts off rather lightweight for the first half, and I was thinking maybe 6/10 but then it got a lot darker and more gritty; which was more 8...

Voice Without A Shadow (Seijun Suzuki - 1958)

8/10

Retaliation (Yasuhara Hasebe - 1969)

10/10

Delinquent Girl Boss (Yasuharu Hasebe - 1970)

7/10. First in the Stray Cat Rock series.

Wild Jumbo (Toshiya Fujita - 1970)

8/10. Second in the the Stray Cat Rock series.

Sex Hunter...

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine - 1920)

9/10. Beautifully restored; it quite possibly looks better than cinema-goers in 1920 would have seen the film.

Suicide Squad - 8/10 for the theatrical version, 9/10 for the extended.

Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita, 1973) - 10/10

Classic Japanese revenge movie, and one of the biggest influences on Kill Bill.

Battles Without Honour And Humanity: The Final Chapter (Kinji Fukasaku, 1974) - 9/10

A perfectly fine film in its own right, but does feel like a slight afterthought to the series, which it was...

Police Tactics (Kinji Fukasaku, 1974) - 10/10

The fourth (and intended to be the final) part of Battles Without Honour And Humanity. Police Tactics is in effect, Proxy War, Part 2. It was so...

Proxy War (Kinji Fukasaku, 1973) - 10/10

Third part of the "Battles Without Honour And Humanity" series. I'm continually amazed how writer and director manage to maintain such standards at a...

Hiroshima Death Match (Kinji Fukasaku, 1973) - 10/10

Second instalment of the "Battles Without Honour..." series. Terrific.

Battles Without Honour And Humanity (Kinji Fukasaku, 1973) - 10/10

Deadpool ('overpaid tool' Tim Miller, 2016) - 10/10

Break out the chimichangas for a great night! :)

Two more turtle movies

Gamera vs. Jiger (1970) - 5/10
Gamera vs. Zigra (1971) - 5/10

Shame the studio decided to orient this series so hard at young children.