Film Reviews by MD

Enjoyed the first 5 series, but in series 6 the cast changed and it no longer worked for me. It's not really the kind of program I usually enjoy, but the early series were tongue in cheek and enjoyable. After that it was just a lot of violence and shooting with not much else.

Watched 3 episodes and lost the will to live. Over complicated yarn jumping all over the place. A doctor tries to save his wife's life after she is refused treatment. He fakes her death and keeps her in a coma in an underground clinic where he makes a living treating criminals. Really?

Quite an old fashioned b/w movie about the queen Elizabeth's favourite pirate. The picture and sound are surprisingly good, which makes it reasonably watchable. The dialog and casting seem dated, but in spite of that it is entertaining and even funny.

A truly awful film. Starts promisingly, but then seems to get stuck in a groove of loutishness. A bunch of outback yobs go on a drunken rampage. There is a repulsive episode with real footage of kangaroos being hunted. The film does have a story to it, but it's completely lost in the awfulness of it. The only redeeming feature is Donald Pleasance, who is both funny and nasty at the same time.

I enjoy a bolywood film as much as the next person, but are we really expected to speak the indian languages? I wish the movie details on the website gave some language and subtitle information.

Slightly different interpretation of the Spartacus story, which I found a pleasant surprise. However, the casting to my mind was a little off. The whole film had the air of a bunch of office workers on a weekend outing of a historical reenactment society. The gladiators didn't seem very fit and were kind of almost middle aged. Spartacus himself was in my opinion sadly miscast, unconvincing and a little chinless. Having said that, on the whole I did enjoy the film.

A stone age man struggles through the frozen Alps seeking revenge for his murdered family. All the men in this seem implausibly old and their home tribes unsustainably small. There is no comprehensible dialog only unrecognisable words and grunts. Still, it was better than films of similar ilk I have seen before.

You know what they say, you don't need to eat the whole steak to know that it's tough. I didn't get very far with this.

Medieval drama about the Knights templar and the royal family in France. Superficial but too complicated. Lost the plot after a few episodes.

I have always been a Star Trek fan and enjoyed the various versions of it over a long period of time. This particular series seems a little disappointing. There is plenty of action, rather too much for my liking. A little frantic. The humour and subtlety of earlier series is lacking. And the Klingons look like bank robbers in masks. They have completely lost their horrible appeal from before. Oh well, perhaps I will get used it. I have seen only 2 episodes so far.

I watched this tedious film right to the end, but it was a triumph of hope over experience. I should have known that you don't need to eat the whole steak to know that it is tough.

Painfully modern, anodyne, desexed and politically correct with plenty of action to interest little boys. For all that, it's not completely unwatchable. There is some passable humour and genuine sci-fi ideas.

A dated looking B/W film from the 1960's but still completely relevant, about a young couple's descent into homelessness. I don't know about the ins and outs of the social security system these days, but I recognised the surrounding conversation about immigratnts and housing shortages. It was word for word exacly the same as it is now. It's shocking to realise, we in Britain are still going round and round in the same circles... the immigrants are causing the housing shortage... oh no they are not, we need them to do jobs we cannot fill ourselves... and so on. WOW!

A seriously bad film, but at least they didn't kill the dog. Usually, when there is a dog in a film, I think it's going to die. Not in this film, the dog lived. You only get a brief glimpse of it, but at least it's alive. Oh and there was one funny moment, when the coulpe have sex and she has to pretend to be under general anaesthetic. That was mildly amusing. Apart from these two highlights, it is relentlessly boring and nonsensical.

An aspiring young Canadian journalist goes to Somalia, when no other westerners dare to go there. He spends 5 years getting to know them and then writes a best seller. Quite interesting up to a point, but doesn't really make a good story.