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Walk the Line (2005)
Best film I've seen in many a year.
I am touched. I am moved. It is all the more amazing that the two leads actually sang and played their parts without being dubbed. The chemistry between them is spot-on. I cannot fault this film.
It has tragedy, it has comedy, it has love both true and false, it has fatherly reconciliation, it has success and failure. Oh, and it has Elvis.
SPOILER: well, not really a spoiler because the story is known but the penultimate scene where Johnny halts a performance so he can ask June to marry him while they're singing on stage is probably the most romantic, the most warming and moving scene I've ever watched in a film.
Legend of the Mummy (1998)
Dire mummy flick. Avoid!
There are some films which are so bad that they are actually watchable, such as "The Grim Reaper", but this is not one of them. It sags dejectedly between two stools - neither good enough to watch nor bad enough to be fun.
This would have been good if it had been done in the greatest traditions of Hammer Horror with oh-so-obviously-a-set locations and the nearest modern equivalent to Peter Cushing et al. The actors try to act, they really do try and some should have known better, but they would have had more success if they had hammed it up in glorious fashion along the lines of "Psychomania" or other can't-hear-the-dialogue-for-the-creaking-of-wooden-acting horror films.
I love unashamedly bad movies but everything about this film is just poor. It is best watched while drunk at 3am after the clubs have shut and you just want something on in the background while you and your mates finish your pizzas or you want something to fill the awkward smoochable pauses in the conversation between yourself and the latest bit of skirt/trouser you picked up.
This film is utterly forgettable.
Galaxina (1980)
Don't expect too much
I've seen worse films. This is bad but at least doesn't try to be good so it deserves a brief round of applause. It rest firmly in the realms of the low-budget B-movie sci-fi genre.
It is a rubbish film but in a nice way and is certainly worth buying if it's in the bargain bin at your local supermarket. Awfully charming rather than just plain awful.
The highlight for me is when Galaxina's lover goes to rescue her. Upon turning up she exclaims "Bunnyfluff!" which draws sniggers from his co-pilot.
Sit back, get drunk, enjoy!