This is every dad's favorite movie from 2015. I know mine liked it quite a bit. I was surprised at how mannered it was. If you go in expecting some two-fisted espionage, you will be sorely disappointed. This is way more court room drama and lots of scotch sipping knowing looks. Mark Raylance was the best part of this one. There is a Russian documentary on Rudolf Abel that I would be interested to see if only to see how the other side presents his story.
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Eaten Alive 1976
I’m at that age when I could get cast as the bat shit crazy old codger in a backwoods horror film. Neville Brand got to play looney toons in several including “Without Warning” (with fellow B-movie thespians and future Oscar winnersJack Palance and Martin Landau) and “Evils of the Night” (alongside Aldo Ray and John Carradine). This has to be his most show stopping crack up and he’s got a pet croc to boot. No Chainsaw Massacre, but Hooper manages…
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Rats: Night of Terror 1984
You can rarely accuse director Bruno Mattei (here under his Vincent Dawn alias) from not delivering on his titles. Sure, the acting is wooden, the dubbing hilarious (check out the Southern belle accent in "Rats"), and technical deficiencies abound, but there are lots of rats. Big ones, small ones, white ones and black ones, fake ones and as is par for many Italian 80's horror movies, real ones that are set on fire and let loose to run around screeching.…
