Shameless Self Expression

Teddy boy leader Oliver Reed uses his sister Shirley Anne Field to scam womanising American tourist Macdonald Carey. The latter ends up feeling guilty and visits Carey on his boat. Reed is incredibly possessive of Field and comes after them, threatening to kill them both. Eventually Carey and Field stumble onto military property and eventually fall off a cliff. And that’s when they meet the children. Children who appear to have never seen other human beings before and mistake Carey and Field for their parents. Viveca Lindfors plays a sculptor, Alexander Knox is a scientist, James Villiers and Walter Gotell are military men.   Possibly the most overrated film from Hammer Studios, this Joseph Losey ( “Accident”, Hammer’s “X – The Unknown” ) sci-fi outing from 1963 is regarded by some as the best the studio ever produced. I don’t even think it’s a decent movie let alone up to the standard of “Never Take Sweets From a Stranger” , “Ten Seconds From Hell” , or even “Horr...

John Wick (Keanu Reeves, reprising perhaps his most iconic role) takes out The Elder and this causes a total shitstorm for him and anyone associated with him. The New York branch of The Continental is gone, manager Winston (Ian McShane) declared ‘Excommunicado’, and the villainous Marquis (Bill Skarsgaard) forces Wick’s blind swordsman friend Caine (Donnie Yen) to re-emerge from retirement to end John Wick. Shamier Anderson plays a mystery man who shows up from time to time with unclear motives, Scott Adkins plays an obese gangster named Killa who is head of the German Table, Hiroyuki Sanada plays Shimazu, another assassin associate of Wick’s with Rina Sawayama as his daughter Akira. Natalia Tena is Wick’s adoptive sister, whilst Laurence Fishburne and Lance Reddick are back as The Bowery King and Concierge respectively, and Clancy Brown shows up as High Table bigwig Harbinger.   Although I think this series may have peaked with the previous “Parabellum” , this 2023 fourth entr...