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The Apartment, 1960. Directed by Billy Wilder and stars Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray.

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4K restoration by Arrow Academy. The film won 5 Academy Awards and was a box office hit, although some critics and members of the public still living in the older days' style of morality(ie everything behind closed dorrs) thought it a "dirty, filthy movie" alas... Nowadays that does somewhat make one wonder how they explained 2 world wars or the indian massacres;)

The Big Short (2015)

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Based on the true story of various people who predicted the sub-prime crash of 2008 and made a few bob out of it. Interesting and entertaining, good performances, well worth a watch.

Terminator Genisys, 2015. directed by Alan Taylor.

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Walkabout, 1971. Directed by Nicolas Roeg. Brand new 4k scan of this film. Jenny Agutter stars.


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BluRay comes with 3 books in this ltd ed set. the original book, the first script and some essays and photos.

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Walkabout, 1971. Directed by Nicolas Roeg. Brand new 4k scan of this film. Jenny Agutter stars.


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BluRay comes with 3 books in this ltd ed set. the original book, the first script and some essays and photos.

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Excellent and almost surreal film. Not seen it for a long time but it was better than I remembered.

Red, 2010.. Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren and Mary Louis Parker



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Off to war on the high seas now with Charles Frend's 1953 classic, The Cruel Sea. Stars Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker and Virginia McKenna..

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I see Stanley Baker was a wavy navy officer (reserves). I always wondered if they were all already volunteer reserves at the start of the war, like the Auxiliary air force, or if all volunteers were recruited as reserves all the way through the war, to distinguish themselves from the pre war career professionals. Does anyone know?

The rnvr was how new officers got into the navy. There was, before war out broke the rnvsr(supplementary) which was a sort of crash course for yaghtsmen etc. They all wore same uniform.. Ordinary seamen went straight to the rn

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The rnvr was how new officers got into the navy. There was, before war out broke the rnvsr(supplementary) which was a sort of crash course for yaghtsmen etc. They all wore same uniform.. Ordinary seamen went straight to the rn

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Makes sense, I'm guessing the professional officers would have tended to still man the capital ships in the fleet and the RNVR used more in the new smaller ships built like the Compass Rose in the film.