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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, 2017... aka Salazar's Revenge.

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Arsenic and Old Lace, 1944. Classic black comedy farce, directed by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant, Pricilla Lane, Ramond Massey and Peter Lorre.


this is the new criterion bluray...



Cary Grant's (birth name), Archie Leach appears on a tombstone in the cemetery near the Brewster's house. In Grant's earlier picture, His Girl Friday (1940), his character, Walter, responded to a threat by saying 'listen, the last man that said that to me was Archie Leach, just a week before he cut his throat'. As a gag, the 'departed' Mr. Leach was apparently interred in the Brooklyn cemetery by the Brewster's home.

According to Dear Boris biographer Cynthia Lindsay, Josephine Hull and Jean Adair went to their graves believing that Boris Karloff had been so saintly as to agree to let them go to Hollywood to make this film while he stayed on Broadway doing the play. Nothing could have been further from the truth: Karloff was very angry and disappointed that he was the only play cast member not allowed out of his contract to do the film.

QUOTE::: Mortimer Brewster: Look I probably should have told you this before but you see... well... insanity runs in my family... It practically gallops.

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fabulous clean up of the print i have to say. last time i saw it it was borderline unwatchable.

now.. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

from 2003..

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Firecreek, 1968..

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Looper, 2012..

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Charade, 1963..

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006..




(at around 2h) The scene when Jack Sparrow calls Davy Jones "fish face", and sings to them "I got a jar of dirt", was unscripted and improvised by Johnny Depp, most of the reactions of the rest of the characters are real.

The dice game that Will Turner plays with Davy Jones is called Liar's Dice, a gambling game where each player has to make consecutively higher bids based upon how many of each die they claim are on the table (two threes, four fives, etc.), until a player is called a liar, in which case, all the dice are shown, and it's seen if the bid is correct. Normally, a player only loses a die when caught in a lie, and is not out of the game until he has lost all of his dice.

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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 1970.. Bluray

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Starman, 1984... Bluray.






Alan Jones awarded it four stars out of five for Radio Times, arguing that "John Carpenter's religious sci-fi parable has as much heart and emotion as it does special effects, and gives Oscar-nominated Jeff Bridges a real chance to stretch his acting talent." He described it as "funny, suspenseful and moving" and concluded that "this engaging space odyssey is one of Carpenter's best efforts."

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Starman, 1984... Bluray.






Alan Jones awarded it four stars out of five for Radio Times, arguing that "John Carpenter's religious sci-fi parable has as much heart and emotion as it does special effects, and gives Oscar-nominated Jeff Bridges a real chance to stretch his acting talent." He described it as "funny, suspenseful and moving" and concluded that "this engaging space odyssey is one of Carpenter's best efforts."

lol one of his worst IMO.