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Shaun of the Dead, 2004.






film did well here and in the states and is well regarded still.

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Dog Soldiers, 2002. British action horror film written, directed and edited by Neil Marshall, in his directorial debut, and starring Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby and Liam Cunningham.






On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 79%, based on 38 reviews, and an average rating of 6.90/10. The site's consensus reads, "Frightening, funny, and packed with action, Dog Soldiers is well worth checking out for genre fans -- and marks writer-director Neil Marshall as a talent to keep an eye on."

Jamie Russell of the BBC gave it 4 out of 5 and called it "A rip-roaring comedy action fest that'll put hairs on your chest." Empire magazine gave it 4 out of 5. Reviewing the 2020 rerelease the Guardian gave it 3 out of 5 and note that despite the limitations of the film the talent shown by Marshall in his debut feature that "You can easily draw a clear line through this to his later work". They conclude that "Dog Soldiers has aged pretty well."
Awards
In 2002, the film won the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film's Golden Raven, the festival's top award, as well as the audience prize, the Pegasus.

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Something light now after all that intense bloodletting

Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975.





Monty Python and the Holy Grail grossed more than any British film exhibited in the US in 1975. In the US, it was selected in 2011 as the second-best comedy of all time in the ABC special Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time behind Airplane!. In the UK, readers of Total Film magazine in 2000 ranked it the fifth-greatest comedy film of all time; a similar poll of Channel 4 viewers in 2006 placed it sixth.

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Corny acting but fights are well choreographed.

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The Fugitive, 1993. The film was directed by Andrew Davis and stars Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.






On Rotten Tomatoes The Fugitive has a "Certified Fresh" 96% rating based on 78 reviews, with an average rating of 8.00/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Exhilarating and intense, this high-impact chase thriller is a model of taut and efficient formula filmmaking, and it features Harrison Ford at his frantic best." On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 87 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a rare "A+" grade on a scale of A+ to F.

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DAD'S ARMY, 2016.






THIS IS ONE NO ONE BUT ME LIKES

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Another Scott Adkins 'epic'

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The Cruel Sea, 1953. Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker, Liam Redmond, Virginia McKenna and Moira Lister star. Directed by Charles Frend and produced by Leslie Norman.






This is a story of the Battle of the Atlantic, the story of an ocean, two ships, and a handful of men. The men are the heroes; the heroines are the ships. The only villain is the sea, the cruel sea, that man has made more cruel...

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Wilt, 1989.

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The African Queen, 1951.Was adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester. The film was directed by John Huston It was photographed in Technicolor by Jack Cardiff and has a music score by Allan Gray. The film stars Humphrey Bogart (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor – his only Oscar) and Katharine Hepburn with Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Walter Gotell, Richard Marner and Theodore Bikel.







Much of the film was shot on location in Uganda and the Congo in Africa. This was rather novel for the time, especially for a Technicolor picture that used large, cumbersome cameras. The cast and crew endured sickness and spartan living conditions during their time on location. In an early scene, Hepburn was playing an organ but had a bucket to vomit in at her feet because she was often sick between takes. Bogart later bragged that he and Huston were the only members of the cast and crew who escaped illness, which he credited to not drinking any water on location but instead fortifying themselves from the large supply of whiskey they had brought along.