Phantasm
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Baffling Seventies horror flick about a scary tall mortician, killer dwarfs and sci-fi spheres
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Time Of Favor
DVD Review
Love, loss and betrayal in a religious Jewish community.
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The Full Monty
DVD Review
Unemployed labourers get their kits off for cash.
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Danton
DVD Review
The final historical drama that closes the bloody door on the French Revolution.
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Eating Out
DVD Review
Gay/straight comedy of errors.
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Volunteers
DVD Review
Peace Corps comedy on remote Thai penisula, with Commie insurgents and Tom Hanks.
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Godzilla
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The original Japanese monster lizard movie - Ban The Bomb!
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit
DVD Review
A vegetable horror comedy for claymation villagers and a dog.
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You Rang, M'Lord? - The Complete First Series
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British TV class comedy series on an upstairs/ downstairs theme.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum: Series 3
DVD Review
Third outing of a classic Seventies TV sitcom about a group of entertainers in the British Raj during World War II
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