Posted by Notcot on May 4, 2012 in
Cult Film
A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as the deceptively mild spinster sleuth. The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn including Miss Marple are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: ‘A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th at Little Paddocks at 6.30pm. Is it a hoax? As the time approaches the crowds gather at Little Paddocks; and then the lights go out. This was Agatha Christie’s fiftieth book – acknowledged to be one of the best.
Price : £ 5.00
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Posted by Notcot on Jun 5, 2010 in
Cult Film
Tags: Average, Little, little otik, Otik, rating, Reviews
Posted by Notcot on May 17, 2010 in
Home Cinema & Video
Average Rating: / 5 ( Reviews)
- Superb Micro/Nano 3 Port HDMI Switch (Brand New Retail Boxed)
- Measuring Just 2 Inches Squared This is an Amazing Little Product
- Specification Matches up and even betters it’s larger counterparts
- 1080p (Full HD) ~ v1.3b (The Latest) ~ 1920 x 1080 Resolution ~ Automatic (Intelligent) Selection
- The switch will detect which device has been switched on! Ideal for Sky, Blu-Ray, HD-DVD,PS3,Xbox…
HDMI 3 Port Nano Switch
Buy Now for £14.99
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Posted by Notcot on May 10, 2010 in
Cult Film
Average Rating: 4.5 / 5 (9 Reviews)
Amazon.co.uk Review
Even by Roger Corman’s thrifty standards, The Little Shop of Horrors was a masterpiece of micro-budget movie-making. Scripted in a week and shot, according to Corman, in two days and one night, it made use of a pre-existing store-front set that serves as the florist’s shop where most of the action takes place. Our hero is shambling loser Seymour Krelboined, sad-sack assistant at Mushnick’s skid-row flower shop and who is hopelessly in love with Audrey, his fellow worker. Threatened with the sack by Mushnick, Seymour brings in a strange plant he’s been breeding at home, hoping it’ll attract the customers. It does, and the store starts to prosper, but Seymour is horrified to discover that the only thing the plant will thrive on is blood, fresh, human blood at that.
The sets are pasteboard, the acting is way over the top, and altogether Little Shop is an unabashed high-camp spoof, not to be taken seriously for a second. Even so, Corman notes that this was the movie “that established me as an underground legend”. Charles Griffith, the film’s screenwriter, plays the voice of the insatiable plant (“FEED ME!”), and billed way down the cast list is a very young Jack Nicholson in a bizarre, giggling cameo as Wilbur Force, a masochistic dental patient demanding ever more pain. The film’s cult status got it turned into an off-Broadway hit musical in the 1980s, with a great pastiche doo-wop score by Alan Menken, which was subsequently filmed in 1986. The musical remake is a lot of fun, but it misses the ramshackle charm of the original.
On the DVD: Little Shop of Horrors on disc does not even boast a trailer, just some minimal onscreen background info about the production. The clean transfer, 4:3 ratio, and digitally remastered mono sound faithfully recapture Corman’s bargain-basement production values. –Philip Kemp
Little Shop of Horrors
Buy Now for £51.64
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Posted by Notcot on May 8, 2010 in
Cult Film
Average Rating: 4.5 / 5 (9 Reviews)
Amazon.co.uk Review
Even by Roger Corman’s thrifty standards, The Little Shop of Horrors was a masterpiece of micro-budget movie-making. Scripted in a week and shot, according to Corman, in two days and one night, it made use of a pre-existing store-front set that serves as the florist’s shop where most of the action takes place. Our hero is shambling loser Seymour Krelboined, sad-sack assistant at Mushnick’s skid-row flower shop and who is hopelessly in love with Audrey, his fellow worker. Threatened with the sack by Mushnick, Seymour brings in a strange plant he’s been breeding at home, hoping it’ll attract the customers. It does, and the store starts to prosper, but Seymour is horrified to discover that the only thing the plant will thrive on is blood, fresh, human blood at that.
The sets are pasteboard, the acting is way over the top, and altogether Little Shop is an unabashed high-camp spoof, not to be taken seriously for a second. Even so, Corman notes that this was the movie “that established me as an underground legend”. Charles Griffith, the film’s screenwriter, plays the voice of the insatiable plant (“FEED ME!”), and billed way down the cast list is a very young Jack Nicholson in a bizarre, giggling cameo as Wilbur Force, a masochistic dental patient demanding ever more pain. The film’s cult status got it turned into an off-Broadway hit musical in the 1980s, with a great pastiche doo-wop score by Alan Menken, which was subsequently filmed in 1986. The musical remake is a lot of fun, but it misses the ramshackle charm of the original.
On the DVD: Little Shop of Horrors on disc does not even boast a trailer, just some minimal onscreen background info about the production. The clean transfer, 4:3 ratio, and digitally remastered mono sound faithfully recapture Corman’s bargain-basement production values. –Philip Kemp
The Little Shop of Horrors
Buy Now for £10.15
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Posted by Notcot on Apr 7, 2010 in
Noir
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Posted by Notcot on Apr 6, 2010 in
Noir
Tags: 40s, 50s, Average, Black, book, FILM, Films, from, Little, Noir, Quotations, rating, Reviews, White, white book