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  • Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
  • Rock 'n' Roll High School
  • A Face in the Crowd
  • Singles

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  • Goldfinger

    ★★★★★

  • From Russia with Love

    ★★★★★

  • Dr. No

    ★★★★½

  • Rising Storm

    ★★★½

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Goldfinger
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

This is where the franchise really developed its formula. James Bond (Sean Connery) is assigned to investigate Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe). An innocent woman (Shirley Eaton) is painted gold and murdered. Bond gets his now famous tricked out Aston-Martin and pursues Goldfinger around the world. Goldfinger is aided by Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman, fresh off "The Avengers") and her squadron of female pilots. More importantly, Harold Sakata (who wrestled ger under the name Tosh Togo at the time) is Oddjob,…

Rising Storm
★★★½ Rewatched

You need to track this down! It's 2099 and Christian Nationalists have taken over. America is now run by a televangelist grifter who sells reedited Bibles, revisionist history books, and gold coins with his likeness. Sounds way too familiar. Optimist Zach Galligan and his cynical ex-con brother Wayne Crawford are desperate for cash and wind up working for sisters June Chadwick (THIS IS SPINAL TAP) and Elizabeth Keifer. The sisters are looking for proof that Kropfeld (William Katt) existed. Kropfeld…

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Parasite
★★½ Watched

Set in the far future of... 1992. This could be the forerunner of the RESIDENT EVIL films with its plot involving a dystopian future, bioweapons, and an evil corporation. Sadly, it's underdeveloped and I wished I had seen it in 3-D. With a young Demi Moore and two former Runaways (Cherie Currie and Cheryl Rainbeaux Smith).