Dr Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Dr Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Rating: ★★★★★
Nov 16, 2001Nuclear War Black Comedy
Stanley Kubrick decided the only way to make a film about nuclear war was to resort to black comedy. Aided by three sidesplitting performances from Peter Sellers, the result are mercilessly funny

The Day of the Dolphin (1973)

The Day of the Dolphin (1973)
Rating: ★★
Sep 7, 2001Talking Dolphins
George C. Scott is a marine biologist who has taught dolphins to speak but faces the military want to take his research. A serious work that all hinges on whether one is willing to accept the idea of dolphins talking in squawky voices

The Formula (1980)

The Formula (1980)
Rating: ★★
Apr 23, 2014International Thriller/Hunt for a Nazi Fuel Substitute
Dull big-budget thriller about Nazi fuel formulas and Big Oil conspiracies. This seems intended as a copy of The Boys from Brazil centred around George C. Scott and Marlon Brando trying to out over-act one another

The Exorcist III (1990)

The Exorcist III (1990)
Rating: ★★★★
Feb 1, 2001Demonic Possession
One will go out on a limb and argue that William Peter Blatty’s sequel is actually a far superior work to the original The Exorcist, one that substitutes a literate theological detective story for barf bag theatrics and contains at least one real out there jump