Author Archives: rarefilm

Worried About the Boy (2010) Julian Jarrold, Douglas Booth, Jonny Burt, Mathew Horne, Biography, Drama, Music

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In 1980 young George O’Dowd baffles his parents with his love of frocks and make-up and moves into a squat with kindred spirit Peter,who dresses as Marilyn Monroe and calls himself Marilyn. They make a splash at Steve Strange’s trendy Blitz Club where George gets a job in the cloakroom but George is unlucky in his relationships with men until he meets wannabe musician Kirk.
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Lisa (1989) Gary Sherman, Staci Keanan, Cheryl Ladd, D.W. Moffett, Drama, Horror, Thriller

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Fourteen year-old Lisa is raised by her unmarried mother Katherine who overprotects her by forbidding her to date until she’s sixteen. In despair, Lisa and schoolmate Wendy make up a game that consists of inferring attractive men’s phone numbers from their car ID and giving them anonymous calls. Last victim is the handsome Richard, with whom Lisa begins a passionate phone relationship, unaware that he’s also a psycho-killer and sex maniac…
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Dai lo bai sau / Only Fools Fall in Love (1995) Roy Chiao, Shing-Chi Fung, Vincent Kok, Comedy, Romance

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Millionaire Ji Fu (Lau ching Wan), the successor of Ji’s family, is arrogant and rude. He then becomes an idiot after being knocked out in an “accident”, which is actually created by the second-successor Ji Jack (Dayo Wong). After becoming an idiot, Fu meets Mon Tee (Wu Chien Lien), a girl who has almost married him for money. They fall for each other as they spend most of their time together. One day Jack comes and decides to do Fu in. Fu and Mon Tee decide to find his Grand Uncle and look for a fair judgement…
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Mask of the Ninja (2008) Bradford May, Casper Van Dien, Anthony Brandon Wong, Bellamy Young, Action, Crime, Thriller

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Their vengeance is relentless, their method is ritual, their weapon is secret, and the motive is in their blood. In a heavily wooded private estate in the Malibu Hills, towering above the tumbling Pacific, millionaire CEO Kenji Takeo and his daughter, Miko, prepare for the arrival from Japan of Takeo’s wife, Kumiko. But the calm of Solstice Canyon is shattered by a meticulously planned stealth attack on the Takeo home by a masked band of ninja assassins. In a flash, Takeo’s guards are killed.
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Hong Kong Godfather / Tian zi men sheng (1991) Cheuk-Wing Ho, Andy Lau, Roy Cheung, Kwong Leung Wong, Action, Crime, Thriller

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When the boss of a highly profitable Triad family is forced to flee from Hong Kong, rival gangs swoop in to steal any piece of the action they can. York Koo (Andy Lau) becomes the family’s acting boss, and must do what he can to handle the difficult situation, with mounting pressure from both the Hong Kong police, and rival families.
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