287: Stop Making Sense [1984] Movie Review

We explore some uncharted territory here at SFFCH as we delve into our first concert movie and what a place to start! Stop Making Sense released in 1984 is heralded as a top notch concert movie that some claim has never been outdone. So how, do we hear you ask, are we able to talk for nearly an hour and a half about a music concert? Well lets just say it includes a little bit of lamp dancing, a little bit of giant suit wearing,  a fair amount of insane energy and a lot of just plain awesome music.

286: *batteries not included [1987] Movie Review

This week we watched everyone’s favourate (and possibly the only) film about old people and alien robots: *batteries not included. Everyone in the world has seen this on a Sunday afternoon on TV at sometime in their lives and we are here to discuss why that is exactly where it belongs. Voyeuristic robot sex, tangents about mullets, terrible nude paintings, talking with TV commercial jingles, UFO burger shenanigans and what may possibly be the most horrific birth in the history of film are all things up for scrutiny this time around.

285: Rasputin; Dark Servant of Destiny [1996] Movie Review

Ra-Ra-Rasputin, Russia’s greatest love machine!

It’s a film we’ve always wanted to watch here at Spoiler Filled Film, because of the wonderful Alan Rickman for some and because of the mad monk himself for others, and we finally had the opportunity. Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny was a TV movie from 1996, just on the cusp of the new golden age of television, which blends the myths and facts of Rasputin’s later life in the presence of Russian royalty.