southern comfort is a drink
Didnāt the film precede the drink?
dunno but i do know it is also a drink haha, my mum used to love it.
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Probably not.
Southern Comfort (often abbreviated SoCo) is an American whiskey liqueur with fruit and spice accents. The brand was originally created by bartender Martin Wilkes Heron in New Orleans in 1874, and originally used whiskey as the base spirit.
I always thought it was just a Whiskey.
Blimey yeah the drinkās older lol.
Watch the film Shammy. Itās kinda like Deliverance meets The Warriors.
Sold!
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The True History of the Kelly Gang.
Incredible on all fronts. 8.5/10.
A must see - same grit Kurzel brought with Macbeth, but with a better more palatable script.
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Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
A man named Leonard Vole, a former WWII airman, is accused of murdering a lonely, rather well off widow whom he befriended after a chance meeting in a shop window. He is put in touch with an aging barrister not long released from hospital following a heart attack, one of the top defence lawyers in the country, to defend him.
Watched this before, once, a few years ago and wrote a lengthy post about it on the old site and had a good chat with someone about it but cannot remember the user. Ha.
(SPOILERS BELOW IN THE BLUR GIVE AWAY ENTIRE ENDING)
Itās a superb film and a really great story - I remember being shocked at one or two of the twists in the story - especially the scene where Marlene Dietrichās character was in that get-up pretending to be that Cockney woman in the train station (I knew something was odd but never would have guessed that it was Marlene Dietrich under there. 
) and the ending also, I had no idea of the story going in but was surprised when it was revealed that he was in fact the murderer. Having been on a bit of a Hitchcock film, including āThe Paradine Caseā this has that Hitchcockian feel to it.
What are some good Courtroom films? I genuinely feel like this is probably the best one Iāve seen of that type.
Special tip of the hat to Charles Laughton who just commands all the attention when on screen.
I suspect youāve already seen this one
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Obviously youāve seen 12 Angry Men right?
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Given how many Jimmy Stewart films Iāve seen itās surprising that I havenāt. Itās been on my watchlist a while though.
Iām going to excuse myself from forgetting about this by saying that Iām not gonna count it as one because 99% (not much of an exaggeration) is set in a Jurorās room rather than a courtroom. 
Saw that years ago but donāt really remember much about it.
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Watched Karate Kid 1 & 2 for the first time today & yesterday and the endings are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad.
āHe won the fightā¦ FIN.ā
3 has such a low rating I probably wonāt bother.
Is @Cristo a massive fraud? Promised us an exciting Cristo at the Movies article every Monday but nothing weeks later.
- Yes
- Also Yes
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Nobody disses Karate Kid 1. Itās a masterpiece
Youāve made a powerful enemy (as Mr Burns said to a vending machine)
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I mean, look at that @Persona.
Isnāt that just beautifully crafted?
āPut him in a body bag!ā maniacal laughter
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'71
Really good film, very gritty and dark. About a young British soldier who gets left behind by his unit on the streets of Belfast. I donāt know a great deal about the Northern Ireland conflict, or the āTroublesā as I now understand it is also called. The film isnāt particularly educational but it provoked me to read a bit more about the conflict.
Had a google around and see that āThe Crying Gameā is also highly recommended by various people. I saw āIn the Name of the Fatherā many years ago but might also watch that again at some point.
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'71 is a fantastic film.
If you liked that, watch Bloody Sunday with James Nesbitt. Very good film, too