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The Glass House (1972)
Superb film
A superb but grim film depicting life in a US prison in the early seventies. This was shown a few nights ago on the Movie4Men channel and surprisingly at 2.30 in the morning. Its the first time I have seen this film, and can only compare it to two British films made seven years later, namely Scum which has a very similar scene to The Glass House, that of buggery and suicide and McVicar with Roger Daltery from The Who playing the main character, two grim prison films that will make you think twice about committing a crime. The same can be said for The Glass House, Alan Alda is brilliant as the sensitive but intelligent type who is in the wrong place, the prison scene at the starting where he is sitting in his tiny cell is overpowering and claustrophobic, the sounds and distractions just dawning on him, of what a hell hole he's incarcerated in. Alda's performance is really refreshing as his normal genre is usually comedy, its nice to see him in a realistic drama. This film is not for the faint hearted.
Lost (2004)
To hell with the begrudgers, its brilliant.
I love Lost, I think it beats the hell out of anything else on the box. One glaring flaw about the programme, through its duration from the beginning right up to season 3, we have witnessed various people sometimes wandering about the jungle, sometimes they have to make camp in the jungle overnight, before they can reach the beach. Tell me this MR PRODUCERS, where are the... SNAKES?? eh.. Spiders hmmmm, oh and Crocodiles or maybe a Komodo Dragon. Its supposed to be a partly based in a sort of tropical island, yet its void of these reptiles and insects. I hate 'I'm a Celebrity... Get me out of here' but at least it does show snakes and the like in that sort of environment. Just a slight major glitch and a highly recommended series.