Movies

Queens of Langkasuka a.k.a. The Tsunami Warrior (2008) Thai historic-magical fantasy pits pirates against a walled city and mystic warriors against the pirates. Very digitally enhanced in a way that puts it in an alternate universe without being jarring. Elaborately detailed and broken into sequences and vignettes in a way I found very interesting, with the fighting kept to brief bursts and not dragged out tediously. It's not exactly like anything I have ever seen, and that is good. 6/10

Around the World Under the Sea (1966) Submarine adventure involving the placement of a global network of earthquake detectors on the sea floor, which wasn't quite as boring as I expected. There is a lot of inconsequential fish footage, and some contrived disasters, as well as gender conflicts due to the single female aboard, but the cast includes middle-of-the road performers like Keenan Wynn, David McCallum and Marshall Thompson to keep it from getting too exciting. Not bad. 5/10

Carambolages (1963) French black comedy in which a young man finds himself rapidly climbing the corporate ladder when his superiors begin dying one by one. I watched this to see what the deal was with comic actor Louis de Funes, but I may have to see one of his other films to get the full effect. In general I think the French were wise to conceal these films from the world. 6/10