Caught these:-

Highlander : The Search for Vengeance

Two big disappointments - the cover said it had something to do with Cowboy Bebop and it doesn't. And all the sex scenes have been axed. This is another version of that campy Sean Connery-Christopher Lambert movie of the mid-80s except the story is nowhere near that hugely entertaining affair. Mainly a revenge tale of two immortals, this one is set in a post-apocalyptic future rife with the usual cliches. Ordinary people who are rebelling against the administration, huddling underground with bad food - check. Controlling elite in high-tech securitised block - check. Ruined buildings - check. When are they gonna come up with some new scenarios for a ruined future? Totally lousy, even if the director did the Program episode of Animatrix.

Ghost in the Shell : Stand Alone Complex : The Laughing Man

Just that bit better than Solid State Society though nowhere near the first two GITS movies. This one concerns a super hacker who can hack into people with cyberbrains, plus copycats who also do this for corporate terrorism. If that doesn't make much sense, nevermind, this is GITS, after all. All this leads to a big government cover-up of an effective cure for a disease which afflicts people with cyberbrains. The animations is not that good and the art is kinda torpid but it moves along fairly well.

The Big Sleep (1945 pre-release version)

Not the 1946 theatrical version, this one has a more elaborate explanation of everything that happens and is closer to the book. Even then, the fluid prose of Chandler's prose isn't really transferred that well by director Howard Hawks and what you have is a pretty staid and dull affair with none of the verve of the book. And of course, those moral guardians in the 40s didn't allow the fact that the girl was posing nude or that Geiger was running a porn book business to be mentioned, leaving the audience kinda guessing. I heard the 1946 had more snappy repartee and sizzling Bacall-Bogart scenes but as it is, this is a pretty uninteresting detective story.