Awards Season… Movie #1 2022: The Lost Daughter (2021) 3 Jan 2022 Well, here we are again... Happy New Year! Back to movie #1. This is officially the third year I've been writing here, and to be honest, I'm still not fussed…
Cerebral… Movie #216 2021: The Wailing (2016) 6 Nov 20216 Nov 2021 Everyone's obsessed with Squid Game, aren't they? Don't know if you've noticed. I get it: it's pretty good. But something tells me that most of the people who are really…
Cerebral… Movie #213 2021: What Lies Beneath (2000) 31 Oct 202129 Oct 2021 Happy Halloween! On the day itself, it's only fair that I review a spooky film. Although What Lies Beneath isn't exactly out-and-out horror per se, there are definitely some horror…
Cerebral… Movie #202 2021: Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) 18 Sep 202116 Sep 2021 Sometimes, I have no interest in watching a film whatsoever. And then these pesky directors cast Sarah Paulson and Elizabeth Olsen in leading roles so I have no choice. How…
Cerebral… Movie #188 2021: Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (2018) 14 Aug 202111 Aug 2021 YES, OKAY, I KNOW! It’s taken me 3 years to actually watch this. In fact, I’m probably the last gay on earth to see it so I guess it’s about time.…
Cerebral… Movie #140 2021: Things Heard & Seen (2021) 27 May 202123 May 2021 Here's something you already know: Netflix original films are generally not brilliant. Barring a few anomalies like The Irishman, Marriage Story and The Mitchells vs. the Machines, the streaming giant…
Cerebral… Movie #135 2021: The Father (2020) 22 May 202119 May 2021 After the whole Best Actor debacle at the Oscars this year, I've seen people change their rating of The Father from five stars to one. I kid you not. PSA:…
Cerebral… Movie #128 2021: Room 237 (2012) 15 May 202111 May 2021 Everyone knows Stanley Kubrick adapted The Shining into a movie. Many people know that the author of the original book (Stephen King) despised that movie. I'm one of those people…
Cerebral… Movie #122 2021: The Hunt (2012) 9 May 20213 May 2021 Whatever you do, don’t confuse this movie with the Craig Zobel movie The Hunt from 2020, because it could not be more different. This is not an American dystopian action…
Cerebral… Movie #105 2021: Gattaca (1997) 22 Apr 20213 Apr 2021 Every year I write a ‘to watch’ list in my trusty Moleskine®, and every year some films seem to still be on the list. This is one of those films.…
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