Cerebral… Movie #3 2023: After Yang (2021) 20 Jan 202319 Jan 2023 After Yang is a film I've had on my watchlist since it was released. There's something about the quiet, ultra-realistic aesthetic of it all that made it so appealing to…
Horror… Movie #85 2022: Event Horizon (1997) 30 Oct 202224 Oct 2022 Nine times out of ten, I watch a movie that has for years been labelled a 'cult movie', and I love it. Donnie Darko, Heathers, Ghost World, Clue and Empire…
Action… Movie #68 2022: Predator (1987) 28 Aug 202225 Aug 2022 Yeah, yeah. I jumped on this bandwagon when I found out that Prey had been released on Disney+ a couple of weeks ago. Truth is, Predator was actually on my…
Cerebral… Movie #66 2022: Nope (2022) 24 Aug 202224 Aug 2022 Isn't it so satisfying when a horror movie is well made? Although Jordan Peele's third feature film isn't quite a horror, his debut trio of movies are such a success…
Animation… Movie #59 2022: Lightyear (2022) 8 Jul 202230 Jun 2022 Once again, I feel like I'm missing something. Although the current audience score on Rotten Tomatoes sits at 85%, it feels as though every review I see for Lightyear is…
Action… Movie #50 2022: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) 26 May 202226 May 2022 Do you see how many genres I've had to categorise this movie into? Truth is, it's a little bit of everything. In fact, all the best movies contain elements of…
adventure… Movie #24 2022: Dune (2021) 14 Mar 202211 Mar 2022 Most remakes never needed to be remade. I think we can all agree on that. The weird thing about Dune is that the original 1984 film was almost universally panned…
Action… Movie #9 2022: Edge of Tomorrow (2014) 26 Jan 202226 Jan 2022 There has been a resurgence in time loop movies in the last ten years, hasn't there? It's not just me, right? Looper springs to mind as the film that brought…
Comedy… Movie #4 2022: Don’t Look Up (2021) 10 Jan 2022 Adam McKay is a bit of an anomaly really, isn't he? On the one hand, he directed out-and-out comedies such as Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Step Brothers,…
Animation… Movie #2 2022: Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021) 6 Jan 20226 Jan 2022 What's that? I've inadvertently made my first two films of the year both Olivia Colman movies? Whoops. I promise I will watch movies from outside of Colman's filmography at some…
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