Drama… Movie #50 2023: Oppenheimer (2023) 9 Aug 20239 Aug 2023 There's been a delay on me getting round to writing this one, for sure. Thing is, I actually did the whole Barbenheimer schtick on opening day, but there's been so…
Action… Movie #18 2023: Saving Private Ryan (1998) 10 Mar 20236 Mar 2023 Yeeeeeah, so I may have seen The Fabelmans and decided that I'd not seen enough Spielberg films. It's funny really, because I've actually seen about half of his filmography, from…
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…
Action… Movie #103 2021: War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) 20 Apr 20211 Apr 2021 Wahoo! I finally got round to the final Apes movie. Alas, it was not free to stream. You may not have noticed, but I try to review films here that…
Drama… Movie #84 2021: Empire of the Sun (1987) 1 Apr 202111 Mar 2021 And so my attempt to watch more Spielberg continues! This time, I jumped back in time to 1987 to give one of his more ‘classic’ films a watch. Empire of…
Classics… Movie #354 2020: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 19 Dec 202029 Dec 2020 We've had an awful lot of reviews here for modern-day cinema lately, haven't we? So why not wind it all the way back to 1964 and take a look at…
Comedy… Movie #187 2020: In the Loop (2009) 2 Jun 202030 May 2020 Politics and comedy? Sounds like exactly my cup of tea. In The Loop is a 2009 documentary-style comedy feature from the legend who is Armando Iannucci. With a focus on…
Classics… Movie #125 2020: Duck Soup (1933) 2 May 202029 Apr 2020 Wow, 1933. This is the oldest film so far on TQR, and it's probably always going to be the oldest! Duck Soup is one of those classics that everyone has…
Drama… Movie #43 2020: A Taxi Driver (2017) 21 Mar 202026 Mar 2020 All I can do when I think about A Taxi Driver is sigh. For me, it is an almost perfect movie. Sadly, this is a Korean movie that seems to…
Action… Movie #28 2020: 1917 (2019) 2 Mar 20202 Mar 2020 There was a lot of buzz around this movie, particularly in the UK for understandable reasons. What can be said about it that hasn't already been? Not much. Is this…
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