Art House… Movie #13 2023: TÁR (2022) 28 Feb 202327 Feb 2023 Some loved it, some hated it. I'm actually going to side with the former on this occasion in that Tár is probably one of my favourite 'First Watches' of the…
Animation… Movie #10 2023: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022) 22 Feb 202322 Feb 2023 The Best Animated Feature Film nominations are truly insane this year. Usually, it's a category that has one clear frontrunner with one dark horse following it, with the others often…
Animation… Movie #75 2022: Ponyo (2008) 15 Sep 202213 Sep 2022 In 2008, Disney Pixar released WALL-E. That's right, when Studio Ghibli were releasing this cute little 2-D hand drawn movie, the biggest animated movie studio in the world were putting…
Awards Season… Movie #25 2022: Nightmare Alley (2021) 16 Mar 202215 Mar 2022 With a director like Guillermo del Toro and an ensemble of such a high calibre attached to a film, you'd think that Nightmare Alley would be a runaway hit. Whilst…
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,…
Drama Movie #340 2020: Carol (2015) 5 Dec 20202 Dec 2020 Some of this film is set at Christmas, so it's partially a Christmas film, right? Eh, well. I'm past the point of caring. What's more surprising is that I -…
Action… Movie #233 2020: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) 9 Jul 20206 Jul 2020 I'll start this off with a disclaimer: I'm not a massive Lord of the Rings fan. I appreciate how masterfully made they are - that's indisputable. But for my tastes?…
Documentary Movie #67 2020: This Changes Everything (2018) 3 Apr 20201 Apr 2020 Wahoo! Another documentary! Documentaries are cool for me, because I was way more into them than fictional cinematic pieces until recently. And guess what? I'm into feminism too! So this…
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