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,…
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…
christmas… Movie #234 2021: Trading Places (1983) 26 Dec 202125 Dec 2021 Trading Places. It may be the last Christmas movie released post-1980 that's always on all of those 'Best Christmas Movies Of All Time' lists that I haven't seen. Out of…
Animation… Movie #233 2021: Ratatouille (2007) 25 Dec 202124 Dec 2021 Happy holidays, folks! Thought I'd mark the occasion with... a movie that isn't about Christmas in the slightest. Maybe I'll watch one or two more festive-based movies before the year…
Drama… Movie #223 2021: tick, tick…BOOM! (2021) 29 Nov 202129 Nov 2021 Know what's weird? I love Rent and Jonathan Larson's legacy. I love Hamilton and Lin-Manuel Miranda's overwhelming talent. But I did not expect for one second to love tick, tick...BOOM!…
Action… Movie #221 2021: Eternals (2021) 25 Nov 202125 Nov 2021 It has been pretty well documented that Rotten Tomatoes critics hated this movie. In fact, as of writing, it only has a 48% critics score, in comparison to, say, Captain…
Horror Movie #219 2021: The Exorcist (1973) 13 Nov 202112 Nov 2021 Here's the truth: there are some scenes from movies that are simply iconic. The shower scene in Psycho. The "I Am Your Father" scene from The Empire Strikes Back. The…
Comedy… Movie #218 2021: Little Shop of Horrors (1986) 10 Nov 20211 Nov 2021 Fun fact for you: my girlfriend works in theatre management. Bet you didn't know that. But why am I telling you this? Well, never mind Little Shop of Horrors, imagine…
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…
Horror Movie #214 2021: Ma (2019) 2 Nov 202131 Oct 2021 You know when the key star of a movie just elevates the entire thing? It happens a lot when you think about it. You only have to look back to…
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