Cerebral… Movie #343 2020: mother! (2017) 8 Dec 20204 Dec 2020 Darren Aronofsky! Requiem For A Dream is one of my favourite films, and Black Swan was pretty great. So this must be pretty similar, right?........ Right?! This movie has excellent performances, a chilling score,…
christmas… Movie #341 2020: The Christmas Chronicles: Part 2 (2020) 6 Dec 20202 Dec 2020 Right, listen. I won't hear a bad word about this movie. I just won't. It's getting some really shitty reviews, but it's pure joy in my book. Here's why. The…
christmas… Movie #339 2020: Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square (2020) 4 Dec 20201 Dec 2020 Oy vey. I had high hopes for this, especially considering that Dolly Parton just saved all of humanity. Darn, what a disappointment. Christine Baranski stars as the cold-as-ice Regina; a…
Action… Movie #316 2020: North By Northwest (1959) 19 Nov 202017 Nov 2020 After being phenomenally gobsmacked by Rear Window, I began to realise that Alfred Hitchcock is one of my favourite directors. I'm not forgetting that his techniques were sometimes questionable, and…
Action… Movie #213 2020: Mission: Impossible (1996) 15 Jun 202013 Jun 2020 No. Okay? No, I haven't seen any of the Mission: Impossible films before. I intend on changing that. (I say, as I have yet to watch a single James Bond…
Drama… Movie #212 2020: Sleepy Hollow (1999) 15 Jun 202013 Jun 2020 Remember when Tim Burton and Johnny Depp made decent movies together? No? Let me help you. Sleepy Hollow is Burton's 1999 jaunt, based off the Washington Irving short story of…
Cerebral… Movie #160 2020: Match Point (2005) 19 May 202015 May 2020 Imagine me thinking that this was a movie about tennis. I mean it, I basically thought this was basically another Wimbledon (2004), except with Scarlett Johansson instead of the woman…
Classics… Movie #158 2020: Chinatown (1974) 18 May 202014 May 2020 The weirdest thing about this movie is that I distinctly remember quite enjoying it at the time. What I can't remember distinctly is what the hell it was all about.…
Drama… Movie #157 2020: Hunt For The Wilderpeople (2016) 18 May 202014 May 2020 Taika Waititi is quickly becoming one of the world's best current directors, and that's a fact. Before the phenomenal Hollywood success of his blockbusters Thor: Ragnarok and Jojo Rabbit came…
Coming of Age… Movie #155 2020: The Half of It (2020) 17 May 202013 May 2020 The Half Of It is doing relatively well on Netflix and in critics' circles currently. Why? Because we are all starved of new content, obviously. No cinemas, no new production…
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