Comedy… Movie #11 2022: The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) 6 Feb 20226 Feb 2022 Who doesn't love The Muppets? I mean, you have to be a special sort of black hearted person to dislike them, right? Since I was a kid, I've always been…
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 #8 2022: Raising Arizona (1987) 23 Jan 202223 Jan 2022 I'm going to say something that might be considered quite controversial in film circles: I'm just not that interested in Joel and Ethan Coen. *audible gasp*, I know. That's not…
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…
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