Awards Season… Movie #58 2021: Hillbilly Elegy (2020) 6 Mar 202119 Feb 2021 Hillbilly Elegy has received quite a lot of criticism since its arrival on Netflix, so I thought I’d give it a go. Do I understand the hate for it after…
Comedy… Movie #57 2021: To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020) 5 Mar 202118 Feb 2021 I’m really burning through some franchises this year, am I not? First X-Men, then National Treasure and now To All the Boys. I mean, why not? There’s always room for…
Comedy… Movie #54 2021: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018) 2 Mar 202117 Feb 2021 As of last month, this movie is now part of a trilogy. Movies don’t usually get sequels unless they’re super popular, right? To make sure I was keeping up with…
Drama… Movie #42 2021: Outside In (2017) 17 Feb 20218 Feb 2021 I’ll be honest with you here. I only came to this movie because Edie Falco stars and I bloody love her. Then, I found out that Lynn Shelton directed it,…
Documentary… Movie #38 2021: The Final Year (2017) 13 Feb 20213 Feb 2021 Documentary time! (Documentaries are lowkey one of my favourite genres because I’m a slut for non-fiction both in movies and in books. It just so happens that US Politics is…
Drama… Movie #34 2021: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020) 9 Feb 20211 Feb 2021 Movies adapted from plays seem like all the rage right now, don’t they? To be fair, when they’re as good as One Night In Miami..., who am I to complain?…
Documentary… Movie #7 2021: Get Me Roger Stone (2017) 13 Jan 20217 Jan 2021 This is terrifying. Get Me Roger Stone is a political documentary that was commissioned by Netflix in 2017, shortly after the election of a certain Donald. Rather than focusing on…
Documentary… Movie #358 2020: Icarus (2017) 23 Dec 202029 Dec 2020 What could be more Christmassy than a documentary about a Russian athletics doping scandal? To be fair, I needed a break from incessant twinkling lights and Mariah Carey, and there…
Horror… Movie #326 2020: His House (2020) 24 Nov 202023 Nov 2020 Surprise! I lulled you into a false sense of security, making you think you'd escaped Halloween and you were firmly in Christmas territory. But you'd be wrong. When I saw…
christmas… Movie #324 2020: Holidate (2020) 23 Nov 202022 Nov 2020 ♪ It's the mooooost wonderful tiiiiime of the yeeeeear! ♪ That's right, just as we're done with Halloween, The Quayside Review is ready to bombard you with some awful Christmas…
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