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 -…
Drama… Movie #274 2020: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) 16 Oct 20207 Oct 2020 Ugh, I don't even know where to start with this one. You know that gif where Meryl Streep is cheering in the audience at an awards ceremony? You know... this…
Drama… Movie #174 2020: The Farewell (2019) 27 May 202024 May 2020 Off the back of her radio story What You Don't Know, Lulu Wang brings us its film adaptation, titled The Farewell. Semi-autobiographical in nature, The Farewell is a deep insight…
Drama… Movie #109 2020: Cold War (2018) 24 Apr 202021 Apr 2020 This is one of those movies that deservedly gained love and attention at the Oscars, but ultimately left empty-handed. Honestly, I wrote my university dissertation on the Cold War, so…
Drama Movie #51 2020: Whiplash (2014) 27 Mar 202026 Mar 2020 Ah, Whiplash. I barely knew ye. Seriously, all I knew about this movie before watching it was the following: It's about a guy who plays drums.It won a bunch of…
Drama Movie #34 2020: Room (2015) 5 Mar 2020 It is perhaps worth nothing that all I knew about this movie before coming into it was this: A little boy has lived with his Mother in one room since…
Coming of Age… Movie #31 2020: Moonlight (2016) 3 Mar 2020 Well, this certainly took me too long to watch. You may remember Moonlight as being THAT MOVIE that La La Land beat at the Oscars. Well, if you remember it…
Action… Movie #27 2020: Ford v Ferrari (2019) 2 Mar 2020 Christian Bale as Ken Miles Sure, Christian Bale is one of my favourite current actors, but did I expect to enjoy this movie so much? Not at all. Firstly, this…
Animation… Movie #25 2020: Klaus (2019) 27 Feb 202027 Feb 2020 Jason Schwartzmann as the voice of Jesper and J.K. Simmons as Klaus Ah, another non-Disney animation that had to go up against Toy Story 4 at the Oscars this year.…
Biographical… Movie #23 2020: Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) 26 Feb 202026 Feb 2020 Richard E. Grant as Jack Hock and Melissa McCarthy as Lee Israel This movie is not what I was expecting. I will admit, I didn't actually know anything about the…
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