Awards Season… Movie #24 2023: All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) 26 Mar 202322 Mar 2023 Google 'Best War Movies'. Nine times out of ten, you'll see classics like Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan, Apocalypse Now, The Thin Red Line and others of a similar…
Horror… Movie #86 2022: Umma (2022) 1 Nov 202225 Oct 2022 Yeah, yeah, I know Halloween's over. But bear with me, because I always say Halloween lasts until mid-November. After that, maybe I'll do a few Christmas films, but since Halloween…
Art House… Movie #72 2022: Oldboy (2003) 8 Sep 20225 Sep 2022 Can you believe this movie has been sitting in my DVD collection for 18 months and I only watched it last week? Even though I knew that it is critically…
Awards Season… Movie #35 2022: Drive My Car (2021) 8 Apr 20224 Apr 2022 Drive My Car is a tough one for me to review. There's a lot going on within it... but also seemingly very little? In fact, I'm not entirely sure what…
Drama… Movie #26 2021: Like Father, Like Son (2013) 1 Feb 202125 Jan 2021 You know when some directors just hit different? That’s Hirokazu Kore-eda. Sometimes, it doesn’t matter if he speaks a different language linguistically, because the language he speaks spiritually is universal.…
Drama… Movie #362 2020: Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) 28 Dec 202029 Dec 2020 To begin, let it be known that this is the furthest from a 'festive movie' as you could possibly get. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is arguably more festive than this…
Horror… Movie #307 2020: #Alive (2020) 14 Nov 202011 Nov 2020 Back to some Halloween-y horror now, and this time we head all the way east to South Korea. As you're probably aware by now, my girlfriend and I are big…
Cerebral… Movie #88 2020: The Platform (2019) 13 Apr 202011 Apr 2020 You may or may not know that I watch quite a lot of Asian cinema. Well, it's time to switch it up a little! I've travelled back to Europe, to…
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