Comedy… Movie #40 2023: 80 For Brady (2023) 4 Jul 20234 Jul 2023 So I've been away for a while. Mounds of work plus a holiday on top? That amounts to about three weeks between this post and my last. It's highly doubtful…
Drama… Movie #36 2023: Air (2023) 8 Jun 20236 Jun 2023 To be honest, if I could watch nothing but sports movies for the rest of my life I'd be completely happy with it. Especially when hotshot directors like Ben Affleck…
Documentary… Movie #136 2021: My Octopus Teacher (2020) 23 May 202123 May 2021 Can you tell that I was cramming in a few Oscar nominated films before the awards this year? I'll be honest, I watched My Octopus Teacher over every other film…
Awards Season… Movie #126 2021: The Mauritanian (2021) 13 May 20214 May 2021 Most people were extremely 'meh' in their reactions to The Mauritanian, so I completely expected to feel similarly about it. Weirdly, it seems as though I enjoyed this movie much…
Drama… Movie #85 2021: The Founder (2016) 2 Apr 202112 Mar 2021 Michael Keaton, Laura Dern and Nick Offerman? Yep, I’m in. Would I have watched a movie about the founding of McDonald’s if it didn’t come with some of my favourite actors? Probably not.…
Awards Season… Movie #79 2021: Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) 27 Mar 20214 Mar 2021 When Daniel Kaluuya won his Golden Globe for Judas and the Black Messiah, my girlfriend and I cheered the house down because he so deserved it. Weirdly though, it wasn’t…
Drama… Movie #78 2021: Amistad (1997) 26 Mar 20213 Mar 2021 You may recall that I recently reviewed Minority Report and vowed to watch more Spielberg films. Well, guess what? I immediately forgot I said that as soon as I finished…
Awards Season… Movie #74 2021: The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) 22 Mar 20211 Mar 2021 With it being one of the only true classic “Hollywood” style blockbusters coming out in 2020, The Trial of the Chicago 7 needs fairly little introduction at this point. It…
Drama… Movie #50 2021: Dark Waters (2019) 25 Feb 202112 Feb 2021 I’m not entirely sure how this ended up on my watch list, quite frankly. Do I regret it being on there? Let’s see... Dark Waters is the 2019 effort from…
Animation… Movie #35 2021: Balto (1995) 10 Feb 20211 Feb 2021 Did you know that Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment once had an animated branch known as ‘Amblimation’? Me neither, until now. See, Amblimation only survived three feature films and two animated…
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