Art House… Movie #166 2021: Kajillionaire (2020) 22 Jun 202122 Jun 2021 I'd heard wildly mixed things about Kajillionaire before I watched it. Some absolutely adored this movie, some thought it was pointless and quirky for quirkiness' sake. The truth this, this…
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.…
Drama… Movie #82 2021: Winter’s Bone (2010) 30 Mar 20211 Apr 2021 Winter’s Bone. The movie that first garnered attention for the now instantly recognisable Jennifer Lawrence. Can you blame me for being interested? Winter’s Bone is an American drama film set…
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…
Comedy Movie #77 2021: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) 25 Mar 20212 Mar 2021 Remember the good old days in 2006 when Sandi Thom was singing about being a punk rocker with flowers in her hair? When Scissor Sisters burst onto the scene with…
Awards Season… Movie #62 2021: Nomadland (2020) 10 Mar 202111 Mar 2021 I’m finding it extremely difficult to figure out how to begin this review. Quite simply, it’s a piece of purely phenomenal filmmaking. Nomadland marks director Chloe Zhao’s third feature film,…
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?…
Classics… Movie #33 2021: Easy Rider (1969) 8 Feb 202129 Jan 2021 On paper, watching two long-haired men ride motorbikes across the south of the USA sounds boring as sin. But for many, this film is considered an American classic. Easy Rider…
Drama… Movie #18 2021: One Night In Miami… (2020) 24 Jan 202118 Jan 2021 I don’t know what I expected from this. Regina King is deservedly one of my favourite actresses of the last decade, so clearly I had high hopes for it. Was…
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…
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