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 #84 2021: Empire of the Sun (1987) 1 Apr 202111 Mar 2021 And so my attempt to watch more Spielberg continues! This time, I jumped back in time to 1987 to give one of his more ‘classic’ films a watch. Empire of…
Drama… Movie #12 2021: The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) 18 Jan 202112 Jan 2021 The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society. Try saying that ten times fast. Not to worry though, that’s actually good reason behind that mouthful of a film title. (I…
Classics… Movie #354 2020: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 19 Dec 202029 Dec 2020 We've had an awful lot of reviews here for modern-day cinema lately, haven't we? So why not wind it all the way back to 1964 and take a look at…
Action… Movie #292 2020: Mulan (2020) 5 Nov 20205 Nov 2020 Mulan (2020) is probably the first big blockbuster that fell victim to the dreaded Coronavirus. What I mean by that is, it was scheduled to be released in theatres with…
Comedy… Movie #187 2020: In the Loop (2009) 2 Jun 202030 May 2020 Politics and comedy? Sounds like exactly my cup of tea. In The Loop is a 2009 documentary-style comedy feature from the legend who is Armando Iannucci. With a focus on…
Classics… Movie #173 2020: A League Of Their Own (1992) 26 May 202023 May 2020 Thank GOD for this movie. After the shit show that was Vault (2019), I was all about ready to curl up into a ball and never watch a movie again.…
Classics… Movie #147 2020: A Few Good Men (1992) 13 May 20209 May 2020 There are a few quotes in movies that almost everyone has heard. This movie has one of them. In a climactic courtroom scene, Jack Nicholson's Colonel Jessop is at a…
Action… Movie #28 2020: 1917 (2019) 2 Mar 20202 Mar 2020 There was a lot of buzz around this movie, particularly in the UK for understandable reasons. What can be said about it that hasn't already been? Not much. Is this…
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