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Does Length Matter? (Ooh Matron)
There is always something daunting about a long running time, especially in this current climate of…
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Tom
The Midnight Sky (2020) – Review
George Clooney is without a doubt for me one of our greatest actors and perhaps is the last great v…
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Tom
Happiest Season (2020) – Review
Happiest Season is the Christmas rom-com that could have very well been the gem of the holiday seas…
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Tom
It’s A Wonderful Life: Still The Best Christmas Film Of All Time
Frank Capra was a man of the people. His films touched and still touch millions every year, with th…
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Tom
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020) – Review
Following his 2015 announcement that he would be bringing each play in August Wilson’s “centenary c…
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TV series
The Undoing (2020) – Review
Nicole Kidman, "based on a book", David E. Kelley, rich white people, murder, private sch…
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Tom
Rob Reiner - The Run of All Time
When I think of all time runs for directors, I immediately jump to Rob Reiner who’s run of 9 films …
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Tom
The Prom (2020) – Review
Broadway’s new musical comedy comes to the screen in the exact sort of fashion that we had thought …
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Tom
Mank (2020) – Review
If I were to compare Mank to one film it would be Citizen Kane. This may seem a pretty blatantly ob…
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Tom
The Best Tennis Movies Are About Murder
Why are the best Tennis movies about murder? A simple enough question; because Tennis is boring to …
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Top Tens
Films of the Decade: 2010s
Our final ranking in this endeavour leaves us with 15 more truly excellent films and an over-abunda…
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Tom
Hillbilly Elegy (2020) – Review
The term "Oscar bait" is flouted about quite often nowadays in reference to the sort of f…
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Tom
Christmas on the Square (2020) – Review
Now It certainly isn’t going to win any Oscars, and I very much doubt that any stage adaptation wou…
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Tom
Home for the Holidays: A Thanksgiving Film Delight
“ Well that was absurd. Let’s eat dead bird”
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Films of the Decade: 2000s
Our penultimate week on this endeavour draws us into a new century and what a century it has been s…
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Films of the Decade: 90s
As always, I’ll cut to the chase. The 90s, another great decade for film. This list features the mo…
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Tom
Cleo from 5 to 7: Agnes Varda’s finest effort
Born out of a true love of film and a yearning to put ideas onto the screen, the blooming of the Fr…
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Tom
Chungking Express: The Peak of the Hong Kong New Wave
Shot within 23 days on a budget of 600,000 dollars on hiatus from his martial arts epic “Ashes of t…
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Films of the Decade: 80s
The 80s, what a decade for film. But as you will soon learn we are talking about an over-abundance …
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Tom
Hubie Halloween (2020) – Review
Last year around the time for his Oscar campaigning for his excellent performance in Uncut gems, Ad…
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Films of the Decade: 70s
We now reach, for me, and many, the best decade that film has ever seen. So many of the greatest fi…
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Tom
Borat 2: Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) – Review
A lot has changed since 2006; for us, for Sacha Baron Cohen and, it seems, for Borat too. Mediums h…
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Tom
Saint Maud (2020) – Review
There has been a recent blow-out of media when it comes to contemplative psychological thriller hor…
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Films of the Decade: 60s
We continue with our endeavour, moving into a real turning point decade for film. We are moving awa…
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Tom
Rebecca (2020) – Review
This film had an awful lot going for it. A lot more going for it than many films get. It goes witho…
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Tom
A Look at the Adaptations of Daphne Du Maurier’s 'Rebecca'
It cannot be iterated enough how truly excellent Daphne Du Maurier’s dark and twisting tale of love…
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Films of the Decade: 1950s
The second part of this run of articles marks a change almost immediately. The allotted ten spaces …
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Tom
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) - Review
A film from development hell finally makes it to our screens (albeit our small screens through Netf…
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Films of the Decade: Prior to 1950
I now begin a whole new endeavour. A multi-week collection of articles and rankings of what I decla…
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Tom
The Boys in the Band (2020) - Review
Only a few months after the unfortunate passing of iconic gay playwright Mart Crowley, we receive a…
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Tom
Returning to Old Rankings
For this week’s article I thought I’d go nostalgic and revisit some old rankings and lists of mine …
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TV series
Ratched, Season 1 (2020) - Review
Another Ryan Murphy series comes along...I almost remember when that was an event, but nowadays we …
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Tom
Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) - Review
There is much to be commented on when it comes to Bill & Ted in the modern world. In times of s…
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Tom
All That Jazz (1979): Fosse's Masterpiece
All That Jazz is hypocritical; it both loves and hates its subject matter, making it both beautifu…
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Tom
The Devil All The Time (2020) - Review
In many ways The Devil All The Time is tailor-made for me, featuring many actors and elements that …
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Tom
Sexy Hitchcock, “Unnatural and Lascivious” Acts & Body Doubles: The Bizarre History of the Erotic Thriller
As I look through the title quotes of the several highly rated IMDB reviews of the 1992 sexual thri…
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Tom
The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) - Review
From the moment it starts, The Peanut Butter Falcon wins you over, with a delightful cold open por…
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Tom
Consolation Prizes: Right Person, Wrong Time
It’s a slippery slope. That’s the main thing I’ve found whilst writing and researching for this ess…
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Tom
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020) - Review
I write this review in the total knowledge that I have enjoyed every single Charlie Kaufman film I’…
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The Greatest Male Performances of All Time
A companion piece to the earlier essay discussing the greatest female performances of all time, it …
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Tom
Dirty Dancing (1987 Re-Release) - Review
This was my first time seeing Dirty Dancing from start to finish. I had naturally seen long stretch…
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Tom
The Greatest Female Performances of All Time
I gave myself a Herculean task, I’ll admit it. I won’t say impossible, after all this list is funda…
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Tom
Tenet (2020) – Review
This review will feature * NO SPOILERS* about the plot as one of the most refreshing aspects of th…
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Tom
How Can We Pick the Greatest Film of All Time?
Is there a more touted question amongst film fans and film lovers than “What is the greatest film o…
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Tom
An American Pickle (2020) – Review
“An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in …
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Tom
Bad Education (2019) - Review
God I hope this gets the Oscars it deserves. Ideally I’d want a best actor nomination for Hugh Ja…
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My Top Ten Films of All Time (for now) - Tom
Perhaps there is no better way to let you into somebody’s head than to know what their favourite fi…
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Will
My Top Ten Films of All Time (for now) - Will
I’m certain that, by now, you’ve become accustomed to Tom’s moaning (or critique...however you deem…
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Tom
Introductory Remarks (a very formal way to say “intro”)
And so another venture begins...as I sit listening to Tony Bennett, I struggle to figure how to sur…
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