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House of Gucci (2021) – Review
When I wrote my review for The Last Duel, I had this to say in my postscript. In the world of High…
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Jonathan Demme: An Icon, Always (Something Wild, Married to the Mob & More)
After looking at Demme’s finest filmic effort, his Best Picture winning (and Best Director winning)…
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Tick, Tick... Boom (2021) – Review
I keep quoting Sondheim in my reviews and my writing of recent, for obvious reasons. Even in my Chr…
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King Richard (2021) – Review
King Richard combines a lot of things I love; Tennis and Will Smith being the chief traits amongst …
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Ghostbusters Afterlife (2021) – Review
For those of you who listened or watched our emergency podcast review of No Time to Die, you will h…
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Tom
Philadelphia: A Film as Human as Humanly Possible
Despite my deep, deep love and adoration for Jonathon Demme, I had for multiple reasons not got aro…
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The Silence of the Lambs: Still the Greatest Psychological Thriller of All Time
If one were to describe Jonathan Demme as a filmmaker; humour and humanity would be some of the fir…
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Spencer (2021) – Review
If one is a fan of The Crown, a perfectly fine show, then Spencer may not be for you. Instead of cl…
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Last Night in Soho (2021) – Review
When it comes to homage and inspiration, one can immediately find themselves coming up a cropper, t…
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The World of 90’s Thrillers (Action-Thriller)
Perhaps the vaguest of our three articles this month exploring the world of 90’s thriller films, on…
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The World of 90’s Thrillers (Murderers)
In 1991 a new floodgate in the world of 90’s thrillers was opened with the sensational success of t…
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The World of 90’s Thrillers (...From Hell)
Of all the sub-genres in the world, my two personal favourites would have to be ‘ Die Hard on a...’…
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The French Dispatch (2021) – Review
I think we’re getting to a point where we are desperately taking Wes Anderson for granted. Now is t…
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Dune (2021) – Review
Let’s say it plainly; the fact that this has been made to any sort of level of quality as it is, is…
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A Film Called ‘A Fish Called Wanda’
From a downright hilarious and ever so British script from John Cleese and the last film of the bri…
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The Last Duel (2021) – Review
I will not spend half of this article bemoaning the fact that once again a successful in most regar…
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Halloween Kills (2021) – Review
I am a profoundly devoted fan of the original 1978 John Carpenter masterpiece Halloween , aswell as…
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Venom: Let There be Carnage (2021) - Review
To put it plainly and lay my cards on the table from the off-set, it is almost undeniable to me tha…
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Triple Bill: Eugene O’Neil on Screen
Much has been said over the years regarding the deservedly much celebrated American playwright Euge…
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Triple Bill: 3 Masterpieces Written and Directed by Albert Brooks
Perhaps it’s too easy an association to make, but when one thinks of writer-director-actors who wor…
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Kes: A Yorkshire Elegy to Childhood Hope
Where I’m from, this film has touched more people than you could imagine. The simple story of young…
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No Time To Die (2021) – Review
Well here we are. At long last. And yes, it was worth the wait. My mileage for Bond as a whole vari…
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The Many Saints of Newark (2021) – Review
In an on-going trend which I can only hope will soon spark a Mad Men film, the rage of prestige tel…
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John Grisham Adaptations on Screen in the 90’s
In the world of modern blockbusters that we live in, it’s sometimes hard to believe just how popula…
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Malignant (2021) – Review
For a film entirely about understanding the true nature of one’s self, it is quite apt that the big…
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The Natural – A Redford and Levinson Baseball Classic
The Natural is a story of myth. Perhaps there really is no better sport in all of history that work…
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Here Today (2021) – Review
When it comes to idols, it can become a little difficult to be a bias party in reviewing their work…
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Meg Ryan – The Career of America’s sweetheart
Some may think that after writing a full article on arguably Ryan’s three best films, making up her…
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Candyman (2021) – Review
When it comes to this 2021 remake/sequel/reboot/whatever of Candyman I feel like there are two prev…
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Triple Bill: Nora Ephron and Meg Ryan – The Perfect Rom-Com Pair
For me there is no better collaboration in the world of rom-com than Meg Ryan speaking the words of…
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Double Bill: The Teen Wolf Movies
Back in 1985 a little movie about a basketball playing kid who happens to be a werewolf was release…
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The Courier (2021) – Review
I have a certain genre of mine that I like to refer to as “movies for afternoons where you’re the y…
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Free Guy (2021) – Review
Now is Free Guy better and more interesting visually and comedically than a large swath of the bloc…
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Double Bill: The Alex Cross Movies (Kiss the Girls, Along Came a Spider)
In the wake of films like Se7en, a huge boom of murder based films came our way, pair this with the…
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Stillwater (2021) – Review
The biggest strength of Tom McCarthy’s new politically charged, mystery fuelled thriller Stillwater…
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Nicholas Stoller; Possibly the Best Director of the Apatow Generation
Of the many people that Judd Apatow in his career as a rightly celebrated writer, director and prod…
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The Suicide Squad (2021) – Review
There seems to be a certain atmosphere of surprise around the largely positive critical praise of T…
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The Lighthouse: The Deep and Dark Heart of Solitude and Madness
If one can believe it, The Lighthouse, one of the most dynamic, artful and disturbing movies of 201…
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TV series
Fargo: Season 4 (2021) – Review
With a show like Fargo I think it’s gotten to the point where we’re taking it for granted. Granted,…
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Parasite: 2019’s Best Picture Winner, Two Years Later
The first Korean film to ever win the Palme d’Or went on to break another awards record, and arguab…
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Jojo Rabbit: Evil Through a Child’s Eyes
Following a string of very popular and critically beloved independent comedies including the except…
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Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood and the Power of Tarantino’s ‘What if?’
“Maybe this isn’t the way it was... It’s the way it should have been”. We know of the joy of Tara…
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The Irishman, the Power of Context and What Happens After the Credits
The Irishman was nominated for 10 Oscars and won none; this as a sentence truly baffles me, complet…
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Old (2021) – Review
At this point it is no shocking comment that the films of M. Night Shyamalan are a seriously mixed …
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Marriage Story, and What is Left Unspoken When Everything’s Been Said
One of the most beautifully devastating films of our era; Noah Baumbach’s magnum opus, Marriage Sto…
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Noah Baumbach – A (Nearly) Complete Retrospective
Emerging the child of two film critics, Noah Baumbach couldn’t help but let his influences lead him…
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Cocktail – A Sincerely Crazy Cruise Film
Let me just get one thing straight and pardon my profanity; but Cocktail f*cking rules! But it also…
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Freaky (2021) - Review
When it comes to a purely entertaining, horror-comedy with a buckets of great practical gore and a …
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French Exit (2021) – Review
For all the things that French Exit is, it is simultaneously far too much and far too little of eac…
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Tony Scott and Denzel Washington, a Very Underrated Film Pairing
Following on from last week’s article where we looked at the double bill of Gene Hackman collaborat…
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The Father (2021) – Review
With certain films regarding certain subject matters, it is often the case that audiences are split…
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Double Bill: Tony Scott and Gene Hackman – Two Thriller Classics
This article will be the first of a two-parter exploring the incomparable work of director Tony Sco…
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Double Bill: Basic Insinct (and ‘That’ Sequel)
Comments on Sharon Stone’s 90’s work; Two incredible performances from Stone here, highlighting two…
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Which Actor Do We Need Right Now? (It’s Michael Douglas)
Which actor do we need right now? I’ll tell you. It’s Michael Douglas. In a time of such political …
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Double Bill: Two More Costner Sports Films (Tin Cup, Draft Day)
Following on from our rundown of the Kevin Costner baseball trilogy consisting of Bull Durham, Fiel…
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Triple Bill: The Kevin Costner Baseball Movies
"I believe in the church of Baseball... For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary…
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A Quiet Place: Part 2 (2021) – Review
After a very solid directorial debut from John Krasinski with the first entry in this inevitable se…
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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021) – Review
I am always rather surprised at the quality of the films in The Conjuring franchise, when I say tha…
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Cruella (2021) – Review
A film directed by Craig Gillespie, written in part by Tony McNamara, starring Emma Stone and Emma …
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Written and Directed by Judd Apatow: Always Too Long, Always Hilarious
I really don’t think one can dispute the comedic impact that Judd Apatow has had on the past two de…
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Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021) – Review
I feel like almost unanimously there is the held opinion that the first Saw film is a very solid th…
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Spotlight: A Very Underrated Modern Best Picture
The widespread horrific nature of the hidden abuse within the catholic church is the sort of thing …
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Drop Dead Gorgeous: A Stone Cold Cult Camp Classic
In 1999, in the wake of the re-emergence boom in popularity of the mockumentary, following the incr…
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The Perfect Duo: Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion
In 1997 Robin Schiff adapted two of her most successful characters from her play The Ladies Room in…
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Making Sense of ‘Stop Making Sense’; Still the Best Concert Movie of All Time
Stop Making Sense may just be one of the most perfect films ever made, in the simplest sense of the…
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Twilight zone
The Twilight Zone – The 20 Greatest Episodes of All Time
This week’s essay serves more so as a slight recycling of elements from the past six weeks of essay…
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The Twilight Zone – Series 5 (Top 10 Episodes)
And so the end draws near. By this time Serling was pretty disillusioned with the whole affair, wit…
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Palm Springs (2020) – Review
The Lonely Island boys have now taken to producing films and one of the their first efforts is that…
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The Twilight Zone – Series 4 (Top 10 Episodes)
And now we come to the unfortunate fourth season of Serling’s The Twilight Zone. When one talks abo…
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Let Them All Talk (2020) – Review
Shot over the course of one transatlantic cruise on the Queen Mary 2 by one of our finest talents i…
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The Twilight Zone – Series 3 (Top 15 Episodes)
An end was in sight, or at least some sort of fashion of one. By the third season of the much accla…
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The Twilight Zone – Series 2 (Top 15 Episodes)
By series 2, The Twilight Zone was a lot more in tune with the show that we now commonly recall it …
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The Nest (2020) – Review
Sean Durkin’s first feature film that he has directed since Martha Marcy May Marlene, a sobering an…
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Submitted For Your Approval: ‘Walking Distance’ - The Greatest Episode of The Twilight Zone
On the 30th October, 1959, Rod Serling introduced us to Martin Sloan. ROD SERLING - NARRATOR: [Open…
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Sound of Metal (2020) – Review
As the Oscar race rages on we enter into a period of a lot more character study based movies. It al…
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Twilight zone
The Twilight Zone – Series 1 (Top 15 Episodes)
“ There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space…
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Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) – Review
I have heard many people talk about Judas and the Black Messiah commenting that it has reinvented t…
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Nomadland (2021) – Review
It’s a very tough thing for a film critic and fan to go into a film completely unaware of any opini…
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Downstairs in Gosford Park: The Murder Mystery to End All Murder Mysteries
We all know the setup; “the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a party in 1932 in …
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Da 5 Bloods (2020) – Review
“A Spike Lee joint” as a phrase holds a lot of clout and more than deservedly so, and although some…
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On the Rocks (2020) – Review
This third reunion of Sofia Coppola and Bill Murray feels like a return to the loose nature of Lost…
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Every Nine Years; 25 years With Jesse, Celine and ‘The Before Trilogy’
If there has been an over-riding theme to be found within the work of Richard Linklater; it would t…
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Coming 2 America (2021) – Review
First things first, as I illuminated in an article earlier this week, I really do believe the first…
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Coming to America: 33 Years and a Lot of Laughs Later
Later this week we are finally getting a sequel to what I see as nothing short of a truly, truly pe…
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Network – Still the Most Prophetic Film of All Time
Howard Beale: Why me? Arthur Jensen: Because you’re on television, dummy. 60 million people watch…
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Minari (2021) – Review
Of all the things that Minari is, at its best it’s a family movie. Not in the sense that we commonl…
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I Care a Lot (2021) – Review
Despite her barn-storming and immediately legendary turn as Amy Dunne, it has taken some time for R…
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Talking About Talk Radio (1988)
“Barry and I worked together for over seven years and whenever you threatened him over the air, man…
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Promising Young Woman (2021) – Review
If The Assistant is the movie that brilliantly dissected the system that fuelled what the #metoo mo…
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Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021) – Review
Many have been quick to posit that Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is exactly the light and funny…
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The Brutal Beauty of the films of John Cassavetes
If one were to bestow the crown the king of independent film, many could look to modern day counter…
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News of the World (2021) – Review
Following in the path of their previous collaboration Captain Phillips, Tom Hanks and Paul Greengra…
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Malcolm & Marie (2021) – Review
One of the first movies to be entirely written, directed and edited during the COVID 19 pandemic, M…
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