Reviews
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) - Review
2019 really was the best year for film I’ve had in my movie watching life. Of course I was alive fo…
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Triple Bill: Written and Directed by Kenneth Lonergan
Aswell as being a legend of the Modern American theatre with three plays now rightly I feel referre…
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O.J: Made in America, By Ezra Edelman – The Documentary of Our Time
2016 was a very particular year in the legacy of O.J Simpson, sports star, movie star, alleged murd…
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Sr. (2022) – Review
The new documentary from Chris Smith is something very special indeed and something far removed by …
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Double Bill: Written and Directed by Todd Field
Todd Field is known in many circles of film fans perhaps best as the actor who portrayed Nick Night…
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Confess Fletch (2022) – Review
Now; from what you may know of me and my loves, one might assume that Confess Fletch may automatica…
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Living (2022) – Review
There is a profound elegance and beauty to Oliver Hermanus’s new film Living. A transplanting by Ka…
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Hellraiser: Double Bill – Hellraiser (1987) and Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
In 1987 Clive Barker, master of literary horror, turned his sights upon adapting to the screen hi…
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My Policeman (2022) – Review
I have often said that there is nothing harder to review than a mediocre film; “Well, it was alrigh…
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Speak No Evil (2022) – Review
Speak No Evil is the sort of film where one can thrust upon it all manner of horrific hyperbole; th…
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Bros (2022) – Review
There are comedic personalities in this world that we are more attune to than others. I have herald…
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Barbarian (2022) – Review
With the awful release patterns of things coming out in England sometimes the same day and sometime…
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Hellraiser (2022) - Review
To return to Hellrasier is simultaneously a daunting and easy proposition. Afterall this is not a …
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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) – Review
The Banshees of Inisherin certainly had to live up to some high expectations from myself when I wen…
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Barry: Season 3 (2022) - Review
Without a doubt in my mind there is no greater show on television right now than Barry . The creati…
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Smile (2022) - Review
When it comes down to its core there isn’t really too much to say when it comes to Smile . Firstly …
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Halloween Ends (2022) - Review
What did we actually want from Halloween Ends ? Now I could wax lyrical for hours about the legacy …
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The Lost King (2022) – Review
Now in 2013 Steve Coogan (long-time idol of mine in every aspect of his career) collaborated with J…
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Amsterdam (2022) – Review
Now a lot of people like to rail into directors when their film is seen as nothing but laundry list…
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Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (2022) – Review
There is a softness of touch and a warmness at the core of Anthony Fabian’s 2022 adaptation of Paul…
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The Woman King (2022) – Review
There is a great heightening to the quality of The Woman King that occurs from the pure matter of v…
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Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022) – Review
Following on from a film of promise with his last film, Cooper Raiff returns to write, direct, star…
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Pinocchio (2022) – Review
Beyond the endless dirge cycle of Marvel films, no glut or craze or fad or cynical relentless onsla…
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Pearl (2022) – Review
Has there been a more exciting, nor entertaining surprise of the 2022 film year than Ti West and Mi…
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X (2022) – Review
This belated review comes naturally later than planned due to my current work-life and so my review…
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Blonde (2022) – Review
Undeniably Blonde was one of my most anticipated movies of the year. The return of Andrew Dominick…
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Benedetta (2022) – Review
The king of transgression is back once more, with a new thrilling, sensual, almost surprisingly his…
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Only Murders in the Building: Season 2 (2022) – Review
There comes a time upon the start of every review where a reviewer has to check their biases, somet…
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Don’t Worry Darling (2022) – Review
On Monday a full in-depth spoiler podcast with new and returning guests will be released, that will…
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Ticket to Paradise (2022) – Review
It is common knowledge amongst friends of mine, and perhaps not entirely true, that the worst thing…
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The Phantom of the Open (2022) – Review
Now what may feel like a slightly twee, slightly overly absurdist re-telling of a tale stranger tha…
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Blow Out – Where a Backdrop and a Sound Effect Make a De Palma Masterpiece
It’s an ingenious idea frankly, so ingenious that it’s been told many ways previously, but never qu…
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Moonage Daydream (2022) – Review
Bret Morgen is one our best documentarians and once again he has turned his filmic eye towards the …
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Crimes of the Future (2022) – Review
The long awaited return for David Cronenberg back to the world of body horror comes now with Crimes…
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See How They Run (2022) – Review
Perhaps there really is nothing more infuriating than a film that is so good in so many ways but ju…
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Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) – Review
Now technically I’m a member of the youth. Bold statement I know, for anybody whose met me, who I’m…
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Men (2022) – Review
Alex Garland makes his third film here as a writer and director with this folk horror film with a c…
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The Forgiven (2022) – Review
Over the course of three films, not unlike his acclaimed and beloved brother who came before him, J…
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Fire Island (2022) – Review
When people proclaim that the mid-budget comedy does exist, it just lives on streaming now, it’s ha…
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Bullet Train (2022) – Review
David Leitch has ended up one of the premiere current directors of Hollywood action film industry, …
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The Stepford Wives (2004) – Same Story, Different Beast Entirely
“The wives of Stepford have a secret. Are you a Stepford wife? Are you a Stepford husband? Couple, …
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The Effortless Charisma of Vince Vaughn
I want to talk about Vince Vaughn today. Why? Why not! For me Vaughn has tapped into a form of dry …
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Nope (2022) – Review
This review was published simultaneously with https://www.leftbrain.uk/ Has a writer, director and …
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Michael Mann – A Tactical, Brilliant Director – Part Two
And so we continue our journey through the brilliant and varied career of the incredible director M…
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Elvis (2022) – Review
To put it plainly; where the hell does one start with a film like Elvis? A film so genuinely confou…
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Michael Mann – A Tactical, Brilliant Director – Part One
Michael Mann is certainly a very tactical film-maker, with a focus on details that makes his work i…
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The Future by Paul Verhoven
The future as directed by Paul Verhoven doesn’t nessecerilly lend itself to a complete auteurist th…
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Triple Bill: Paul Newman Directed by George Roy Hill
When it comes to absolute movie stars, for me, I’m a big Newman guy. When it came however to lookin…
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Top Gun: Maverick (2022) – Review
It is no stranger to anybody in my personal life, or any fan of this blog or the podcast that perso…
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Paul Newman as Director; ‘The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds’
There is something about a long title that when intentional and not for superfluous purposes can se…
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Triple Bill: Paul Newman Directed by Martin Ritt
“The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out grossing my films” – Paul Newman Credit …
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The Night Porter – Still Disturbing, Still Daring, Still Haunting
For all the things that Liliana Cavani’s 1974 erotic, post-Holocaust, psychological drama The Night…
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“Come To Laugh, Come To Cry” – Terms of Endearment, a True Dramatic Masterpiece
For me James L. Brooks 1982 family comedic drama Terms of Endearment ( adapted from the novel of th…
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Down With Love: A Darling Homage to a Bygone Film Era
The first line of Peyton Reed's terrific and painfully underrated parody and homage to the clas…
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Elaine May: A Comedy God In-Front and Behind the Camera
Elaine May was in no simple terms; a comedy legend. After moving on from her revolutionary and stil…
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Todd Haynes – The Unsung on Film (Part Two – 2010’s)
As aforementioned in our earlier article looking at Hayne’s early and more experimental independent…
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The Batman (2021) – Review
This is another case, not unlike The Power of the Dog review where a day or two passing by and a …
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Todd Haynes – The Unsung on Film - Part One
Starting off in very experimental features Todd Haynes has always made a filmic habit to focus on t…
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Death on the Nile (2022) - Review
Death on the Nile for better or for worse became one of my most anticipated movies of the year eve…
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Moonfall (2022) – Review
Moonfall was the first film I watched in 2022 eligible for my new overall year ranking list and for…
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Jackass Forever (2021) – Review
WARNING: What now follows is an absolute sincere 10/10 review of the latest Jackass film, Jackass F…
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‘Sweet Smell of Success’: The Glorious Taste of Arsenic
I have always found that certain tracks on Elmer Bernstein’s (and Chico Hamilton’s) soundtrack for …
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Top Tens
My Top 20 Films of the Year (Start of February 2021 – End of January 2022)
*I choose these dates wholly arbitrarily based upon my U.K residence and the fact that due to my co…
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The Thomas Carruthers Awards 2021 (Yes, we’re doing this now!)
*The Thomas Carruthers Awards are a prestigious awards body comprised of 8 awards; Best Film, Best …
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The Card Counter (2021) – Review
When the subject of your film is the darkness of a man’s tortured would, tortured in many different…
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Another Round (2021) – Review
With his daring new film Thomas Vinterberg reunites with Mads Mikkleson to give us a grounded, effe…
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Belfast (2022) – Review
Belfast is the terrific return once more of the talents of Kenneth Branagh to the world of the big…
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Nightmare Alley (2022) – Review
Perhaps it’s a hard sell nowadays for a dramatic epic with a great darkness at its heart following …
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Licorice Pizza (2022) – Review
It's hard to be wholly objective when one looks at the latest film from your favourite director…
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Scream (2022) – Review
Screams back. Thank God. Now personally it’s been a tough year for me as a fan of certain horror se…
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The Lost Daughter (2021) – Review
When it came to allowing for the rights to be given for her novel The Lost Daughter, Elena Ferrante…
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Being the Ricardo’s (2021) – Review
In the Thomas Carruthers stake of things Being the Ricardo’s had an awful lot going for it; Nicole …
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The Matrix Resurrections (2021) – Review
So what sort of Matrix fan are you? Have you only ever seen the first film, do you only like the fi…
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Scream: Wes Craven’s Quadrilogy of Meta Terror
Over the course of four films director Wes Craven and writer Kevin Williamson (with the aptly named…
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