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Nyad (2023) – Review
All the pieces are there for Nyad to be a very straight forward sports biopic with some great physi…
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The Exorcist Believer (2023) – Review
Now The Exorcist: Believer is atrocious in many ways, oh so many ways, however one can’t help but f…
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Fair Play (2023) – Review
Anybody in my private life or anybody who reads much of my critical writing understands how much I …
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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) – Review
There is a pitch black core and foundation to Martin Scorsese’s latest masterpiece Killers of the F…
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Saw X (2023) – Review
My affection for the Saw franchise is something that wains and ebbs and grows it seems depending on…
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The Wes Anderson Roald Dahl Short Story Collection (2023) – Review
I don’t quite know in what context I should be writing about Wes Anderson’s most recent creative en…
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Dumb Money (2023) – Review
There is an urgency in every way about Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money, which is equal parts entertain…
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Passages (2023) – Review
Sleek, sexy, sensual, romantic, chaotic and vulnerable is one hell of a collection of adjectives to…
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Bottoms (2023) – Review
What an incredible year for comedy this has been! I don’t think I have seen a year like this in som…
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The Eternal Daughter (2023) – Review
There is something so delicate and haunting about the nature of Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter,…
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A Haunting in Venice (2023) – Review
Once more we have another entry into the Kenneth Branagh Poirot series which for me has grown from …
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Talk to Me (2023) – Review
The old adage of some film legend I can’t at this very moment remember the name of, nor want to see…
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Past Lives (2023) – Review
Of recent, in many ways as there always has been, a film year comes down to the biggest of epics an…
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Infinity Pool (2023) – Review
The great joy of the burgeoning career of Brandon Cronenberg is to witness both the inheritance and…
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Sanctuary (2023) – Review
COVID in the end didn’t reap anywhere near as many ‘play-like’ film productions as I thought it wou…
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You Hurt My Feelings (2023) – Review
There is something about the small drama about the middle classes and their first world problems th…
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Theater Camp (2023) – Review
Now this year had many films I was excited for and although films such as Oppenheimer and Mission I…
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Oppenheimer (2023) – Review
I have seen a lot of reviewers begin their Oppenheimer reviews with declarations of how and where t…
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Barbie (2023) – Review
Now a Barbie movie, has been floated for sometime with figures such as Amy Schumer and Anne Hathawa…
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Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning – Part One (2023) – Review
Idolisation of Tom Cruise on many levels is a complex issue, people just can’t help but begin all a…
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No Hard Feelings (2023) – Review
I love a good comedy. What a bland phrase to say to start a review of a film. But I think what unde…
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) – Review
Some days have passed now since I first watched the latest effort in the Indiana Jones cannon (does…
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Fool’s Paradise (2023) – Review
Sometimes you don’t want to punch down. That being said vanity projects can often be when bad some …
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Blackberry (2023) – Review
Biopics and stranger than fiction stories are nothing new, but to have an overwhelming amount of fi…
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Reality (2023) – Review
From her own play Is This a Room, Tina Satter has written and directed a compelling three-hander ch…
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Asteroid City (2023) – Review
Upon the last Wes Anderson release, The French Dispatch, I commented; “ I think we’re getting to a …
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Showing Up (2023) – Review
According to many critics whom I trust the opinion of Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up has been one of …
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Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Amongst Thieves (2023) – Review
I had no intention of seeing this film. I have made a series of vows of recent regarding big budget…
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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (2023) – Review
Perhaps there is no easier film to recommend this year so far than Kelly Fremon Craig’s beautiful a…
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Beau is Afraid (2023) – Review
Well. Where to start? Damned if I know. Let’s return to this… From my Nope review; “ So I have a ra…
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Mike Nichols: The Greatest (The 80’s)
The 80s for Nichols in film marked the beginning of one of his most successful and triumphant creat…
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Mike Nichols: The Greatest (The 70’s)
The 70s were perhaps the first decade where Nichols could start getting projects made, rather than …
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Mike Nichols: The Greatest (The 60s)
This is a run of articles I have wanted to write for a very long time. When we talk about the great…
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Stephen King’s 1970’s, Where ‘IT’ all Began for the King of Horror (Part Three)
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Stephen King’s 1970’s, Where ‘IT’ all Began for the King of Horror (Part Two)
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Scream VI (2023) – Review
We are in a very happy era to be a horror fan, when it comes to critically acclaimed more cerebral …
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Stephen King’s 1970’s, Where ‘IT’ all Began for the King of Horror (Part One)
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“I’m having a great time” - Shirley MacLaine, the Entertainer of our time (Part Two)
Below concludes the lecture script... With Terms of Endearment, this would be the role that after…
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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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Top Tens
The Thomas Carruthers Awards 2022 (Yes, it’s back!)
*The Thomas Carruthers Awards are a prestigious awards body comprised of 8 awards; Best Film, Best …
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You People (2023) – Review
Let’s just say it straight, the pedigree involved with this film really did make this one of my mor…
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All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) – Review
The dark horse of the Oscar race this year comes in the form of this sensational German language ad…
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Armageddon Time (2022) – Review
Once more in this field of current films we have a memoirist work and although each of these films …
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To Leslie (2022) – Review
So then the dark horse of the Best Actress Oscar race and the film that launched it’s very own inte…
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Bones and All (2022) – Review
Returning to work with many of his previous collaborators in front and behind the camera, Luca Guad…
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She Said (2022) – Review
I adore journalism movies, to put it absolutely plainly. So when one comes along with many incredib…
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Aftersun (2022) – Review
In a year already incredibly filled with memory movies about directors returning to their childhood…
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The Fabelmans (2022) – Review
There was a period of movie announcements where two projects kept cropping up. Neither were anythin…
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Triangle of Sadness (2022) – Review
Two disclaimers; I saw this film a month or so ago and found it politely fine with many plusses, bu…
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“I’m having a great time” - Shirley MacLaine, the Entertainer of our time (Part One)
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Babylon (2023) – Review
I have a rule with new directors based upon scientific principle – the rule that two is a coinciden…
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) – Review
On a rainy day in New York city I sat down and spent 6 and a half hours in the cinema watching Avat…
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Twilight zone
Beyond the 5th Dimension – Twilight Zone and Rod Serling, The Man in the Suit (Part Two)
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White Noise (2022) – Review
I came to White Noise with a couple of perspectives, which in a way made it one of the more complex…
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Tár (2022) – Review
Todd Field after a longer hiatus than was ever wanted by his fans comes back to the big screen with…
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Twilight zone
Beyond the 5th Dimension – Twilight Zone and Rod Serling, The Man in the Suit (Part One)
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