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The Day The Earth Stood Still
The Day The Earth Stood Still. Isn’t that a great title? Like the very best B Movies (Build My Gallows High, for example, another corking moniker) it is simultaneously memorable, arresting, and … more →
These Glory Days
The Day The Earth Stood Still
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amner wrote 11 months ago: The Day The Earth Stood Still. Isn’t that a great title? Like the very best B Movies (Build My … more →
Les Diaboliques (The Fiends)
amner wrote 1 year ago: Roger Ebert tells a story that involves the rather gruesome trinity of Alfred Hitchcock, his own fil … more →
Saw V
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amner wrote 1 year ago: “You won’t believe how it ends,” taunts the tagline to pointless exploitation flic … more →
The Banishment (Izgnanie)
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amner wrote 1 year ago: Izgnanie should become a watchword for the Russian-ness of things. Long, resonant, soulful, gloomy a … more →
Quantum of Solace
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amner wrote 1 year ago: Settling down to watch Quantum of Solace I was prepared to be baffled. The plot, we’ve been to … more →
Gomorrah
amner wrote 1 year ago: God, but I’m just all bleaked-out. That’s it now; comedy and musicals from now on. I dra … more →
Brideshead Revisited
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amner wrote 1 year ago: I’m sure most people know the story, but for the record, Brideshead Revisited concerns “ … more →
Taken
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amner wrote 1 year ago: I simply don’t know what to say. I feel like going back to first principles and asking; why do … more →
El Rey de la Montaña (King of the Hill)
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amner wrote 1 year ago: It’s been quite the year for bleak. The Mist kicked everything off, of course, in a sweeping e … more →
La Habitación de Fermat (Fermat's Room)
amner wrote 1 year ago: At the start of ‘mathematical thriller’ (is that an oxymoron?) La Habitación de Fermat, … more →
Los Cronocrímenes (Time Crimes)
amner wrote 1 year ago: Hector (Karra Elejalde) is a boring and ordinary man who has just moved to a new house in Northern S … more →
Righteous Kill
amner wrote 1 year ago: Righteous Kill is a fucking awful buddy-buddy cop movie that clunks its way along through the gears … more →
The Broken
amner wrote 1 year ago: It’s a brave choice for a horror movie to even nod homage-style in the direction of Psycho … more →
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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amner wrote 1 year ago: I’ve always been a stay and watch the credits kinda filmgoer. Not in a “simply must see … more →
Tropic Thunder
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amner wrote 1 year ago: I’m not sure there’s any point in reviewing Tropic Thunder, really, given it’s eve … more →
Eden Lake
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amner wrote 1 year ago: You don’t often leave the cinema wishing that the film you’d just seen had been poorer. … more →
The Duchess
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amner wrote 1 year ago: Apologies; small history lesson coming up. Quiet at the back. Georgiana (pronounced Geor-jay-na) Cav … more →
RocknRolla
amner wrote 1 year ago: I didn’t see Guy Ritchie’s last two movies, Swept Away and Revolver, and have often give … more →
Step Brothers
amner wrote 1 year ago: Up until this point I’d only seen one Will Ferrell movie, the you-mean-they-allowed-this-to-be … more →
