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Retrospective: The Fighter (2010)
After finally seeing the delightful Silver Linings Playbook, it reminded me of the director’s other work, a real labour of love which stalled in development hell. What was finally produced was a black… more →
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Retrospective: The Fighter (2010)
wrote 2 days ago: After finally seeing the delightful Silver Linings Playbook, it reminded me of the director’s other … more →
Retrospective: The Fifth Element (1997)
wrote 3 days ago: The Fifth Element is the second Luc Besson movie I have reviewed but the one I much prefer. It has a … more →
Retrospective: American Beauty (1999)
wrote 2 weeks ago: American Beauty was sold under the tagline ‘look closer’. It’s an astounding, remarkable movie … more →
Retrospective: Mission: Impossible (1996)
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wrote 1 month ago: Remember when Tom Cruise was a good actor and cool rather than a crazy scientologist? Well everyone, … more →
TV Review: Spiral (Engrenages), The Shield, The Hollow Crown
wrote 1 month ago: Spiral (Engrenages) Seen up to the beginning of Season 2 This was one of the first European cop show … more →
Retrospective: Total Recall (1990)
wrote 1 month ago: ‘It’s a B-movie and it’s proud of it’ was the first thought that came to mind when I saw Total Recal … more →
Retrospective: Léon: The Professional (1994)
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wrote 3 months ago: Léon was Natalie Portman’s first movie and it’s absolutely bonkers. It has one of the strangest plot … more →
Retrospective: Seven Psychopaths (2012)
wrote 4 months ago: Like many, I was eager to see a new movie from Martin McDonagh, the writer and director of 2008’s gl … more →
Retrospective: When Harry Met Sally (1989)
wrote 6 months ago: This movie is possibly one of the best known ‘rom-coms’. When Harry Met Sally is filled with pathos … more →
Retrospective: Winter's Bone (2010)
wrote 7 months ago: Bleak! I could leave it at that but I believe this is a far more interesting movie. Winter’s B … more →
Retrospective: Road To Perdition (2002)
wrote 8 months ago: Tom Hanks makes an unusual actor to cast as a gangster and Sam Mendes makes an unusual choice of dir … more →
Retrospective: Star Trek (2009)
wrote 9 months ago: Reboots by their very nature are divisive. There are always going to be a variety of opinions on eac … more →
Retrospective: Another Earth (2011)
wrote 9 months ago: This movie was the one which made me most excited last year. It is one of the most interesting and h … more →
Retrospective: Limitless (2011)
wrote 10 months ago: It’s always nice to be surprised. In the case of Limitless the surprise was just how good it is. It … more →
Retrospective: Sherlock Holmes (2009)
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wrote 10 months ago: Reboots are tricky business but sometimes they are helped by the source material. Movies based off w … more →
Periodical TV Review No. 3
wrote 10 months ago: 1) Game of Thrones (Seen up to Season 2, Episode 7) Well what to say which hasn’t already been said … more →
Retrospective: Black Hawk Down (2001)
wrote 11 months ago: Black Hawk Down is possibly not many people’s first choice for a Ridley Scott retrospective … more →
Retrospective: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
wrote 11 months ago: Stanley Kubrick is an iconic director and renowned for many iconic films from black comedy with Dr S … more →
Retrospective: Sin City (2005)
wrote 11 months ago: This is one of the strangest movies I have reviewed. Like many movies it’s based off a comic book an … more →
