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September 18, 2023 Oppenheimer
I was reminded too much of House of Cards while I watched this movie, and not in a good way. Because …
September 18, 2023 Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
I was surprised to learn a few weeks after this movie came out that it, like Indiana Jones and the D …
September 5, 2023 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
After looking so old, tired and disinterested in being there during Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of …
September 5, 2023 Thirteen Lives
I followed the overview of the trapped soccer team in the flooded cave in Thailand as it happened li …
September 5, 2023 Catherine Called Birdy
Even though it’s attributable more to the novel it’s based on, this movie scores points …
August 30, 2023 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
What do you do when you have a spare $200m and Hasbro says they’ll market the sh#t out of a ne …
August 30, 2023 Slumber Party Massacre
There’s a small behind the scenes detail about this movie that’s hard to ignore. Feminis …
August 30, 2023 The Celluloid Bordello
It’s a very worthy conversation to have but one that could only come out of the post MeToo mov …
August 23, 2023 Skyfire
The very model of a Chinese effort to emulate the glitz and success it covets jealously about Hollyw …
August 23, 2023 Red Rocket
It was more a case of knowing I should watch this film more so than really wanting to. I saw the art …
August 23, 2023 The Thing From Another World
It had never occurred to me to watch the movie John Carpenter’s immortal 1982 sci-fi horror Th …
August 20, 2023 Monstrous
I wanted to see this movie because I’m always interested in how movies treat pop culture mytho …
August 20, 2023 Venus: Let’s Talk About Sex
There was no chance I wouldn’t watch this documentary, being as it was about young women talki …
August 20, 2023 Modern Times
One of Chaplin’s classics and his ostensible comment on the grinding conformity and lack of hu …
August 14, 2023 Clerks III
I’m not sure if Kevin Smith’s movies have devolved in quality or if it’s just the …
August 14, 2023 X
A fantasy movie swept the Oscars when Lord of the Rings: Return of the King got every award there wa …
August 14, 2023 Lady Chatterly’s Lover
I love the story of Lady Chatterley’s Lover. After reading the book years ago, seeing director …
August 13, 2023 Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
You’d think a documentary about PornHub was destined to be one of two things; a fawning PR tra …
August 13, 2023 I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
This is one I’ve always been aware of but not terribly interested in seeing until Tarantino ta …
August 13, 2023 Heaven’s Gate
There was only one reason for me to watch this film – especially because I don’t like Wester …
August 7, 2023 Licorice Pizza
Despite his prestige as a director, Paul Thomas Anderson’s movies are an acquired taste, as th …
August 7, 2023 The Whale
Back in the mid 1990s there was a movie called Heavy, starring Pruitt Taylor Vince as an overweight …
August 7, 2023 Thirst
This film is from a particular period when the Ozploitation movement was winding down/gearing up. Yo …
August 6, 2023 All Quiet on the Western Front
I’m a bit embarrassed to say I had no idea this was a novel back in the interwar years, and th …
August 6, 2023 Belushi
I was never the biggest John Belushi fan – he was a little bit before my time, and I didn’t …
August 6, 2023 Shoplifters
The theme, after it’s all over, is what constitutes family when survival is the order of the d …
July 12, 2023 Blonde
This film reminded me a lot of Get On Up, the movie about James Brown’s life starring Chadwick …
July 12, 2023 The Vast of Night
Comparisons to Donnie Darko are probably pretty inevitable, but they’re completely warranted a …
July 12, 2023 Another Wolfcop
The plot is a cast off from a hundred other conspiracy thrillers. The local big business enterpreneu …
July 7, 2023 Troll
Now this is what you do with Roar Uthaug. After he makes one of the best Hollywood disaster movies i …
July 5, 2023 Prophecy
I remember seeing the cover of the VHS of this movie in video stores plenty of times as a kid, but b …
July 5, 2023 The One I Love
After being interested in the premise I added this film to my list and had forgotten that premise co …
July 5, 2023 Pig
Now the Cage-aissance is complete and Nicolas Cage is accepted as a talented star again after a few …
June 22, 2023 Happy Go Lucky
Mike Leigh must have had a lollipop or a red cordial and seen Sally Hawkins in a ALDI catalogue or s …
June 22, 2023 House Of Gucci
Every now and then Ridley Scott does this – leaving sci-fi or action to do a straight-down-the-lin …
June 22, 2023 The Secrets
I’ve talked before about my love of gay female drama because they usually deal with someone wh …
June 22, 2023 Vivarium
If you don’t catch the reference from the opening scene, you’ll feel like an idiot if yo …
June 22, 2023 Entergalactic
Sometimes cinema is about stories, and sometimes it’s about the form. Usually I’m much m …
June 22, 2023 The Banshees of Inisherin
I watched this film with something of a sense of duty because of all the awards plaudits, but I̵ …
June 22, 2023 Titane
Very, very nouveau Francais stuff. As in, full of nudity, fairly sexual in nature and pretty nonsens …
June 22, 2023 It’s Quieter in the Twilight
For anyone who thinks publicly funded space exploration looks the way it did when the Saturn V took …
June 22, 2023 Last Night in Soho
The pre-release hype and the media narrative about this movie was all about what a loving throwback …
June 22, 2023 The Stepfather
I’ve been watching the reboot series of The Twilight Zone they did in the late 80s for the pas …
June 22, 2023 Beat Street
I was very surprised recently to learn that I’d never reviewed one of the most pivotal movies …
June 22, 2023 Chappaquiddick
I was vageuly aware of this story, just one in dozens of tales of tragedy in the Kennedy clan, but d …
June 6, 2023 The Father
This film quite rightly won plaudits for putting you as an audience member right inside the experien …
June 6, 2023 The Super Mario Bros Movie
Pixar changed family entertainment back in its heyday, and while the studio was never the one to lea …
June 6, 2023 Paprika
After watching this movie you’ll be convinced anime is the perfect medium in which to depict p …
May 29, 2023 The Bubble
I saw the trailer for a movie in the fake franchise this film’s about, one of the Cliff Beasts …
May 29, 2023 Rams
I was completely unprepared for what this movie turned out to be and completely taken in by it, perh …
May 29, 2023 Cocaine Bear
This film has something in common with another one I watched recently, Cockneys vs Zombies. How? A m …
May 29, 2023 Tetris
Might this be the movie I heard was in development a couple of years back based on the titular game? …
May 18, 2023 The Batman
Recently I’ve been noticing a lot of films that prove the idea that if there’s a good st …
May 18, 2023 Burden of Dreams
There were two reasons I wanted to watch this documentary. The first is because the making of the fi …
May 18, 2023 Ambulance
Back when the original Transformers came out in 2007 I attended a press conference in Sydney where M …
May 10, 2023 The Vigil
It’s an effective horror movie when you keep silently exhorting the protagonist to just leave …
May 10, 2023 Promising Young Woman
A bunch of drunk dudes at a bar see a beautiful young woman sitting across from them – or trying t …
May 10, 2023 Butt Boy
You’ve rarely if ever seen so many movie styles and stylistic motifs blended together with suc …
May 8, 2023 Boar
Being as big a fan of Razorback as I am, watching this was a no brainer, and I like to think directo …
April 30, 2023 Judy
While kids and teenagers are still lining up for superhero movies and sci-fi sequels, this is part o …
April 26, 2023 Black Christmas
Along with a lot of the film movements from the 70s that were dismissed as trash at the time, slashe …
April 23, 2023 The Apartment
No, it’s not the Billy Wilder romantic screwball comedy from the 60s, it’s a confusing F …
April 17, 2023 Ganja and Hess
I saw Spike Lee’s remake of this film, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, before this version, and I can …
April 13, 2023 Cockneys vs Zombies
The only uncertain thing about this film is whether it takes the slightly one-joke premise too far o …
April 11, 2023 65
It’s not that Adam Driver doesn’t seem interested in commercial fare (he was one of the …
April 4, 2023 Prey
It doesn’t matter how lame a franchise is (like this one), how overdone a mythology is (like B …
March 28, 2023 The Endless
I knew I’d seen the names of the guys behind this film before. They made the slightly oddball …
March 26, 2023 The Getaway
There were a couple of moments early on in this movie where I wondered to myself if audiences back i …
March 26, 2023 Emily the Criminal
There are issues movies and movies about plots, but sometimes the best movies are ones that not only …
March 26, 2023 Eaten Alive
Not to be confused with Tobe Hooper’s shlocky follow up to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which …
March 25, 2023 Mandibles
I’m not the most devoted fan of Quentin Dupieux’s movies, but I watched this one because …
March 25, 2023 Finch
As soon as this film ended I realised that, like John Hillcoat’s 2009 adaptation of Cormac McC …
March 25, 2023 Danger Close
On one hand it’s a very American style film. There’s a natural progression from a meet-t …
March 21, 2023 Fatima
It’s a fictionalised account of a historical story with quite a strong theme straight from Hol …
March 18, 2023 The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
One of the most dangerous things you can try in comedy is stretch a single joke to the running time …
March 18, 2023 The Adam Project
This movie feels like Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds had such a great time working together on Free Gu …
March 15, 2023 The Peanut Butter Falcon
A young man with Downs Syndrome wants to escape from the care home he lives in, the only place the s …
March 14, 2023 The Menu
I’m not sure how subtle or nuanced this film looked like from the poster and trailer, but it e …
March 14, 2023 Linoleum
It’s a heartfelt but weird sci-fi dramedy that goes in some very unexpected directions, so the …
March 8, 2023 Everything Everywhere All At Once
As I write this review, this movie is a steamroller. It’s done very well in theatres, had a ve …
March 5, 2023 Shin Godzilla
I’m not the most knowledgeable Godzilla devotee but I’m pretty sure most of the classic …
March 5, 2023 Eaten Alive
What Tobe Hooper did next. After the horror auteur helped blaze an entire new genre with The Texas C …
March 1, 2023 Black Bear
Allison (Aubrey Plaza) arrives at the end of a long driveway deep in the woods in her Uber. Gabe (Ch …
February 28, 2023 Alice
I think reactions to this movie – both yours and those of critics – says as much about your mora …
February 22, 2023 The Worst Person in the World
It’s very real, but is it any good? The jury’s still out, but just a week or so after wa …
February 20, 2023 Mystify: Michael Hutchence
I was a huge fan of INXS during their late 80s heyday and if you were too this is pretty essential v …
February 16, 2023 Road to Bali
The only real reason I wanted to watch this film was to see if the way Hollywood portrayed not only …
February 15, 2023 Wolfcop
Aiming straight for the old style exploitation market demographic but with a self-aware edge of come …
February 12, 2023 Into Eternity: A Film for the Future
This documentary showcases a massive project called Onkalo to dispose of nuclear waste in Finland, a …
February 8, 2023 Avatar: The Way of Water
The original Avatar hoodwinked us all. Like every other critic and casual reviewer I drew parallels …
February 7, 2023 The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
I don’t know much about the Don Quixote mythology and I’m not the most obsessive fan of …
February 2, 2023 Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
It’s not just a documentary about how the titular drug became so entrenched, it’s an epi …
January 31, 2023 Phase IV
If you watch this film hoping for an Empire of the Ants-level shlockfest you’ll be disappointe …
January 28, 2023 It Comes at Night
Just this morning as I write this review, I was reading about M Night Shyamalan’s latest movie …
January 27, 2023 Spencer
His films aren’t all the same exactly, but Pablo Larrain has a very distinctive aesthetic that …
January 27, 2023 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
I’m one of only five people alive who didn’t like Black Panther. However much people of …
January 25, 2023 Red Notice
If you want any more indication that Netflix still has theatrical aims, look no further. Not just be …
January 25, 2023 Being the Ricardos
It was because of the work of Aaron Sorkin much more than any nostalgia for the show that made me wa …
January 24, 2023 Dementia 13
It’s easy to see why this appealed to a teenage horror movie fan in the 60s, although while I …
January 24, 2023 Get On Up
I’ve never been a particular fan of James Brown’s, so I wasn’t sure what drew me t …

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