How can a Dame Judy Dench film with WW2/pre-Cold War espionage, the creation of the atomic bomb, people holding government secrets for decades, multiple love interests, police investigations/interrogations AND corrupt politicians be so dull!!?!
Dench is woefully underused and both she and Sophie Cookson do their best with a pretty clunky script. I would say that this is like a mediocre TV drama that accidentally found its way onto the big screen but that would be doing mediocre TV dramas…
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Red Joan 2018
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Pet Sematary 2019
This is a strange beast of a film and one that often gets lost in it's own forest of weak or shallow character arcs and seemingly unnecessary scenes or plot devices. I should point out now that I've not read the Stephen King novel and (somehow have never) seen the 1989 film which is also adapted from the same book. So this is very much a review of a film as a stand alone form of entertainment rather than a…
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The Cloverfield Paradox 2018
An absolute unmitigated mess of a film.
Picture the scene:
Paramount Exec 1: I've watched that new sci-fi film of ours. It's awful. We can't put this out, everyone will laugh at us.
Paramount Exec 2: Why don't we shoehorn something about Cloverfield into it, try and pass it off as a postmodernist twist on the genre and then release it so quickly that the press don't have time to destroy it.
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Phantom Thread 2017
About as close to perfection as cinema can possibly get. From the water tight script, its perfect execution from the lead actors, the sumptuous cinematography, the glamorous attire and beautiful settings as well as the glorious score by regular collaborator Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead), Paul Thomas Anderson has created a film that balances everything perfectly and deserves repeated viewings due to its many subtle layers.
As expected, Daniel Day-Lewis is incredible as Reynolds Woodcock, a 1950s renowned dress-maker to the elite…
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