Ben Newton

Ben Newton

A pretentious 22 year old film enjoying bisexual.

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Favorite films

  • Batman Returns
  • Death Becomes Her
  • Snatch
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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  • Gosford Park

    ★★½

  • Barnacle Bill

    ★★★★½

  • The Happiest Days of Your Life

    ★★★

  • Passport to Pimlico

    ★★

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  • Gosford Park

    Gosford Park

    ★★½

    Gosford Park is essentially a Downton Abbey x Agatha Christie hybrid, so chaos was bound to ensue; especially in a house that has so many bottles of poison that even the help use it to polish their pocket watches! Sadly though as my introduction to Robert Altman's work the film didn't really work for me, either as a comedy or as a murder mystery.

    Gosford is only ever mildly funny with most of the film's humour stemming from the occasional…

  • Barnacle Bill

    Barnacle Bill

    ★★★★½

    It has an utterly preposterous premise courtesy of the ever idiosyncratic T. E. B. Clarke, however, where that could often be a detriment to the entertainment value of some of the Ealing comedies Clarke penned, that's not the case with Barnacle Bill. I was apprehensive of it at first, given that I've found the Ealing comedies to be rather like marmite, but I found this to be so infectiously enjoyable that I couldn't help but love it. Guinness is unsurprisingly…

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  • Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death

    Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death

    ★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Doctor Who: The Giggle

    Doctor Who: The Giggle

    ★★★★½

    The Celestial Toymaker invading U.N.I.T. to Spice Up Your Life is one of the best things ever committed to television let alone Doctor Who.

    No notes. Just fantastic.

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