BenWild

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Top four: the favourites I share with my dad, son, daughter and wife.

Favorite films

  • Unforgiven
  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
  • Stand by Me
  • The Last of the Mohicans

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  • Lifeboat

    ★★★★

  • The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    ★★★★

  • Braveheart

    ★★★★

  • Marnie

    ★★★

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  • Demon City

    Demon City

    ★★

    DNF

  • M3GAN

    M3GAN

    ★★★½

    Fun! Could have been more over the top, kills-wise, though I was already put on the defensive for showing this to the 12-year-old.

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  • Life After Fighting

    Life After Fighting

    ★★★★

    Some classic martial arts movie tropes in the opening stretches of this, nice early flashes of action and bully stare-downs and a fantastic mid-movie fight with proper action storytelling and an ebb and flow to it. Gets a little wobbly with the sex trafficking plot and some characters making questionable decisions but brings it home with a brutal final forty minutes of one against a sea of goons. Choreography was class - awesome mix of styles shot cleanly and given…

  • Rebel Ridge

    Rebel Ridge

    ★★★★

    Was so looking forward to this. New Saulnier; neo-western one man against a corrupt small town; Don Johnson! And it delivers. The tension ratchets and ratchets, Aaron Pierre has real presence, and the action, when it comes, crunches. Great genre filmmaking.

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