Anthony Briscoe

Anthony Briscoe

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  • The Missing Picture

    ★★★★

  • Isle of Dogs

    ★★★

  • My Life as a Zucchini

    ★★★★½

  • Home Alone

    ★★★★½

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  • The Missing Picture

    The Missing Picture

    ★★★★

    This is a moving and upsetting film about the atrocities carried out by Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979. The narrator ( Rithy Panh ) uses footage and small hand made figurines to tell his story of his life growing up with his family during this time and being the sole survivor of his family. I was taken by the style of story telling, it felt like a long poetical monologue full of questions and brutal depictions of…

  • Isle of Dogs

    Isle of Dogs

    ★★★

    Im a sucker for good stop motion films, great animation I always enjoy. This film has that however it also has problems.
    The film feels tonally all over the place with rules about who can speak to who and how that all works being established then ignored.
    I didn't like how a film set in japan suddenly had a white western girl as the voice to say what is wrong (she was also insufferably an ott wes anderson style character).…

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  • Saving Mr. Banks

    Saving Mr. Banks

    ★★★½

    I wasn't much of a fan of this when it started something just didn't sit well with me but then Tom Hanks.
    It picked up from there and I ended up enjoying the movie.
    Its a bit schmaltzy in parts but the over all progression and arc of the narrative and characters felt right and kept me interested.

  • Kung Fury

    Kung Fury

    ★★★★

    This had me laughing from beginning to end. This was , for me, one of those sub genres of films where its over the top and silly (in the same vain as 'iron sky' , 'sharknado' etc) that got it right. I find those other films can be too long , padded and boring at times but this film (which is a short) is perfect in packing in all the over the top elements and humor without dragging out the…