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  Phantom of the Paradise 1974

  ★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  This bloke couldn't tell a cohesive story if his life depended on it.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  I am usually all for Bong Joon-ho's genre-hopping tricks. The Host is hugely underrated for the way it handles genre shifts, Snowpiercer is like a masterful juggling act, and Parasite, well, we all know about Parasite. However Mickey 17 appears to go out of its way to avoid anything that could be interesting about this premise. Instead forgoing the moral implications of such a device for satirical mugging and a half-baked environmental message. Sure we have the break for the…

Popular reviews

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  The Wicker Man 1973

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Jan 2022

  The Wicker Man needs a different title and a different genre, it is very clearly a musical and I’d love to hear any argument to the contrary.

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  Sisters 1972

  ★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  WTF this is so bad. Everything from the Peeping Tom show which makes absolutely no sense, to the awful French accent, to the doctor whispering the plot directly into the ear of the main character for five minutes. The camera tricks do nothing for me. The venerated split screen is absolutely fine - I suppose it serves a purpose.

  Working through Brian De Palma's filmography has revealed he was a solid comedy director who all of a sudden decided to start "pastiching" (completely ripping off) Alfred Hitchcock. But to what end!?