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  Following 1998

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Liked this quite a bit.

  Easy to see how it propelled Nolan to bigger things so quickly and, knowing where he went since, it's fun to watch his later thematic and structural obsessions in their nascency.

  Was a little disappointed that it became focussed on the twisty turny thriller element rather than some of the earlier ideas about voyeurism and confidence. That said, I think the performances are probably better suited to where the film ends up than to a more subtle conclusion.

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  A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things 2024

  ★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Northern Irish filmmaker Mark Cousins has made a career from examining the ways in which creative people perceive the world. His documentaries of filmmakers, artists and the medium of film itself have an obsession with the act of looking. An obsession frequently reflected in the titles of his films: The Eyes of Orson Welles, The Story of Looking and his latest work A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things.

  A Sudden Glimpse to Depper Things is ostensibly a profile of British…

Popular reviews

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  The Ghosts Above 2020

  ★ Watched 17 Dec 2020 2

  Pays lip service to all of the problems present on Everest; the commercialisation, the exploitation of Sherpa...etc before committing those exact sins and trying to pass it off as justified because there's a degree of self-reflection.

  I'm sorry, no. If you were that aware of and concerned by these issues, you simply wouldn't have arranged an expedition where everyone involved needed that degree of support from the Sherpa, sprung your plans on them with no forewarning and then put their…

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  Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024

  ★★½ Watched 25 Dec 2024

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