Around about my ten millionth rewatch and I’ll never get over this. One of my all time favourites that just gets better the more I watch it.
One of the best ensemble casts in any film you’ll ever see. Makes you fucking feel, through all the good and the bad.
After what feels like forever, I have at long last reached my 200th review on this stupid app. I knew I had to honour it with something good for such an occasion, so this milestone felt a good time as any to finally get around to watching one of the more glaringly obvious missing pieces in my ‘films I really should have seen but somehow haven’t’ jigsaw: ‘The Shawshank Redemption’. From beginning to the very end, it quite frankly never ever…
This, quite frankly, had absolutely no right being as good as it is. Enthralling from the very first minute and had my heart pounding every step of the way. A rollercoaster of emotions and by the final 10, it tore my heart into a million little pieces.
Beautifully crafted with some amazing writing, incredibly well shot with a sensational cast. This is far and beyond any sports drama you’ll see in a very, very long time.
Side note, but someone tell me how this didn’t get a single Oscar nomination?? Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Zac Efron Best Actor nom? You will pay for your crimes, The Academy.
