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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Jan 2025

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  Nosferatu wants to know where our prayers go when they have been cast into the ether. Do they rise before whatever gods we worship to join that vast and everlasting memorial, the eternal inbox, some more worthy than others of being answered? Do they flitter from pillar to post, discarded and downtrodden, never to be heard, skulking in the shadowy corners of some far-off heaven, trampled by the weight of human frailty?…

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  Snow in Paradise 2014

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 May 2024

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  Dave is the real face of multicultural Britain; his best friend Tariq is a rapper and his uncle Jimmy is a racist gangster selling overpriced coffee to young professionals by day and cocaine to them by night. Dave’s a wiry force of nature, forever moving like an East End squalus against the tide of gentrification. No white flight for Dave’s family in the 70s and 80s they stood their ground in their council houses and gradually watched their estates become cheap crash pads for city boys and then extortionate rentals for middle class media hipsters.

Popular reviews

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  The Cement Garden 1993

  ★★★★ Rewatched 28 Apr 2013 2

  On the edge of humanity, the twilight of existence a father revels in concrete. An Englishman’s house is his castle but this house is a stark, prefabricated outpost, a monument to failure, and a bastion against the natural order of things, against nature itself.

  Weeds try to reclaim their territory; the empire of the ants spew forth from the cracks in his cement. The father wants to repress mother earth with the liquid of industry, coat his apocalyptic eyesore from…

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  Kelly's Heroes 1970

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 29 Dec 2022

  Eastwood’s disgraced former officer Kelly leads an oddball group of GIs behind Nazi lines to steal a fortune in gold bullion. Kelly’s Heroes are anything but heroic but the movie is one of those unsung heroes of cinema, a superbly crafted film with some awesome directorial touches.

  Brian G. Hutton, reunited with Eastwood again after Where Eagles Dare, has never been seen as one of the great directors but Heroes really is a lesson in action and suspense. The twenty-minute…