Jakensian

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Scouser. Actor. Love films.

Favorite films

  • RoboCop
  • This Is England
  • The Zone of Interest
  • Anora

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  • Marching Powder

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★

  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★

  • Jeepers Creepers 2

    ★★★

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  • Marching Powder

    Marching Powder

    Danny Dyer reads The S*n.

  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    ★★★

    Quite rightly Kieran Culkin got a lot of praise for his performance in this. However, I’m not sure the humour and poignant moments gelled well together, it just didn’t feel as well made as it possibly could’ve been. Some of the dialogue felt clunky. It’s still a good film but I think given the Oscar buzz I expected more.

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  • Back to Black

    Back to Black

    ★★

    From a purely film stand point - it starts off with a certain charm and then just dwindles into a bit of a mess, the ending tries to be really poignant but is just a cop out. The pacing is all over the place towards the end but credit where credit is due I think Marisa Abela smashed it despite the outcry surrounding her casting (which I get)

    Having said that, having watched ‘Amy’ it’s very obvious this film refused…

  • Late Night with the Devil

    Late Night with the Devil

    ★★★½

    For all the clever editing and the lovely found footage/BTS/film segments, the excellent build of tension, it’s all sort of undone at the end by showing too much. A common downfall for horror films, it just felt like it had to have a spectacular ending with loads of SFX and the feel of the film before that just didn’t warrant that type of ending, don’t get me wrong it’s a solid horror film, it’s still good but it really could’ve…

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