James Kipling

James Kipling

Favorite films

  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Jaws
  • Heat
  • Se7en

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  • Control Freak

    ★★

  • The Electric State

    ★★★

  • Black Bag

    ★★★½

  • Last Breath

    ★★★

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  • Last Breath

    Last Breath

    ★★★

    Was looking forward to this one as I'm a fan of human survival thrillers. A true story about seasoned deep-sea divers (Woody Harrelson and Simu Liu) who battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate (Finn Cole) trapped hundreds of feet below the oceans surface. You could argue that the material is too light to justify a feature length film but they get it just about right. Its short but that works in the films favour, it gives it a…

  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★½

    "When you can lie about everything, when you deny everything, how can you tell the truth about anything?"

    In the world of secrets, lies and espionage, just who can you trust? That's the question posed to married stone cold spy couple Micheal Fassbender and Kate Blanchett. It's a tight straight to the point thriller with zippy dialogue, snappy editing and often quite funny in places with a solid cast. 2 dinner table scenes are massive stand outs in the film,…

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  • Longlegs

    Longlegs

    ★★★★★

    Ignoring the ridiculous "scariest film in decades" marketing tag line, and curbing my expectations, this blew my mind and I absolutely loved it. If you are seeking cheap scares, you will leave disappointed but the combination of disturbing imagery & mounting dread was a perfect recipe for the type of psychological horror im looking for. Its a fantastic original FBI procedural serial killer movie brilliantly directed by Oz Perkins, that gets under your skin with an unsettling and creepy tone, sense…

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★★

    It's neither the MCU at its best, or is a complete disaster. A decent, middle of the road Marvel movie. Issue is, it just should have been so much better than this, the 3 Captain America films so far have been excellent and provided a great platform for future films to build off, and I like Anthony Mackie in the title role. He shares really good chemistry with the cast around him and there's a few action set pieces that…

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