Jacob Wolstenholme

Jacob Wolstenholme

I like films and I don’t care who knows

Favorite films

  • Back to the Future
  • Knives Out
  • Pacific Rim
  • John Wick: Chapter 4

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★★½

  • Inception

    ★★★★★

  • The Strangers

    ★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★½

    The way Michael Fassbender, coupled with the script is able to control a scene just by asking the right questions and let other people’s responses unravel façades is absolutely fantastic. This movie is really interesting, tense and, comparatively to most spy thrillers, very low-key but it absolutely utilises every conversational scene to its advantage.

    Great performances from the entire cast and a really well thought through mystery. The script is impressively tight with a running time coming in at 95 minutes, there’s not an ounce of fat left to be trimmed.

  • Interstellar

    Interstellar

    ★★★★★

    Despite somehow going over a decade never having seen this movie, I’m so glad my first time was in the cinema.

    Matthew McConaughey is incredible, I felt everything he did right with him. That score from Hans Zimmer is insane. Nolan has the sauce.

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  • Dune

    Dune

    ½

    Absolute masterpiece of boredom.

    Fair enough, this movie had a lot of exposition to drop which for the most part I think it did quite efficiently and I was fully on board for the first 30-60 minutes. However it was about the halfway mark that I realised I don’t know anything about these characters and as an extension of that, I don’t care about them. Least of all the protagonist, who gets the worst treatment of being the most 2…

  • Alien³

    Alien³

    ★½

    This just feels like a fundamental misunderstanding of everything that made the first two great

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