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Adolescence 2025
My God, the British can make great dramas when they want to. This is on another level, the acting, writing and direction are flawless. The use of one take really makes you feel like you are there, sometimes like you are almost prying into this family's trauma. Owen Cooper as the son is so brilliant and has had no formal training as an actor, so just goes to show. Its a very timely drama about a subject that as parents,…
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The Quick and the Dead 1995
The best tropes of the western packaged up into an original story.... which of course makes it completely flawed from the start. Stone produced this and apparently fought for Sam Raimi to direct. But he is out of his depth here and by his own admission was not well versed enough to handle a cast like this. Its too campy and shallow for me and is trying way too hard and the end is ridiculous. The flashback with Stone as…
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The Brutalist 2024
It was a no for me.
Some of the criticism of the first half being better than the second half I did not see, it was not slow.
Firstly the cinematography and visuals are very good, but pretty pictures alone do not make a movie. It's scattergun story seems stiched together to me....a grand vanity project. Brody can act no doubt, but his character here is just not that interesting. In fact I thought Guy Pearce gave the better performance.…Translated from by -
No Time to Die 2021
Just felt like rewatching this, following the news of Amazon acquiring the I.P. that is James Bond. The movie seems to improve every time I watch it. Beautifully shot, exotic locations, beautiful ladies and great action and humour. This movie may prove to be the perfect end to big screen bond. Could Amazon just concentrate on all the dumb spin off nonsense for TV?...Moneypenny, Blofeld, Q branch....suppose anything is possible.
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