Scottish film-maker with an unhealthy love for Wayne's World.
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The Philadelphia Story 1940
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Any film that begins with arguably the greatest screen feminist icon of all time being physically shoved to the floor while silly slapstick music plays is going to be seriously problematic. I came into this film expecting a classic Hollywood comedy, only to discover that not only is it not funny, it's misogynistic bullshit.
Katherine Hepburn spends the entirety of the film being lectured and physically and verbally abused by men. She's constantly patronised and humiliated. Cary Grant, her abusive…
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Out of Blue 2018
If you’re looking to watch the least tense detective film ever made, look no further than this diabolical pile of pretension. I’m not sure whether it’s the nursery basic physics that feels the need to explain Schrodinger’s Cat at least seven times, pacing that feels like a sloth doing its nails while watching paint dry, possibly the most ineffective score in recent cinema memory, or the film’s complete inability to get a single good performance from its impressive cast, that…
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