Paul Leonard

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Favorite films

  • The Elephant Man
  • Wild at Heart
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
  • The Straight Story

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  • All We Imagine as Light

    ★★★

  • Marching Powder

    ★★★

  • The Monkey

    ★★★

  • The Last Showgirl

    ★★★½

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  • Marching Powder

    Marching Powder

    ★★★

    Danny Dyer and Nick Love should tell you exactly what to expect from this throwback movie to football hooligans mixed in with a rom com.  We are not getting anything serious here.  This is no Guy Richie gangster movie either.

    Instead we get Danny Dyer not growing up with his mates still sniffing coke and looking for fights with other football gangs.  Forced to get a grip after being arrested and given a deadline to turn his life around or…

  • The Monkey

    The Monkey

    ★★★

    The saving grace for this movie is that the director Osgood Perkins realised that the initial script of this movie was way too serious and he could only do this if he injected some humour into it and made it more of a gore fest than a horror movie.

    I mean we have seen many horror movies about possessed toys and dolls.  Here we have a monkey that plays the drums to a familiar tune before someone close by seems…

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  • Fisherman's Friends

    Fisherman's Friends

    ★★½

    This is one of those movies that British cinema does a lot of. A feel good movie that follows a set formulae and delivers a reasonably successful movie that the public can enjoy. Some of these movies  crossover and are hugely successful whilst others like this are good but without having that extra sparkle that makes it stand out. 

    All based on a true story where a bunch of local fishermen singing sea shanties really were signed by a record…

  • Song Lang

    Song Lang

    ★★★★½

    Cine Q Film Festival 2020

    Song Lang is the feature length debut movie from Vietnamese director Leon Le and what an impressive debut on so many levels it is.  

    It tells the story of two men from what appear to be different backgrounds bonding over one night when they find themselves thrown together.  It’s a love story but from afar, from the looks to each other and feelings inside that we never get to see truly play out.  Are…