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  The Alto Knights 2025

  ★ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  By the final stretch of The Alto Knights, its purposefully boring approach to storytelling had worn me down to the point that I began wondering whether its dogged commitment to such patently bad methodology was actually admirable. 
  It’s not. This is a tease and a windsock of a movie, inexcusable considering the pedigree involved. As convincing as De Niro is in the two roles (and as good as his makeup is), The Alto Knights recalls all his previous great gangster…

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  Scarecrow 1973

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 17 Mar 2025

  I don't know why I missed this off my Al Pacino binge last year; I was overdue for revisiting it, and damn, it was good to see him again, and what a beautiful, tragi-comic thing Scarecrow is. 

  He and Hackman are sublime foils for each other as modern-day drifters, each fresh off their respective hiatuses from society in an America not only different from what they knew but one in which the romantic ideal of riding the rails is dead…

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  All This Time 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2025 1

  Romford Horror Festival screening. 

  My girlfriend was this movie's (award-winning!) Production Designer and it was a special experience to appreciate all the wonderful details she brought to each frame on the big screen. Colour me proud. I also had a lovely time meeting some of the other crew and cast at this screening. 

  All This Time is an impressive low-budget chiller with a clever (ostensible) time-loop device on which the narrative hinges. Despite the inherently repetitive nature of its storytelling,…

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  Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024

  ★ Watched 26 Dec 2024

  Just shit. Egregiously unfunny with as much charm and fascination as a crash on the motorway.
  Can't well enough be left alone? 

  The cosy, self-contained worlds of the originals are long gone. They're as dead as Peter Sallis, and we're now happily accepting an 'up-to-date' yet oh-so-out-of-date set of clunky, ultra-twee gross incongruities masquerading as a movie that add up to nothing less than a prime example of complete cultural decay. 
  I'd say Peter Sallis would be turning in his…

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