Not Mark Kermode

Not Mark Kermode

Favorite films

  • The Exorcist
  • Brazil
  • Citizen Kane
  • The Devils

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  • The Matrix Resurrections

  • Spider-Man: No Way Home

  • Don't Look Up

  • Ghostbusters: Afterlife

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  • The Matrix Resurrections

    The Matrix Resurrections

    Here’s the thing: the first Matrix was a real, I know this is a word that’s overused but it was a game changer, it changed the way that science fiction movies looked in the same way that Blade Runner had done beforehand, in the same way that something like William Gibson’s Neuromancer helped invent cyberpunk. So you do have a pre-Matrix and a post-Matrix world.

    Neither of the immediate sequels lived up to the original. I mean Reloaded was a…

  • Spider-Man: No Way Home

    Spider-Man: No Way Home

    So Spider-Man: No Way Home, which I saw on Tuesday and it opened almost immediately, so it was like the big screening was just before the opening. So at the very beginning, and I’m saying this to you as much as to me, at the very beginning of the screening somebody came on and said “look can you all not spoil this, there’s thing in the movie not to spoil so please don’t spoil them,” and then before the movie…

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  • Clifford the Big Red Dog

    Clifford the Big Red Dog

    Okay, so Clifford the Big Red Dog, live actions version of the populaur book series by Norman Bridwell. Emily, who is being looked after by her homeless wastrel uncle Casey played by Jack Whitehall, she wants a dog, her Mum is away, working I think in Chicago, wouldn’t allow it. But then they meet Mr Bridwell played by John Cleese who introduces her to a red puppy.

    Says she can’t have it, dog sneaks into the bag, comes out of…

  • Don't Look Up

    Don't Look Up

    Don’t Look Up which is the new film by Adam McKay, starry cast includes Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Rob Morgan, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Cate Blanchett and Meryl Streep. That’s quite the cast.

    So Jennifer Lawrence is Kate Dibiasky who’s an astronomer PHD working under DiCaprio’s Randall Mindy. She discovers an asteroid, hooray, he does the math on it’s trajectory and realises that it’s on course to hit the earth. Rob Morgan…