Ben Daniels

Ben Daniels

Favorite films

  • Ran
  • Z
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Little Miss Sunshine

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  • Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    ★★★★½

  • The Royal Tenenbaums

    ★★★½

  • Anatomy of a Murder

    ★★★★½

  • Sleepless in Seattle

    ★★★

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  • Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    ★★★★½

    Before you even get to the long-awaited, long-teased Sophia Loren strip scene, Ieri, oggi, domani cements its place as an excellent comedy. Seeing Sophia Loren peel off her stockings to a barking Marcelo Mastroianni just seals the deal.

    The film is full of soul and character; it doesn't mind stacking the frame full of life. Everywhere you look, in every frame, something beautiful is happening to catch your eye. It's frantic, it moves, it jumps. And yet it never feels…

  • The Royal Tenenbaums

    The Royal Tenenbaums

    ★★★½

    An enjoyable and unusual watch, The Royal Tenenbaums is curious in its approach and style. It also boasts a magnificent cast, though its size makes it hard to give each actor what they deserve - Anjelica Houston specifically is underutilised.

    In fact, the women in general are. It's a bit of a men's movie. And Gwyenth Paltrow's life is even seen almost entirely through the lens of her sexual relations with men. That's ignoring the whole story with Luke Wilson,…

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  • The Big Lebowski

    The Big Lebowski

    ★★★★★

    It's taken me a long time to figure out why The Big Lebowski is such a cult movie and isn't more popular. The Coen Brothers have made some huge films, so why don't more people know this? Especially since this film stars Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore and others. Surely people would know this movie? Well. No.

    The simple reason I think this is a cult movie is because it is a character movie. A lot of…

  • The Simpsons Movie

    The Simpsons Movie

    ★★★★

    My friend said he didn't like The Simpsons very much.

    We put this on.

    He laughed at nearly every line.

    The Golden Age of the Simpsons. Wow.