A rewatch of a film that blew me away when I first saw it, decades ago. Daniel Day Lewis is every bit as awesome as I remember, as is Brenda Fricker (and all the supporting cast), and I love the warm depiction of working class Dublin in the 50s and 60s, where young Christy is accepted and included in day to day shenanigans (most of the time). Some scenes have aged poorly - and the score sounds oppressively awful now - but it’s a well written and spectacularly acted film. Side note - Down All The Days by Christy Brown is an absolutely brilliant book.
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Beautiful Boy 2018
Well-told time-hopping true tale about addiction putting a middle class American family through the shredder, with a spectacularly ace soundtrack. Beautifully directed too. Bit of a hard, heart-shattering watch for parents. Steve Carell is surprisingly brilliant in a very straight role, and flop-topped Chalomet plays a pretty convincing junkie (albeit a bit too pretty, with immaculate hair and skin throughout his descent into addiction - in a British version he would definitely have ended up with a face like a six-week old pizza that someone had sat on).
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Train to Busan 2016
Quality Korean zombie romp. Top performances all round, but Ma Dong-seok is an absolute unit 💪
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12 Angry Men 1957
Old school cerebral cinema - this film should be on the National Curriculum. The genius of the script-writing is borne out in the fact you barely notice you’re watching a single scene for the entire duration of the film.
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