Darran Jones

Darran Jones

Favorite films

  • The Lion King
  • Boogie Nights
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Stand by Me

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★★

  • Dune

    ★★★★½

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    Yes, this is another Soderbergh film with a misleading trailer, but it’s a solid Seventies-styled thriller with a great cast, strong script and plenty of twists.

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★

    Well that was all over the place.
    The latest offering from Bong Joon-ho dreams big but can’t really live up to its potential.
    After signing up as an Expendable, Mickey (Robert Pattinson) becomes a human Guinea pig as the Trumpian Kenneth Marshall (a hammy Mark Ruffalo) takes a group of citizens into space to colonise a new planet. Upon arrival a new Mickey is created when the last is assumed destroyed, inadvertently creating multiples that violate the laws of cloning.…

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  • Heretic

    Heretic

    ★★★½

    After playing a bunch of affable cads, Hugh Grant’s latest performance is a genuinely menacing one. He dominates every scene he’s in and is arguably the glue that holds the entire premise together.
    That premise of course is the power of belief, what motivates belief, what it means to believe the unprovable and what unwavering faith in your beliefs can do to you.
    And yet, for all of Heretic’s interesting ideas it doesn’t really have the belief of its own…

  • Wicked Little Letters

    Wicked Little Letters

    ★★★½

    If you fancy the idea of an Ealing-style comedy with F-bombs you can do a lot worse than Wicked Little Letters. Olivia Coleman is superb as the straight-laced god-fearing recipient of the letters in question, but Jessie Buckley is just as on point as the foul-mouthed single mother who dotes on her daughter and is accused of sending the poison letters

    The letters themselves are deliciously wicked and delivered with gusto by the cast, with special mention going to Timothy…