Stan Bull

Stan Bull

Please don’t talk to me about Chris Nolan

Favorite films

  • Almost Famous
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Boogie Nights
  • Pulp Fiction

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  • Legend

    ★★★

  • Tropic Thunder

    ★★★★

  • Like A Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres

    ★★★

  • Almost Famous

    ★★★★★

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  • Legend

    Legend

    ★★★

    Had a hard time choosing a star rating for this; it’s kind of not good yet totally great at the same time. I don’t love the attempts at making the Krays look cool, Scorsese style, but I do enjoy the world of the ‘60s gangster-ran East End shown here. 

    The performances are fairly decent all-round, but it’s Hardy as Ronnie who steals the show. I’m not even sure what he was going for at times - it wouldn’t be a…

  • Tropic Thunder

    Tropic Thunder

    ★★★★

    Even fucking funnier than I remember.

    The whole movie is perfectly cast, but the absolutely unhinged TC performance is of course the standout, and it makes you wonder why he doesn’t do more of these insane roles as his comic timing is perfect. The other big one is RDJ. Fuck Oppenheimer, this might be his greatest ever performance for real. 

    Just really smart, endlessly quotable Hollywood satire.

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  • Monkey Man

    Monkey Man

    ★★★★

    Such an intense/violent film to be watching whilst my six-day-old daughter sleeps on my chest throughout lol

  • Cujo

    Cujo

    ★★½

    “Fuck you, dog!” 

    My quest to watch every Stephen King adaptation in my lifetime has taken me to some euphoric highs, and some miserable lows. I think this is just somewhere in the middle. 

    A made-for-TV-looking film that is gnarlier than I expected but perhaps a bit toothless by the standards of other creature features, especially ones that came out soon after. 

    The character development at the start is decent enough (thanks to the source material - side note, this…

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