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  Midsommar 2019

  ★★ Rewatched 30 Dec 2024

  (5 stars for the opening 30 mins). 

  Watched on Prime.

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  Gladiator II 2024

  ★★ Watched 30 Nov 2024

  (Patiently waits for the rest of the world to step out of this Paul Mescal fad). 

  Adore Ridley as a person, enjoy half of his filmography, but thank goodness he was too busy to direct Blade Runner 2049 as this film’s execution as a legacy sequel would’ve been a similar result to what we could have seen there (but thankfully didn’t). 

  Avoided all trailers for this and was genuinely surprised towards the end of the first half at how many…

Popular reviews

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  Brian and Charles 2022

  ★ Watched 25 Jul 2022 2

  The closest I’ve ever come to walking out of a cinema.  The nadir of improvisational comedy. 

  In what must be the first (and hastily) drafted script there’s occasionally some semblance of humour, the whiff of a potential punch line here or an imaginary alternate set up for a comedy moment there, but what little there is never really lands. 

  David Earl thinks turning to camera and saying stuff along the lines of ‘that’s weird’ or ‘what’s he like’ over and…

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  A Short Film About Killing 1988

  ★★★★½ Watched 31 Aug 2021

  *Seen as a Double bill at The Castle Cinema (Hackney) along with ‘A Short Film About Love’*

  Whilst the execution on all episodes of Dekalogue and the extended versions of Love/Killing are impeccable, episode 5 of Dekalogue (or in its extended form ‘A Short Film About Killing’) remains objectively the most important and vital story of the set.

  One of the biggest compliments I can give is that these extended feature length versions of the original episodes do not feel…