Watched at the Prince Charles Cinema, definitely a big change in tone from the original Godzilla but I had a lot of fun with this. There are some genuinely funny moments here like Mothra grabbing Godzilla by the legs and the sequence where the Mothra caterpillars fired endless streams of webbing/whatever it is at him, but - and this is a problem I've had the the PCC before - there were people in the audience who just laughed at every…
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The Monkey 2025
Definitely feels like it's based on a short story, and I found it a bit tonally confused - is it just a goofy, gory horror comedy, or is it also trying to say something more sincere? - but it's still fairly enjoyable and I liked Theo James a lot here. I guess most people probably first got to know him from the Divergent series but I never watched those: I was a British teenager in the late 2000s so I…
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Persona 1966
Well this was quite something. I'd been slightly underwhelmed with the other Ingmar Bergman films I'd seen before this (Seventh Seal because it wasn't what I expected and Passion of Anna because it's a bit dull) but this has convinced me that he deserves his reputation as one of the great masters of cinema.
It's not an easy film to review, given that I'm not entirely sure what happened. It tells the story of an actress who suddenly turns mute…
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Whiplash 2014
I honestly can't think of a single thing I'd change - easily living up to the hype, Whiplash is one of the best films I've seen in ages.
The pacing of the story is perfect (how often do you watch a film and that's one of the first things that comes to mind?) and the simple tale of a young musician's drive to be the best under the tutelage of a mentor who seemingly knows no boundaries is intense, thrilling…
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