Category: FilmTV
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Citizen Kane, 1941 - ★★★★½
Recently listened to the BBC radio In Our Time episode on Citizen Kane so thought I’d rewatch the film.
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🏏 South Africa v England (2nd ODI) is my Sunday afternoon viewing 📺
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Strictly Ballroom, 1992 - ★★★½
Watched on Sunday January 22, 2023.
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📺 Inspector Morse : Deceived by Flight
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The Last Samurai, 2003 - ★★★
Watched on Monday January 16, 2023.
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Murder on the Orient Express, 1974 - ★★★★
I also enjoyed Kenneth Branagh’s 2017 version but this more dramatic, star-studded production is a treat. Albert Finney really stands out as Poirot.
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Surge, 2020 - ★★★½
Watched on Thursday December 15, 2022.
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The Matrix Resurrections, 2021 - ★★★★½
Watched on Tuesday December 13, 2022.
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🎬 The Matrix Resurrections
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Pickpocket, 1959 - ★★★½
Watched on Sunday December 4, 2022.
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Support from the Mexican fans in the stadium for the Mexico 🇲🇽 v Poland 🇵🇱 World Cup match seems brilliant. Best I’ve seen in the games so far 📺 ⚽️
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Ikiru, 1952 - ★★★★½
Watched on Friday November 11, 2022.
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Death on the Nile, 2022 - ★★★★
Branagh makes a stylish Poirot and a stylish, enjoyable Christie adaptation. Would rank Death on the Nile above Murder on the Orient Express but both have made me want to read the original novels.
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Murder on the Orient Express, 2017 - ★★★½
Watched on Wednesday November 2, 2022.
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⚽️ Watching Aston Villa v Chelsea 📺
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Elvis, 2022 - ★★★★
Watched on Saturday October 15, 2022.
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💃 Autumn Saturday night so there's no option in our household … Strictly Come Dancing 📺
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Atonement, 2007 - ★★★★★
Excellent film of a very good book.
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Justine, 1969 - ★★★★
Don’t view with the expectation that the film will fairly represent the books of the Alexandria Quartet. Mixed up and confused, but recognisable characters, scenes and lines from Durrell’s work. Missing and distorting so much but I did enjoy the experience - not nearly as bad as some reviews suggest!
The film is visually impressive (in parts excessive in a late 1960s way) and quite atmospheric. The performances of Dirk Bogarde, Michael York, Anouk Aimée, Anna Karina and others are worth seeing. …
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The Iceman, 2012 - ★★★
Watched on Thursday September 29, 2022.
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📺 The Great British Bake Off
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Cosmopolis, 2012 - ★★★★
Watched on Sunday September 25, 2022.
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Film log - watched: Cosmopolis, 2012 - ★★★★ 🎥
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The Fly, 1986 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday September 23, 2022.
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Film log - watched: The Fly, 1986 - ★★★★ 🎥
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A History of Violence, 2005 - ★★★★★
Watched on Thursday September 22, 2022.
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Film log - watched: A History of Violence, 2005 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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Linkblog 🔗: Jean-Luc Godard: a genius who tore up rule book without troubling to read it
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Everything Everywhere All at Once, 2022 - ★★★½
Watched on Sunday September 4, 2022.
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Film log - watched: Everything Everywhere All at Once, 2022 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Walk the Line, 2005 - ★★★
Watched on Saturday July 30, 2022.
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Film log - watched: Walk the Line, 2005 - ★★★ 🎥
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Amulet, 2020 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday July 29, 2022.
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Film log - watched: Amulet, 2020 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Jurassic World, 2015 - ★★★
Watched on Friday July 22, 2022.
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Film log - watched: Jurassic World, 2015 - ★★★ 🎥
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Linkblog 🔗: ‘It’s dopamine’: why we love to track our watching and reading habits
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Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods, 2017 - ★★★★
Watched on Wednesday June 22, 2022.
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Film log - watched: Bunch of Kunst, 2017 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Assimilate, 2019 - ★½
Watched on Sunday June 19, 2022.
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Film log - watched: Assimilate, 2019 - ★½ 🎥
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Call Me by Your Name, 2017 - ★★★★
Watched on Thursday May 26, 2022.
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Film log - watched: Call Me by Your Name, 2017 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Alien, 1979 - ★★★★★
Re-watching the 2003 Director’s Cut. Superb, even better than I remember 😊
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Film log - watched: Alien, 1979 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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Fantasy Island, 2020 - ★★★½
A lot darker than I remember the 1970s/1980s TV series 😊
And I thought it was a lot better than all the bad reviews here would suggest. Competent tongue-in-cheek horror which reminded me of some old Amicus/Hammer films and the 1980s House series of films (which I also liked…).
Overall it kept me interested and wanting to know where the story and characters went. Enjoyed!
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Film log - watched: Fantasy Island, 2020 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Finch, 2021 - ★★
Watched on Friday April 29, 2022.
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Film log - watched: Finch, 2021 - ★★ 🎥
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Infinitum: Subject Unknown, 2021 - ★★★
Low-key, low budget and quite stylish and well filmed. Wanted to like it more but narrative wasn’t enough for me.
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Film log - watched: Infinitum: Subject Unknown, 2021 - ★★★ 🎥
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The Invisible Man, 2020 - ★★★
OK but didn’t really engross me; not a version of The Invisible Man I’d like to revisit.
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Film log - watched: The Invisible Man, 2020 - ★★★ 🎥
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Dune, 2021 - ★★★★½
Watched on Sunday April 17, 2022.
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Film log - watched: Dune, 2021 - ★★★★½ 🎥
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Shazam!, 2019 - ★★½
Watched on Wednesday April 6, 2022.
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The Postcard Killings, 2020 - ★★
Watched on Monday April 4, 2022.
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Film log - watched: The Postcard Killings, 2020 - ★★ 🎥
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The Bubble, 2022 - ★★½
Watched on Friday April 1, 2022.
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Film log - watched: The Bubble, 2022 - ★★½ 🎥
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Alita: Battle Angel, 2019 - ★★★½
Watched on Wednesday March 30, 2022.
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Film log - watched: Alita: Battle Angel, 2019 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Primer, 2004 - ★★★½
Watched on Wednesday March 16, 2022.
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Film log - watched: Primer, 2004 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Escape from Pretoria, 2020 - ★★★
Watched on Thursday March 3, 2022.
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Film log - watched: Escape from Pretoria, 2020 - ★★★ 🎥
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No Time to Die, 2021 - ★★★★
Watched on Sunday February 13, 2022.
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Film log - watched: No Time to Die, 2021 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Spectre, 2015 - ★★★½
Watched on Saturday February 12, 2022.
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Film log - watched: Spectre, 2015 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Skyfall, 2012 - ★★★½
Watched on Thursday February 10, 2022.
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Film log - watched: Skyfall, 2012 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Quantum of Solace, 2008 - ★★½
Watched on Wednesday February 9, 2022.
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Casino Royale, 2006 - ★★★★
Re-watching for the first time after about 15 years. Quite enjoyed it! Will be carrying on with the Craig as Bond series as a reminder before seeing No Time to Die.
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Film log - watched: Quantum of Solace, 2008 - ★★½ 🎥
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Film log - watched: Casino Royale, 2006 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Hemingway & Gellhorn, 2012 - ★★★
Watched on Tuesday February 1, 2022.
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Film log - watched: Hemingway & Gellhorn, 2012 - ★★★ 🎥
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Kangaroo, 1986 - ★★★½
Interesting enough. A little slow paced, not hugely charismatic performances (and Colin Friels’ accent is weird!), but it did bring back recollections of the novel. Portrayal of post-WW1 Australian populist fascism seems too familiar to current times to be entirely comfortable - does it never go away?
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Film log - watched: Kangaroo, 1986 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, 2017 - ★★★½
Hypnotically addictive. Definitely a spectacle.
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Film log - watched: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, 2017 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Out of Time, 2021 - ★½
Watched on Monday January 17, 2022.
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Film log - watched: Out Of Time, 2021 - ★½ 🎥
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The Green Knight, 2021 - ★★★★
Very dark. Very dramatic. Not what I expected - better than that. Unusually I wish I’d read a synopsis of the plot before I watched the film - I think I would have enjoyed this vision of the tale more if I had done so. And I say that having read the poem previously. Be warned!
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Film log - watched: The Green Knight, 2021 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Cherry, 2021 - ★★½
Watched on Tuesday January 11, 2022.
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Film log - watched: Cherry, 2021 - ★★½ 🎥
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Twin Town, 1997 - ★★★½
Watched on Saturday January 8, 2022.
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Film log - watched: Twin Town, 1997 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Just watched the New Year’s Day Doctor Who. That was a good episode, I always like a time loop and Aisling Bea and Adjani Salmon were superb.
Exit the ascension device!
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Don't Look Up, 2021 - ★★★½
Watched on Thursday December 30, 2021.
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Film log - watched: Don’t Look Up, 2021 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Army of Thieves, 2021 - ★★½
Watched on Wednesday December 22, 2021.
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Film log - watched: Army of Thieves, 2021 - ★★½ 🎥
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Coma, 2019 - ★★½
Average random sci-fi movie pick on Amazon Prime. A video game of a film, visually quite impressive with a few interesting ideas. It did hold most of my attention and wasn’t a complete waste of an hour and a half or so 😊
I would rather have watched it subtitled than dubbed - wasn’t keen on some of the voices and modern American phrasing that didn’t seem to fit well to the characters, but I suppose it could accurately reflect the Russian original; I’ll never know.
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Wild at Heart, 1990 - ★★★½
Suitably surreal.
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Film log - watched: Coma, 2019 - ★★½ 🎥
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Film log - watched: Wild at Heart, 1990 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Army of the Dead, 2021 - ★★★
Watched on Thursday December 9, 2021.
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Film log - watched: Army of the Dead, 2021 - ★★★ 🎥
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters, 2019 - ★★
Uninspiring monster fayre.
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Film log - watched: Godzilla: King of the Monsters, 2019 - ★★ 🎥
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Cinema Paradiso, 1988 - ★★★½
Watched on Saturday November 27, 2021.
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Just found out about and starting to populate my profile at @dave’s BingeWorthy. Struggling trying to remember everything I’ve watched though 😊📺🔗
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Film log - watched: Cinema Paradiso, 1988 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Drunken Angel, 1948 - ★★★★★
Watched on Friday November 19, 2021.
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Film log - watched: Drunken Angel, 1948 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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Pulse, 2001 - ★★★½
Watched on Wednesday November 17, 2021.
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Film log - watched: Pulse, 2001 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Seven Samurai, 1954 - ★★★★★
Watched on Friday November 12, 2021.
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Film log - watched: Seven Samurai, 1954 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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The Death of Stalin, 2017 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday November 5, 2021.
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Film log - watched: The Death of Stalin, 2017 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Boss Level, 2021 - ★★★½
Watched on Wednesday October 27, 2021.
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Film log - watched: Boss Level, 2021 - ★★★½ 🎥
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The Great British Bake Off. Usually bread week is my favourite, but tonight’s pastry week is great! 📺
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Infinite, 2021 - ★½
Watched on Friday October 8, 2021.
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Film log - watched: Infinite, 2021 - ★½ 🎥
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The Babadook, 2014 - ★★★½
Watched on Thursday October 7, 2021.
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Film log - watched: The Babadook, 2014 - ★★★½ 🎥
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ARQ, 2016 - ★★★½
I do like time loop tales. This one’s not too shabby.
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The Dark Tower, 2017 - ★★
Watched on Thursday September 30, 2021.
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Film log - watched: ARQ, 2016 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Film log - watched: The Dark Tower, 2017 - ★★ 🎥
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Film log - watched: Now You See Me 2, 2016 - ★★ 🎥
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Film log - watched: Sicario, 2015 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Film log - watched: Hemingway, 2021 - ★★★★½ 🎥
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Hemingway films 🎥 🔗
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Film log - watched: Colette, 2018 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: The Matrix Revolutions, 2003 - ★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Night Moves, 2013 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: The Matrix Reloaded, 2003 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: The Matrix, 1999 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: A Woman Is a Woman, 1961 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Seaspiracy, 2021 - ★★★ 🎥
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Watched: The Tomorrow War, 2021 - ★★★ 🎥
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Watched: 20,000 Days on Earth, 2014 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Yesterday, 2019 - ★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Together, 2021 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Beat, 2000 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Meet Joe Black, 1998 - ★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Pull My Daisy, 1959 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, 1982 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: The Midnight Sky, 2020 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Stowaway, 2021 - ★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Greenland, 2020 - ★★ 🎥
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Watched: Band of Outsiders, 1964 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Rampage, 2018 - ★★½ 🎥
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Watched: The Source, 1999 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: The Opera Game, 2019 - ★★ 🎥
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Watched: The Love Witch, 2016 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Breathless, 1983 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Solaris, 1972 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: On the Road, 2012 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Pretty Woman, 1990 - ★★★ 🎥
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Watched: The Shape of Water, 2017 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Re-watched Season 1 of For All Mankind over the last five days - now ready to embark on Season 2 👨🚀 👩🚀 🚀 📺
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Watched: King Rocker, 2021 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Pawn Sacrifice, 2014 - ★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Snowpiercer, 2013 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: The Dig, 2021 - ★★★★½ 🎥
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The Dig: Will Gompertz film review 🔗
It’s late summer in England, 1939. The sight and sound of RAF planes flying overhead is an ominous reminder that war looms.
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Watched: The Theory of Everything, 2014 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: The Quiet Ones, 2014 - ★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Parasite, 2019 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Ready Player One, 2018 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Cure, 1997 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Education, 2020 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Alex Wheatle, 2020 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Red, White and Blue, 2020 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Lovers Rock, 2020 - ★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Pierrot le Fou, 1965 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Mangrove, 2020 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Red Sparrow, 2018 - ★★ 🎥
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Watched: Tenet, 2020 - ★★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Coco, 2017 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Time Trap, 2017 - ★½ 🎥
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Watched: American Beauty, 1999 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, 2020 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, 2006 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: The Greatest Showman, 2017 - ★★★ 🎥
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Watched: The Personal History of David Copperfield, 2019 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: The Fly, 1958 - ★★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Akira, 1988 - ★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould, 2009 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Hacksaw Ridge, 2016 - ★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, 1993 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: The Social Dilemma, 2020 - ★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Interstellar, 2014 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: The Legend of Hell House, 1973 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, 2016 - ★★ 🎥
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Watched: Joker, 2019 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Prospect, 2018 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: The Edge, 2019 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: The Dark Knight Rises, 2012 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: The Dark Knight, 2008 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Batman Begins, 2005 - ★★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Blindness, 2008 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Annihilation, 2018 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Looper, 2012 - ★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, 2018 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Weekend, 1967 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, 2020 - ½ 🎥
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Watched: Greyhound, 2020 - ★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Aniara, 2018 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Zombieland: Double Tap, 2019 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Coherence, 2013 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: All the Money in the World, 2017 - ★★½ 🎥
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Watched: What We Do in the Shadows, 2014 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: The Vast of Night, 2019 - ★★ 🎥
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Watched: Get Out, 2017 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Days of the Bagnold Summer, 2019 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Justice League, 2017 - ★★ 🎥
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Watched: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, 2016 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Snowpiercer, 2013 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Audition, 1999 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: A Quiet Place, 2018 - ★★★ 🎥
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The best Japanese film of every year – from 1925 to now 🔗 — Excerpt: It’s a foolish endeavour to try to determine the best film, year by year, of any filmmaking nation, let alone one with so extraordinary a cinematic history as Japan. 🎥
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Watched: Suicide Squad, 2016 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: The Game, 1997 - ★★★½ 🎥
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Watched: The Wandering Earth, 2019 - ★★½ 🎥
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Watched: Things to Come, 2016 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Riverworld, 2003 ★ 🎥
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Watched: 2 Days in Paris, 2007 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Zombieland, 2009 - ★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Vivarium, 2019 - ★★★★★ 🎥
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Watched: Ad Astra, 2019 - ★★★★ 🎥
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While We’re Young, 2014 - ★★★
Watched on Sunday February 9, 2020.
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In Fabric, 2018 - ★★★★★
Watched on Tuesday January 21, 2020.
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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, 2019 - ★★★½
Watched on Tuesday January 21, 2020.
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Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, 2019 - ★★★★½
Watched on Wednesday January 8, 2020.
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The best movies of 2019 that you haven’t seen 🔗 — Excerpt: This quite extraordinary film from the 28-year-old Russian director Kantemir Balagov was a prize-winner in Cannes; in the UK it had three showings at the London film festival and then went straight to the streaming platform Mubi. Everyone should see it.
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Anna Karina: an actor of easy charm and grace whose presence radiated from the screen — link to The Guardian 🔗 🎥
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Watchmen, 2009 - ★★★★★
Watched on Saturday December 14, 2019.
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Edge of Tomorrow, 2014 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday December 13, 2019.
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Thoroughly Modern Millie, 1967 - ★★★★
Watched on Saturday December 7, 2019.
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The Double, 2013 - ★★★★★
Watched on Wednesday November 20, 2019.
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The Great NHS Heist, a documentary film that I supported on GoFundMe, is being released online on 30th November.
The Great NHS Heist is a powerful account of how the nation’s proudest achievement, the National Health Service, has been fundamentally reshaped and undermined by successive governments in preparation for privatisation. The evidence of the heist is presented with a stark warning of the risks ahead through interviews with health care professionals, patients and experts in England and …
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An important epidemiological study :) 🔖 Turncoat Game of Thrones characters most likely to survive, researchers say.
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Supporting The Great NHS Heist Documentary via @gofundme
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Going to be interesting to find out if Amazon’s remake of Utopia is anywhere close to the quality of the original – Paradise found: Utopia’s remake is a welcome dose of TV justice 📺
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Just watched the first three episodes of the BBC’s Troy: Fall of A City. Quite impressed by this realisation of the story. 📺
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Watching Hairy Bikers' Mediterranean Adventure Episode 6/6 Mainland Spain. Some great looking food, especially the tapas, plus some flamenco. How have I missed the rest of this series - going to have to download! 📺
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Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Seventh Season DVD ~ Larry David http://amzn.com/B002OOWKSA - need this on UK Amazon :(