Category: filmtv
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Saturday afternoon - a prawn curry, a pint of Old Peculier 🍺 and watching 📺 Crystal Palace v Aston Villa in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley ⚽️
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Film log - watched: Gladiator II, 2024 - ★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥
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Film log - watched: Black Mirror: USS Callister – Into Infinity, 2025 - ★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥
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Film log - watched: Hammer Films - Letterboxd link 🎥
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Film log - watched: A Real Pain, 2024 - ★★★★★ - Letterboxd link 🎥
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🎥 The Electric State (2025) ★★
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📺 Small Town, Big Story (2025)
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Maria by Callas, 2017 - ★★★★★
Fascinating sequence of archive footage - including performances, interviews and home movies. No commentary, but very interesting to watch.
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Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, 2024 - ★★½
Less enjoyable and less interesting than Part One.
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Bridget Jones's Baby, 2016 - ★★★
Watched on Sunday February 16, 2025.
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Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, 2023 - ★★★½
Despite reading a number of very bad reviews of this film I quite enjoyed it as a sci-fi/fantasy spectacle. I intend to watch the next part.
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Severance S2E4 Woe’s Hollow - that was a wild ride 📺
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Apollo 11, 2019 - ★★★★★
Watched on Friday February 7, 2025.
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Gladiator, 2000 - ★★★★
Watched on Thursday February 6, 2025.
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Alien: Romulus, 2024 - ★★★½
Watched on Wednesday February 5, 2025.
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Civil War, 2024 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday January 31, 2025.
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Leave Her to Heaven, 1945 - ★★★★
Watched on Tuesday January 28, 2025.
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Fly Me to the Moon, 2024 - ★★★
Enjoyed as a Sunday afternoon film.
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Love Actually, 2003 - ★★★★
Watched on Monday December 30, 2024.
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Watching 📺 my first match in the Big Bash League this year - Adelaide Strikers vs Melbourne Stars. Ollie Pope batting (and keeping) for the Adelaide Strikers 🏏
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The Legend of Hell House, 1973 - ★★★★★
Still my favourite horror/haunted house film.
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The Hunt, 2020 - ★★
Watched on Saturday November 30, 2024.
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Deadpool & Wolverine, 2024 - ★★★½
Watched on Saturday November 23, 2024.
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Deadpool 2, 2018 - ★★★
Watched on Friday November 22, 2024.
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Wolfs, 2024 - ★★★
Watched on Monday November 18, 2024.
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Blade Runner 2049, 2017 - ★★★★★
Watched on Saturday November 16, 2024.
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Blade Runner, 1982 - ★★★★★
Watched on Friday November 15, 2024.
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The Velvet Underground, 2021 - ★★★★★
Watched on Thursday November 14, 2024.
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The Trial of the Chicago 7, 2020 - ★★★★
Watched on Thursday October 31, 2024.
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Talking Heads: Rock Pop in Concert, 1981 - ★★★★★
Watched on YouTube - youtu.be/edXvLGqLtmM - superb 🎵
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The First Omen, 2024 - ★★★
Watched on Thursday October 17, 2024.
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Zero people share 4 or 3 of my favourite films.
A surprising number share 2 of them.
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, 2024 - ★★★
Watched on Tuesday September 24, 2024.
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Northern Soul, 2014 - ★★★
Watched on Sunday September 22, 2024.
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The Mummy, 1959 - ★★★½
Watched on Friday September 20, 2024.
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The Revenge of Frankenstein, 1958 - ★★★½
Watched on Sunday September 15, 2024.
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Three Thousand Years of Longing, 2022 - ★★★½
Watched on Sunday September 8, 2024.
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Dracula, 1958 - ★★★★½
Watched on Friday September 6, 2024.
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The Abominable Snowman, 1957 - ★★★½
Watched on Friday September 6, 2024.
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Quatermass 2, 1957 - ★★★½
Watched on Sunday September 1, 2024.
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The Curse of Frankenstein, 1957 - ★★★½
Watched on Friday August 30, 2024.
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Hammer Films
Building a list of Hammer Film Productions as I watch them 📽️
Inspired by the Hammer House of Podcast.
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X the Unknown, 1956 - ★★½
Watched on Thursday August 29, 2024.
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The Quatermass Xperiment, 1955 - ★★★★
Watched on Thursday August 29, 2024.
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Barbarian, 2022 - ★★★½
Watched on Thursday August 22, 2024.
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Tetris, 2023 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday August 16, 2024.
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Papillon, 2017 - ★★★
Watched on Wednesday August 14, 2024.
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Color Out of Space, 2019 - ★★★
Watched on Thursday August 8, 2024.
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Dune: Part Two, 2024 - ★★★★½
Watched on Saturday August 3, 2024.
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The Batman, 2022 - ★★★
Watched on Friday August 2, 2024.
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Watching both of the Olympic Triathlons this morning. Women’s event underway now. The swim in the Seine was interesting, with strong currents, and the road surfaces for the cycling appear to be quite slippery in places🏅
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Dune, 2021 - ★★★★½
Second time rewatching in a fortnight. Still impressive. Ready for Part Two now.
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Andrei Rublev, 1966 - ★★★★
I’ve seen Tarkovsky’s other six films, some more than once. Now I’ve come to Andrei Rublev and of all of them I found this the most difficult to watch. The setting and subjects are just completely unfamiliar to me. Visually impressive and interesting to watch but I needed to refer to a plot synopsis quite a lot to understand events in the film. I’m sure I’ll watch it again - I need to 🫤
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Dune, 2021 - ★★★★½
Watched on Monday July 15, 2024.
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I’ll probably watch some tennis and some football today 🎾⚽📺
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Ticket to Paradise, 2022 - ★★½
Watched on Saturday July 13, 2024.
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The Zone of Interest, 2023 - ★★★★
Watched on Saturday July 13, 2024.
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Performance, 1970 - ★★★★
Surprisingly modern. Surprisingly brutal. Quite weird.
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Settling down on a Saturday afternoon to watch the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Final South Africa 🇿🇦 v 🇮🇳 India 🏏📺🍺
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Hit Man, 2023 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday June 14, 2024.
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American Fiction, 2023 - ★★★★
Watched on Thursday June 13, 2024.
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Gandhi, 1982 - ★★★★★
Watched on Thursday May 30, 2024.
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Post-apocalyptic films
(cloned from a BFI list 🙂)
- Things to Come
- La Jetée
- The War Game
- Planet of the Apes
- The Omega Man
- A Boy and His Dog
- Dawn of the Dead
- Stalker
- The Last Battle
- Threads
...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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Saturday afternoon sports viewing. England playing Pakistan at Edgbaston in the 2nd T20I. And there’s the FA Cup Final ⚽️ 🏏 📺
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The Killing Fields, 1984 - ★★★★½
Watched on Thursday May 9, 2024.
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Suspiria, 2018 - ★★★½
Watched on Thursday May 2, 2024.
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Anatomy of a Fall, 2023 - ★★★★
Watched on Sunday April 7, 2024.
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Ivan's Childhood, 1962 - ★★★★½
Watched on Sunday April 7, 2024.
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Napoleon, 2023 - ★★★★
Watched on Monday March 25, 2024.
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Dark Encounter, 2019 - ★★★½
Strange film. Not sure what to make of it. Combination of child disappearance and alien encounter. Very well filmed and acted - definitely not got the look or feel of a low budget, made for TV movie (which I don't believe it was).
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The Highwaymen, 2019 - ★★★
Watched on Thursday March 21, 2024.
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In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50, 2022 - ★★★★
Watched on Sunday March 17, 2024.
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Sharper, 2023 - ★★★½
Watched on Monday March 4, 2024.
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The Hunger Games, 2012 - ★★★½
Watched on Sunday March 3, 2024.
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Oppenheimer, 2023 - ★★★★★
Watched on Sunday February 25, 2024.
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800, 2023 - ★★★★
As a sports biopic I really enjoyed this; 2h40m went by quickly! Interesting content - I learnt a fair amount. Recreation of the cricketing scenes better than I was expecting 🏏
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Nomadland, 2020 - ★★★★
Watched on Tuesday February 20, 2024.
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, 2023 - ★★★
Watched on Monday February 19, 2024.
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Eternals, 2021 - ★★★★
A slightly different but fun Marvel spectacle. I thought the performances and the characters were great. Loved the jumping around places and times and found the storyline more interesting than that of a lot of recent Marvel films.
Feel the film was maligned by numerous reviews. I enjoyed it a lot more than those reviews led me to expect.
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, 2019 - ★★★
Watched on Wednesday February 14, 2024.
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It poured with rain all day yesterday. But it was a good, lazy day. My wife had the rare day off without working so we sat on the sofa all afternoon and watched a couple of films. Bird Box: Bracelona and Triangle of Sadness. Then started the Netflix series One Day in the evening 🎥 📺
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Bird Box Barcelona, 2023 - ★★★★
In contrast to most opinions and reviews I think I preferred this to the original.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi, 2017 - ★★★½
Watched on Friday February 9, 2024.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 2015 - ★★★★
Watched on Thursday February 8, 2024.
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The most influential television comedy of the 21st century is coming to an end. Tonight, the first episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm’s 12th and final season will air, kicking off a 10-week run that will apparently wrap up Larry David’s revolutionary improvised sitcom with a definitive conclusion.
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In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50, 2022 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday February 2, 2024. 🎵
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, 2023 - ★★★½
Watched on Thursday February 1, 2024.
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The Creator, 2023 - ★★½
Watched on Thursday January 25, 2024.
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Mirror, 1975 - ★★★★
Watched on Tuesday January 23, 2024.
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The Sacrifice, 1986 - ★★★★
Watched on Tuesday January 16, 2024.
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Nostalgia, 1983 - ★★★★
Watched on Monday January 15, 2024.
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The Beatles and India, 2021 - ★★★½
Watched on Friday January 5, 2024.
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Prey, 2022 - ★★★
A slightly novel direction for the Predator franchise. Very watchable if you don’t expect anything *too* new.
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, 2023 - ★★★★½
Enjoyed that far more than I expected to. Thought Phoebe Waller-Bridge was really good, as, of course, was Harrison Ford. Fitting conclusion (I presume) to the Indiana Jones films.
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Saltburn, 2023 - ★★★★
Very darkly entertaining!
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Watching Bernard Levin interviewing Leonard Bernstein from 1982. Making me appreciate how impressive Bradley Cooper’s portrayal of Bernstein is in the film Maestro 🎥 📺 🎵
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Predators, 2010 - ★★★½
Definitely in the same vein as the 1987 Predator. Not too bad as a sci-fi survival action film.
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Aliens vs Predator: Requiem, 2007 - ★
Definitely the poorest of the Alien/Predator/AvP films I’ve seen so far. Very poor and very dark (illumination 🔦 not mood ☹️).
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AVP: Alien vs. Predator, 2004 - ★★★½
Watched on Sunday December 24, 2023.
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Maestro, 2023 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday December 22, 2023.
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Peterloo, 2018 - ★★★★★
This is my second viewing of Peterloo and I've rated it more highly this time - 5★ instead of 4★. On first watching I found it a little long and slow, dragging slightly. This time I was far more engaged with the characters and found it a gripping slow-burn to a dramatic finale. Great filmmaking.
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Traditional Xmas essentials 📖 📺
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Bright Star, 2009 - ★★★★★
Watched on Wednesday December 20, 2023.
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Watching the Strictly Come Dancing final with my wife and daughter 🥂
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage, 2021 - ★★★
Watched on Tuesday December 12, 2023.
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Uncharted, 2022 - ★★★
Watched on Monday December 11, 2023.
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Venom, 2018 - ★★½
Watched on Sunday December 10, 2023.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home, 2021 - ★★★½
Watched on Friday December 8, 2023.
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A Haunting in Venice, 2023 - ★★★★
Watched on Thursday November 30, 2023.
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1917, 2019 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday November 24, 2023.
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🏏 Watching Australia 🇦🇺 v 🇮🇳 India playing the ICC Men's World Cup Final 🏆 📺
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John Wick: Chapter 4, 2023 - ★★★★
Watched on Tuesday November 14, 2023.
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Haunted Mansion, 2023 - ★★½
Watched on Monday October 30, 2023.
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Tarkovsky
- Stalker
- Nostalgia
- Ivan's Childhood
- Boris Godunov
- Mirror
- Andrei Rublev
- The Sacrifice
- Solaris
- There Will Be No Leave Today
- The Steamroller and the Violin
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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Top Gun: Maverick, 2022 - ★★★★
Watched on Monday October 16, 2023.
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Top Gun, 1986 - ★★★
Watched on Monday October 16, 2023.
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I watched The Great British Bake Off’s Bread Week on Tuesday so of course I’ve had to attempt a cottage loaf for the first time …
📺 🍞
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Stalker, 1979 - ★★★★★
Watched on Friday October 13, 2023.
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What We Did on Our Holiday, 2014 - ★★★★
Watched on Thursday October 12, 2023.
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Avatar: The Way of Water, 2022 - ★★★½
Watched on Thursday October 12, 2023.
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Star Trek Beyond, 2016 - ★★★★★
Watched on Wednesday October 11, 2023.
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Star Trek Into Darkness, 2013 - ★★★★
Watched on Wednesday October 4, 2023.
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Star Trek, 2009 - ★★★★★
Watched on Monday October 2, 2023.
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Boiling Point, 2021 - ★★★★
Watched on Sunday October 1, 2023.
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The Commuter, 2018 - ★★★
Watched on Friday September 15, 2023.
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, 2023 - ★★★½
Watched on Monday August 28, 2023.
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Barbie, 2023 - ★★★½
Watched on Tuesday August 22, 2023.
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Location check in 🗺 — Vue Cinema, Merthyr Tydfil for Barbie 🎥
🔎 Zoom in
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Spider-Man: Far from Home, 2019 - ★★★½
Watched on Monday August 21, 2023.
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Spider-Man: Homecoming, 2017 - ★★★
Watched on Friday August 11, 2023.
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Linkblog 🔗: David Harewood on Blackface - a shocking, deeply moving piece of television
A little discomfort is a price worth paying to see Harewood, Lester, Linton and Olusoga speak truth to power on the same channel that was once broadcasting minstrels into their living rooms.
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, 2008 - ★★★★½
Saw this at the cinema when it was released, don't think I've re-watched it until now, after re-watching the first three Indiana Jones films over the last few days. This time I think I enjoyed it far more - held up very well in the sequence. Disagree that it's the weakest of the four.
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989 - ★★★★½
Watched on Monday July 24, 2023.
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1984 - ★★★★
Watched on Monday July 24, 2023.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, 2023 - ★★★★
Enjoyed a lot as a late Sunday afternoon film 😊
More humour than I’d anticipated - I’d say they were aiming to follow in the footsteps of The Princess Bride. Worked well, but not quite that well.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981 - ★★★★★
Watched on Saturday July 22, 2023.
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Bird Box, 2018 - ★★★½
Re-watching because I plan to see the sequel (?) Bird Box Barcelona soon. A little better than I remember.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, 2019 - ★★★½
Watched on Saturday July 8, 2023.
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Ant-Man and the Wasp, 2018 - ★★★
Watched on Saturday July 8, 2023.
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A Quiet Passion, 2016 - ★★★½
Watched on Wednesday June 21, 2023.
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Synchronic, 2019 - ★★★
Watched on Monday June 12, 2023.
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Old review – M Night Shyamalan’s fast-ageing beach horror is top notch hokum 🎥 🔗
Old is a bit like Alex Garland’s The Beach, but with a dab of Twilight Zone creepiness and an ensemble cast that Agatha Christie might have imagined. Most of all, I found myself thinking that this could have come from the original series of Star Trek – and that at any moment, William Shatner might beam down among the panicky, deteriorating beach-dwellers, phaser at the ready. Sadly for them, however, these existentially stricken vacationers are on their own.
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Old, 2021 - ★★★★★
Watched on Tuesday May 30, 2023.
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The Suicide Squad, 2021 - ★★★
Watched on Monday May 29, 2023.
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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years, 2016 - ★★★½
Watched on Wednesday May 24, 2023.
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Ithaka, 2021 - ★★★★
Watched on Monday May 22, 2023.
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Avengers: Endgame, 2019 - ★★★½
Watched on Tuesday May 16, 2023.
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Avengers: Infinity War, 2018 - ★★★½
Watched on Friday May 12, 2023.
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, 2022 - ★★★★½
Watched on Thursday May 11, 2023.
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Doctor Strange, 2016 - ★★★★
Watched on Friday May 5, 2023.
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Chaos Walking, 2021 - ★★
Watched on Tuesday April 25, 2023.
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🖖 Picard - The Last Generation S3, E10 📺
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My Neighbor Totoro, 1988 - ★★★★
Watched on Thursday March 30, 2023.
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All Quiet on the Western Front, 2022 - ★★★★
Watched on Sunday March 19, 2023.
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🖖 Picard - Imposters S3, E5 📺
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Fall, 2022 - ★★★
Some definitely dizzying visual effects and a real sense of jeopardy and suspense at times.
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🖖 Picard - No Win Scenario S3, E4 📺
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Luther: The Fallen Sun, 2023 - ★★★
Watched on Friday March 10, 2023.
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🖖 Picard - Seventeen Seconds S3, E3. I’m enjoying the way this series is unfolding 📺
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The X Files: I Want to Believe, 2008 - ★★½
Watched on Thursday March 2, 2023.
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1408, 2007 - ★★★★
Impressed. Surprised that I hadn’t come across this film before - released in 2007 but for me a random find on Netflix.
Good, old-fashioned (in a good sense) horror/psychological thriller with a great performance from John Cusack. The type of film I used to seek out - genuinely creepy and surprising.
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🖖 Picard - Disengage S3, E2 📺
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, 2022 - ★★★
Watched on Sunday February 19, 2023.
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Knives Out, 2019 - ★★★
Watched on Saturday February 18, 2023.
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🖖 Beginning Picard - Season 3 📺
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The X Files, 1998 - ★★★½
Watched on Friday February 17, 2023.
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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.
On the negative side the quality of the DVD transfer I watched was terrible 😞
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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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Japanese Films That Will Blow Your Mind And Make You Reevaluate The Possibilities Of The Cinematic Artform
- The World of Kanako
- Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
- Confession
- Love & Pop
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man
- Love Exposure
- A Page of Madness
- Funeral Parade of Roses
- Silence Has No Wings
- Thursday
...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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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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Hemingway
Original list cloned from Nicole Passage
- A Farewell to Arms
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- To Have and Have Not
- The Killers
- The Macomber Affair
- The Breaking Point
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro
- A Farewell to Arms
- The Gun Runners
- The Old Man and the Sea
...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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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 America.
A trailer is also available on YouTube.
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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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When broadcasting 4:3 programmes for widescreen television do we really need bright pink borders - surely black is better.
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Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Seventh Season DVD ~ Larry David http://amzn.com/B002OOWKSA - need this on UK Amazon :(
