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Director Showcase: Ti West
Ti West is a horror director who has caused mixed reactions. One youtube reviewer I'm fond of did a long video completely rubbishing his entire filmography. He's uncharacteristic of most horror...
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Rethinking "Interstellar" (Still Great, And I Now Have Less Qualms About...
Instellar (2014)Finally giving this film a second watch, I've had to reassess it. Not because I gave it the wrong grade before; I gave it an A+ and it deserves it. But because I think the negative buzz...
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"The Squid And The Whale" Is A Depressingly Brilliant Black Comedy About Divorce
The Squid And The Whale (2005)Having watched Frances Ha, I came to the conclusion that Noah Baumbach must be a director to look out for. His big recommended movie prior to Frances Ha was the strangely...
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"Robot Overlords" Is A Fun Little Movie With Some Very Endearing Performers....
Robot Overlords (2014)Ended up watching this one twice. The ending is way too convenient and the third act is rather too obviously trying to wrap things up. However this film is a lot of fun with some...
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Project Almanac Is A Reasonable Attempt At A Chronicle-Style Time Travel...
Project Almanac (2014)Clearly borrowing from the style of Chronicle, there were actually a few pretty cool moments in this found footage time travel film.The time travel ideas are actually quite cool....
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"Enemy Mine" Has Some Fantastic Ideas In The Middle And Then Completely Loses...
Enemy Mine (1985)Last time I was watching Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, I was surprised that the Klingons seemed like they must represent some kind of middle eastern culture. Yet surely the...
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"The Signal" Is Nothing Like So Exciting As The Trailer Made It Look. Lame...
The Signal (2004)The trailer showed what seemed to be essentially a live action Akira with Lawrence Fishburne as the government agent/scientist monitoring the boy with special powers.That was seriously...
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"Ex Machina" Is Instant Classic Sci-Fi. An Understated Metaphor For The...
Ex Machina (2015)Wow. Smart character-based sci-fi. How often do we see that eh?There are essentially three characters. Domhall Gleeson plays the protagonist: an awkward employee programmer who wins a...
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"Marvellous" Is Yet Another Very Cinematic TV Movie Thanks To The Talents Of...
Marvellous (2014)It seems like you only need to put Toby Jones in a movie to make it great. I even loved his appearance in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. He's played a sound engineer, a Nazi...
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"Still Alice" Has A Wonderful Central Performance, But It's A Bit Aimless And...
Still Alice (2014)I've often said that a bad ending can seriously ruin an otherwise great film. It also doesn't help a film that was already a bit iffy.Julianne Moore is great here, unsurprisingly....
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Movies I Couldn't Finish: Stage Fright, The Falling, Book Of Life
It's always annoying when you reach a point in the movie where you just cannot bear to carry on. I've sat through plenty of bad films, but there are some times when you only need to watch for a short...
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Recent Cinema Trips: Martian Is Best Ridley Scott Film, But Spectre Isn't All...
The Martian (2015)A star-studded realistic sci-fi drama with a good dose of comedy. Matt Damon stars as the astronaut stranded on the red planet.Rather than having a man silently overcoming problems...
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Wishing You All An Awesome Halloween! :D
HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!Hope everyone has a great evening and enjoys something sweet and tasty. Thanks for following my blog and being awesome people. :D(I case anyone is confused by the video posted...
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"Connie And Carla" Is Fun And Happy-Making, Yet Overall It's A Bit Too Trashy...
Connie And Carla (2004)On the one hand, this is a pretty cheesy comedy and precisely the sort of shallow comedy I'd normally run a mile from. Also it's hard to remain convinced by the central premise...
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Halloween Viewing This Year: Rewatched "May" And The "Bedazzled" Remake...
I haven't been doing the 31 horror films thing this year. However, shaved_apehas been doing it and you can see his final entry for Halloween this year here. I've just been too busy and not organised...
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More Reviews! "Hellgate", "Dawn Of The Dead" and "Clueless"!
Hellgate (1989)Credit has to be given that the actors do play this in a very fun way. But since both the script and the acting is atrocious, a gold star for attitude doesn't make up for the black spot...
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Some Pretty Terrible Monster Movies. Dinosaurs And Zombies....
Jurassic World (2015)So this was the big money-maker of summer was it?Colin Trevorrow follows up his boring indie sci-fi film with very little sci-fi (“Safety Not Guaranteed”) with a boring...
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"Murder Party" Is A Super Awesome Horror Comedy! "Carriers" Is An OK Killer...
Murder Party (2007)An awesome recommendation from friends on Letterboxd. Before Jeremy Saulnier made Blue Ruin, a fairly realistic and quite slow paced revenge thriller, he made Murder Party, a...
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"Black Mass" Wasn't Amazing Like I'd Hoped, But An Interesting Story With...
Black Mass (2015)Johnny Depp is suitably unrecognisable, both in appearance and manner, in this true life gangster movie. However, it is Joel Edgerton, also looking and acting very different as a...
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My 31 Favourite Superhero Movies: Part One 31-30
Movie news has been overrun with promotions for superhero franchises for the past few years, so I'm afraid I'm going to further contribute to that with this list of my favourite superhero movies. No,...
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