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The Searchers
Home - New Just an amazing experience and a fantastic showcase for the particular talents of John Ford and John Wayne. John Wayne is perfect as the man almost out of time, hardened and resolved to a...
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The White Diamond
Home - New There's a moment close to the start of this documentary which switches its tone from a standard documentary to an almost perfect representation of Werner Herzog as a documentary maker....
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La Soufrière - Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe
Home - New Genuinely fascinating. Werner Herzog travels to an island recently evacuated due to an upcoming volcanic eruption. His roving camera catches a deserted town and a sea full of dead snakes....
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The Prophecy II
Home - New The first film was a genuine surprise. I was expecting crap and I got greatness. This is just depressing and inert. Even Walken seems to not really care. It just feels like it has no style...
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Universal Soldier
Home - Rewatch Holds up better than I expected it to, but it's still kind of not great. Dolph Lungdren makes the film work, but in reality it's an action movie with kind of insubstantial action. One of...
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The Dinner Game
Home - New Just a fantastic farce. A delightful madcap comedy which focuses on a somewhat jaded publisher. Every Wednesday he and his friends hold an idiot dinner in which they bring the stupidest...
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The King's Speech
Cinema - New A charming and genuinely funny film which showcases the genuine talents of Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush. Firth in particular has slowly being building himself a catalogue of fantastic...
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Armageddon
Home - Rewatch Slow as molasses, populated with vacuous people and made with an almost sociopathic disregard for humanity. However the difference between Armageddon and Independence Day is that Michael...
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Independence Day
Home - Rewatch Slow as molasses, populated with vacuous people and made with an almost sociopathic disregard for humanity. The main issue with the film is that it's neither interesting or cinematic, in...
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The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town
Home - New A genuinely fascinating look at the making of Darkness on the Edge of Town. First tracing the legal wranglings that stopped Bruce Springsteen making a record immediately following the...
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The Game
Home - Rewatch It's a middling Fincher film. It's nowhere near as good as his classics like Se7en, Fight Club and Zodiac, but it's well above some of his more soulless affairs like Benjamin Button and...
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The Way Back
Cinema - New Halfway through the film I was getting worried that this might be the worst misstep Weir, a personal favourite director of mine, had made. At the end of the film despite a few misgivings...
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Born on the Fourth of July
Home - New To overblown for my tastes. I'm usually a fan of Oliver Stone, but his characters just feel screechy in this. It's a great performance by Tom Cruise, but he doesn't have the presence to...
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Dog Day Afternoon
Home - New Kind of amazing. Probably one of the best Pacino performances I've seen. He's amazingly complex as Sonny. The film itself is fantastic, just tensely shot, nicely scathing of people and...
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Sunshine
Home - Rewatch SUNSHINE, on second viewing, is genuinely great. I know a bunch of people HATE the third act but I kind of like how the struggle for survival in the film essentially changes from being...
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Trainspotting
Home - Rewatch Bleak, frentic, hilarious, brutal. Still one of the best films of the 1990s and probably the overall strongest work by Danny Boyle. It’s a film populated by scumbags, set in the midst of...
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The Ghost Writer
Home - New A fantastically tense thriller. Does amazing work building up tension without any real action and is a great showcase for Ewan McGreggor, Pierce Brosnan and Olivia Williams. It's nice seeing...
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The Prophecy
Home - New Way better than I was expecting. Hampered a little by lack of budget, but this is a fun B-Movie elevated massively by a great script and a cast of utterly fantastic genre actors. Virgina...
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Nosferatu the Vampyre
Home - New More like a fever dream than anything else, Herzog builds an insistent sense of claustrophobic dread. Klaus Kinski in particular is a highlight as Count Orlock, managing to avoid his usual...
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Kingdom of Heaven
Home - New So BORING. Edward Norton and Eva Green are perhaps the MVPs of the film, but I'd have preferred the film to deal more with the political stuff around Baldwin than an hour long, very...
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