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Sam
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🎬 London-based film fiend chasing cult gems, dodging duds. Monthly Movie Challenges, hot takes & deep cuts. Dachshund Dad.

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Decembinge 2025 🎄✨
31 nights. Full sleigh.

Crooners, miracles, misfits and murderous Santas — five festive strands of comfort, chaos and holiday magic gone slightly rogue.

From candlelight to carnage… follow the star.

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ATM
⭐️

Cashpoint Christmas, Zero Interest

#Decembinge 2025 Film No. 15—💀Slashers, Santas & Sinister Snowfalls

Trapped-in-an-ATM-booth Christmas thriller? Fine, I’m in. But ATM takes a simple, promising setup and drags it out over ninety long…

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📽️ #MovieChallenge
A ★ review of ATM (2012)
Decembinge 2025 Film No. 15 — 💀 Slashers, Santas & Sinister Snowfalls Trapped-in-an-ATM-booth Christmas thriller? Fine, I’m in. But ATM takes a simple, promising setup and drags it out over ninety lon...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Eight Crazy Nights
⭐️

Sandler’s Festival of Yikes

#Decembinge 2025 Film No. 14—🎁 Offbeat, Ironic & Animated Cheer

You know that feeling when a film turns up dressed as something interesting, then spends an hour proving it’s only here for the buffet…

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A ★ review of Eight Crazy Nights (2002)
Decembinge 2025 Film No. 14 — 🎁 Offbeat, Ironic & Animated Cheer You know that feeling when a film turns up dressed as something interesting, then spends an hour proving it’s only here for the buffet?...
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December 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
A Christmas Tale
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Tinsel and Old Wounds

#Decembinge 2025 Film No. 13—🌍 Global Spirits & Strange Traditions

This felt suspiciously tailored to my tastes: a Christmas family reunion that’s less “pass the potatoes” and more “pass the judgement…

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A ★★★★ review of A Christmas Tale (2008)
🌍 Global Spirits & Strange Traditions This felt suspiciously tailored to my tastes: a Christmas family reunion that’s less “pass the potatoes” and more “pass the judgement, then the salt for the old w...
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December 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched 📽️


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1. P2 – For car-park sickos and Xmas horror completists
2. Marty Supreme – Ping-pong hustler with main-character disease
3. Turn the Key Softly – Postwar noir with a bruised conscience
4. Hell’s Angels on Wheels – Biker nihilism, played for kicks
December 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
P2
⭐️⭐️½

Silent Night, Multi-Storey Fright

#Decembinge 2025 Film No. 11—💀Slashers, Santas & Sinister Snowfalls

Christmastime horror is one of my soft spots – all that fake cheer just begging to go wrong. So I was hoping P2 would really lean into it…

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A ★★½ review of P2 (2007)
Decembinge 2025 Film No. 12 — 💀 Slashers, Santas & Sinister Snowfalls Christmastime horror is one of my soft spots – all that fake cheer just begging to go wrong. So I was hoping P2 would really lean ...
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December 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Marty Supreme
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Supreme Hustle

Marty spends the whole film insisting he’s a star; Timothée Chalamet quietly proves he already is. Marty Supreme sits between sports movie, grifter comedy and full-on meltdown, following a ping-pong prodigy who carves his…

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📽️ #cinema
A ★★★★ review of Marty Supreme (2025)
Marty spends the whole film insisting he’s a star; Timothée Chalamet quietly proves he already is. Marty Supreme sits between sports movie, grifter comedy and full-on meltdown, following a ping-pong p...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Plácido
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodwill to All, Terms and Conditions Apply

#Decembinge 2025 Film No. 11—🎅Classics, Crooners & Candlelight

About twenty minutes into Plácido I realised my shoulders were up round my ears. Not because anything “exciting” was going on…

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A ★★★★ review of Placido (1961)
About twenty minutes into Plácido I realised my shoulders were up round my ears. Not because anything “exciting” was going on, but because the film never shuts up. People talk, shout, pray and bicker ...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Better Watch Out
⭐️ ½

Better Watch Something Else

#Decembinge 2025 Film No. 10—🔪Slashers, Santas & Sinister Snowfalls

About halfway through this, I started hoping a truly nasty Harry and Marv would turn up and put an end to the whole mess. Set at…

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A ★½ review of Better Watch Out (2016)
About halfway through this, I started hoping a truly nasty Harry and Marv would turn up and put an end to the whole mess. Set at Christmas with a babysitter, a “nice” 12-year-old and a home invasion, ...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Holiday Inn
⭐️⭐️ ½

White Christmas, Black Mark

#Decembinge 2025 Film No. 9—🎅Classics, Crooners & Candlelight

I can see why people keep this in the rotation – Bing crooning, Fred doing witchcraft with his feet, “White Christmas” landing like an…

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A ★★½ review of Holiday Inn (1942)
Decembinge 2025 Film No. 9 — 🎅 Classics, Crooners & Candlelight I can see why people keep this in the rotation – Bing crooning, Fred doing witchcraft with his feet, “White Christmas” landing like an i...
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December 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Krampus
⭐️⭐️⭐️ ½

Mince Pies and Monster Snow

#Decembinge 2025 Film No. 8—💀 Slashers, Santas & Sinister Snowfalls

I liked this a lot more than I’d expected for “evil Santa and monster snow” season. Krampus starts as a pretty sharp family comedy: sulky…

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A ★★★½ review of Krampus (2015)
Decembinge 2025 Film No. 8 — 💀 Slashers, Santas & Sinister Snowfalls I liked this a lot more than I’d expected for “evil Santa and monster snow” season. Krampus starts as a pretty sharp family comedy:...
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December 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Cash on Demand
⭐️⭐️⭐️ ½

Christmas Eve, Close of Business

#Decembinge 2025 Film No. 7—🎅 Classics, Crooners & Candlelight

There’s something very satisfying about a thriller that never leaves the office. Cash on Demand plays like Rope spliced with a dry…

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A ★★★½ review of Cash on Demand (1961)
Decembinge 2025 Film No. 7 — 🎅 Classics, Crooners & Candlelight There’s something very satisfying about a thriller that never leaves the office. Cash on Demand plays like Rope spliced with a dry run f...
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December 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Tuesday, After Christmas
⭐️⭐️⭐️

Tinsel, Teeth and Telling the Truth

#Decembinge 2025 Film No. 6—🕯️ Faith, Reflection & Redemption

The bored middle-aged man has an affair subgenre has been mined to death, so it’s a pleasant surprise that Tuesday, After…

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A ★★★ review of Tuesday, After Christmas (2010)
Decembinge 2025 Film No. 6 — 🕯️ Faith, Reflection & Redemption The bored middle-aged man has an affair subgenre has been mined to death, so it’s a pleasant surprise that Tuesday, After Christmas still...
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December 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched 📽️
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1. The Holly and the Ivy – Christmas cheer meets quiet repression
2. Penny Serenade – Adoption, heartbreak and Grant looking stricken
3. Atonement – One lie, two lovers and a typewriter haunting Britain
4. Gigi – Parisian charm with a hint of dread
December 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The Holly and the Ivy
⭐️⭐️⭐️½

Tidings of Comfort and Guilt

#Decembinge 2025 Film No. 5—🎅 Classics, Crooners & Candlelight

The Holly and the Ivy looks, at first glance, like a cosy Christmas card from 1950s Britain: snow on the ground, carols on the…

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📽️ #MovieChallenge
A ★★★½ review of The Holly and the Ivy (1952)
Decembinge 2025 Film No. 5 — 🎅 Classics, Crooners & Candlelight The Holly and the Ivy looks, at first glance, like a cosy Christmas card from 1950s Britain: snow on the ground, carols on the soundtrac...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM
A Tale of Winter
⭐️⭐️⭐️½

Faith, Hope, and a Misaddressed Xmas Miracle

#Decembinge 2025 Film No. 4—🕯️ Faith, Reflection & Redemption

There’s something oddly cheering about watching someone bet their entire love life on a typo, and A Tale of Winter leans…

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A ★★★½ review of A Tale of Winter (1992)
Decembinge 2025 Film No. 4 — 🕯️ Faith, Reflection & Redemption There’s something oddly cheering about watching someone bet their entire love life on a typo, and A Tale of Winter leans into that with a...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Holiday Affair
⭐️⭐️⭐️½

A Quiet Little Yuletide Detour

Decembinge 2025 Film No. 3—🎅Classics, Crooners & Candlelight

The thing about Holiday Affair is how determined it is to behave itself. As Christmas romances go, it keeps everything tidy and polite…

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📽️ #MovieChallenge
A ★★★½ review of Holiday Affair (1949)
Decembinge 2025 Film No. 3 — 🎅 Classics, Crooners & Candlelight The thing about Holiday Affair is how determined it is to behave itself. As Christmas romances go, it keeps everything tidy and polite, ...
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December 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
A Charlie Brown Christmas
⭐️⭐️⭐️

Good Grief, It’s Christmas

#Decembinge 2025 Film No. 2—🕯️ Faith, Reflection & Redemption

I must have seen A Charlie Brown Christmas as a kid, because half of it felt like déjà vu: the drooping little tree, the jazzy…

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A ★★★ review of A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
I must have seen A Charlie Brown Christmas as a kid, because half of it felt like déjà vu: the drooping little tree, the jazzy piano, that odd mix of sulkiness and sincerity. Coming back to it now, it...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Christmas in Connecticut
⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fake It Till You Bake It

#Decembinge 2025 Film No. 1—✨ Classics, Crooners & Candlelight 

Some Christmas films smother you in tinsel; this one pelts you with fibs, mix-ups and stolen recipes. Christmas in Connecticut is…

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A ★★★ review of Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Some Christmas films smother you in tinsel; this one pelts you with fibs, mix-ups and stolen recipes. Christmas in Connecticut is basically a screwball farce that happens to have a tree in the corner,...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Decembinge 2025 🎄✨
31 nights. Full sleigh.

Crooners, miracles, misfits and murderous Santas — five festive strands of comfort, chaos and holiday magic gone slightly rogue.

From candlelight to carnage… follow the star.

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#Decembinge #MovieChallenge #FilmSky
December 1, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Noirvember 2025: 30 nights in the shadows.

Top of the stack: Criss Cross, Panique, He Ran All the Way, I Am Waiting, Yield to the Night.

Bottom of the bottle: Ruthless, Telegraph Hill, Moonrise.

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November 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Panique
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Crowd Is the Killer

#Noirvember 2025 Film No. 30—🎥 Noir Beyond Hollywood

It’s funny how a sleepy Paris suburb can feel more dangerous than a back alley in LA. For a film made two years before Out of the Past, this is…

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A ★★★★ review of Panic (1946)
Noirvember 2025 Film No. 30 — 🎥 Noir Beyond Hollywood It’s funny how a sleepy Paris suburb can feel more dangerous than a back alley in LA. For a film made two years before Out of the Past, this is al...
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November 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I Am Waiting
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Dockside Dead End

#Noirvember 2025 Film No. 29—🎥 Noir Beyond Hollywood

There’s something oddly comforting about killing time in a dockside bar with washed-up boxers and failed singers, lit like a cigarette advert and…

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A ★★★★ review of I Am Waiting (1957)
There’s something oddly comforting about killing time in a dockside bar with washed-up boxers and failed singers, lit like a cigarette advert and soaked in gloomy jazz. This small Japanese noir sits i...
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November 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched 📽️

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1. Yield to the Night – Diana Dors stares down the hangman and the patriarchy
2. Koyaanisqatsi – Humanity sprints while nature side-eyes us
3. Bedelia – Cat, mouse, and a very stylish murderer
4. Sabotage – Hitchcock toys with bombs and our nerves
November 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Yield to the Night
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Blonde on Borrowed Time

#Noirvember 2025 Film No. 28—🎥Noir Beyond Hollywood

For a film that opens with a daylight shooting, Yield to the Night is surprisingly quiet and humane. J. Lee Thompson keeps things tight…

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📽️ #MovieChallenge #FilmNoir
A ★★★★ review of Yield to the Night (1956)
For a film that opens with a daylight shooting, Yield to the Night is surprisingly quiet and humane. J. Lee Thompson keeps things tight and unfussy, locking us in the condemned cell with Mary as the c...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Bedelia
⭐️⭐️⭐️

Black Widow, Fluffed Pillows

#Noirvember 2025 Film No. 27—🎥 Noir Beyond Hollywood

For a so-called “black widow” thriller, Bedelia spends a lot of time plumping the cushions – but it’s still a good time. Margaret Lockwood gets…

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A ★★★ review of Bedelia (1946)
Noirvember 2025 Film No. 27 — 🎥 Noir Beyond Hollywood For a so-called “black widow” thriller, Bedelia spends a lot of time plumping the cushions – but it’s still a good time. Margaret Lockwood gets a ...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:13 AM