Watching Nuremberg
Enjoyable for the star jostling and its commitment to the morality of the Nuremberg trials,the story of Goering's shrink doesn't really add much except an extended character study for Russell Crowe (who is good).Makes a Supreme Court Justice look like the dumbest lawyer in history
Enjoyable for the star jostling and its commitment to the morality of the Nuremberg trials,the story of Goering's shrink doesn't really add much except an extended character study for Russell Crowe (who is good).Makes a Supreme Court Justice look like the dumbest lawyer in history
November 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Watching Nuremberg
Enjoyable for the star jostling and its commitment to the morality of the Nuremberg trials,the story of Goering's shrink doesn't really add much except an extended character study for Russell Crowe (who is good).Makes a Supreme Court Justice look like the dumbest lawyer in history
Enjoyable for the star jostling and its commitment to the morality of the Nuremberg trials,the story of Goering's shrink doesn't really add much except an extended character study for Russell Crowe (who is good).Makes a Supreme Court Justice look like the dumbest lawyer in history
Watching Shelby Oaks
Starts off as found footage, has moments of screen life, before scurrying into sibling loss investigation, creepy prison horror and satanic panic. I guess it works as a calling card flick, but it never works as an actual narrative
Starts off as found footage, has moments of screen life, before scurrying into sibling loss investigation, creepy prison horror and satanic panic. I guess it works as a calling card flick, but it never works as an actual narrative
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Watching Shelby Oaks
Starts off as found footage, has moments of screen life, before scurrying into sibling loss investigation, creepy prison horror and satanic panic. I guess it works as a calling card flick, but it never works as an actual narrative
Starts off as found footage, has moments of screen life, before scurrying into sibling loss investigation, creepy prison horror and satanic panic. I guess it works as a calling card flick, but it never works as an actual narrative
Watched Die My Love
Impressionistic document of a post partum breakdown that boldly both shows it, and attempts to get the viewer to experience it too. And Lynne Ramsey with Jennifer Lawrence manage to pull this off by feeding joy, fear, boredom, desire, violence and sex into a meatgrinder. Great!
Impressionistic document of a post partum breakdown that boldly both shows it, and attempts to get the viewer to experience it too. And Lynne Ramsey with Jennifer Lawrence manage to pull this off by feeding joy, fear, boredom, desire, violence and sex into a meatgrinder. Great!
November 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Watched Die My Love
Impressionistic document of a post partum breakdown that boldly both shows it, and attempts to get the viewer to experience it too. And Lynne Ramsey with Jennifer Lawrence manage to pull this off by feeding joy, fear, boredom, desire, violence and sex into a meatgrinder. Great!
Impressionistic document of a post partum breakdown that boldly both shows it, and attempts to get the viewer to experience it too. And Lynne Ramsey with Jennifer Lawrence manage to pull this off by feeding joy, fear, boredom, desire, violence and sex into a meatgrinder. Great!
Watching Bugonia
The ending saves it for me,as I am a touch spoiled by seeing the source movie Save The Green Planet.I still wonder if the casting and way the film is set up means there isn't as much suspense as there should be, but I love me a sci fi downer ending and Emma Stone rules the back end
The ending saves it for me,as I am a touch spoiled by seeing the source movie Save The Green Planet.I still wonder if the casting and way the film is set up means there isn't as much suspense as there should be, but I love me a sci fi downer ending and Emma Stone rules the back end
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Watching Bugonia
The ending saves it for me,as I am a touch spoiled by seeing the source movie Save The Green Planet.I still wonder if the casting and way the film is set up means there isn't as much suspense as there should be, but I love me a sci fi downer ending and Emma Stone rules the back end
The ending saves it for me,as I am a touch spoiled by seeing the source movie Save The Green Planet.I still wonder if the casting and way the film is set up means there isn't as much suspense as there should be, but I love me a sci fi downer ending and Emma Stone rules the back end
Watching Blood Alley
John Wayne is the grumpy ships captain that has to save the foreigners whilst gruffly falling in love with the romantic lead in this not disengaging take on this plot. Possibly the worst of Tony Quinn's ethnic dress ups but that Bacall can't stand Wayne helps giveeit frisson
John Wayne is the grumpy ships captain that has to save the foreigners whilst gruffly falling in love with the romantic lead in this not disengaging take on this plot. Possibly the worst of Tony Quinn's ethnic dress ups but that Bacall can't stand Wayne helps giveeit frisson
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Watching Blood Alley
John Wayne is the grumpy ships captain that has to save the foreigners whilst gruffly falling in love with the romantic lead in this not disengaging take on this plot. Possibly the worst of Tony Quinn's ethnic dress ups but that Bacall can't stand Wayne helps giveeit frisson
John Wayne is the grumpy ships captain that has to save the foreigners whilst gruffly falling in love with the romantic lead in this not disengaging take on this plot. Possibly the worst of Tony Quinn's ethnic dress ups but that Bacall can't stand Wayne helps giveeit frisson
Watching The Runny Man
The most surprising thing about Edgar Wright's enjoyable but flimsy take on the murder gameshow is how sloppy it is. Not least that it never feels like an actual gameshow. You don't set up a daily scheduled show where you can't control your footage and it could finish any time
The most surprising thing about Edgar Wright's enjoyable but flimsy take on the murder gameshow is how sloppy it is. Not least that it never feels like an actual gameshow. You don't set up a daily scheduled show where you can't control your footage and it could finish any time
November 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Watching The Runny Man
The most surprising thing about Edgar Wright's enjoyable but flimsy take on the murder gameshow is how sloppy it is. Not least that it never feels like an actual gameshow. You don't set up a daily scheduled show where you can't control your footage and it could finish any time
The most surprising thing about Edgar Wright's enjoyable but flimsy take on the murder gameshow is how sloppy it is. Not least that it never feels like an actual gameshow. You don't set up a daily scheduled show where you can't control your footage and it could finish any time
Watching Frankenstein
Sumptuous but dramatically inert.It relies on the viewer's familiarity with the story to connect its set pieces,whilst skewing so far to the (beautiful)creature's perspective that the idea that it could be a monster seems preposterous.Luckily we are told who the real monster is
Sumptuous but dramatically inert.It relies on the viewer's familiarity with the story to connect its set pieces,whilst skewing so far to the (beautiful)creature's perspective that the idea that it could be a monster seems preposterous.Luckily we are told who the real monster is
November 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Watching Frankenstein
Sumptuous but dramatically inert.It relies on the viewer's familiarity with the story to connect its set pieces,whilst skewing so far to the (beautiful)creature's perspective that the idea that it could be a monster seems preposterous.Luckily we are told who the real monster is
Sumptuous but dramatically inert.It relies on the viewer's familiarity with the story to connect its set pieces,whilst skewing so far to the (beautiful)creature's perspective that the idea that it could be a monster seems preposterous.Luckily we are told who the real monster is
Watching Slumberland
As an intellectual property exercise, try to turn Little Nemo In Slumberland in a 21st century narrative kids film with a grief (always grief) underpinning and turning a shaggy dream creature into Jason Momoa. It'll probably be as good as this weird IP grab
As an intellectual property exercise, try to turn Little Nemo In Slumberland in a 21st century narrative kids film with a grief (always grief) underpinning and turning a shaggy dream creature into Jason Momoa. It'll probably be as good as this weird IP grab
November 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Watching Slumberland
As an intellectual property exercise, try to turn Little Nemo In Slumberland in a 21st century narrative kids film with a grief (always grief) underpinning and turning a shaggy dream creature into Jason Momoa. It'll probably be as good as this weird IP grab
As an intellectual property exercise, try to turn Little Nemo In Slumberland in a 21st century narrative kids film with a grief (always grief) underpinning and turning a shaggy dream creature into Jason Momoa. It'll probably be as good as this weird IP grab
Low key but eeriely beautiful Aurora Londonalis hanging over the city tonight
November 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Low key but eeriely beautiful Aurora Londonalis hanging over the city tonight
Watched Quiet Please, Murder
A baffling but brilliant title for a mystery with a decent premise but rather dull denouement. Sanders poshes up a book theft/then selling of forged versions of the original (no comebacks) not realising that people who buy hooky books might also have speed dial revenge
A baffling but brilliant title for a mystery with a decent premise but rather dull denouement. Sanders poshes up a book theft/then selling of forged versions of the original (no comebacks) not realising that people who buy hooky books might also have speed dial revenge
November 15, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Watched Quiet Please, Murder
A baffling but brilliant title for a mystery with a decent premise but rather dull denouement. Sanders poshes up a book theft/then selling of forged versions of the original (no comebacks) not realising that people who buy hooky books might also have speed dial revenge
A baffling but brilliant title for a mystery with a decent premise but rather dull denouement. Sanders poshes up a book theft/then selling of forged versions of the original (no comebacks) not realising that people who buy hooky books might also have speed dial revenge
Watching Blood Games
For Roy's 40th birthday his dad pays for a female baseball team to come and play him and his redneck buddies. Masculinity being fragile like wot it is, they take it bad when they get beat. SportSexploitation with gratuitous sex/death shots, a perfect example of what it is
For Roy's 40th birthday his dad pays for a female baseball team to come and play him and his redneck buddies. Masculinity being fragile like wot it is, they take it bad when they get beat. SportSexploitation with gratuitous sex/death shots, a perfect example of what it is
November 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Watching Blood Games
For Roy's 40th birthday his dad pays for a female baseball team to come and play him and his redneck buddies. Masculinity being fragile like wot it is, they take it bad when they get beat. SportSexploitation with gratuitous sex/death shots, a perfect example of what it is
For Roy's 40th birthday his dad pays for a female baseball team to come and play him and his redneck buddies. Masculinity being fragile like wot it is, they take it bad when they get beat. SportSexploitation with gratuitous sex/death shots, a perfect example of what it is
Watching Run
A pleasingly open minded small boats immigration film (Italian based) which loses points for centring American 'locals' and a tourist I presume to engage an international audience. Then loses nearly all its goodwill with a batshit final act gun massacre. Oh Uwe Boll, never change
A pleasingly open minded small boats immigration film (Italian based) which loses points for centring American 'locals' and a tourist I presume to engage an international audience. Then loses nearly all its goodwill with a batshit final act gun massacre. Oh Uwe Boll, never change
November 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Watching Run
A pleasingly open minded small boats immigration film (Italian based) which loses points for centring American 'locals' and a tourist I presume to engage an international audience. Then loses nearly all its goodwill with a batshit final act gun massacre. Oh Uwe Boll, never change
A pleasingly open minded small boats immigration film (Italian based) which loses points for centring American 'locals' and a tourist I presume to engage an international audience. Then loses nearly all its goodwill with a batshit final act gun massacre. Oh Uwe Boll, never change
Watching Now You See Me, Now You Don't
Franchise resurrecting sequel that finally understands what these films should have been.Stage magic based heists that have peril, and work on M:I style misdirection.A genuine affection for these annoying characters and a great villain in Rosamund Pike.Shocked!
Franchise resurrecting sequel that finally understands what these films should have been.Stage magic based heists that have peril, and work on M:I style misdirection.A genuine affection for these annoying characters and a great villain in Rosamund Pike.Shocked!
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Watching Now You See Me, Now You Don't
Franchise resurrecting sequel that finally understands what these films should have been.Stage magic based heists that have peril, and work on M:I style misdirection.A genuine affection for these annoying characters and a great villain in Rosamund Pike.Shocked!
Franchise resurrecting sequel that finally understands what these films should have been.Stage magic based heists that have peril, and work on M:I style misdirection.A genuine affection for these annoying characters and a great villain in Rosamund Pike.Shocked!
Watching Four Trails
A pretty irresistible sports doc about the 298km Hong Kong ultra marathons event which does a great job of keeping the human stories behind the crazy competitors up front and central,while also dazzling us with the vistas and contrasts. It very rarely asks the key question: WHY⁉️
A pretty irresistible sports doc about the 298km Hong Kong ultra marathons event which does a great job of keeping the human stories behind the crazy competitors up front and central,while also dazzling us with the vistas and contrasts. It very rarely asks the key question: WHY⁉️
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Watching Four Trails
A pretty irresistible sports doc about the 298km Hong Kong ultra marathons event which does a great job of keeping the human stories behind the crazy competitors up front and central,while also dazzling us with the vistas and contrasts. It very rarely asks the key question: WHY⁉️
A pretty irresistible sports doc about the 298km Hong Kong ultra marathons event which does a great job of keeping the human stories behind the crazy competitors up front and central,while also dazzling us with the vistas and contrasts. It very rarely asks the key question: WHY⁉️
Watched The Left Handed Gun
Paul Newman is sensitive in what is fundamentally Billy The Kid Without A Cause
Paul Newman is sensitive in what is fundamentally Billy The Kid Without A Cause
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Watched The Left Handed Gun
Paul Newman is sensitive in what is fundamentally Billy The Kid Without A Cause
Paul Newman is sensitive in what is fundamentally Billy The Kid Without A Cause
Watching Deathstalker
There's a lot of heart to this Deathstalker remake,and the tone is spot on down to its one liners just being a little better delivered. Interesting to see what a low budget gives you these days(from the maker of Psycho Goreman).It's pulp pap of course but scratches its own itch
There's a lot of heart to this Deathstalker remake,and the tone is spot on down to its one liners just being a little better delivered. Interesting to see what a low budget gives you these days(from the maker of Psycho Goreman).It's pulp pap of course but scratches its own itch
November 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Watching Deathstalker
There's a lot of heart to this Deathstalker remake,and the tone is spot on down to its one liners just being a little better delivered. Interesting to see what a low budget gives you these days(from the maker of Psycho Goreman).It's pulp pap of course but scratches its own itch
There's a lot of heart to this Deathstalker remake,and the tone is spot on down to its one liners just being a little better delivered. Interesting to see what a low budget gives you these days(from the maker of Psycho Goreman).It's pulp pap of course but scratches its own itch
Watching Queens Of The Dead
Answers the question, what if Katy O'Brian had to prop up a ho hum horror comedy, and it's answer is, she is pretty good at it. It's drag queens vs zombies and Tina Romero (yes) likes her characters too much to kill them off quickly (too many subplots), but it's fun.
Answers the question, what if Katy O'Brian had to prop up a ho hum horror comedy, and it's answer is, she is pretty good at it. It's drag queens vs zombies and Tina Romero (yes) likes her characters too much to kill them off quickly (too many subplots), but it's fun.
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Watching Queens Of The Dead
Answers the question, what if Katy O'Brian had to prop up a ho hum horror comedy, and it's answer is, she is pretty good at it. It's drag queens vs zombies and Tina Romero (yes) likes her characters too much to kill them off quickly (too many subplots), but it's fun.
Answers the question, what if Katy O'Brian had to prop up a ho hum horror comedy, and it's answer is, she is pretty good at it. It's drag queens vs zombies and Tina Romero (yes) likes her characters too much to kill them off quickly (too many subplots), but it's fun.
Watched Predator Badlands
The first Predator movie to have no human characters* in it, to have a colonic subtitle and nominally have a Predator as a hero**. Its a surprisingly witty bit of splodey fun.
*There's an argument that other Predator film's characters are barely human
**AVP sort of does
The first Predator movie to have no human characters* in it, to have a colonic subtitle and nominally have a Predator as a hero**. Its a surprisingly witty bit of splodey fun.
*There's an argument that other Predator film's characters are barely human
**AVP sort of does
November 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Watched Predator Badlands
The first Predator movie to have no human characters* in it, to have a colonic subtitle and nominally have a Predator as a hero**. Its a surprisingly witty bit of splodey fun.
*There's an argument that other Predator film's characters are barely human
**AVP sort of does
The first Predator movie to have no human characters* in it, to have a colonic subtitle and nominally have a Predator as a hero**. Its a surprisingly witty bit of splodey fun.
*There's an argument that other Predator film's characters are barely human
**AVP sort of does
Watched The Partisan
Feels a bit light to cover the whole Krystyna Skarbek story, the Polish spy working for the SOE in WWII. But despite a clunky script it does give good french resistance style spy thrills and Morgane Polanski is good in the lead
Feels a bit light to cover the whole Krystyna Skarbek story, the Polish spy working for the SOE in WWII. But despite a clunky script it does give good french resistance style spy thrills and Morgane Polanski is good in the lead
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Watched The Partisan
Feels a bit light to cover the whole Krystyna Skarbek story, the Polish spy working for the SOE in WWII. But despite a clunky script it does give good french resistance style spy thrills and Morgane Polanski is good in the lead
Feels a bit light to cover the whole Krystyna Skarbek story, the Polish spy working for the SOE in WWII. But despite a clunky script it does give good french resistance style spy thrills and Morgane Polanski is good in the lead
Watching Perfect Blue
Basically an animated Brian De Palma film, whose drift into madness and multiple identity crisis is easier and more beautiful for being drawn. But it is still Grand Guignol stuff, tits, gore and all
Basically an animated Brian De Palma film, whose drift into madness and multiple identity crisis is easier and more beautiful for being drawn. But it is still Grand Guignol stuff, tits, gore and all
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Watching Perfect Blue
Basically an animated Brian De Palma film, whose drift into madness and multiple identity crisis is easier and more beautiful for being drawn. But it is still Grand Guignol stuff, tits, gore and all
Basically an animated Brian De Palma film, whose drift into madness and multiple identity crisis is easier and more beautiful for being drawn. But it is still Grand Guignol stuff, tits, gore and all
Watched A Man Called Otto
Tom Hanks version of A Man Called Ove completely fails at the black comedy inherent in the story, don't show him dangling then falling from a noose and play schmaltzy music. It's not sad, it's funny. Hanks is wrong for this remake, but the remake is just wrong
Tom Hanks version of A Man Called Ove completely fails at the black comedy inherent in the story, don't show him dangling then falling from a noose and play schmaltzy music. It's not sad, it's funny. Hanks is wrong for this remake, but the remake is just wrong
November 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Watched A Man Called Otto
Tom Hanks version of A Man Called Ove completely fails at the black comedy inherent in the story, don't show him dangling then falling from a noose and play schmaltzy music. It's not sad, it's funny. Hanks is wrong for this remake, but the remake is just wrong
Tom Hanks version of A Man Called Ove completely fails at the black comedy inherent in the story, don't show him dangling then falling from a noose and play schmaltzy music. It's not sad, it's funny. Hanks is wrong for this remake, but the remake is just wrong
Watched Riverfront Romance
She buys the house of her dreams but clearly gets the cheap survey cos she's woken up the day after by drilling
He's the manager of the hydroelectric dam project
The thing is we never really see the river/lake or the damage that'll be caused rending the plot moot
She buys the house of her dreams but clearly gets the cheap survey cos she's woken up the day after by drilling
He's the manager of the hydroelectric dam project
The thing is we never really see the river/lake or the damage that'll be caused rending the plot moot
November 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Watched Riverfront Romance
She buys the house of her dreams but clearly gets the cheap survey cos she's woken up the day after by drilling
He's the manager of the hydroelectric dam project
The thing is we never really see the river/lake or the damage that'll be caused rending the plot moot
She buys the house of her dreams but clearly gets the cheap survey cos she's woken up the day after by drilling
He's the manager of the hydroelectric dam project
The thing is we never really see the river/lake or the damage that'll be caused rending the plot moot
Watched Picking Peaches
I liked the little animated drop-ins, and the slapstick action set pieces are good, but I am always a little disturbed when Harry Langdon plays a married character. It don't seem right.
I liked the little animated drop-ins, and the slapstick action set pieces are good, but I am always a little disturbed when Harry Langdon plays a married character. It don't seem right.
November 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Watched Picking Peaches
I liked the little animated drop-ins, and the slapstick action set pieces are good, but I am always a little disturbed when Harry Langdon plays a married character. It don't seem right.
I liked the little animated drop-ins, and the slapstick action set pieces are good, but I am always a little disturbed when Harry Langdon plays a married character. It don't seem right.
Watched Grace And Goliath
Hollywood superstar comes to Belfast to make a film, money gets pulled so he has to stay with his hotel cleaner and her family. Tone deaf, needlessly sentimental and particularly inaccurate about the NHS, would have benefited from an actual star in the lead
Hollywood superstar comes to Belfast to make a film, money gets pulled so he has to stay with his hotel cleaner and her family. Tone deaf, needlessly sentimental and particularly inaccurate about the NHS, would have benefited from an actual star in the lead
November 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Watched Grace And Goliath
Hollywood superstar comes to Belfast to make a film, money gets pulled so he has to stay with his hotel cleaner and her family. Tone deaf, needlessly sentimental and particularly inaccurate about the NHS, would have benefited from an actual star in the lead
Hollywood superstar comes to Belfast to make a film, money gets pulled so he has to stay with his hotel cleaner and her family. Tone deaf, needlessly sentimental and particularly inaccurate about the NHS, would have benefited from an actual star in the lead
Watched The Astronaut
Kate Mara has no fear of typecasting despite this being the second film where she plays an astronaut who has a traumatic re-entry into earth who is also the white adopted daughter of a black father.
It is better than Fant4stic.
It also has the same plot as ET.
Kate Mara has no fear of typecasting despite this being the second film where she plays an astronaut who has a traumatic re-entry into earth who is also the white adopted daughter of a black father.
It is better than Fant4stic.
It also has the same plot as ET.
November 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Watched The Astronaut
Kate Mara has no fear of typecasting despite this being the second film where she plays an astronaut who has a traumatic re-entry into earth who is also the white adopted daughter of a black father.
It is better than Fant4stic.
It also has the same plot as ET.
Kate Mara has no fear of typecasting despite this being the second film where she plays an astronaut who has a traumatic re-entry into earth who is also the white adopted daughter of a black father.
It is better than Fant4stic.
It also has the same plot as ET.