Jojo Rabbit
What a great little film! Although it’s pretty easy to see why it sat on top of a screenplay blacklist for years (getting made only when Taika Waititi became one of the hottest properties...
Movie Category: Drama
Munich: The Edge of War
Bit of intense war drama here: and definitely not a PR piece for the allies, with Jeremy Irons’s Chamberlain coming across as something of a tit. Some nice stuff about adolescent bonding overcoming contemporary...
The Tender Bar
Christ, I don’t even remember watching this. Vaguely recall something with Affleck in it, playing a troubled-yet-serious-regretful-type. Hey ho, that’s the downside of leaving a few months between watching average films and writing about...
The Unforgivable
Quality bit of acting from Sandra Bullock in this one – you want to empathise with her, whilst at the same time being wholly unable to relate to her situation (unusual, as it is). ...
Don’t Look Up
The film that everyone’s calling “the most insightful bit of satire in years”, and which the critics are complaining about – I think it was just excellent. Some great performances by A-listers in non-blockbuster...
The Professor and the Madman
Not that I’m hugely clued in on Hollywood these days, but I wondered how I’d never heard of this given the people involved – but it turns out it’s one of those where they...
Run Hide Fight
No idea how we stumbled on this one – must’ve been streaming-service promotion? Active shooter situation in a US high school, centred around a plucky underdog heroine. It’s interesting that the “school siege” scenario’s...
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