Midwinter Break centres around a married couple – Stella (Lesley Manville – Cold Storage) and Gerry (Ciarán Hinds – Is This Thing On?) – who’ve run out of things to say to each other, but …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of SCARLET!
Scarlet proves that you can’t keep a good Bard down, since following Riz Ahmed’s Hamlet, the Oscar-winning Hamnet, and the zero-awards-winning Hamnet sketch in SNL UK, here’s another film that’s based on Hamlet. Given the …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of HOW TO MAKE A KILLING!
How To Make A Killing opens with Becket Redfellow (Glen Powell – The Running Man) at the end of his situation, just four hours away from death row execution, telling his story about all this …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of SIRAT!
Sirat refers to The Sirat Bridge, which I learned is an Islamic eschatological concept, that a bridge that is thinner than hair, sharper than a sword, and stretches over Hell to Paradise on the Day …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of EPIC: ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT!
EPIC: Elvis Presley In Concert was billed as the ultimate way to see the King of Rock’n’Roll, following Baz Luhrmann‘s 2022 Elvis biopic with Austin Butler. It wasn’t. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE SECRET AGENT!
The Secret Agent is one of those Oscar-nominated movies that has been given a far higher platform than it deserves. It starts off reasonably well, set in Brazil, 1977, declaring it’s “A time of great …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of PROJECT HAIL MARY!
Project Hail Mary sees Ryan Gosling waking up on the titular spaceship as the sole survivor of a small crew, so with the pilot and engineer deceased, it’s up to him to save the day… …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of ONE LAST DEAL!
One Last Deal was the second of three films I saw that day, and the first thing I noticed – especially given a particular new film I still had to watch after this – was …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE OTHER BENNET SISTER on BBC1!
The Other Bennet Sister tells us it’s ‘period drama’ time again. It feels like Pride And Prejudice, but as remade in a bad version of Acorn Antiques, where Mr Bingley is on his way… Maybe …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of ALL YOU NEED IS KILL!
All You Need Is Kill is basically Edge of Tomorrow in anime form. Earth has been infected… or is it a dream? Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor …
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