The Roses is based on the 1981 novel, The War of the Roses, which I remember best as an exceptional black comedy starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as the warring couple, Oliver and Barbara …
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Category: Cinema films
My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of CAUGHT STEALING!
Caught Stealing takes us back to 1998, where Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) lives in the Lower East Side of New York… although it didn’t state New York, so the UK audience has to make that …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of LOKAH CHAPTER 1: CHANDRA!
Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra is an Indian action film intended to kickstart a new franchise, this one doing the box-office which goes against the tide for ‘girlboss’ movies. Its production budget of 330m Rupees (£2.8m) …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of COLORFUL STAGE! THE MOVIE: A MIKU WHO CAN’T SING!
Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing is the rather overlong title for this film which has spawned from the Hatsune Miku videogame, my brief playing of that so far (below) showing me …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of WAR 2!
War 2 is an Indian action film with a lot of double-crossing and globetrotting, plus a smattering of Bollywood, because when your enemy is getting on your tits, what’s better than to dance them into …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of EDDINGTON!
Eddington… Paul Eddington… Yes, it’s the tale of the actor from Yes Minister… nope, not really. Taking place in late May 2020, in the titular town of New Mexico, just as the COVID19 pandemic was …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of MATERIALISTS! (And how I caused a BOMB SCARE at ODEON!)
Materialists – The film where I caused a BOMB SCARE at Odeon! But more on that later… As for the film, I started to wonder if I was in the right screen, given how it …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE LIFE OF CHUCK!
The Life of Chuck starts with Act 3: Thanks, Chuck, where we start to see society breaking down, as suddenly worldwide disasters start happening including sinkholes, weird things happen in the hospital as observed by …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE TOXIC AVENGER (2025)!
The Toxic Avenger shows that not only is the titular character the hero we need now… …but as it goes into the problem of unwanted sewage being dumped in once-clean rivers, who’d have thought 40 …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of WOLF CHILDREN (2012)!
Wolf Children is a boy meets girl tale. Boy meets girl at Uni, Boy turns out to be a wolf… Okay, so they’re young adults when they meet, and it’s at Tokyo University where Hana …
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