Sisu: Road To Revenge follows directly on from 2022’s Sisu, which I missed at the time and only got round to checking it out the night before watching the new one. In the first, former …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of NUREMBERG!
Nuremberg reflects on events from 80 years ago, with the words “For those who lived it, and those who didn’t”, and brings us the famous Trials when the Nazi Command were finally brought before a …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of KEEPER!
Keeper is the third consecutive films I’ve seen from Osgood Perkins, and everyone essentially a horror movie, at least in part. Longlegs, with Nicolas Cage as a serial killer, didn’t wholly work for me, but …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of WICKED FOR GOOD!
Wicked For Good finally brings this two-part musical to a close, even though somehow, the on-stage version takes just two-and-a-half hours to complete, yet the films total 4 hours and 56 minutes… Glinda (Ariana Grande …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of PARK AVENUE!
Park Avenue can largely be described as “Suddenly, nothing happened…” However, for want of a plot, Kit (Fiona Shaw) lives in an apartment on park avenue, which is painted in a dreary dark green, but …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of NOW YOU SEE ME 3: NOW YOU DON’T!
Now You See Me 3: Now You Don’t… I’ve put the ‘3’ in, because SEO (search engine optimisation) favours titles that have no more than five words (the ‘3’ counts as a word), hates punctuation …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of TRAIN DREAMS on NETFLIX!
Train Dreams takes us through the life of Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton – Red Sparrow), from 1893 when he’s sent as a young boy to Fry, in Idaho, having never knew his parents, adopted and …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS on NETFLIX!
Champagne Problems stars Minka Kelly as Sydney, a businesswoman who’s going up in the world, finally getting her shot. She thinks champagne solves everyone’s problems by just existing. I think red wine does that for …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE CHORAL!
The Choral reunites director Nicholas Hytner with national treasure Alan Bennett, after their 2015 film, The Old Lady and the Van, and three episodes of the 2020 Talking Heads revival, An Ordinary Woman, Bed Among …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of IN YOUR DREAMS on NETFLIX!
In Your Dreams initially gives Stevie (Jolie Hoang-Rappaport) the problem that her family’s all fine until her parents give her a brother, Elliot (Elias Janssen), but soon there’s bigger fish to fry, given that as …
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