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The Brutalist, twinned with an 18-certificate, is one of those films with a title that makes you think it’s going to be heavy on the violence, but isn’t. That’s because it refers to the type …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of SKY FORCE!
Sky Force gave me the impression from the trailer that this was basically the Hindi equivalent of Top Gun. Hmm… Starting in 1971, and opening with the Amritsar Air Base being bombed by Pakistani Air …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of FLIGHT RISK!
Flight Risk throws a curveball early on, making you believe the main problem centres around the fact Winston (Topher Grace – Heretic) is the risk, given that after being caught on the run by angry …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of PRESENCE!
Presence is one thing that most films struggle to be, these days: short. In a series of one-take scenes – some short, some of a reasonable length – the first family who come to look …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of A COMPLETE UNKNOWN!
A Complete Unknown tells the story of the 4-to-5-year period after Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet – Wonka) arrives in New York in 1961, using this moniker as opposed to his birth name, Robert Zimmerman, and …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of WILLIAM TELL (2025)!
William Tell starts with the titular character, played by Claes Bang (Dracula), being told by the evil Viceroy Gessler (Connor Swindells – Scoop) to shoot an arrow into an apple, which has been placed on …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of WOLF MAN!
Wolf Man proves that… if you go down in the woods, today… you’re a dumbass. Harking back to 1995, a passage of text appears too quickly to take in about how the titular lupine was …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of MUFASA: THE LION KING!
Mufasa: The Lion King is here, because Disney are desperate for a hit. Wish flopped, and Snow White is going to bomb big-time in March, since Snow White was a woman “whose skin was as …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of BACK IN ACTION on Netflix!
Back In Action centres around two former CIA operatives who went rogue, 15 years earlier, after ensuring some bad guys didn’t get a cyberterrorist weapon called The Key – in a reasonably engaging opening scene …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of NOSFERATU!
Nosferatu opens with Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp) inadvertently waking up local oddity Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård – The Crow (2024)), not directly, but simply complaining about being lonely, which he picks up from a distance …
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