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Tuesday, 18 December 2018

What's new on the Box this Christmas?

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No, I'm not back...and I know it's coming up to a year since my last post, And a rather trying year it's been, although I'll...
Sunday, 21 January 2018

The End of the Road...Maybe

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They say that all good things come to an end...and so this may be my last blog entry. Or perhaps it will prove to be a rest stop on a contin...
Sunday, 14 January 2018

Fallen by the Wayside

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Sky Cinema does screen a lot of rubbish in its mission to provide a "new" premiere every day (that's redundant since 'prem...
Sunday, 7 January 2018

The Rest of the 'big' Holiday Premieres

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Since I highlighted Sky's 'big' premieres (all 2017 releases) over the New Year's weekend, I feel obliged to make a few comm...
Saturday, 30 December 2017

Post-Christmas Assessment

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Well I wasn't wrong. The most enjoyable film I watched over the holidays was indeed "Shaun the Sheep Movie" -- I must be a big...
Saturday, 16 December 2017

Christmas on the Box 2017

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If I had not made a habit of checking out the annual Christmas schedules each year to recommend the best new film offerings, I probably shou...
Saturday, 9 December 2017

Documentaries

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Perhaps it's some kind of mental/optical illusion, but it does seem that there are more and more documentary films being made and releas...
Friday, 1 December 2017

Creepy Indian Longlegs

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Unlike a fortnight ago, I've watched several films this week which are worth discussing. First up is "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag" (2...
Friday, 24 November 2017

Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

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I've never understood the Hollywood fetish for remaking 'classic' movies. These are meant to update the films in question to the...
Friday, 17 November 2017

A Dismal Week...or is it me?

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I'm beginning to wonder just what it is about so many recent releases that leaves me cold. Since my dutiful watching makes me look at an...
Friday, 10 November 2017

Illustrious Corpses (1976)

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And so another of my longstanding 'would like to see' films (Italian title "Cadaveri eccellenti") bites the dust...and onc...
Friday, 3 November 2017

Toni Erdmann (2016)

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If there is a lesson to be learned it's that over-hyped movies often prove disappointing. This was certainly the case with "Meyerow...
Friday, 27 October 2017

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)

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A few months back I wrote about Adam Sandler and Netflix and ended with how much I was looking forward to the above film which caused such a...
Friday, 20 October 2017

London Film Festival - Part 2

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Just two films left to review taking my overall average to three and two halves (not really the same as four) out of six: The really good ...
Thursday, 12 October 2017

London Film Festival (so far)

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I said that seven out of eight wasn't bad for FrightFest. Well I'm only batting 2 and a half out of four so far for this year's ...
Friday, 29 September 2017

Not for Sale (1924)

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An obscure rarity this week -- but I guess that's what this blog is meant to spotlight. The film is the last in a comedy trilogy (the ot...
Friday, 22 September 2017

Forsaken (2015)

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It's been another of those weeks where despite more or less constant viewing no one film has leapt to the forefront. The movies I watche...
Friday, 15 September 2017

It (2017)

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I understand that this new film version of the Stephen King blockbuster (aka doorstop) is doing amazing business worldwide. I'm not surp...
Friday, 8 September 2017

Rough Night (2017)

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Despite the recent hype of the growing power of women in the film industry, not all movies written and directed by women are worthy of our a...
Friday, 1 September 2017

FrightFest 2017

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Well, seven out of eight's not too bad! No longer having the stamina to face the full five day fest, we cherry-picked eight possibilitie...