Stars: 10 / 10 Inspiring, beautiful, heart wrenching, one of the best films (and acting perfromances,) I have ever seen! Eddie Redmayne&...
Wednesday 4 February 2015
The Immitation Game
Stars: 9 / 10 An incredibly well made film, with an emotionally stirring (true) story, which is sure to make your heart ache and your mi...
Friday 16 January 2015
What Lies Beneath
Stars: 2 / 10 Quite possibly the dullest ghost story, ever made. (I should have known better, when I saw it was Dreamworks, that it was ...
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Thursday 15 January 2015
The Woman in Black (2012)
Stars: 5 / 10 A good old-fashioned, slow-paced creeper. A classical Hammer setting and story ( oh, those angry, distrustful villagers! )...
Tuesday 13 January 2015
Interstellar
Stars: 9 / 10 Fabulous! Practically perfection. Beautiful visuals, with effects that don't upstage the human drama, yet still man...
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Annabelle
Stars: 1 / 10 Basically, it's Rosemary's Baby -meets- Child's Play. Prequel to The Conjuring. If you've already se...
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Jessabelle
Stars: 4 / 10 Tepid, but not terrible. Kind of like Passion Fish -meets- The Skeleton Key. The 1st half had a few creepy bits, but I fo...
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4 stars
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Voodoo
Saturday 12 July 2014
The Haunting in Connecticut
Stars: 3 / 10 Generic hokum abounds. If you're looking for cheap, gooey, and trite, you'll get plenty of it. I wanted to like ...
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3 stars
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American
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Canadian
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haunted house
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illness
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mystery
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psycho killer
The Tale of Princess Kaguya ("Kaguyahime no monogatari")
Stars: 10 / 10 !!! Nothing short of P e r f e c t i o n . A fascinating and mysterious story, filled with a spectrum of wonder, t...
Grave Encounters
Stars: 1 / 10 The tv show Ghost Adventures - meets - The Blair Witch Project, with a few cheap effects, alla The Grudge. If this had ...
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2000's
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abduction
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ghost
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independant
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mocumentary
Monday 16 June 2014
Maleficent
Stars: 8 / 10 Fanciful, beautiful, exciting, and fun : an instant favourite! With faeries, shapeshifters, enchanted forests, and Angeli...
Sunday 15 June 2014
Gravity
Stars: 5 / 10 Visuals : 10 ... Script: 0 If this had been a silent film, it would have been perfect , but, sadly, it's rife with b...
Saturday 14 June 2014
300
Stars: 7 / 10 A decadent spectacle of colour and choreography, elegant brutality, with an abundance of glorious beefcake and campy costu...
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7 stars
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action
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black-magic
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historical
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Hollywood
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magic
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monster
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war
The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
Stars: 1 / 10 Stilted, unnatural acting, something of an amateur community theatre calibre. A tedious and unbelievable tale, any hint ...
Friday 13 June 2014
Millennium Actress
Stars: 9 / 10 Brilliant ! Beautiful ! Heartbreaking and hilarious. A uniquely told story, with a mystery that kept me on the edge of m...
The Howling
Stars: 3 / 10 It's a full moon, on Friday the 13th, so what better day to watch a werewolf classic? Generally, this movie's a ...
Saturday 22 March 2014
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Stars: 8 / 10 One of my all-time favourite comedies. LOL's guaranteed! Clever script, top acting, smooth editing, and cute music....
Nightmare (2011)
Stars: 2 / 10 A Chinese psychological thriller, heavily inspired by Ringu / The Ring, with nothing original to offer. Occasionally in...
Thursday 20 March 2014
The Beaver
Stars: 6 / 10 A seriously strange dramedy. The story centers around deep, clinical depression, even touching on suicidal tendencie...
The Time Traveler's Wife
Stars: 8 / 10 Loved it! One of the finest romantic dramas AND time travel stories I've seen, all rolled into one. Different, int...
Wednesday 19 March 2014
Alice, Sweet Alice (aka Communion, aka Holy Terror)
Stars: 4 / 10 Overall, an ok "whodunit" slasher/thriller. (*see below for further comments) I wasn't "wow'ed"...
Monday 17 March 2014
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Stars: 2 / 10 Overrated. Yet again, Wes Craven manages to disapoint with his typcally whiney, anoying, and unlikeable characters, horr...
Saturday 15 March 2014
When a Stranger Calls (2006)
Stars: 1 / 10 What is this, a made for Disney Channel movie?! A sulky teen drama: "my bff kissed my bf and now my stoopid par...
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