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...
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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Canadian
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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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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...
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....
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
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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