My Life In Films

I watch, I write. Film Reviews, of a sort. Check out the Archive, It's my favourite place.

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DOA: Dead Or Alive (2006) - 31/03/2015

Simple.

TV. 1st Time.

Over Now.

65/122

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Bruno (2009) - 26/03/2015

Tschuss

TV. 3rd Time.

War’s just based on hate and fear.

405/520

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Selma (2014) - 25/03/2015

Motivated by dignity.

Rex. 1st Time.

Hard not to be affected.

223/264

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Alex Cross (2012) - 23/03/2015

That’s Two different movies.

TV. 1st Time.

Who told you.

Ten Thousand on the butcher.

Well, I can’t have that.

Kiss The Girls (1997), Along Came A Spider (2001).

Alex Cross (2012).

87/126

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Dantes Peak (1997) - 22/03/2015

She’s just clearing her throat.

TV. 3rd Time.

Isn’t that Lake Placid? From Lake Placid (1999). Even though that came after this. And I don’t just mean the general plot similarities, but the Grandma’s Lake House looks like the one in Lake Placid (1999). Perhaps all Lake Houses look similar. I’ll try remember to check if I ever re-watch The Lake House (2006).

Volcano (1997) wins. Although it’s a bit like winning by default.

147/286

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A Most Violent Year (2014) - 09/03/2015

It’s a fair price for it.

Little Cinema. 1st Time.

Stare longer than you should.

A really well paced (steady) (crime) thriller.

Any new market is a tough one.

It’s probably going to be quietly overlooked. Which is a shame.

I want more of it.

128/156

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1.7 Billion Dollar Fraud: Full Exposure (2015) - 02/03/2015

The foreigner.

TV. 1st Time.

It all comes into focus.

Samurai and idiots.

139/171

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Citizen Four (2014) - 26/02/2015

Eating a little less.

TV. 1st Time.

I don’t know why they did that.

Limits the boundaries of intellectual experimentation and intellectual freedom.

Exciting and worrying.

It comes over as much more reasonable than We Steal Secrets: The WikiLeaks Story (2013).

109/143

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Kingsman (2015) - 24/02/2015

This is not that sort of film.

New Cinema. 1st Time.

Tone?! It wobbles around a bit. It has the feel of being from a book which while true could be seen as a positive or a negative.

Updating the genre and simultaneously tying it to the past.

159/240

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Wild (2014) - 23/02/2015

Don’t worry, you won’t become a Nazi.

Little Cinema. 1st Time.

Not for me. I see the framework, but I’d rather it was more about the walk.

24/37

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Mr Turner (2014) - 22/02/2015

Excellent Gooseberry pie.

Little Cinema. 1st Time.

A teaming, crashing, wild ocean of complexity and emotion, behind a sea of gruff expression of breath.

Them that fish for compliments don’t get none.

Good enough for me.

33/45

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The Epic Of Everest (1924) - 10/02/2015

We who are so little and Nature who is so immense.

Stream. 1st Time.

The highest mountain in the world.

Little did we know.

We can only watch these supermen returning from building Two higher camps.

It doesn’t seem real. It also seems like watching a projection onto the moon.

The artificial breaths of oxygen gone.

Sad because of the tragedy of death.

7123/8848

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Bad Country (2014) - 09/02/2015

Welcome to Dixie.

Stream. 1st Time.

Give me a name.

Or don’t, I don’t mind.

82/132

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Hidalgo (2004) - 08/02/2015

People of the horse.

TV. 1st Time.

Yeah, it’s big, and entertaining.

120/164

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The War Room (1993) - 06/02/2015

Lets just get this spot produced.

DVD. 1st Time.

The Clinton campaign.

Read my lips.

The final speech by Cavil is great.

42/54

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Sex Tape (2014) - 05/02/2015

Nobody understands the cloud.

DVD. 1st Time.

A lot of Apple product on display.

Based on an incredibly unlikely thing, tying into something that I've just never heard of outside of a joke in Parks And Recreation.

Uncomfortably annoying.

40/69

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Inherent Vice (2015) - 04/02/2015

Renaissance investigator.

Big Cinema. 1st Time.

The trailer looked like an American Hustle (2014) replicant, and as usual tramples all over the humour. It would however struggle to give the plot away. 

I felt throughout that it could wrap up and I might not have had a clue what had happened.

A film that on second viewing could be brilliant or could turn out to be a bewildering mess. I think I'm expecting the former.

Trying to be professional is all.

49/70