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James Jackson

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The Secret of Me (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “There is so much to unpack from this film, not least the perspective it offered on the perennial debate of nature versus nurture. ” – The Times (UK) Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Cunk on Life (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “It’s the kind of daft comedy that’s hilarious when not being just too puerile, but which can wear thin after, say, half an hour. ” – The Times (UK) Sep 19, 2025 Full Review The Contestant (2023) 92% 3/5 EDIT “The Contestant, Clair Titley’s thoughtful, troubling film shown in the Storyville strand, took us back to the mad world of 1990s Tokyo TV, except this time you won’t have laughed once unless you really are a sadist. ” – The Times (UK) Jun 17, 2025 Full Review Ocean with David Attenborough (2025) 100% 5/5 EDIT “So while this is environmental film-making at its most powerful — at times, it comes at you like a sledgehammer blow — crucially, it finds cause for optimism. ” – The Times (UK) Jun 10, 2025 Full Review 26.2 to Life (2022) 87% 3/5 EDIT “... The film was so nonjudgmental you soon found yourself wondering if it’s OK to find yourself rooting for real-life killers with feelgood nicknames. Because at times this felt not too far removed from an inspirational underdog sports movie.” – The Times (UK) Feb 12, 2025 Full Review The Corridors of Power (2022) 78% 4/5 EDIT “... It’s as rigorous and authoritative — and indeed riveting — an examination of America’s response to human-rights atrocities as you could ask for. ” – The Times (UK) Aug 8, 2024 Full Review The Castle (2023) 89% 4/5 EDIT “Instead, the pair become more like components of a bigger mood piece, one helped by a beguiling orchestral score and the mansion’s shadowy interiors and misty outdoor vistas — a documentary defined less by eccentricity than a soulful quality.” – The Times (UK) Jul 3, 2024 Full Review The Eagle Has Landed (1976) 71% EDIT “Based on Jack Higgins’s novel, it is hardly plausible, but it’s fun to see so many acting favourites (there’s also Robert Duvall, Larry Hagman, Jenny Agutter and Donald Pleasence as Himmler) among the watermills and blooms of Norfolk.” – The Times (UK) Apr 11, 2024 Full Review The Train (1965) 94% EDIT “A pair of high-class performances power this Second World War yarn.” – The Times (UK) Mar 4, 2024 Full Review Beyond Utopia (2023) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Their escape footage, filmed on the family’s phones, gave a sense of fear that was unsettlingly contagious, and made you think how smartphones now inform this kind of documentary. They can give an unfiltered and close-up immediacy...” – The Times (UK) Jan 31, 2024 Full Review Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story (2023) 86% 4/5 EDIT “As the clips became more plentiful, this became a not only deeply researched but also rather captivating portrait of a one-off — even if every time he sang one of his ditties I couldn’t get Monty Python’s “Penis Song” spoof out of my head.” – The Times (UK) Dec 27, 2023 Full Review Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas (2023) 100% 3/5 EDIT “The extravaganza works through good cheer and the sheer force of Waddinghamness, and at 45 minutes it mercifully doesn’t outstay its welcome... though, should be warned: it really is as cheesy as a baked stilton soufflé.” – The Times (UK) Nov 28, 2023 Full Review Curse of the Demon (1957) 100% EDIT “... 66 years on the demon will still send chills through you. ” – The Times (UK) Oct 30, 2023 Full Review Richard III (1955) 81% EDIT “[Laurence Olivier's] Richard remains one of the most full-blooded movie villains — a performance done with, surely, a nod and a wink. ” – The Times (UK) Oct 19, 2023 Full Review Partygate (2023) 91% 4/5 EDIT “You couldn’t say this was a drama that didn’t make its point, twisting it firmly with a screwdriver then bashing it home with a sledgehammer.” – The Times (UK) Oct 6, 2023 Full Review Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) 82% EDIT “[Bridges'] handsome, effortless charisma is on full beam as Preston Tucker, an American car entrepreneur during the 1940s.” – The Times (UK) Sep 27, 2023 Full Review 8 Bar: The Evolution of Grime (2021) 4/5 EDIT “But this film’s exhaustive, and perhaps a bit exhausting, document of a uniquely British sound — black culture’s answer to punk — was a reminder of just how astonishing it is when youth culture creates a new musical language. ” – The Times (UK) Aug 22, 2023 Full Review Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) 77% EDIT “As souped-up matinee fare this has heaps of bugs, humour and chases, topped by Harrison Ford at his charismatic peak. ” – The Times (UK) Jun 27, 2023 Full Review Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Vonnegut remains such contradictory company. His harrowing observations of inhumanity, most famously in Slaughterhouse-Five’s first-hand descriptions of the bombing of Dresden, seemed to render him ever more goofy.” – The Times (UK) Apr 26, 2023 Full Review The Pink Panther (1963) 89% EDIT “It’s chic in an early-1960s kind of way.” – The Times (UK) Apr 25, 2023 Full Review City Slickers (1991) 87% EDIT “Between gentle one-liners and bucketloads of schmaltzy sentiment, the director Ron Underwood captures some of the rugged beauty of the American southwest. ” – The Times (UK) Apr 25, 2023 Full Review The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker (2023) 93% 4/5 EDIT “The slight irony with the fable of Kai the hitchhiker is that, while the film seems to be making a valid point about how the reality media is all too vulturine in its race to exploit individuals, here is Kai, still part of the pop-cultural cycle. ” – The Times (UK) Jan 11, 2023 Full Review A Bunch of Amateurs (2022) 100% 4/5 EDIT “A warm, funny-sad celebration of community and friendship as it followed a group of northern friends chasing their quixotic dreams of making (very cheap) movies.” – The Times (UK) Dec 14, 2022 Full Review Meatballs (1979) 71% EDIT “Along with the set pieces of comic disaster there’s also a touching (sort of) subplot as Tripper brings the shy boy Rudy (Chris Makepeace) out of his shell and makes him realise his true worth.” – The Times (UK) Nov 18, 2022 Full Review The Firm (1993) 76% EDIT “Cruise’s toothy heroics are ill-suited to moral complexity, but he is elevated by a stellar supporting cast...” – The Times (UK) Nov 15, 2022 Full Review
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