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1/5
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Return to Silent Hill
(2026)
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Eddie Harrison
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…Return to Silent Hill is like a bad dream that you can’t wake up from, which oddly enough is what it was probably intended to be….this moth-eaten, video-game cash-in is the lamest kind of cinema imaginable….
Posted Jan 28, 2026
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2/5
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Mercy
(2026)
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Eddie Harrison
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…there’s obvious reasons why a 63 million dollar movie like Mercy is opening in the January dumpster-fire doldrums..Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson exchange gibberish dialogue, the insight into the use of AI is idiotic, and there’s nothing to recommend…’
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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4/5
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Is This Thing On?
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…Is THis Thing On? is an original, often striking character piece from director Bradley Cooper about a man who takes to the stage with gags about his divorce…thought-provoking, enlightening and sometimes achingly funny…
Posted Jan 26, 2026
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4/5
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The Housemaid
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…The Housemaid's domestic thriller delivers an emotional roller-coaster for sure…a sizable hit for Seyfried and Sweeney, a breakout role for Sklenar and confirmation that director Paul Feig isn’t just about delivering laughs….
Posted Jan 25, 2026
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5/5
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Scandal
(1989)
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Eddie Harrison
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…Scandal exposes a world of exploitation and deceit …skillfully played by John Hurt, Stephen Ward’s story is told in a highly sympathetic way in this film, portrayed as much of a victim as the girls he procured…
Posted Jan 24, 2026
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3/5
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Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
(1988)
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Eddie Harrison
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…a fairly brisk horror comedy that’s a more than passable example of a genre which just doesn’t exist now…a museum piece of some interest, an example of a form of route-one satisfying cinema that’s so far gone it’s as if it never existed
Posted Jan 23, 2026
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4/5
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Tapawingo
(2023)
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Eddie Harrison
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…while it’s not quite the transformative experience of Waltzing With Brando, Tapawingo is still a sharp, funny comedy with lots to recommend it, with Heder in Napoleon Dynamite mode and a standout role for Gina Gershon…
Posted Jan 23, 2026
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5/5
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Sentimental Value
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…a highly recommendable movie that’s hard to pin down; Sentimental Value is comical, and doesn’t end unhappily, but it’s there’s genuine pain and drama, but played through ordinary conversations between fairly extraordinary people…
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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2/5
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Eddie Harrison
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…the 28 Days franchise seems to have lost its zombie audience, and that’s a relief; this must be one of the most pretentious, directionless, pointless franchises out there….even the gore-crazy fanboys are largely checked out by now….’
Posted Jan 21, 2026
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3/5
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Downhill
(2020)
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Eddie Harrison
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...playing as an upgrade on American abroad comedy, Downhill offers some laughs that the original doesn’t, a National Lampoon’s Skiing Vacation with trash-talking sexed-up locals, toilet mishaps, and enough low-shots to offer some entertainment value…
Posted Jan 20, 2026
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5/5
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Only Two Can Play
(1962)
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Eddie Harrison
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…Only Two Can Play is Sellers at his most subtle, but also at his funniest and most grounded in reality…this is a vibrant picture of class conflict where shots are fired from all sides, from the arts to the power elite…
Posted Jan 20, 2026
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3/5
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Saipan
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…an absorbing story of football enmity…unusually for a ‘based on facts’ movie, everyone involved in this story are still alive and litigious, so there’s no big gambles taken…Saipan makes a mountain of semi-comic drama out of a molehill of male agression…’
Posted Jan 19, 2026
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4/5
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Sleuth
(2007)
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Eddie Harrison
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…Harold Pinter specialised in dialogue (and silences dripping) with brooding menace, and unlike the rather jolly games of the 1972 film, this Sleuth feels deliberately sour and aggressive….a bracing bit of audience trolling from Pinter…
Posted Jan 18, 2026
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4/5
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The Rip
(2026)
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Eddie Harrison
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…The Rip is good enough to make you regret that you can’t see this kind of thing in a cinema anymore; it’s a rough, tough, dramatic action movie that moves with stealth and genuine purpose to a satisfying, fiery finale….
Posted Jan 17, 2026
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4/5
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Queen Kelly
(1929)
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Eddie Harrison
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…the first half of what would have been a silent movie up there with Metropolis, Greed or Sunrise. Even half a von Stroheim movie is bigger and better than what most big name directors produce over a career…a blast from a verboten, opulent past…
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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3/5
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Complicity
(2000)
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Eddie Harrison
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…while Complicity has some issues, it’s worth seeing an example of what Iain Banks was getting at with this book….what should have been a Scottish American Psycho dusks the hard questions in the text
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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1/5
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Stroker Ace
(1983)
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Eddie Harrison
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…even those of us who can find some merit in the most excessively preening, self-regarding films of Burt Reynolds will firmly draw the line at Stroker Ace…there’s a dozen good reasons you can’t see Stroker Ace anywhere….
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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4/5
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Rental Family
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…Brendan Fraser has had plenty of ups and down, but audiences have a residual affection for him that gives Rental Family a strong, accessible core; his big, emotive eyes and gentle giant persona have probably never been so effectively used as here…
Posted Jan 12, 2026
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5/5
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Being There
(1979)
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Eddie Harrison
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…a final flourish of comic genius from Peter Sellers…still an extraordinary film by Hal Ashby, stripping back layers of modern pretensions and viewing a chaotic world with a child’s innocence and insight…’
Posted Jan 11, 2026
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3/5
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La morte negli occhi del gatto (Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye)
(1973)
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Eddie Harrison
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…get ready for a film so ripe, odd and unusual that it’s a genuinely immersive experience, with dubbed dialogue that astonishes the ear….an Italian-made Scottish set giallo set in the 1890s and starring Serge Gainsbourg as a Scottish detective….
Posted Jan 10, 2026
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4/5
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Jamarcus Rose & Da 5 Bullet Holes
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…insightful, thoughtful film about the young, black experience in the USA….the acting feels natural, the cinematography and framing are sharp, and the whole enterprise is rich with intelligence and careful thought…
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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4/5
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Body Snatchers
(1993)
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Eddie Harrison
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'...firmly set in the same universe as the first two films...Abel Ferrara's revamped Body Snatchers didn’t make the cultural impact of the other films, but it manages the same trick of using sci-fi to expose cultural raw nerves...'
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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4/5
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Hamnet
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…Hamnet is a strong and moving film about how pain infuses the creative process…Buckley gives a career best role as Agnes, with primal screams and a strong sense of a natural woman who feels wronged by the torments that life has in store for her…
Posted Jan 07, 2026
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5/5
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The Conformist
(1970)
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Eddie Harrison
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…a classic tale of ‘slaughter and melancholy’ that feels more relevant in 2026 than ever…the literal smoke and mirrors look created by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro evokes a huge emotional range of images, from cold and clinical to warm and sensual…
Posted Jan 06, 2026
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4/5
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Blue Moon
(2025)
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…a unsparing portrait of a great talent in decline, not a lot of laughs, but made with the skill and empathy which one expects of Richard Linklater, and blessed with a great, scabrous performance from Ethan Hawke….
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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4/5
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Youngblood
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…the setting and characters may be different, but the new Youngblood offers the same competitive buzz that the 80's movie offered back in the day…Stuart James Cameron’s fluid cinematography makes the games look intense and striking…
Posted Jan 04, 2026
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4/5
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Eternity
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…despite a few tricky plot-points, the heavenly-minded Eternity manages to breathe fresh life into the traditional rom-com with some sharp satirical gags and winning performances from a genial young cast….
Posted Jan 03, 2026
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4/5
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Jay Kelly
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly harnesses George Clooney’s industrial-strength charisma to ask us just what we think a movie star is…this is a deft dramedy showcase for Clooney as a genuine movie star, and he’s unsurprisingly convincing in the role…
Posted Jan 02, 2026
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5/5
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Song Sung Blue
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…stars are less of a thing in risk-averse-and personality-light Hollywood circa 2026, but it’s the performances that make Song Song Blue such a pleasure to watch….a populist film with a big heart and obvious commercial virtues…
Posted Jan 01, 2026
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3/5
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…the telling is good, but even the most dynamic plot twists on Twilight Zone had a grim logic behind them; Bugonia’s fanciful suggestions about conspiracy theories coming true seem like sixth-form juvenilia when finally unpacked….
Posted Dec 31, 2025
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3/5
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Keep It Up Downstairs
(1976)
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Eddie Harrison
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…for its time ie 1976, Keep It Up Downstairs really isn’t as crude as much of the dirty-mac competition, and the overall concept of mocking the double-standards of the British class system is still one which works today….
Posted Dec 30, 2025
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4/5
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Fackham Hall
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…Yes, Fackham Hall could be funnier and needs a few more knockout scenes, but it’s consistently clever, rude and amusing…a deft parody of Downton Abbey, heritage cinema and tv cliches, outdated material which needed a thorough tousling…
Posted Dec 30, 2025
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3/5
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Anaconda
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…like a snake eating its own tail, pop culture seems doomed to regurgitate itself; as a low-brow comedy, Anaconda slithers on by, but there’s not much evidence why the talent involved imagined such a casual goof on the original film was required….
Posted Dec 29, 2025
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4/5
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…Marty Supreme reigns supreme, an accessible, well-constructed, gritty, feel-good movie of Runyon-esque America that plays a little like The Coens’ Inside Llewyn Davis but with added table tennis balls of fury…Chalamet is excellent as Marty Mauser...
Posted Dec 28, 2025
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4/5
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…James Cameron gives himself a grand canvas to realise his big, original and colourful ideas….Avatar; Fire and Ash feels like the end of one particular narrative, but doesn’t feel like we’re close to ending the story of Pandora just yet….
Posted Dec 27, 2025
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4/5
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New York, New York
(1977)
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Eddie Harrison
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…boring people can only make boring films, and live-wore Martin Scorsese's New York New York is something of a secret success, an ambitious, lavishly mounted love story that manifests the creator’s best, worst and wildest instincts….
Posted Dec 26, 2025
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3/5
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Absolute Beginners
(1986)
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Eddie Harrison
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…Absolute Beginners isn’t a great film, even as a period/museum piece, but in 2025, it’s quite an entertaining watch for ironists….putting David Bowie front and centre of the film’s advertising was a bait and switch scam that backfired dramatically…
Posted Dec 24, 2025
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4/5
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle
(1973)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle could have been a commercial classic with a Steve McQueen in the lead, but it’s still pretty good with powder-fresh Mitchum, who really captures the ebbing internal energy of Eddie Coyle in Peter Yates' downbeat thriller…
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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2/5
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Appointment With Death
(1988)
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Eddie Harrison
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…for a Michael Winner film, this Agatha Christie adaptation is remarkably cogent and well-assembled, but judged by the standards of any normal film, Appointment with Death is utterly deathly…. feel free to skip this appointment.
Posted Dec 21, 2025
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3/5
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The Long Walk
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…a fairly gripping film that never resolves issues of why audiences should want to watch what is largely one long suffering show. It’s a moral horror film, but despite lofty intentions, The Long Walk doesn’t do enough to engage us…
Posted Dec 20, 2025
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3/5
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The Lost Bus
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…Paul Greengrass’ Apple tv movie tones down the kind of contrivance that might be expected, but there are times when it feels like McCay and Ludwig are fighting one battle after another without much plot or character development….
Posted Dec 19, 2025
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4/5
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Zootopia 2
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…the density of the storytelling is more engaging than in most films supposedly aimed at adults. The biggest and most popular movie of the year is rarely a good one, but Zootopia2/Zootropolis 2 is a worthy continuation of the original film…
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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4/5
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Suffer
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…those seeking an alternative to Avatar should make an effort to see how the talents behind Suffer conjure a unique, tangibly fantastic world on a micro-budget…..Naomi McDougall Jones centres the film admirably with a powerful lead performance…
Posted Dec 17, 2025
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5/5
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The Princess Bride
(1987)
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Eddie Harrison
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…Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride is the kind of film top talents can only make after decades at the top; William Goldman's script offers a witty, refreshing and seasoned modern variation of the age-old story of love and adventure…
Posted Dec 15, 2025
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4/5
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Ella McCay
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…James L Brooks' Ella McCay is an enjoyable old-school watch, and should do well on streaming where the mix of old and new talent and an upbeat, genial feel should appeal to a marketplace lacking most of these qualities…
Posted Dec 15, 2025
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4/5
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The Time Machine
(1960)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…better than the CGI remake, The Time Machine is a charming movie with a serious point, adored by intricate, imaginative handmade special effects that still impress today….the sci-fi trappings disguise a fierce and precise anti-war message...'
Posted Dec 14, 2025
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3/5
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Five Nights at Freddy's 2
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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… down with kids who aren’t alright, haunted by nightmares of malfeasance by previous generations…resonates because it reflects our awareness of abuses which are unresolved in our culture...that’s why these Freddy movies are critic-proof, zeitgeisty hits…
Posted Dec 13, 2025
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4/5
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Bull Run
(2024)
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Eddie Harrison
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…Bull Run is worth digging out as a less excitable, and more succinct take on financial whizzes than The Wolf of Wall Street…dry, salacious and witty, viewers may well prefer the less amped-up version here…
Posted Dec 12, 2025
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4/5
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The Dummy Detective
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…with Sean Young leading a committed ensemble cast and a traditional whodunnit structure, The Dummy Detective is easy to watch and fun to try and guess where the story is going; the ventriloquism angle is fresh and adds novelty to ancient conceits…
Posted Dec 12, 2025
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4/5
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Dracula
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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…it’s been labelled Dracula : A Love Story elsewhere and that’s pretty much what we get, still with plenty gore and horror, but with a focus on a romantic through line with Dracula an anti-hero protagonist that we do have some sympathy for…
Posted Dec 10, 2025
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