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Jul 5, 2024 ∞

🍿 Rewatched Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) ★★★★★

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Avoid Okay Good Great! with Great! selected. The review reads: One of my favourite movies and I’ve watched it so many times. It’s an almost perfect buddy movie without the two actually being buddies. Candy’s quiet emotional baggage slowly revealed as the movie goes on and Martin’s gradual resignation and acceptance of his fate entwine so well. The gags and humour are classic '80s and you're either going to laugh all the way through or cringe, no in-between.

Jun 28, 2024 ∞

🍿 Watched The Death of Stalin (2017) ★★★★

A rectangular image with a review of the movie The Death of Stalin. The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Avoid Okay Good Great! with Good selected. The review reads: The cast is predominantly made up of comedians, which seeps through into the way they present the characters and the writing helps it along. Clearly aiming to try and show communist Russia as being run by people with gutter smarts rather than actually being smart, their hunger for power the only reason they do what they do. I had this as a three star but then Jason Isaacs appeared as the general and it went up to four stars.

Jun 15, 2024 ∞

🍿 Watched Argylle 2024 ★★½

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Argylle. The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Poor Okay Good Great with Okay selected. The review reads: Well this was a bit of fun. At times I thought it was going to slip down to the level of humour seen in Austin Powers but it stayed the course. Nothing particularly stand out but nothing awful. Some light entertainment.

Jun 14, 2024 ∞

🍿 Watched The French Dispatch 2021 ★★★★

There will be a rewatch, I couldn’t absorb all the little gems and hidden delights scattered through these quirky stories; each one telling a tale of a life we would all like to live. Grand, free and all a great adventure.

Jun 1, 2024 ∞

🍿 Watched May December (2023) ★★★

A rectangular image with a review of the movie May December. The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Avoid Okay Good Great! with Good selected. The review reads: The poster might feature Portman and Moore but Charles Melton is the stand out performance. Stuck in time due to childhood trauma is the easy way to describe the complex emotional turmoil slowly unravelling for him.

May 28, 2024 ∞

🍿 Watched Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) ★★½

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Avoid Okay Good Great! with Okay selected. The review reads: It’s fine, there are laughs, things blow up, the actors work well together, it leaves it open for a second movie. A pretty standard action/comedy outing by Guy Ritchie. Be good if he could stop trying to pump out so many movies and maybe just take a bit of extra time with each one to lift the quality.

May 27, 2024 ∞

🍿 Rewatched Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1968) ★½

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Planet of the Apes. The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Avoid Okay Good Great! with Avoid selected. The review reads: The decline in quality from Planet of the Apes to this sequel is astonishing. It’s simply just not good.

May 25, 2024 ∞

🍿 Watched Operation Mincemeat (2021) ★★★

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Operation Mincemeat. The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Avoid Okay Good Great! with Good selected. The review reads: It’s not too bad if you’re looking for something based on factual events with a bit of dramatic licence to pad out the plot. I enjoyed it, wouldn’t put it on the watch again list though.

May 18, 2024 ∞

🍿 Rewatched Planet of the Apes (1968) ★★★★

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Planet of the Apes. The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Avoid Okay Good Great! with Great! selected. The review reads: A classic. It still holds up after 50yrs.

May 17, 2024 ∞

🍿 Watched Margin Call (2011) ★★

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Margin Call. The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Avoid Okay Good Great! with Okay selected. The review reads: The poster billed it at the time as the Best Wall Street Film Yet. I beg to differ. Most of the actors seemed to be phoning it in. The dramatic tension just didn’t build enough to be important. It’s okay but all of these actors had been in much better films at this stage of their careers.