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The Great Escape 1963

★★★★★ Added 4

A new limited edition 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray set of The Great Escape, featuring writing by me on its enduring legacy within popular culture, will be released by Arrow on 2nd December, 2024.

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The Severed Sun 2024

★★★★ Rewatched 23 Sep 2024

The Geek Show at Fantastic Fest 2024, where I get to review the debut folk horror feature of Dean Puckett, a filmmaker I've been championing for some time now. To my relief (and to zero surprise) The Severed Sun is everything I could have wished for from Dean's first full length film and more.
"...A technically proficient filmmaker, Puckett delivers an utterly beautiful film in The Severed Sun, and while he’s naturally blessed by the Cornish scenery (the film is shot…

Recent reviews

Help! 1965

★★★★ Watched 14 Dec 2024 5

Cinematic universes are all the rage these days, but there's just not enough talk about the Richard Lester cinematic universe of Dandy Nichols and Gretchen Franklin's sweet old dears who appear in both this and How I Won the War.
Help! needs a major re-evaluation. It's always unfairly been considered as the ugly kid brother of A Hard Day's Night, and I really don't know why. As a kid, I actually preferred this. I found it a silly and fun…
Midas Man 2024

★★★ Watched 14 Dec 2024 2

It's strange how the celebrity right wing Jewish twitterati who moan about how roles like Oppenheimer go to gentiles like Cillian Murphy, never actually complain about the many Jewish roles that Eddie Marsan gets isn't it? That infamous professional cosplay Jew is here yet again, playing Brian Epstein's father, Harry, though his appearances are mercifully brief. Presumably the lack of criticism stems from the fact that he's one of their friends, parroting the usual zionist propaganda and lies about antisemitism…

Popular reviews

Baby Reindeer 2024

★★★★ Watched 12 Apr 2024 15

My advice is to go in as blind as possible.
Billed as a drama about stalking, I was initially a bit dispirited by the casting of Jessica Gunning as the stalker. Let me be clear, I love Jessica Gunning. I think she is a phenomenal actor. But I did worry that her taking this role, irrespective of whatever the real person she is portraying may look like, was evidence once more of how creatives and casting directors view anyone over…
I, Daniel Blake 2016

★★★★★ Watched 26 Feb 2017 36

St Helens Disability Advice and Welfare Network, St Helens Jobcentre, Ashton-In-Makerfield Jobcentre, Huyton Jobcentre, Apex Charitable Trust, Shaw Trust St Helens, Starting Point St Helens.
Just some of the places I've worked at that involve helping people into work, getting people 'job ready' or dealing with people's benefit claims.
Jobseekers allowance, Incapacity benefit, Employment and Support allowance, Carers allowance.
Just some of the benefits I've claimed since (and between) those jobs.
I've ran jobclubs, CV making courses and jobmatch programmes,…

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