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Richard has written 39 reviews for films during 2024.

Red One 2024

★★★ Watched 30 Dec 2024

I felt I should hate it because everyone else appears to hate it but I didn't hate it. Chris Evans gets all the best lines. It's completely unhinged. I've seen worse.
Christmas Reservations 2019

★★ Watched 12 Dec 2024

Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Carlos from Desperate Housewives are just one of five (!) romantic plotline couples in this ridiculous Hallmark-esque Christmas nonsense. It's set in a ski lodge, it's completely predictable but I just can't help dabbling in this kind of festive rubbish.
Favourite bit - craft activity scene in which the guests are making wreaths and then halfway through the scene they're suddenly all making Gingerbread houses instead.
House 1985

★★★½ Rewatched 26 Nov 2024

One of those films I watched loads as a child and then hadn't seen for some decades. My memory of it was pretty hazy and I was delighted to find how much fun this silly haunted house film remains.
Author Roger Cobb (a superbly comedic William Katt) moves into his deceased aunt's house, where his son had mysteriously disappeared some time before. Weird stuff starts to happen. There's Vietnam flashbacks, various rubbery monsters and next door neighbour George Wendt essentiallly…
The Princess Bride 1987

★★★★½ Rewatched 28 Oct 2024

Fezzik: Why do you wear a mask? Were you burned by acid, or something like that?
Man in Black: Oh no, it's just that they're terribly comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the future.
THE PRINCESS BRIDE LITERALLY PREDICTED COVID.
Friday the 13th Part III 1982

★★½ Watched 19 Oct 2024

90 minutes of people poking things into the camera due to it being shot in 3D. Made the whole thing moderately amusing instead of, basically, quite dull.
Friday the 13th Part 2 1981

★★★ Watched 12 Oct 2024

It's better made than the first one but still a bit rough around the edges. First half absolutely zipped by and the second half made not one jot of sense. It's perfectly watchable though.
Friday the 13th 1980

★★★ Rewatched 12 Oct 2024

The nostalgia and influence do most of the heavy lifting because let's face it, it's pretty slow, the audio is so bad that dialogue is frequently indecipherable and it looks a bit cheap. Tom Savini does pull a couple of great makeup effects out of the bag though despite a no doubt severely limited budget.
Chandu Champion 2024

★★★★ Watched 11 Sep 2024

Big, glossy Indian sports biopic based on a true story (with, I suspect, many liberties taken) of a boy who dreamed of Olympic gold. It's a film with a huge heart, its consistently entertaining and at times hilariously over the top. It contains no less than three training montages but just the one song and dance routine.
Dunkirk 2017

★★★★ Watched 26 Aug 2024

Went into it not really knowing much. Wasn't expecting to be dropped into the middle of things with no set up, no character establishment, no nothing really. Found it quite novel and thoroughly enjoyed the film as it unfolded. Lovely nod to Churchill's Speech by Iron Maiden at the end.
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee 2024

★★★★ Watched 26 Aug 2024 1

Director Jon Spira has dedicated his latest documentary to my late brother, so I was never not going to like it. But... The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee is, genuinely, a supremely engaging, thoughtful and at times laugh out loud funny telling of the actor's long life. Narrated by a black and white marionette of Christopher Lee who is voiced by Peter Serafinowicz (thankfully doing more of a homage to the great man than an out-and-out impression), the film…
Alien: Romulus 2024

★★★½ Watched 22 Aug 2024

So Prey is to Predator, Alien Romulus is to Alien - a back to basics focus on what made the first film so effective, although Romulus doesn't quite reach the heights of Prey. It very much feels like an Alien film for the next generation (and my 17 year old LOVED it and was particularly complementary of the fact that the dialogue actually reflected how young people talk to each other). There's a bit of every Alien film in here,…
Demonoid: Messenger of Death 1981

★ Watched 01 Aug 2024

A film whose intro promises so much (tits, gore) but delivers so little (no more tits, not much more gore). Woeful.

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