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Recent reviews

This Is Me…Now 2024

★★★ Watched 13 Feb 2024

With its bonkers visuals, heart-shaped wedding dress, fantasy flourishes and cryptic logline (“From the heart/soul/dreams of Jennifer Lopez”), the first trailer for This Is Me... Now: A Love Story immediately set tongues a-wagging among the J-Lovers and J-curious alike. What the hell, we asked as one, is this thing? Is it a straight narrative fictional film? A music video? A glossy fashion commercial? A Fast & Furious-meets-Step Up pastiche? A response to the visual poetry of Beyoncé’s Lemonade or the epic…
Funny Face 1957

Watched 26 Jan 2024

Really delightful. If only magazine making was like this!

Popular reviews

My Cousin Rachel 2017

★★★ Watched 07 Jun 2017 2

I ain't saying she's a gold digger
But she ain't messing with no broke 18th-century aristocrat
T2 Trainspotting 2017

★★★½ Watched 19 Jan 2017 3

The original Trainspotting was an exercise in youthful vibrancy. A sequel set twenty years later loses some of that vibrancy by necessity. This is a Danny Boyle film so obviously it's stylish as fuck, and it is consistently funny (with the original film's sense of crude anarchic realism – it features maybe the most darkly funny suicide attempt ever filmed) but this is fundamentally a sad film, and in essence a two-hour epilogue to the first film. Modern middle-aged male melancholy. It's kind of heartbreaking.

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