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  • Raw
  • Casablanca
  • Casino Royale

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  • I'm Still Here

    ★★★★

  • The Last Showgirl

    ★★½

  • Fifty Shades Darker

    ★

  • The Apprentice

    ★★★★

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  • Fifty Shades Darker

    Fifty Shades Darker 2017

    ★ Watched 28 Feb 2025

    Levitated out of my seat at the reveal of the Chronicles of Riddick movie poster that Christian Grey has on his bedroom door!!!

    Movie made complete sense after that reveal! A true connoisseur of the one and only Dick Riddick!!!

  • Calvaire

    Calvaire 2004

    ★★ Watched 19 Jan 2025

    While creating a fascinatingly deranged atmosphere, filled with inventive and visually arresting images, Fabrice Du Welz’s feature length debut Calvaire unfortunately doesn’t stick the landing when focusing on its themes or intention. Opening as a genuinely pitch perfect black comedy about a lonely man accosted by individuals he doesn’t want due to the performance he delivers that is ‘his life’, Welz’s film slowly trickles out a twisted, disturbing, and uncompromising tale about male violence and loneliness. But for as shocking…

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  • Jingle All the Way

    Jingle All the Way 1996

    ★★★ Rewatched 16 Dec 2014 1

    Merry Christmas Everyone! - Film #16 - Jingle All The Way

    Here's the thing with Jingle All The Way, it's cheesy, sometimes stupid but always fun. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a dad who forgets about his son's most wanted Christmas present, a Turbo-Man doll. So on Christmas eve he sets out to get one only to find that Turbo-Man is the years most popular toy and it's sold out everywhere. Arnold is funny in everything, just catchphrases can let out a…

  • Chained

    Chained 2012

    ★★★½ Watched 13 Apr 2016

    Here's the thing with Chained, it's a dark, very disturbing and sickly depressing film from Jennifer Lynch (David Lynch's daughter). I wasn't planning on watching this and when it started I was planning on switching it off. I had heard mixed reviews, lots of people loving it, many hating it and I didn't know what to expect. Well, I was surprised. Not only did I find it very thrilling but I thought it was very well made. I hadn't heard…

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