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I try to update my favourites list regularly with a new theme.
Current favourite films are....favourite 'Switched-at-birth' films.

Favorite films

Recent reviews

The Hand of God 2021

★★★★ Watched 20 Jan 2025

Paolo Sorrentino's semi-autobiographical take on his teenage years in Napoli in the mid-eighties. A time when Diego Maradona signed for the local football team, and a time of family tragedy interrupting his coming of age.
Still beautiful to look at but a little less glossy than some of Sorrentino's other films, with the focus being on a more ordinary part of society leading less glamorous lives.
But there's still plenty of extraordinary characters in the life of Fabietto Schisa (Filippo…
Death and the Maiden 1994

★★★★ Watched 20 Jan 2025

Taut, tense, claustrophobic thriller from Roman Polanski.
Pretty much a one location 3-hander which plays out within only a few hours. Fine performances from all three.

Popular reviews

Nest 2022

★★★★ Watched 02 Aug 2022

Now this is what to do with lockdown if you're a filmmaker. Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason, who made the excellent 'A White, White Day', creates an imaginative and evocative short with a fixed camera pointed at a telegraph pole that is transformed over a year into a treehouse built mainly by and for his three children. We see the changing of the seasons from the harsh, brutal, Icelandic winter to the slightly less harsh spring, summer and autumn, as the…
The Beatles: Get Back 2021

★★★★★ Watched 25 Nov 2021 1

Part 1
So no whitewash here. Peter Jackson just lets us see exactly what happened. This is The Beatles' winter of discontent in the cold, cavernous, poorly acoustic Twickenham Studios. The songs are barely more than rough demos, everyone's niggly and grumpy, only Paul seems to have any enthusiasm for the project and even he's moaning about getting no support. But there are still snippets of joy and camaraderie and the genesis of some fantastic songs.
Don't know what it's…

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