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Why Don’t You Just Die 4.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

31st May 2020 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Matvey has just one objective: to gain entry to his girlfriend’s parents’ apartment and kill her father Andrey with a hammer to restore her honour. But Matvey’s attempts to bludgeon the family patriarch to death don’t quite go to plan as Andrey proves a more formidable opponent than he anticipated… and Matvey, for his part,… Why Don’t You Just Die Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: blood, corruption, family, russia

Kursk: The Last Mission 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

14th July 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

With state-of-the-art Russian submarine Kursk now at the bottom of the sea, and Russian rescue equipment mostly sold off, Royal Navy Commodore David Russell (Colin Firth) asks Admiral Vyacheslav Grudzinsky (Peter Simonischek) if his bosses will let the British in: “not until I’ve tried a sufficient number of times to do the impossible with the… Kursk: The Last Mission Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: disaster, kursk, navy, russia, submarine

Kursk: The Last Mission trailer – Schoenaerts stars in tragic story of supposedly unsinkable sub

17th June 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

*** My 3.5 star review of Kursk: The Last Mission *** I’m expecting heroism but no happy ending with this one, as Kursk: The Last Mission is based on a true – and desperately sad – story from 19 years ago, when the Russian Kursk submarine ended up on the ocean floor after a terrible fire…. Kursk: The Last Mission trailer – Schoenaerts stars in tragic story of supposedly unsinkable sub Read More

Filed Under: Trailers Tagged With: colin firth, kursk, lea seydoux, matthias Schoenaerts, royal navy, russia, submarine, submarine films, thomas Vinterberg

Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb 5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

8th May 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

*** Check out my interview with Matt Wells, director of Stanley Kubrick Considers The Bomb, the short film showing with the new 4k Dr Strangelove *** It shows how easily I slipped back into my 1980s-era Armageddon obsession when – on realising Stanley Kubrick’s classic Dr Strangelove is 95 minutes long – I decided to… Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: america, doomsday machine, Mutually assured destruction, nuclear war, nuclear weapons, russia, ussr

Black Sea 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

4th November 2018 by Sarah Leave a Comment

*** Check out my submarine movies section *** Black Sea is a brutal watch, almost a horror film as the deaths mount, with fear itself a virus. And although not a straight East-West underwater battle, it still has Westerners fighting with Russians. At one point they each take over different ends of their submarine, with the Brits… Black Sea Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: black sea, crimea, gold, russia, salvage, scotland, submarine, ww2

The Hunt For Red October 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

2nd November 2018 by Sarah 1 Comment

*** Check out my submarine movies section *** I miss the Cold War. We knew where we stood – permanently on the brink of nuclear annihilation, obviously. But those proxy wars and chess matches were, mostly, holding us back from the brink, playing out within agreed confines. The dangers were huge but we at least knew who… The Hunt For Red October Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: cold war, russia, submarine, ussr

Crimson Tide 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

2nd November 2018 by Sarah Leave a Comment

*** Check out my submarine movies section *** “In the nuclear world the enemy is war itself” says Lt Commander Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington), during a rather spiky discussion with his war-hardened and instinctive Captain Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman). Two men: one Hunter, one Killer, I mean Ramsey, with the fate of the world in their hands…. Crimson Tide Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: america, chechnya, nuclear weapons, russia, submarine

Hunter Killer 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

20th October 2018 by Sarah 1 Comment

*** Check out my submarine movies section *** One side-effect of the current political situation is that films like Hunter Killer are stuck in that 1990s post-Cold War warm glow where protagonists and presidents are decent people who just happen to have been born on different sides of an arbitrary border. While their real life equivalents are… Hunter Killer Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: america, coup, russia, submarine, war

The Meg, But Metal: Second Hunter Killer Trailer Is Here

17th September 2018 by Sarah Leave a Comment

…and a new red poster! The film’s out in Oktober so not long to wait now until Gerry saves me, I mean us, from World War 3. *** Read my Hunter Killer review now *** Check out the new trailer below – you can also see the first Hunter Killer trailer (released back in July)… The Meg, But Metal: Second Hunter Killer Trailer Is Here Read More

Filed Under: Trailers Tagged With: america, common, coup, gary oldman, Gerard butler, hunter killer, Michael Nyqvist, russia, submarine, thriller

The Seagull 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

10th September 2018 by Sarah Leave a Comment

  To Irina, a famous actress, all the world’s a stage, its boards to be trod only in full make-up and costume. Yet she never looks more youthful or more happy than the one occasional we see her face naked, rich auburn curls snaking down her back, as she rushes from her bed and her… The Seagull Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: chekhov, love, russia, theatre

Siberia 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

19th August 2018 by Sarah Leave a Comment

There’s a coldness to Matthew Ross’s new thriller Siberia that goes way beyond bleakly sub-zero temperatures and beautiful ice-blue diamonds. That and the nihilistic icy clarity of how Lucas Hill’s story will end make it hard to really engage with. Still, his relationships with his new girlfriend and her brother are bleakly funny, and there’s… Siberia Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: blue diamonds, diamonds, gangsters, russia

Death Of Stalin 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

29th October 2017 by Sarah Leave a Comment

It’s amazing any decisions get made at all, both before and after Stalin’s death, as everyone is so paralysed with fear. The consequences of saying the wrong thing which they were previously so convinced was the right thing are terrifying. Being in the Soviet Politburo does sound a lot like being on Twitter. Well, most… Death Of Stalin Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: khrushchev, russia, stalin, ussr

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Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, John Wick lover and Gerard Butler apologist. Still waiting for Mike Banning vs John Wick: Requiem

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Reviews

Netflix and chill: the film club discusses The Pale Blue Eye 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

See How They Run 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Maneater 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Clarkson’s Farm (TV series, season 1) 4.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

The Reef: Stalked 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Persuasion 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

GATLOPP: Hell Of A Game 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Jurassic World: Dominion 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Top Gun: Maverick 5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Senior Year 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

H20h no! The Film Club watches Black Water: Abyss 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (TV mini series) 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Pursuit Of A Jigsaw (short film) Short Film 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Operation Mincemeat 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Reed’s Point 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Let The Wrong One In 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Death On The Nile 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Deep Water 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Moonfall 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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