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The Secret Garden 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

25th October 2020 by Sarah

An orphaned girl discovers a magical garden hidden at her strict uncle’s estate. I was underwhelmed by The Secret Garden but not the secret garden. The film feels soulless, its magic and reality uneasy (flower)bedfellows; while the garden is a gorgeously tangled, artfully curated wilderness housing everything a child, kept captive by an adult world… The Secret Garden Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: 1940s, country house, Frances Hodgson Burnett, grief, horticulture, india, partition, yorkshire

Dusty & Me 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

26th September 2018 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Dusty & Me is beautifully staged (it’s set in the 1970s, and looks of its time without being drenched in memorabilia), though one design element did grate. It was the Del Monte tinned fruit cocktail the family had for their tea one night, where I spotted a pink cherry in each bowl. No way did one… Dusty & Me Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Support Indie Film Tagged With: class, dogs, greyhound racing, oxbridge, yorkshire

Comfort Blanket Movies For When The World Is Going To Hell In A Handcart (i.e. Now)

31st January 2017 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Handing out her "end of days" to-do lists Fiona explained that being left behind during "The Rapture" didn't simply mean a disappointing wedding night

The world is pretty dark right now, but once you’ve filled your understairs cupboard with cans of baked beans, plus that Long Life UHT milk that come the Apocalypse no one will actually drink (“things are bad enough, I’ll have that cold coffee black if you don’t mind”), you’ll need something to fill the time before the… Comfort Blanket Movies For When The World Is Going To Hell In A Handcart (i.e. Now) Read More

Filed Under: Film Articles Tagged With: airplane, american werewolf in london, apocalypse, comfort blanket films, comfort movies, dark days, end of days, end of the world, favourite films, four weddings and a funeral, hugh grant, john wick, jurassic park, keanu reeves, kristin scott thomas, leslie nielsen, lofty pythons life of brian, naked gun, prometheus, reign of fire, ripley, yorkshire

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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

The Bounty Hunter 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

One True Loves 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

John Wick: Chapter 4 4.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Visualization (short film) Short Film 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Follow The Dead 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Plane 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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☆☆☆☆☆

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