watched the hateful 8 last night for the first time since i saw it in the cinema when it came out. My opinion hasn’t changed, boring and way too fucking long (like so many of his films). Could easily talk an hour out of it and make a good. sharp western tale. I do love Morricones score and it looks great but fuck me QT, reign in the self indulgent pish. Too late.
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This is how I felt, found it fun and enjoyable and definitely better than Asteroid City, felt like he was reaching for another Grand Budapest Hotel, but yeah missing the heart of his earlier stuff.
Finally had three hours to sit down and watch The Act of Killing. What an absolutely astonishing documentary (in so many ways). Just an essential film.
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Bit late but here’s my May roundup:
Watched: Wrestlemania IX: Becoming a Spectacle
Best: Wrestlemania IX: Becoming a Spectacle
Worst: Wrestlemania IX: Becoming a Spectacle
MMOTM: Luna Vachon and Sensational Sherri doing great work at ringside during Shawn Michaels vs. Tatanka (Wrestlemania IX: Becoming a Spectacle)
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Seeing it Saturday and I couldn’t care less really - it’s a free ticket so whatever. Sort of hoping that it can’t be any worse than The French Dispatch or Asteroid City, but I’m not holding my breath.
I almost dropped some really expensive equipment because I kept remembering the gunshot sample with the couple of frames of screaming at the end
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A 4 film marathon lined-up tomorrow at the NFT. A perfect way to while away a rainy day.
What films you planning?
4k restoration of Schlesinger’s Darling, The Phoenician Scheme, Barbara Loden’s Wanda and Godard’s Breathless.
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So jealous, always wish I was closer to the BFI, all solid films, enjoy it. =]
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Watched A Complete Unknown (2025)
Everyone is too good looking & they didn’t get to the bit where he met the Beatles
Otherwise a pretty well made film I guess… a couple of the performances genuinely moving, but it didn’t really have any edge
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Ballerina is an absolute hoot. I was worried it was gonna be naff cause the director doesn’t have a great track record (a bad Die Hard, the Total Recall remake) but it’s a worthy spin-off that pretty much nails the style and the violence and the OTT action (the bit with the grenades 
. I remember thinking Ana de Armas was great when she was in that last Bond film and she totally carries that presence through to this.
Probably the only bit where it sagged a little for me is when ol Johnny Wick himself turns up (which I’m not spoilering cause in the trailers and the posters) but it’s a minor part and then it gets straight back to ludicrous action sequences.
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Straw is the first Tyler Perry film I’ve seen and it’ll be the last. Shite
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apparently the John Wick director did a load of reshoots on it (much of the OTT action stuff it sounds like)
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I know his last few films have had a rather mixed reception but I thought this was interesting looking over his career
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That would make a whole lotta sense.
oh man, I can’t wait to watch this
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I’m Heatpilled
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Saw a few in the last week.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)
I liked this a lot
Dune Part 2 (2024)
Not sure why It took me so long to get around to this. Enjoyable stuff, although absolutely not “the best film of 2024” or “the best film nominated for best picture in 2025” like many people are saying, and I’m glad Timmy can add “barking out gibberish” to his CV
Monolith (2022)
Low budget Australian psychological thriller. One of those films that only has one character on screen for the entire length In this case it’s a podcaster, who gets an anonymous email about somebody and a black brick thing. This spirals off into numerous phone calls, emails, social media responses, conspiracy theory stuff. It kind of reminded me of some other films like Kimi and Pontypool (to some extent). Gets a bit wonky at the end, but I thought it was kind of good, with the kind of tight script something like this requires. Never going to by anyone’s favourite film, but I enjoyed the 90 minute ride it took me on
Hell yeah, bro
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