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  • The Great Gatsby 2013

    ★★★½ Watched 17 May, 2013

    For all its successes and failures, it is exactly what you would expect a Baz Luhrmann adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel to be.

  • Oblivion 2013

    ★★★ Watched 13 May, 2013

    Very pretty production design, but a complete lack of originality prevents Oblivion from measuring up to the great science-fiction films it so desperately wants to be. It's essentially Moon crossed with WALL-E, starring Tom Cruise.

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  • The Shining 1980

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Nov, 2012

    Incredible film, one of my favourites. Was great to see it on the big screen, especially since I hadn't seen the American cut before.

  • Nostalgia for the Light 2010

    ★★★★½ Watched 20 Dec, 2012

    Set in the Atacama desert, the film opens by comparing astronomy and archaeology; how they both in their essence are ways of exploring the past. However, it develops into a comment on the military dictatorship in Chile and how it affects people there to this day. A profound and thought-provoking documentary that is surely one of the year's best.