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  • Alien³ 1992

    ★★ Rewatched 08 Aug, 2012

    It's taken me a few watches to realise how piss-awful this is. The action is passable, just, but the dialogue and acting is dreadful. Poor old Ralph Brown.

  • Annie Hall 1977

    ★★★★½ Watched 20 Aug, 2012

    Confession: I am 37 and this is the first time I have seen Annie Hall. I don't feel able to give it a star rating.

  • Apocalypto 2006

    ★★★½ Watched 03 Jul, 2012

    Mel Gibson is proper mental, right? And this is like glimpse of the edges of someone's insanity. So obviously It makes for a great intense watch. And the best face eating jaguar scene I've seen in ages.

  • Cemetery Junction 2010

    ★★ Watched 12 Mar, 2012

    Riddled with cliché and Gervais's increasing overblown sense of his own importance. A few laughs, though, and I think time will be kind to it.

  • Commando 1985

    ★★★ Rewatched 07 Apr, 2012

    3 for nostalgia, really.

  • Copenhagen 2002

    ★★½ Watched 10 May, 2012

    Did a decent job of making what is essentially a script on legs cinematic Though there was too much exposition (by necessity, really) and too much of Rea and Craig walking away from each other (and Annis trailing behind). Loved the way it explained some of the key tenets of quantum physics with simply economy.

  • Cop Land 1997

    ★★½ Watched 12 Jul, 2012

    Feels oddly dated and, despite its ambition and cast, televisual - and in truth a bit all over the place. Stallone was great, though. So was Springsteen.

  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2010

    ★★½ Watched 27 Aug, 2012

    Did the expected and shaved off the sharp edges from the book and added closure and dubious morality where it wasn't necessary. Not funny enough, either.

  • Dreams of a Life 2012

    ★★★★ Watched 28 Feb, 2013

    An easy film to 'own' in many respects, as we've all known people like Joyce, and because it makes you immediately seek out those you love and hold onto them with a new kind of ferocity.

  • Drive 2011

    ★★½ Watched 08 Feb, 2012

    Perfectly fine, but the adulation this has received has actually turned me off this. Much like Bronson, it's a shiny, empty thing that slips from your grasp if you try and look at it for too long; it's also style over substance once removed: it references nothing but films, and filmic ideas.

  • Garden State 2004

    ★★ Watched 01 Apr, 2012

    Trod a dangerous line between being quirky and outright annoying, and slipped one too many times. In no way earned the right to explore the abyssal nature of the central theme.

  • Jaws: The Revenge 1987

    ½ Watched 16 Aug, 2012 2

    Glorious, unmitigated shite.