Letterboxd — Your life in film

To date I have given all five of the Louis CK shows that I've watched 3.5 stars.

I think that says a lot about how consistent he has been as a stand up comedian. Even greats like George Carlin and Bill Hicks had their lesser shows that you would be unlikely to revisit. At the same time, however, they also had at least two truly great performances that are amongst the very best stand-up shows ever produced. Even a couple…

Film 10 of Steve Grzesiak's Worldwide Month of Scary Bastard Films

Two in one day! And two in one day of horror films that really are rather difficult to pin down in terms of what sub-genre they belong to. This low budget Norwegian offering is probably best described as a fantasy horror film, but it is probably much less of the latter than it is of the former.

It is roughly based on the Norwegian myth of the huldra, a…

If you are of a certain age, like I am, and happened to be a kid and /or a teenager when Arnold Schwarzenegger was at the height of his powers, regularly pumping out high quality action films, then the news that he was coming back to make a proper action film should have excited you a ridiclously exceptional amount.

They do say you should never go back, of course, and in the meantime he did go off and become a…

It dawned on me halfway through Carpet Remnant World, Stewart Lee's latest DVD where he now introduces some spectacles into his appearance, presumably in an effort to make himself look more like a fat Harry Palmer, that there is no point in reviewing this show.

What is the point of me or anyone else reviewing this show when he spends half the show reviewing it anyway? I'm not going to be able to review it as well as Stewart Lee.…

Rich Hall has done three previous documentaries for the BBC about various facets of American society as seen in films and, to a lesser extent, literature, theatre and music.

How the West Was Lost discussed Westerns and how the so-called Wild West had been misrepresented by Hollywood, The Dirty South tackled misrepresentations in movies of the Deep South, and Continental Drifters examined the American road movie. All of them were quite splendid documentaries in their own right and, although now…

Somebody's going to have to do me a favour here.

I know it might be difficult and that because you only know me through Letterboxd (and possibly Twitter and maybe a wrestling forum) but just do your best. The next time you see or sense me being curious about a film that I know I am going to absolutely hate, then please stop me. By any means necessary.

As I remarked to Ahab on a list earlier today, at one…

The World Is More Than Enough - 30 Countries In 30 Days Challenge (11 / 30) - Germany

Another Netflix obscurity, Snowman's Land is a German crime comedy that sees an ageing and bungling hitman teamed up with a younger fellow killer for a mystery assignment high in the mountains in one of the most deserted areas of Europe. Things take a turn for the unpredictable, however, when the girlfriend of the man they are working for turns up and…

Ever since I saw a review of it in Empire and Sight & Sound and was enticed by adverts for screenings of it at the fabulous Cornerhouse every time I went by on the 50 bus for a couple of weeks, I have been counting down the days until I saw Berberian Sound Studio.

It's odd, really. I've not seen Peter Strickland's previous film, Katalin Varga. I'm not especially knowledgeable about Toby Jones' work. Plus, I'm not someone who has a…

Of all the reviews that I've written on Letterboxd to date, the one I wrote for Compliance was the one I was least happy with.

It wasn't so much that I thought it was a bunch of shit - that's for others to judge! No, over the last few weeks I have thought about this film a lot more and realised that I actually hate this film and that the thoughts in that review don't represent my thoughts now.

I…

Part 18 of my Tell Me What To Watch Decembuary - nominated by DirkH.

Compliance is a film that not only shows us that truth is stranger than fiction but also that it can be stupider than fiction.

I know that there have been studies into the kind of behaviour that leads to many of the events that happen or are portrayed in Compliance and by terming them as 'stupid' you might think I'm being rather callous towards the people…