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Banff Mountain Film Festival Tour 2022

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Short films seen at the Banff Mountain Film Festival tour, Sat 19th March 2022.

Red Film Programme. Watched @Union Chapel,…

  • Die Another Day
  • Escape from L.A.

Action movie sequels marred by abysmal VFX work that for some inexplicable reason feature an utterly ludicrous sequence where the protagonist surfs a tsunami.

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  • First Cow
  • Another Round
  • Pig
  • Sound of Metal
  • Minari

Top 10 at the cinema - 2021

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Here is a roundup of my favourite/most memorable cinema experiences of 2021. As one LB user (whose identity escapes me)…

  • Lamb
  • Rams

Icelandic ovine-themed dramas, set partly around Christmas, that are named after sheep, and feature storylines exploring horrible traumas inflicted on said sheep, that are ultimately all about (*insert Vin Diesel voice*) “family”.

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  • California Split
  • The Gambler

Films about gambling addicts released in 1974 in which the protagonist challenges some teenage kids to a low-stakes game of basketball.

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  • The Raid
  • Dredd

Action-packed thrillers where a small group of protagonists fight off seemingly insurmountable odds while ascending the floors of a high-rise building in order to flush out an evil drug lord.

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  • Parasite
  • Saint Maud
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Memories of Murder
  • Tenet

Top 10 at the cinema - 2020

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Despite all the cinema closures, stuttered release schedules, and general all-round chaos that was 2020, I still managed to cram…

  • Se7en
  • The Social Network
  • Zodiac
  • Fight Club
  • Gone Girl

David Fincher filmography - ranked

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Top 3 are fairly interchangeable. Position of Mank may change pending a rewatch.

  • Alien
  • Aliens
  • Prometheus
  • Alien³
  • Alien: Covenant

Alien franchise - ranked

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Meant to do this months ago. No surprises here whatsoever.

  • Alien Resurrection
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Films featuring Brad Dourif as a fawning underling who works for a tyrannical master, in which cloning experiments breed a devilish hybrid creature with great big pointy teeth that enters the world by tearing its body through a viscous embryonic membrane.

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OK, nerd alert. I’ll admit, this one is extremely tenuous—not least because the relevant spawning scene I’m thinking of from…

  • Escape from L.A.
  • Alien Resurrection

Films with inexplicable basketball sequences that serve no purpose to the rest of the plot, but end up being the most memorable scene in the film.

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  • Midnight Run
  • Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Buddy road movies set in the late 80s where a mismatched duo are thrown together and proceed to irritate one another, but form a bond by the film’s close, having reached their destination using a combination of planes, trains and automobiles.

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