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  • 45 Years

    ★★★★

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    ★★½

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    ★★

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    ★★★

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45 Years

45 Years

2015
★★★★ Watched 2

While I can’t really access the emotions or experiences of this one, it’s supremely well crafted watch that weighs on one. There’s a haunting stillness to what is, in effect, a ghost story of sorts. The performances press precisely and intently on the boundaries of interiority, never quite breaking through but willing the viewer to fill in the blanks. It’s utterly agonising as the revelations never quite articulated in full hang in the air for all to see but not for all to address or resolve.

Feel a bit sick after this.

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Civilisation

Civilisation

1969
★★★★★ Watched 3

I only review television when it’s truly exceptional. Civilisation is exceptional in its erudition, scope and most importantly its confidence. One of many tragedies of the BBC’s betrayal of Reithian principles is the complete collapse of competent documentary making. This failure is underpinned by an unwillingness to display personal opinion (orally and visually) with confidence. Instead we are incumbered by the same milquetoast mediocrities rehashing hackneyed cliches to declining viewership. It is in this light that the scandalous decommissioning of…

28 Days Later

28 Days Later

2002
★★★½ Watched 2

28 Years Later and long rambling take on British horror to come soon, but in the meantime...

For a film that reads like it was written by my mother telling me stop breathing through an open mouth as a child, this is a classic.

Yes it's a bit ooo society...ooo the real infection is man and his infinite capacity for violence, but it completely redefined the zombie movie. Stylistically it dragged the staggering limbs of b-movie horror past into a…

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