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Pinned reviews

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  X 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Oct 2022

  Hooptober 9.0 - Film #34 - A nasty bump ‘n’ grind
  
  So this Hooptober I’ve watched people get eaten by zombie rats, impaled by glass, transformed into insects, bitten by vampires, skewered by a giant mosquito proboscis in the ass, devoured by a giant brain, raped in a ritual, fall to their death, recount real world horrors, smothered to death, eyes gouged out by a stone hand, stabbed, electrocuted, whipped, tell bad jokes at a bar, unexpectedly shot, bitten by…

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  Crash! 1976

  ★★½ Watched 24 Oct 2022 4

  Hooptober 9.0 - Film #33 - A car crash story

  The Charles Band Experiment… Film #2

  So at the end of October I had back to back job interviews, one on the 31st October and one on the 1st November. As you can imagine Hooptober reviewing had to take a back seat but on the plus side I’ve got a new job! Huzzah! 

  Anyway onto Charles Band’s second film (well technically third…) Killer cars were big in the ‘70s and…

Recent reviews

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  Thor: Love and Thunder 2022

  ★★★ Watched 14 Nov 2022

  I think this is what an 80s hair metal album would be like if it was a marvel movie.

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  Downton Abbey: A New Era 2022

  ★★½ Watched 11 Nov 2022

  If the series was the cake, and the first film the icing, this is the pouring of hundreds of thousands of hundreds and thousands on top.

  It’s amiable enough but there’s no real story here…. The family have to go to France and face… a perfectly genial conversation. 

  It ultimately just serves as a way to give some characters a send off. Meaningless to watch as a standalone film but if you’re after a two hour coda to the Downtown saga… this now exists.

Popular reviews

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  Ice Age 2002

  ★★★½ Rewatched 16 Apr 2017 9

  Much better than I remembered. Then again any film is improved by listening to my daughter laughing her head off throughout.

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  Thunderball 1965

  ★★½ Rewatched 24 Apr 2017 10

  Nobody ranks Bond better for Bond-a-thon

  Quick question first... Is "You swim like a man" the worlds worst attempt at a pick up line?

  Right, I thought it would be fitting to review this one underwater... So scuba diving gear on... here we go

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