Kieran Battams

Kieran Battams

Favorite films

  • Trainspotting
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
  • Spider-Man 2

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  • The 'Burbs

    ★★★½

  • Fargo

    ★★★★

  • Doctor Who: The Star Beast

    ★★★★

  • Napoleon

    ★★★½

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  • The 'Burbs

    The 'Burbs

    ★★★½

    Probably should've ended about 5-10 minutes earlier because it had already gone in the best possible direction complete with a flawless Tom Hanks speech to further prove that point (which remains flawless despite getting completely undermined).
    However, as a much sillier and much more deranged Rear Window, it's a whole lotta fun.

  • Fargo

    Fargo

    ★★★★

    Personally if I were a cop and somebody said the guy I needed was the "funny looking guy", I wouldn't have to question it. I'd be knocking at Steve Buscemi's door first.
    Basically a chain reaction caused by a mixture of incompetence and greed that resolves itself due to a mixture of more incompetence and greed... and it's crafted to full circle expertly.

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  • Last Night in Soho

    Last Night in Soho

    ★★★★½

    My experience with seeing this might be heightened by the fact that this was my very first London Film Festival experience and I was just so very excited to be here, but I'm also a massive Edgar Wright fan and was excited for this anyway.
    As has been my takeaway from every single one of his films I've seen, the man just can't miss and I felt for him this was a rather big swing.

    It feels entirely different from…

  • Glass Onion

    Glass Onion

    ★★★★

    LFF 2022 #8 - Closing Night Gala

    I'm honestly so sad that LFF has come to a close for the year, but if it had to come to an end then this was the perfect way to do it, with a bang. This film was so much fun!
    I don't think it's quite the breath of fresh air Knives Out was, which I think revitalised the whodunnit genre flawlessly, but it sure is as compelling as a mystery film gets.…