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Movie reviews, big and small, for anything that has passed before my eyes.

Friday, 12 December 2025

Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper! (2025)

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Hear me out. There has been a major increase in the number of Christmas movies that we get each year. I think we can all agree on that. It...
Thursday, 11 December 2025

Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977)

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Emmet Otter and his Ma are poor. Properly poor. Which wouldn't be a major problem for them if they didn't have certain obligations. ...
Wednesday, 10 December 2025

Prime Time: Oh. What. Fun. (2025)

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One of the bigger Christmas movies to appear at the end of 2025,  Oh. What. Fun.  has a wealth of talent on both sides of the camera. It...
Tuesday, 9 December 2025

Santa Isn't Real (2023)

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There has been a disappointing lack of killer Santa movies this year. The past few years have brough us  an abundance of the things, as well...
Monday, 8 December 2025

Mubi Monday: Winter In Sokcho (2024)

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Based on a novel from Elisa Shua Dusapin,  Winter In Sokcho  is a film that should make most viewers smile. It has a consistent feeling thro...
Sunday, 7 December 2025

Netflix And Chill: A Merry Little Ex-Mas (2025)

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Things look set to be perfectly pleasant and civil when Kate (Alicia Silverstone) and Everett (Oliver Hudson) decide to "consciously un...
Saturday, 6 December 2025

Shudder Saturday: The Occupant Of The Room (2025)

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An adaptation of an Algernon Blackwood tale by writer-director Kier-La Janisse, presented in the annual short film presentations entitled ...
Friday, 5 December 2025

A Christmas Angel Match (2025)

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While I watch many movies in December that I wouldn't watch at any other time of year, I still try to search high and low for the real g...
Thursday, 4 December 2025

Elf-Man (2011)

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A Christmas vehicle for Jason 'Wee Man' Acuña (who will already be familiar to fans of the Jackass franchise),  Elf-Man  is a bit of...
Wednesday, 3 December 2025

Prime Time: 12 Toys Of Christmas (2025)

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If you think that it's easy to make a cheesy Christmas movie then you should try to watch a bad cheesy Christmas movie. There are many o...
Tuesday, 2 December 2025

Bad Tidings (2024)

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2024 was a very good year for the stars of  Bad Tidings , which meant the timing seemed perfect for this Christmas movie. Chris McCausland w...
Monday, 1 December 2025

Mubi Monday: Babyteeth (2019)

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I have found myself saying this quite often lately, but here we have another movie that takes some very familiar elements and blends them in...
Sunday, 30 November 2025

Netflix And Chill: The Carrier (2014)

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There may be some people out there who like the sound of  The Carrier  AKA  The Bag Man , a neo-noir crime flick that features a cast of fam...
Saturday, 29 November 2025

Shudder Saturday: Good Madam (2022)

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Directed by Jenna Cato Bass, who also worked on the screenplay with, it appears, everyone in the cast,  Good Madam  is a drama with a nice s...
Friday, 28 November 2025

Noir-vember: Leave Her To Heaven (1945)

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I love Gene Tierney. I love Gene Tierney so much that there's a chance I start every review of any Gene Tierney movie by stating my love...
Thursday, 27 November 2025

Noir-vember: Fortune Is A Woman (1957)

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A film noir that focuses on an insurance investigator who has his head turned by a beautiful woman. I must admit that I thought I knew how e...
Wednesday, 26 November 2025

Prime Time: Riff Raff (2024)

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I cannot recall the last time I watched a film that was SO reliant on the cast to keep viewers engaged and entertained. Of course, most movi...
Tuesday, 25 November 2025

Noir-vember: Framed (1947)

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This is the stuff. This is what you want when you start to swim through the murky waters of lesser-known noirs.  Framed  is enjoyably fast-p...
Monday, 24 November 2025

Mubi Monday: House By The River (1950)

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If you're like me then hearing the name Fritz Lang has your mind going immediately to two all-time classics of cinema. At the very least...
Sunday, 23 November 2025

Netflix And Chill: No Country For Old Men (2007)

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Sometimes you revisit movies and they hold up even better than you remembered. I find that happens to me often when I go back through the fi...
Saturday, 22 November 2025

Shudder Saturday: The Noonday Witch (2016)

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It's tough, it really is. Making a horror movie that isn't a standard horror movie means that you risk upsetting both horror fans an...
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I've been through a lot in my years here, and not all of it was good. In fact, some of it was horrible. So I try to reflect some of that learning curve, and some of my many life experiences, in the movie reviews here on my blog.
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