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Rating "Wuthering Heights"  

by: Roger CO

Wuthering Heights  

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on: 12 Jul 2025

No summary or description available

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A good story  

by: rogerco

The Salt Path  

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on: 01 Jul 2025

Review extract: Various things seemed at bit off about the back story and didn't recognise any of the coast path which was disappointing. ...

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Review of "American Honey"  

by: rogerco

American Honey  

on: 28 Jun 2025

totally rubbish. left after an hour.

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Slice of life towards the bottom  

by: rogerco

Fish Tank  

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on: 14 Jun 2025

Review extract: Not quite as good as the director's later film Bird but totally believable and a stunning performance from Katie Jarvis in the lead role in her first film.

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A New Generation Discover an OlderOne  

by: rogerco

Echo in the Canyon  

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on: 24 May 2025

Interesting but a bit limited, Part archive, part interview, part rehearsal, part concert - a bit of a mish-mash

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Surreal masterpiece  

by: rogerco

Poor Things  

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on: 10 May 2025

Review extract: Starts in b&w and then when she 'escapes' bursts into colour with a steam-punk aesthetic. ...

Full review 65 words

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Seeing it again for at least 3rd time  

by: rogerco

Nada  

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on: 07 May 2025

Review extract: Watched again. ...

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If..(only really it was just like that)  

by: rogerco

If...  

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on: 06 May 2025

first seen in 1968 and not lost any of its power

Full review 227 words

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Shades of Hitchcock  

by: rogerco

Tell No One  

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on: 22 Mar 2025

Review extract: Good story with some appaerent holes. ...

Full review 41 words

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Excellent thriller very well resolved  

by: rogerco

The Secret in Their Eyes  

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on: 08 Mar 2025

Review extract: Gripping from the opening scenes of Esposito exploring his memories as he struggles to write asnd visiting his old boss - who is still working and then the gradual exposition of what happened 20 years earlier and how they eventually caught and ...

Full review 232 words

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Kaurismäki's take on 80's London  

by: rogerco

I Hired A Contract Killer  

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on: 01 Mar 2025

People smoke a lot and talk little in scenes of tatty poverty - its a Kaurismäki film.

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Long But Worth It  

by: rogerco

Never Look Away  

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on: 23 Feb 2025

Sprawling but engrossing

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Review of "The Guilty"  

by: rogerco

The Guilty  

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on: 08 Feb 2025

Review extract: Almost entirely taking place within the call centre with only one character plus voices on the telephone.

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Review of "The Girl With The Needle"  

by: rogerco

The Girl With The Needle  

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on: 01 Feb 2025

Review extract: Good but horrible. ...

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Fantasticly Good  

by: rogerco

A Complete Unknown  

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on: 26 Jan 2025

Rings true in all areas, even if the truth might have been bent a little.

Full review 270 words

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One of the wrost films ever  

by: rogerco

Train to Busan  

on: 18 Jan 2025

Quite simply dreadful. Makes Snowpiercer look like a masterpiece (which it wasn't being the worst film seen in 2024) this make an early bid for the worst of 2025. Absolutely nothing to like or admire about it.

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Review of "Fallen Leaves"  

by: rogerco

Fallen Leaves  

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on: 04 Jan 2025

Withthe directors unique sparse and allusive style a love story for modern times.

Full review 44 words

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Gobsmacked  

by: rogerco

No Other Land  

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on: 21 Dec 2024

Review extract: I was left absolutely speechless at the end. ...

Full review 55 words

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Watched again by mistake but still good  

by: rogerco

Wild Tales  

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on: 13 Dec 2024

Review extract: Watched this again by mistake but still enjoyed it. ...

Full review 44 words

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Truth not Sentiment  

by: rogerco

Amour  

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on: 07 Dec 2024

Review extract: We had no recollection of having seen this before, but we did, in 2013 (see other review) This time I found it really excellent, brilliantly acted and sympathetically told making the characters strong and avoiding any sentimentality. ...

Full review 75 words

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Nice drawing, good storyline  

by: rogerco

Your Name  

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on: 01 Dec 2024

Review extract: Nice story although it went on a bit towards the end as they kept not meeting. ...

Full review 55 words

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Powerful  

by: Roger CO

The Hunt  

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on: 23 Nov 2024

A powerful story of the madness of crowds

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Slow paced comedy  

by: rogerco

Leningrad Cowboys Go America  

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on: 28 Sep 2024

Review extract: Probably hilarious if you are Finnish or Russian but a bit weird for me as the gags seem obvious and laboured but in a kind-of good way

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Not a political war film. Inoffensive to a fault  

by: Roger CO

Civil War  

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on: 20 Sep 2024

Review extract: A proposed civil war in today's USA is just the background to what essentially is a Deliverance style road movie about a set of four journalists travelling through an strange landscape. ...

Full review 58 words

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Discovering poetry and murder  

by: Roger CO

Poetry  

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on: 15 Sep 2024

Review extract: A good story about an older woman trying to extend her life experience through poetry while grappling with her live-in teenage grandson's social awkwardness problems and their consequences.

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