Film Reviews Blog

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Saturday 4th April 2026

2025

Running time: 139 mins

No Other Choice

Director : Park Chan-wook

Film Summary :
Man looses job and has to compete in a tight market for a new job

Rated by rogerco, Streamed proj @ home on 04 Apr 2026

Review Summary :
strange culture in Korea isn't it



Tuesday 31st March 2026

2021

Running time: 155 mins

Dune (part one)

Director : Denis Villeneuve

Synopsis extract :
Sillyness involving "royal" families, servants, soldiers, outlaws, creatures, good and evil, ...

Reviewed by Roger CO, DVD proj @ home on 31 Mar 2026

Pedestrian Hero film

Technically interesting. Story bog standard heroic journey. Portentous music and pretty up itself




Thursday 19th March 2026

Average rating from 2 reviews

2008

Running time: 134 mins

Che Part One

Director : Steven Soderbergh

Synopsis extract :
Che's story from entry to Cuba to victory and visit to UN

Rated by rogerco, DVD proj @ Keep Audio on 19 Mar 2026

Review Summary :
Che's actvities in Cuba



Saturday 7th March 2026

USA 2019

Running time: 126 mins

Dark Waters

Director : Todd Haynes

Film Summary :
Corporate lawyer gets sucked in to taking on DuPont. True story spanning 20+ years

Reviewed by rogerco, DVD proj @ home on 07 Mar 2026

Good story but ...

A good story doesn't always make a good film. Covering 20 years - much of which is spent shuffling paper and waiting for the legal process to grind through it somewhat struggles to make a drama. Would probably be better as a book.

Having said which its not a bad film, well shot, acted and directed. Nice to see Ruffalo playing a proper character for once. Unfortunately no subtitles available on the DVD some sometimes hard to make out what the actors said.




Saturday 7th March 2026

US 2023

Running time: 113 mins

Gasoline Rainbow

Directors : Bill Ross, Turner Ross

Film Summary :
5 mates set off on a post high school road trip to the sea

Reviewed by rogerco, Streamed proj @ home on 07 Mar 2026

Review Summary :
Modern day road trip by teenagers

Modern youth road trip

Interesting to see a younger generations take on the road trip. Rather petered out at the end - I guess they all went home and carried on with life as good little consumer cogs in the machine.