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Best experience in a cinema ever…

Dad and I just drove to Birmingham to watch a preview of The Ballad of Wallis Island and a Q&A with Tim Key, Tom Basden & James Griffiths!

Really beautiful, beautiful and funny film and very insightful and interesting questions asked with perfect answers. Also Charles’s (Tim Key’s) sad face is devastating. 

Absolutely. Awesome.
Was bloody well star struck by the Key.

Minecraft Sims ends bad.

I love my mum.

Jonah Hill casually made a near masterpiece in 2018.

Had good moments but just didn’t quite land for me this one.

Hahahah that was so cool 😅

YESSSS MARVEL IS BACK BABBYY!!
Really feels like a big ol’ U turn in the MCU, so nice to be excited for the future of Marvel again!

Damn that fucked up.

Stunning to look at, beautiful story. I’m not smart enough to fully understand a film like this. So currently watching “25 things you missed in spirited away” on YouTube.

Wow. 
Eye opening and interesting and informative and heartbreaking.

My first memory of going to the cinema was 20 years ago, when I was about 8 years old. We saw this film. 20 years ago Anakin's tragic path to the dark side absolutely devastated me. 

Today, 20 years later, I saw it in the cinema again. And still, it remains one of the most tragic stories ever told on film.

"You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep."

No one does it like Wes Anderson and no one ever will again.

Immersive, tense, loud, horrifying and feels so disturbingly real.

Literally can’t think of anything else to say apart from “what an absolute fuckin’ banger”. 

Enjoyed it to the last second.

Film equivalent of Tiramisu. Pure satisfaction.

Had more fun at Minecraft the other day.

I so wanted to give this 4 stars and be like 
“Cheer up everyone it’s not that bad”

It is that bad, but it’s absolutely hilarious.

What a season that must’ve been to experience…

Niki Lauda is a genuine hero.

Beautiful.

The Ballard of Wallis Island is my new most anticipated film of the year!

“This great evil, where's it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doing this? Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we might've known? Does our ruin benefit the earth, does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you ed through this night?”

Well this might be the best and most thought provoking war film I’ve ever seen. Some of the most beautiful shots ever followed by pure horror, and those ghostly voice overs that make you question everything, holy shit.

What a stacked cast too? The heartbreaking, small, subtle looks they give one another tells a thousand stories with little dialogue.

Ben Chaplin stands out above all.

Exceptionally impressive and such an important bit of TV.

This review may contain spoilers.

Tim Key turns up in a Pigeon costume, Mark Ruffalo is space Trump, Robert Pattinson gives and insanely good performance as the Mickey’s and Naomi Ackie calls space Trump a “dumb fuck”.

What’s not to love?

So cool that Renée Zellweger was nominated for an Oscar for this film!

Didn’t know anything about this devastating story, now going to try to learn as much as I can.

Absolutely deserved that Oscar.

Amazing performances all round, especially by Ben Chaplin. Tense, shocking and claustrophobic.
I don’t quite get the negative reviews, I feel it remained apolitical throughout and focused purely on the events that happened that day in Munich. 

(Also THE REX Cinema in Wareham is the best cinema I’ve ever been to, it’s unexplainable, you just have to go)

Watched on Monday February 24, 2025.

Watched on Monday February 24, 2025.

Watched on Monday February 24, 2025.

Watched on Monday February 24, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 23, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 23, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 23, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 23, 2025.

Watch this instead of Back to Black (2024) please.

“Toosh”

Jesus that voicemail 🥺
Aftersun vibes with a dash of the Florida Project.
Lovely lovely film.

How on earth is this not nominated for best picture? How on earth is Clarence Maclin not nominated for best ing?

 Biggest snub ever?

Cinematography that makes you want to taste the screen. Isabella Rossellini was the stand out performance playing someone who is only supposed to blend in. So cool.

“ARGGH MY BALLS”

Didn’t go where I expected and then it ended so perfectly.

That was wild 😅
So good though!

Pretty cool.

I gasped at some of the cinematography in this and the acting was amazing.

When a film has such distinctively different halves it’s hard not to choose a favourite. I found the first half better than the second, but The Brutalist probably deserves the Best Picture Oscar that it’s almost definitely going to win. 

(Still think it should be The Substance though)

Timothée just doesn’t make a bad film. If you wanna make a good film, get Timmy.

All of the jokes were in a 1 minute bit 15 mins before the end… and they weren’t even that funny!

HAPPINESS 

                   IS      ONLY
                                         REAL 
                                               WHEN         IT’S

                                                                         SHARED

There are so many devastatingly real moments in this film, followed by a line that makes you laugh out loud. And maybe the warmest hug ever filmed?

Benji is my favourite character of the year!
Culkin for the Oscar!

Gripping, intense, important, impressive.

Sean Wangs short film back catalog is the most amazing thing, he was always gonna drop a banger!

5 mins of making you cry and loving your mum.
Thanks Sean Wang.

A rotating list
This week: Best films about male friendship

• Good Will Hunting
• Pulp Fiction
• The Intouchables
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Dìdi (弟弟)
• In Bruges
• A Real Pain
• Dead Poets Society
• Shaun of the Dead
• The Shawshank Redemption

1. The Substance
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Dìdi (弟弟)
4. A Real Pain
5. Anora
6. Sing Sing
7. Queer
8. Love Lies Bleeding
9. Snack Shack
10. Wicked

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Before Sunrise
• Aftersun
• Whiplash
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• In Bruges
• The Florida Project
• Parasite
• Perfect Days
• Pulp Fiction

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

(That I’ve read)

1. Before Sunset
2. Good Will Hunting
3. Before Sunrise
4. Interstellar
5. In Bruges
6. Her
7. Aftersun
8. Red Rocket
9. Seven Psychopaths
10. The Banshees of Inisherin

1. Poor Things
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. Past Lives
4. Dream Scenario
5. Anatomy of a Fall
6. The Zone of Interest
7. All of Us Strangers
8. Oppenheimer
9. Asteroid City
10. Killers of the Flower Moon

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Fantastic Mr. Fox
2. Moonrise Kingdom
3. Isle of Dogs
4. The Darjeeling Limited
5. The Royal Tenenbaums
6. Asteroid City
7. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
8. The Grand Budapest Hotel
9. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
10. The French Dispatch

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
4. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
5. The Hateful Eight
6. Django Unchained
7. Reservoir Dogs
8. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
9. Death Proof