Belfast is a film I can see getting multiple Oscars. Saw an advanxe screening (for U.S.) last night.
Red Notice
Your standard action film. Funny and an enjoyable watch for a Saturday afternoon. 
Suitable for 10/11 year olds?
Yeah Iād say so. Nothing really adult in it. Donāt think there was even one swear word said in it lol
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Army of Thieves. A backstory for the safecracker from Army of the Dead. Thereās no real reason for it to be any good but I really enjoyed it.
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I wanted to like this I really did, I loved the original film but I honestly couldnāt stop from thinking the entire time I was watching it why on earth was this made. Not to mention the shallowness of the heist crew really hit home that it looked like this film had been in development for about 3 months, Brad Cage Jesus wept.
I read somewhere some one saying they were hoping for dumb fun but instead it was just dumb and as mean as that is I kind of felt that way about the movie too.
I see where youāre coming from, but ultimately the film is about Dieter and heās really fucking likable so I liked it. 
Plus Guz Khan, canāt go wrong with Guz.
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Yeh I like Dieter too but itās weird, like I found it really biazzare. The short bromance he had with Vanderohe felt a million times more natural and authentic than the entire 2.30hr run time he had with his apparent love of his life. Donāt even get me started on the crazy French detective who got shot in the ass and cared more about bank robbers than the world collapsing under zombie rule.
Like donāt get me wrong I donāt mind them milking this franchise in fact Iād love them to and apparently there going to- theyāre meant to be doing something with alternate universes, parrallel realities like Vanderohe hinted at in the vault in Army. I just hope theyāre made with the same charm and charisma that Aotd had under Synder, this felt very rushed, clumsy and a little silly.
Netflix hit it out of the park with Aotd, like really showed that Netflix could replace a cinema ticket with fun gems like that to home view. Then immediately went full Netflix and realized that they needed to cash in on one of their unique and likable characters even though the script and story werenāt just there.
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Itās definitely more of a critique of Netflix than the film but the film was incredibly netflixy
Cold War (2018)
A director of music in communist-era Poland falls in love with a woman who becomes one of his students. After they tour together a while, the man tries to persuade his lover to flee the Iron Curtain with him to start a new life in Paris. The film charts their various meetings over the years after she declines.
This is probably my most favourite modern film that Iāve seen in a while. Itās so delicately handled, a beautiful story.
Gully (2021)
A film about three delinquent teens who have reason to act out the way they have.
Theyāre quite detestable and itās a hard watch. I can only describe it as a modern day take on A Clockwork Orange. I didnāt like A Clockwork Orange, either (the book or the film)
It had just about enough to keep me going until the end (if only to see how the three cunts get their comeuppance). For that reason, I give it a generous
3/10
You all need to check out the Christmas selection on Netflix.
Thatās something Iād Love, Actually.
[boom]
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Mr Jones (2019)
This was an interesting oneā¦ tells the āBASED ON A TRUE STORYā story of Gareth Jones, a Welsh journalist who travels to the Soviet Union to try and get an interview with the big tyrant, Stalin where he wishes to learn more about his policy successes and his five-year development plan. Which is not as far fetched as it may sound due to his previously interviewing Adolf Hitler.
While he is in Moscow, where he is instructed not to leave, he gets on a train with his handler but when heās in the station alongside another train, he decides to jump onto it in order to see more of the USSR. His train takes him to Ukraine where he uncovers the Holodomor, Moscowās genocide of Ukrainians by starvation. The regime forces them in the sticks to grow food which is then āredistributedā to Moscow. While there he would see families reduced to Cannibalism in the depths of winter in order to survive.
He tries to get the story out but faces opposition and backlash from places as high as his own government and the New York Times.
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Ghostbusters Afterlife 7/10
Never going to beat the original but a worth sequel an a great cast thatās doesnāt try or to forced to be funny.
Spoiler alert the use of Harold Ramis in the film is very well done and touching brought a tear to my eye. Also the original GB turning up brilliant is short but sweet.
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Child 44 (2015)
When his friend and colleagueās son is found dead, A military policeman in Stalin-era Moscow inadvertantly uncovers a series of deaths of children across Soviet Russia and tries to investigate them but is given the elbow because there cannot be seen to be murders in Communist Russia - as āthere can be no murder in Paradiseā.
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I tried to watch this when it first came out and I thought it was meh. But itās actually ok, the cast is brilliant and the story is decent. I went through a bit of a USSR phase a while ago and thatās when I watched all these. 
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Promotion and trailers for this movie were a bit crud, but maybe this will open up possibilities for follow-ons (?).
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The book wasnāt bad but the ending was all a bit rushed.
I believe in Miracles
A film about Forest under Clough. Brilliant
9/10 (and itās only a 9 cos Clough aināt in it, peace be upon him)
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