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Reviews of World Cinema, Action, B-movies, TV, & occasional memes. #FilmTwitter

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Bit late to the party, but here are my Film & TV picks for the decade 2010-2019. #FilmTwitter

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@RealMattLeggett

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@AndyBurke_ Is this the worst-placed advert placement in history?! Hopefully not a bad omen for tomorrow! 👀

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@AndyBurke_ @TEnglishSport @BBCSounds GT has lost the fans, pundits, commentators, the entire internet, and his players. He surely has to go!?

The stadium was absolutely bouncing, more atmosphere than a whole season at Murrayfield. Kept the Scots quiet. We need a hype man on the mic (and some better chants!)

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@AndyBurke_ Top bantz

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@HurluberluFilms DM me that link and I'll see about signing up. Cheers 🥂

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@HurluberluFilms Haha everyone loves a good McGuffin, but the Camera sub-plot didn't work for me at all. I watch a lot of Everest documentaries, and there are so many amazing real stories to tell. And you can't beat footage of the real deal Himalayan mountains!

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THE SUMMIT OF THE GODS (🇫🇷🇱🇺 2021) Simple animation style, interesting sound design, and the final climb feels quite cinematic. Animation minimises the majesty, scale, awe, and peril of the real scenery, and the fiction + MacGuffin angles feelt like a stretch.

SCORE: 6/10

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📢 Never ever thought I'd leave Twitter, but X is dying on it's feet.

𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗺𝘀 on Letterboxd & BSky if you want to keep in touch. DM for Insta or to link your other pages.

Huge shout out to the handful of legends that still engage with this account! ❤️

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THE PEOPLE'S JOKER (🇺🇸 US 2022) Free-wheeling anarchic chaos from start to finish, some solid humour & tons of DC in-jokes. Ultra-creative, transgressive, experimental, cineliterate, & punk as fuck. Narcissistic & angry trauma dumping, but at least it's entertaining!

SCORE: 6/10

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RUSSIAN RAID (🇷🇺 RU 2020) a bunch of current and ex Russian Martial Artists made an action film. Standard revenger plot evokes the Indonesian movies, but isn't at the same level. Still fun seeing non-stop kinetic MMA fights, some of which are ambitious and clever.

SCORE: 6.5/10

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Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN (🇲🇽 MX 2001) a fiery & spicy Mexican coming of age road movie. Only real turn off is the narration with tons of quirky, often needless details. Engaging story that slowly reveals more information, anchored by thee great and believable performances.

SCORE: 8/10

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@GameOverR3vi3ws Never heard a bigger collective groan in a cinema then when this faded to black at the end. Biggest tease ever!!!

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NOSFERATU (🇺🇸 US 2024) beautifully shot with impressive camerawork & production / design. Way too respectful of the original story, contributes very few new ideas to the broader Dracula cannon. Depp and ATJ rip it up, everyone else feels a bit too hammy.

SCORE: 6/10

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@LastFilmSeen Couldn't believe the teacher wasn't a real actor. Incredible turn!!

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WATCHER (🇦🇪🇺🇸🇷🇴 2002) Creepy, clever, & well-executed set-pieces. Direction is great at building an atmosphere & real sense of dread. Well-acted, looks slick, great design; pleasantly surprised by how premium this is. Solid thriller about men not listening to women!

SCORE: 7/10

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Nosferatu spoilers without context

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THE GARDENER (🇧🇪 BE 2025) An enormously silly farce aimed squarely at ageing JCVD fans... and I quite enjoyed it! 20 mins too long, boasts some competent action, but elevated by a surprisingly funny comedy script and Michaël Youn's panto performance. Worth a look!

SCORE: 7/10

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AGENT OF HAPPINESS (🇧🇹 BT 2024) Fabulous portrait of a country: travels the length & breadth of Bhutan interviewing all types of people. An upbeat and fairly gentle doc, I really enjoyed seeing the land & citizens, but it tapered out a little in the final half.

SCORE: 6.5/10

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@SYSKPodcast https://t.co/0yM7FiPlSI

Loved this episode. Here's another great Norwegian resistance story, movie, and potential future SYSK ep!

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SONGS OF EARTH (🇳🇴 NO 2023) Incredible footage of fjords, mountains, glaciers, & wildlife. That's all there really is though - the director gets some great footage of her parents to savour, but it's not particularly exciting or insightful viewing as a non-relative.

SCORE: 4/10