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The Blair Witch Project (1999).

The minutiae and the level of detail is incredible, overloaded with seemingly inconsequential pish that isn’t relevant– the bickering, and the … bickering – and then it descends into the unknown.

If you lived in a world without the internet, you’d think this was ‘real’.

It’s scary, scary in a way in that you can vicariously experience the nightmare scenario the three ‘characters’ lose their shit in.

This is the American version of Man Bites Dog (1992).

Masterpiece.

Sadly, it spawned a lot of shite.

But that’s life.

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) is mortifying.

I tried.

Scorsese always deserves a second change of pants.

This movie is fucking atrocious. The needless, meandering, wholly unmemorable dialogue was the worst element of this unimpressive stinker.

You get the impression they are all about to drop the bombshell. And there isn’t one.

And it’s not even funny.

I hated it and hope you do too.

Sorry, Marty.

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The 51st State (2001) is one of the worst you’ll ever see.

Pathetic movie, in every single facet of its putrid being.

Here we have a slapdash piss-take excuse for a motion picture, the apex of post-Lock Stock rip-off … whatever this giant bucket of crap was or wished to be. Folk swear incessantly because the writer can’t think of any dialogue.

Visually it’s bollocks, and not even in a quirky way. Every single manky British actor in this is an embarrassment, a wee college acting course scrotum barely worthy of a TV soap. Even Robert Carlyle started to grate.

I’m so happy this movie bombed at the box office because I like to see bad things on this planet fail. Samuel L. Jackson appears to feature as he wanted to conduct a bit of anthropology.

Fucking awful.

F1 (2025).

Jerry Bruckheimer. Hans Zimmer on score duties. A beautiful leading man. Is this another era? I’m torn: it’s either the late 1980s or early ’90s.

A perfectly good movie here, throwback feel revved up to suitable levels of nostalgia but with cutting edge pyrotechnics.

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The French Connection (1971).

This is a flawless film.

I tried to be a bit sneaky and identity a flaw in it, but I couldn’t find anything.

Well done.

Natural Born Killers (1994).

Horrible movie, and much like JFK (1991), an acrobatic display in baroque style and technique, for no reason.

It appears to aim to be a condemnation of mass media and its obsession with lurid violence, yet luxuriates in the mayhem committed by our murderous couple. Decent soundtrack. However, another painful Robert Downey Jr. performance ruins any hope of a watchable movie emerging.

Definitely one of Oliver Stone’s worst, but it’s not down there with Alexander (2004).

The Alto Knights (2025).

About 34 minutes into this derivative drivel, I understood that Robert De Niro playing two non-related characters for no reason summed up the movie: POINTLESS.

Avoid like the plague (or anything).

East is East (1999).

A real shitty look distinguishes this real shitty film, and there was so much manky, needlessly prurient dialogue in it that just irritated me. Every actor dwelling in this silly bit of unfunny farce had a smutty, unbearable ‘performance’, reeling off standard lines from a depressing (they all are) British soap opera.

Pointless movie, and it won’t shock you to read the revelation that I hated it.

I mind a school teacher back in the day thought it was a hoot because a semi-mute teenager in this shabby excuse for a movie won’t remove his Inuit coat. It’s a less funny gimmick than that kid in South Park who kept dying.

“Oh my God” and all that.

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The General (1998).

Brendan Gleeson is one of the finest out there and even in a stinker he’s never the one doing the stinking.

Jon Voight, best known these days as an outspoken MAGA acolyte, has his considerable talents on display as our protagonist’s Gardaí nemesis, the Nineties his thesp Indian summer. This and his barking turn in Anaconda (1997) is a mighty double bill I would recommend to anyone.

The black and white works, it’s frequently thrilling, and he’s a very funny character who maintains your interest.

Superb movie.

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Atonement (2007). I’ve seldom seen such drivel.

Even the opening credits annoyed me in this desperate movie, which is schematic as it comes in its plot contrivances, and a fucking pain to get through. And we have the inevitable fawned-over sequence shot, an intricately constructed bit of cinematography with no purpose other than to showcase the director. A characterless piece, it was dreadful. Every frame and utterance was weak Merchant Ivory or the worst embraces of The English Patient (1996). One is even pummeled with the delights of elegantly framed close-ups of actors with an incapacity to emote; it’s like their toaster has just died when a tragedy occurs.

It attempts to delve into a few ideas about the dangers of subjectivity and misinterpretation, but there’s nothing here that Hitchcock didn’t trample on innumerable times.

I hated it and everyone in it.

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