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#409 – Point Break

Miles Westwood — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:33:03 +0000

Without doubt Point Break is the greatest and most important action film ever made. If you disagree please see me after class.

#408 – Licence To Kill

Miles Westwood — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:28:59 +0000

Licence To Kill is one of the best Bond movies, if not the best. And Dalton is my favourite incarnation of the misogynist wonder spy. I watched this New Year’s Day after spending the night before at a gypsy rave in a pub in Nottingham. It was a superb tonic…

#407 – Choke

Miles Westwood — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:24:02 +0000

As a rule I’ll watch anything with Sam Rockwell in. As another rule I’ll read anything by Chuck Palahniuk. This meant I liked Choke. It certainly isn’t as good as the sum of it’s parts, but solid performances can never be underestimated in the power they have to carry a flick.

#406 – Trick ‘r Treat

Miles Westwood — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:22:43 +0000

Kind of like a comic Halloween bonanza edition Trick ‘r Treat delivers a loosely connected tale of all things spooky with creep and gore to spare. Seek it out, it’s not nearly as awful as you think and features a ridiculous in many ways, but cool in a few, take on Red Riding Hood starring none other than Miss Anna Paquin…

#405 – The Big Sleep

Miles Westwood — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:10:53 +0000

The Big Sleep has some of the best dialogue ever written and when you couple this with the fact most of it is being delivered by Bogey, cinema becomes a better place for all. “She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up.”

#404 – The Nightmare Before Christmas

Miles Westwood — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:07:21 +0000

As far as Christmas Eve movies go The Nightmare Before Christmas is no Home Alone or indeed Die Hard, but it isn’t far off.

#403 – Warrior

Miles Westwood — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:49:59 +0000

It’s easy to be cynical about Warrior, but why would you be? Essentially it’s Bloodsport with Tom Hardy and that, as this flick proves, is enough to be pretty fucking peachy.

#402 – Colombiana

Miles Westwood — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:53:51 +0000

What? Luc Besson wrote Colombiana? A film about a female assassin. Honestly my jaw is on the floor. Who’d have thought it? And it’s shit? Well, consider me dumbstruck!

#401 – Pecker

Miles Westwood — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:38:39 +0000

There really isn’t too much going on here, Pecker is a very basic send up of the world of arts that is neither funny nor interesting.

#400 – The Tree Of Life

Miles Westwood — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:09:57 +0000

Malick is to my mind the greatest living director working today. He just knows no bounds. His scope is phenomenal and his ability to fit it within the confines of a screen, yet lose none of it’s potency and simultaneously deliver a story (however ambiguously) is what auteurs do. The Tree Of Life is another creation of quiet and staggering beauty. It’s long and it lacks a ‘narrative’, but it doesn’t matter, it absorbs… and what is better than that for a viewer? To be engulfed by what is on the screen completely is what we hope for, right? That’s the point.