What if that's changed to >50% since Clement took charge?
The players that transformed our form were Cordoba & Rauiri, once they were paired it's been nothing but progress., so, for me, it has to be one of them. Mattson fisher & Kenny in that order are the other contenders
45 #SuperMarioGalaxyMovie
Why should I make more effort than the script writers? Not even a good song this time
Im not the target audience, this is slow vapid humourless & dull. 30 screenings a day at Norwich odeon so will have a sequels 😱 as it will take far more than the superior Hopper. Avoid 1
44 #TheDrama
Bold, tense, inconsistent tale of your darkest secret revealed just days before a wedding. Drama explodes as feelings are overblown, shrink, virtues signaled & desperation hits, forgetting what truly matters. Drama abounds, will the wedding happen? Both leads are good with Pattison 🤌
7
43 #Fuze
Thriller as a WW2 bomb is uncovered just as a bank heist starts. Decent tension for the first 50 minutes, but disappointingly wastes the cast as it descends into foefettable stereotypical farce.
Sky Cinema Originals are improving, just slowly. Best watched at home 4
42 #RemindersOfHim
A 3rd film based on a hugely successful book with a full audience. The book is built on a solid premise but sadly the script (also by the author Hoover) is slow, uninvolving and far too predictable. The cast were unengaging & too 1 dimensional esp the grandparents
Disappointing 5
41 #MagicFarawayTree
Loss of screen time is the c21st challenge to the children foisted out to rural England (via a steam train oops) so they head to the banned woods. Well adapted from the books, magical, funny (Heap at his best) & v britishly charming with a good cast. Fond trip down memory lane 6
Screenshot of a tweet by Samuel Oakford reporting that a broker for U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attempted to invest heavily in defense companies before a U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran. The image shows Hegseth seated at a conference table, gesturing and pointing, with U.S. flags in the background.
You know, Martha Stewart went to jail for something similar. She'd like a word.
40 #ProjectHailMary after a sound failure last week finally saw this. Loved the book & the film captures its essence so well, with Gosling & Huller well cast supporting Rocky. Gorgeous sound, See Rocky Grace save us in the biggest screen to see all with joy & hope. Amaze Amaze Amaze 👎👎 9
39 #Splitsville
2 couples are in the m-aged dull stage of their marriages, trying hard to resolve emerging needs, highlighting the issues of both an open marriage, monogamy & lasting love. Dakota Johnson is excellent as is the fight between best friend Carey & Paul. Entertaining 'rom' ish com 7
38 #TheyWillKillYou
Beetz plays Asia, prison done after 10ys for shooting her father. Seeking her younger sis leads her to The Virgil, an exclusive high end NY apartment with sacrificial lambs. Dante & Ready or Not 2 satanic themes revisited. Amusing cast, accents & visceral gory forgettable fun 6
A three by three grid of my paintings with houses and cones and red things
I’ve tried to mingle them up all nice in the grid www.chloecumming.com/paintings
37 #TheGoodBoy
Tommy is a violent, coke head alcoholic womaniser who collapses in the road after a good night to wake in a clockwork orange sentence. What happened to Chris & Kathryn to isolate & subject Stockholm syndrome on Tommy? Psychopaths, growth, innocents (son Jonny) & no answers. Dark 7
36 #MothersPride
Charming untaxing Brit comedy, not about flour, but the challenges facing a historic British local in the south west. It's appallingly run by landlord clunes and under threat of repossession or worse the archetypal ne'er do well entitled rich. Predictable Sunday pm TV fodder 5
35 #Arco
Arco is 11 and can't wait to be 12 so he can fly, like his family , through time & space. So he takes his sisters outfit, creating an uncontrolled rainbow vapour trail & unable to get back home. Thoughtful coming of age anime set in near future about consequences, work life care balance 6
Startling new claims from The Athletic concerning Ipswich Town’s CEO Mark Ashton, and Farage’s visit to Portman Road.
34 #ReadyOrNotHereICome
6 years after the original this sequel starts at dawn after the first film finishes, with the same visceral affects, plenty of gore and the introduction of more of Satan's servant families. Funny well paced and with Elijah Wood as Satan's lawyer. Entertaining pulp horror 7
33 #Scarlet
A further Hamlet relation film, Scarlet takes her vengeant fury into land between life & death, with hajiri, a paramedic from the future, urging conciliation for earth's sake rather than perpetuating violence.
Stunningly drawn with bold yet inconsistent storytelling 5
32 #Hoppers
Pixar morality tale about working together for mutual benefit is focused on frustrated conservationist Mabel being able to talk to the animals by inhabiting a robot beaver. Cute, engaging, funny if a tad predictable & little over long for my accompanied 4 yo, who enjoyed it too 6
31 #HowToMakeAKilling smooth Powell is the illegitimate outcast seeking his inheritance by foul means. Qualley is good as the love interest, Harris best as the patriarch. It's all too insipid, lame murders,lamer humour, pleasant enough, but contemptibly forgettable. a weak shadow of the original 5
Supporting Actor
A thin selection, Hawke Penn & Elordi are all ok but
Both Skarsgàrd (Sentimental Value) & Del Toro (1 battle) own their films Either would be a worthy winner but the brooding Del Toro is my marginal preference despite fewer mins over the tragic vain brilliant Skarsgard
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Supporting Actress
Again a strong shortlist, although Madigan & Fanning are a bit behind.
The rest could win, Brit Mosakwu shines in Sinners. Lilleas in Sentimental Value is perfectly intense yet subdued but Taylor's break out role in 1 Battle stole the film & she should seize the prize
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Best Actress
I'll be delighted if bookies face Buckley takes this, her catalogue is superb & here grief here is intense, if over focused on by the director.
This is the deepest category, all are impressive & shone & would be a worthy winner. My pick would be Reinsve but it's so close
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Best Actor
I can see Di Caprio taking this but when he isn't even the 2nd best actor in his film my preference is for Jordan or Mourer, who excel and out shine the other candidates by some margin
I doubt a Brazilian will win so hopefully Sinners Jordan will rightly take the plaudits.
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Best Director
Id love Trier to win but I suspect PT Anderson will, They & Coogler got excellent performances from strong castswgich complemented their style in a way which engaged.
Zhao & Safdi both over did it on emotion & intensity which fatally took me out of their films
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Based simply on my enjoyment
10 Train dreams
9. Marty Supreme
8. Hamnet
7. F1
6. Frankenstein
5. Begonia
4. Sinners
3. Secret Agent
2. One Battle after Another
1. Sentimental Value
Close between the top 4, my vestv4 of the year, but I suspect Marty Supreme will win best picture
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30 #TheBride! I went in with low expectations, esp so soon after Poor Things & Frankenstein. It aims high, often misses, but this is a fun sequel with more romanticism than Wuthering, evoking Bonnie & Clyde in gangland 30s Chicago mixing loneliness identity conoassion & the escape of film. I liked 8
29 #TestamentofAnnLee
The musical tale of the celibate evangelical Mancunian (Seyfried v good) who travelled to USA as The 2nd Coming, growing through ectasy in prayer & a visionary leader taking on existing religions. conflict, community & power of music & dance. Now just 3 followers.
Cultish. 6
28 #MissKobayashisDragonMaid
Magical dragons live amongst humans as warring factions move towards a catastrophic civil war. Miss K secretly hosts a group of dragons in Tokyo who hold a secret. Dynamic fun animé movie version of the TV series, felt a little over compressed / rushed to make it fit 7
27 #Sirat
Spanish film as Luis & son tour raves seeking his missing daughter. They join a mad max like convoy across borders.
Excellent dance scenes, jarring script exploring community, shock, tragedy, judgement, arts & coping with life. Frustrating structure yet very thought provoking 6
