Decent score tonight. Happy with that 19/24 for me #Oscar #OscarPredictions

Oscar predictions are locked in #Oscar #OscarPredictions

A ★★★½ review of Send Help (2026) Sam Raimi returns to his horror genre slightly.  More a comic thriller than a horror although there is a few gross scenes and plenty of blood during one specific scene.   It’s a film that kind of mirr...

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Sam Raimi is back spraying people in blood with O’Brien and McAdams both superb in a gripping survival thriller movie #SendHelp

A ★★★ review of Come See Me in the Good Light (2025) Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Feature 2026 Director Ryan White spends a year following poet icon Andrea Gibson and her partner Megan Falley through troubling times as Andrea is diagnosed with can...

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Oscar nominated documentary that follows the life of a poet who has to deal with a terminal diagnosis. Not as harrowing as it sounds. #ComeSeeMeInTheGoodLight

A ★★★½ review of No Other Choice (2025) This latest movie from the master Park Chan-wook was the official submission for the best international feature for the 2026 Oscars for South Korea but not making the final 5. It’s an eccentric movie ...

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The latest from Park Chan-Wook follows one man’s desperate need to cling on to everything he has in life #NoOtherChoice

A ★★★ review of Is This Thing On? (2025) Bradley Cooper stars and directs this, his third feature, here delving into the stand up comedy scene but really just a story about a marriage break up and reconciliation.   It is loosely based on an ...

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John Bishops venture into stand up comedy and marriage break up brought to the big screen by Bradley Cooper #IsThisThingOn

A ★★★★½ review of Hamnet (2025) 12 x BAFTA nominee 8 x OSCAR nominee Chloé Zhao earns her second round of Oscar nominations for this movie with her screenplay and directing having previously won for directing Nomadland.  It’s a trul...

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Jessie Buckley takes us on a painfully heartbreaking journey of a family grieving loss in Chloe Zhaos latest masterpiece of cinema #Hamnet

A ★★★½ review of Pillion (2025) BAFTA nominee for  Outstanding British Film of the Year Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer Best Adapted Screenplay Pillion explores a gay world most viewers will be unfamiliar...

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Alexander Skarsgård in a BDSM gay movie you say. A bold adventurous movie exploring the lines between sex and romance #Pillion

BAFTA Nominees for Best British Short Animation 2026 Three short animations vie for the top prize at this years baftas.  Having watched them they are now ranked in order of my preference.

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Ahead of the #Bafta tonight these are my rankings for the best British short animation

BAFTA nominees for Best British Short Film 2026 Five short films vie for this years prize.  All watched and ranked in order of my preference

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Ahead of the #Bafta tonight these are my rankings for the best British short film

A ★★★½ review of Primate (2025) British director Johannes Roberts follows up killer sharks with a killer chimp who does not hold back on the violence.  This is an 18 rated movie that knows it and does not shy in letting us know and ...

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This B style killer chimp movie does not hold back in its horror, gore and violence earning its 18 rating #Primate

A ★★★ review of Mr. Burton (2025) BAFTA Nominee for Outstanding British Film of the of the Year 2026 The title of this movie is not that of young Richard Burton, one of the most highly regarded actors of his generation, but that of hi...

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Toby Jones plays the mentor of the young actor who was to become the great Richard Burton. #MrBurton

A ★★★½ review of H Is for Hawk (2025) BAFTA Nominee for Outstanding British Film of the Year 2026 Based on a novel about one woman struggling with grief who finds comfort in the most uncomfortable of animals, via a goshawk.   Claire Foy p...

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Claire Foy plays a grief stricken woman who takes comfort in a goshawk. Bleak but fascinating #HIsForHawk

A ★★★★ review of Marty Supreme (2025) The teaming up of A24 and one off the Safdie brothers, Josh, brings together a film that is both original and a frenetic 2 and a half hours of witnessing one man determined to do anything to follow hi...

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Chalamet proves why he’s one of the most exciting young actors working today teaming up with Josh Sadie to bring you an anxiety induced original rollercoaster of a movie #MartySupreme

Top Ten Movies of 2025 172 movies were watched and logged by myself in 2025.  74 of these were watched in the cinema with the remaining being on digital release at home.  From all those movies with a release date in 2025 th...

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Bit late to sort out but finally here is my top ten movies of 2025 #TopTen #TopTen2025 #TopTenMovies

A ★★★★ review of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) The latest in this saga is probably the least zombie action movie of them all but remains equally disturbing for other reasons. This movie follows on exactly where the last movie left us.  Spike findi...

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The middle section of this latest saga might have less zombies but certainly no less of disturbing horror. Fiennes and O’Connell are both superb #28YearsLaterTheBoneTemple

A ★★★★ review of Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025) Oscar Nominee for Best Documentary Feature 2026 This is a documentary that uses footage filmed in Russia, secretly sneaked out by its maker, to show a different side of the Ukraine war.  How it is aff...

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Oscar nominated documentary about the indoctrination of young children in schools following the invasion of Ukraine is a fascinating watch #MrNobodyAgainstPutin

A ★★★½ review of Motel Destino (2024) This sex charged thriller noir has all the sleaziness that its title motel of the same name suggests.  The heat of the Brazilian sun is forever burned into the characters.  You can literally feel the ...

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A Brazilian film noir full of steamy sex and violence. Welcome to the #MotelDestino

A ★★★★ review of Sorry, Baby (2025) Eva Victor both writes, directs and stars as the lead in this telling of one bad thing happening and life still going on for all around her. We start in present day as we are introduced to two friends...

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Eva Victor writes, directs and stars as a young woman at college dealing with life following one bad thing happening to her. Funny and moving #SorryBaby

A ★★★★ review of Train Dreams (2025) From Clint Bentley comes another gorgeously lit movie to follow on from the wonderful Jockey.  Using Adolpho Veloso again as his cinematographer its a gorgeous setting often that we are immersed in as...

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Joel Edgerton gives a subtle moving portrayal as Robert in this bleak tale of one mans life as a logger and family man #TrainDreams

A ★★★★½ review of Dying (2024) This is an astonishing movie showing us the messed up lives of one family all seemingly dying one way or another surrounded by friends whose lives appear to be equally as fucked up as theirs. The titl...

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A 3 hour German film about a family of depressives dying sounds bleak. And it is, but it’s also a gorgeous piece of contemplative film making #Dying

A ★★★½ review of Vermiglio (2024) This was on the shortlist for Italy for best international feature for the last Oscar’s not making the final 5.  Its the kind of sumptuous slow burning family period drama that the awards often love. ...

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Italian period piece set in a remote location with an ever expanding family. Slow but beautifully shot. #Vermiglio

A ★★★ review of Wicked: For Good (2025) And so one year later we finally get the second part of the movie version of the musical wicked.  Like the theatre show the curtain falls after Gravity steals the show in part one but unlike the theat...

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Part two has finally arrived and is everything you would expect, sumptuous sets, great vocals and an overlong script #WickedForGood

A ★★★ review of Frankenstein (2025) Frankenstein seems to be the perfect pairing of classic monster story with incredibly visual director with a taste for the grotesque. Shelley and Del Toro together for a retelling of the most complex ...

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Del Toro and Mary Shelley unite to bring to life another version of the classic #Frankenstein
Visually stunning as you’d expect

A ★★★½ review of Santosh (2024) This was the official submission from the UK for best international feature at this year’s Oscar’s but not quite making the final 5.  British made but shot in India in Hindi. It highlights the importa...

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Corrupt, racist, sexist and shamefully useless. We see a young woman thrust into policing in India following a murder and searching for justice #Santosh

A ★★★★ review of Late Shift (2025) Well this is quite the stress journey of a movie and a film that does not sell the job of being a nurse as anything but nigh on impossible.  Indeed its German title translates appropriately as heroine...

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A stressful journey watching one nurses struggle to get through one late shift in a Swiss hospital. Relenting. #LateShift

A ★★★★½ review of The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) This movie has quite the history attached to it.  A film set in and about the politics of women’s freedom in Iran but represented by Germany as the official entry into the Oscars for best internationa...

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Oscar nominated and stunning movie made in secret in Iran highlighting the plight for women’s freedom into a tense family drama #TheSeedOfTheSacredFig

A ★★★½ review of Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) Having already rebooted another horror franchise in Wrong Turn, Mike P. Nelson now reboots an 80’s festive horror slasher Silent Night, Deadly Night, a movie that itself then spawned 4 sequels and a r...

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Santa is on a PTSD rampage killing whoever has made it onto his naughty list in this fun remake of 80’s slasher pic #SilentNightDeadlyNight

A ★★★★ review of On Falling (2024) It is no surprise to find out that this movie comes from the Ken Loach production company Sixteen Films.  It’s a film of social realism that Loach himself would happily depict.  Instead we get Portugu...

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Devastating slice of social realism reminiscent of Ken Loach showing the mundanity of life for a factory worker in Scotland #OnFalling

A ★★★★ review of Weapons (2025) Two good horror films out in cinemas seen within days is so refreshing.  Here Zach Cregger follows up Barbarian with a mystery film full of brewing supernatural horror. Having one story told from diff...

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The latest movie from Zach Cregger is a mystery movie with a great premise that slowly reveals the horror underneath in a tension building finale #Weapons