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Reviews
A Field Full of Secrets (2014)
Biased Rubbish
I settled in expecting this to be rubbish and was not disappointed.. Wheeling out Peter Sorensen - who was always at best a stomper rather than a designer - with zany music and still shots was a low blow, especially as the man at least had the courage to admit that he knew the geometrical cc's were all man-made after first thinking it was ET.. Then focusing on Blake and others who run businesses based upon perpetuating the myth of non-human involvement.. The ''looking for hoaxers'' but was a total crock of baloney.. Of all the thousands of fields in Hants and Wilts, why go to that one?? Yawn-inducing bilge
Memento (2000)
Faultless
Beautifully constructed with a peerless ensemble cast. Intelligent film-making at its best
The Irishman (2019)
Beautiful
This is a masterclass in subtlety and understatement, lovingly crafted by a director firmly within his comfort zone, employing skills and experience honed over more than four decades.
The cast is the best ensemble I've seen since Glengarry Glen Ross, with each egoless performance allowing the other(s) to breath, with the pauses, discomforts, body language and what is implied but not said allowing the story to majestically unfold.
It's not often that one knows that one is watching a classic upon first viewing, but in this case a profound sense of this is instilled literally within the first ten minutes
Blue Story (2019)
No Clockwork Orange
A lot is made of the 'fact' that this film's copycat violence echos that of A Clockwork Orange.
The crucial difference is that the latter was constructed by a genius and conveyed a powerful message
The former is a steaming turd that some sections of the right-on mainstream media are too frightened to condemn for fear of being accused as racist.
I should have heeded the warnings of radio interviews with the 'director', whereupon it was clear that he was incapable of forming a sentence