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  • Delicatessen
  • Strictly Ballroom
  • Do the Right Thing
  • Casablanca

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  • The Fall Guy

    ★★★★

  • The Idea of You

  • Magnum Force

  • This Is Spinal Tap

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  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

    Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

    “Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

    First half: wacky and delightful.
    Intermission: long enough to empty the dishwasher and make a cocktail.
    Second half: a b-grade Bulgarian horror film in any other context.

    Though I have revisited the breakfast-machine scene many, many times, this I believe was the first full rewatch since I first dressed up at eight years old to go see a repertory screening with my neighbour, at the Classic, which later became a porn cinema. Always enjoyed telling people I saw Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at a porn cinema. The Classic is a comedy club now.

  • The Lost Daughter

    The Lost Daughter

    ★★★★★

    The sweeping, underlying love for mothers and the art of mothering that holds this story up, my gosh. All the reviews that quip “Yep never having kids” or “Motherhood’s not for everyone” miss so many points. This film and Elena’s story are about how the odds are stacked against women whether they want to be brilliant at home or at work or both and all the rest. We can’t have it all, at the same time. When young Leda’s older colleague comes…

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  • The Fall Guy

    The Fall Guy

    ★★★★

    Mum gives it a solid four out of five. I give my mum the full five stars. Mums are kind of like stunt artists really when you think about it.

  • The Idea of You

    The Idea of You

    Imagine casting Fantine only to not have her snotty cry-singing any kind of duet. She has a piano in her goddamn Silverlake bungalow, she’s a musical woman. 

    Grateful that the gallery art was good and had a unified curatorial aesthetic to it. That Sarah Anne Johnson painting is stunning.

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  • Robot Dreams

    Robot Dreams

    ★★★★

    The bittersweet romance of waiting. The aching reality of big city solitude. The damn good jams of Earth Wind & Fire.

  • The Exorcist: Believer

    The Exorcist: Believer

    Exorcists, assemble.