Title: Warsaw ’44 (Miasto 44) Director: Jan Komasa Screenplay: Jan Komasa Starring: Józef Pawlowski, Zofia Wichlacz, Anna Próchniak Released: Sep 2014 (PL), Jun 2016 (UK) On the 1st of August, 1944 the Polish Home Army put in motion a plan to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany. The Warsaw Uprising was to coincide with the arrivalContinueContinue reading “Movie Review: Warsaw ’44”
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Watched This Month: April 2016
Hello, Captain! Welcome to another edition of Watched This Month. After pretty much two solid months of television, I’m finally catching up on some movies! I also recently joined letterboxd, which is essentially a film-focused social network that enables you to track and rate everything you watch. Give me a follow if you’re also setContinueContinue reading “Watched This Month: April 2016”
Watched This Month: March 2016
Hello again, wayfarer! Welcome to another addition of Watched This Month. We’re in March now and on time this month. I’m actually away for a couple of days come tomorrow, so I’m glad I could finish this first. I’ve gone and binged on a lot of television again, though I managed to fit a filmContinueContinue reading “Watched This Month: March 2016”
Watched This Month: February 2016
Greetings, everybody! We’ve just snuck into March, which means we’re slightly overdue another addition of Watched This Month. February looked to be a slow month at first (after I devoured more than 35 hours of film and television in January), but then I got into a certain TV series, which has been eating away atContinueContinue reading “Watched This Month: February 2016”
Watched This Month: January 2016
Greetings, ronin and welcome to the first edition of ‘Watched This Month’. We’re starting off – sensibly so – with January. Just in case you have no idea what’s going on; this is a monthly blog post detailing every film and television show I have watched in the past four weeks, regardless of when theyContinueContinue reading “Watched This Month: January 2016”
Movie Review: The Little Prince
Title: The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) Director: Mark Osborne Screenplay: Irena Brignull, Bob Persichetti Starring: Jeff Bridges, Rachel McAdams, Riley Osborne, Mackenzie Foy Released: Jul 2015 (FR), Aug 2016 (US) Based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 novella, The Little Prince is one of the most significant and sincerely beautiful animated films I have seen inContinueContinue reading “Movie Review: The Little Prince”
2016 Oscar Snubs
Nominations for the 88th Academy Awards are out (click here for the full list) and as usual, they’re an upset in one way or another. The Revenant leads the nominations with a total of twelve, followed closely by Mad Max: Fury Road, which has ten. The Martian has the third most nominations with seven andContinueContinue reading “2016 Oscar Snubs”
Movie Review: The Revenant
Title: The Revenant Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu Screenplay: Mark L. Smith, Alejandro G. Iñárritu Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Domhnall Gleeson Released: Dec 2015 (US Limited), Jan 2016 (US & UK) Inspired by true events, The Revenant is a survival epic set during the 1820s in the American West. Leonardo DiCaprio plays HughContinueContinue reading “Movie Review: The Revenant”
Movie Review: The Hateful Eight
Title: The Hateful Eight Director: Quentin Tarantino Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Tim Roth Released: Dec 2015 (US), Jan 2016 (UK) I must confess, I am not the biggest fan of Quentin Tarantino. I enjoyed Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, but I could never get intoContinueContinue reading “Movie Review: The Hateful Eight”
Watched This Year: 2015
Good day, everybody! If you’re like me, then you like to keep track of things. Notes, lists, drafts — they’re everywhere! In an effort to keep track of everything I watch, I am going to introduce a series of posts: Watched This Month and Watched This Year. The monthly version will list all movies andContinueContinue reading “Watched This Year: 2015”
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