Category: Film nanoReviews
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Animal Farm [2025]
Film: Animal Farm Year: 2025 Director: Andy Serkis Rating: 0% Review: Abomination.
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Stand By Me
Film: Stand By Me Year: 1986 Director: Rob Reiner Rating: 90% Review: Anchored firmly in the 80s, despite being set in the 50s, Stand By Me is a coming-of-age drama worth seeing. The four leads do an exceptional job in their roles, and Kiefer Sutherland is spot on too. It follows a small band of…
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Evil Dead Burn
Film: Evil Dead Burn Year: 2026 Director: Sébastien Vaniček Rating: 45% Review: For all the dramatic music and head-smashing glory, this is quite a dull film. The wafer-thin plot isn’t disguised by the overtones of domestic abuse, and the actual Macguffin is barely mentioned until the final 15 minutes. Sam Raimi could do so much…
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Wasteman
Film: Wasteman Year: 2026 Director: Cal McMau Rating: 100% Review: The sheer claustrophobia of this film is enough to propel it to high acclaim. This prison thriller / drama pits the viewer against the modern prison underbelly — drugs, beatings, betrayals. The protagonist is due for early parole, but is drawn into a spiral of…
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GOAT
Film: GOAT Year: 2026 Director: Tyree Dillihay Rating: 85% Review: The wannabe becomes underdog plot has been done many times over. When the other elements of this film are added, you definitely feel you’ve seen it all before. But… it is a fun film, with great characters, exciting settings, and good-quality set pieces. The animation…
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Wuthering Heights
Film: Wuthering Heights Year: 2026 Director: Emerald Fennell Rating: 100% Review: Blimey! What a film! Moody, funny, warm, cold, sweet, bitter, stark, lush — it’s a movie full of contradictions: but how well are they done!? The casting is superb, the locations are perfect, the cinematography is second-to-none, the acting is excellent. All that’s without…
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Send Help
Film: Send Help Year: 2026 Director: Sam Raimi Rating: 80% Review: I like being wrong-footed by a film. I was expecting a taut horror-thriller; if I’d have realised it was a Sam Raimi picture, I would have expected differently. Elements of horror, certainly, but played as a black comedy for the most part, this is…
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The Running Man
Film: The Running Man Year: 2025 Director: Edgar Wright Rating: 80% Review: A pacy and fun action film, with just enough of a message to make it worthwhile. Reasonably faithful to the book for much of the duration, although some of themes felt a little patchy. Not the best Stephen King adaptation this year, but…
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