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Palatkik

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  1. Dark River [2018] Superbly gritty psychological drama set in the dales of Yorkshire involving a woman with a dark secret who returns after many years to the farm she was brought up on to fight the tenancy rights with her brother.
  2. Professor Marston and The Wonder Women (2017) Interesting biopic on the origin of the Wonder Woman comic strip character created by a retired professor of psychology and his penchant for perverse sex and the truth that raised eyebrows at the time. The R rated screenplay is a little sugar coated for some tastes but well acted and not your usual super hero caper which makes it worth seeing.
  3. King Lear (2018 TV) A modern day British adaption of the Shakespearean classic, worth watching to see the skills of the cast put to wonders.
  4. Mother![2017] Barely watchable insane thriller, more art house than substance, about a tormented poet in his new home he shares with his latest young wife and countless other visitors he invites.
  5. Tulip Fever [2017] Lightweight 16th century comedy drama, makes easy viewing, set in the time of tulip mania and an old aristocrats young wife who finds a solution to her problems of infidelity with her husbands artist and her blackmailing pregnant maid.
  6. Ready Player One (2018) Set in a futuristic 2045 world of virtual reality, Spielberg has another hit with a nostalgic nod to some of his earlier works thrown in. One for Speilberg fans.
  7. The Post (2017). Political drama revisits the Washington Posts decision to defend its freedom of press rights over the pressure coming from Nixon government that would eventually be engulfed in Watergate. Spielberg again, so predictable and overly melodramatic for some tastes.
  8. Phantom Thread [2017] Slow paced masterpiece of work about well known dress designer. A pity DDL doesn't do more work.
  9. American Assassin [2017] Following his fiancé's slaughter on a beach by terrorists a self trained assassin joins the CIA to take out the bad guys plotting a nuclear attack. OTT popcorn entertainment suitable for those moments one just needs to vegetate in front of the screen, having Michael Keaton in it will appeal to some.
  10. Pirates Of Somalia [2017] Amusing true story set in 2012 at height of the piracy off the horn of Africa, of a would be journalist who tries to get recognition by going where no journalist dares to go, to interview the pirates.
  11. The Killing of A Sacred Deer (2017). Powerful well acted and unusual physiological revenge thriller of a surgeon who befriends a young adult with a score to settle. Worth seeing.
  12. It [2017] Mindless horror nonsense for those that need it. Hard to discern the target audience for this one. Stars a bunch of kids, script seems childish adaption of a Stephen King novel, but the horror is for adults. At 2h 15m someone is taking the piss methinks.
  13. Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool [2017] One for movie buffs, tells of the Oscar winning Hollywood star Gloria Grahame's dying days spent with her toy boy Liverpudlian friend in his mums terraced house in Merseyside based on his memoirs. Interesting mix of Hollywood and scouse working class life well acted.
  14. American Assassin [2017] Following his fiancé's slaughter on a beach by terrorists a self trained assassin joins the CIA to take out the bad guys plotting a nuclear attack. OTT popcorn entertainment suitable for those moments one just needs to vegetate in front of the screen, having Michael Keaton in it will appeal to some.
  15. The Last Movie Star [2018] Burt Reynolds takes a self indulgent look at his life in the movies thro the eyes of a fictitious actor. Interesting scenes of the octogenarian acting with his much younger self by some camera trickery. Worth a look, well acted light entertainment.
  16. All The Money In The World [2017] Paul Getty kidnapping caper, of interest for fully deleting the lead role of Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer following the former's sex impropriety allegations. A drawn out movie with rigid acting other than that of Plummers who betters the rest by far and only stepped in at the last minute.
  17. The Square (2017) Longish avant-garde Swedish art movie satire mostly spoken in the vernacular but with some well known UK/US actors in parts never quite meets the sum of its clever parts. Memorable for its eerie ape scene during an awards dinner near the end.
  18. Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017) The story behind the creation of the Pooh books by AA Milne and his struggles coping with war is overly sugared. I would normally pass on this but OK for family viewing.
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