Darren Husted

A ★★★★ review of Saltburn (2023) First seen 2023, 7.30pm, Cineworld Wolverhampton, Screen 8 The first accurately sums up the feeling of being at university and trying to make friends (making the wrong friend, that very aggressive mat...

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A ★★★★ review of The Kids Are All Right (2010) First seen 2010, 6.30pm, Cineworld Wolverhampton, Screen 14 Curious about his donor father Laser (Josh Hutherson) gets his half sister Joni (Mia Wasikowska) to call the sperm clinic who then contact P...

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A ★★★★½ review of Eastern Promises (2007) First seen 2007, 9.15pm, Cineworld Wolverhampton, Screen 11 The death of a pregnant girl leads nurse Anna (Naomi Watts) to find her family and this takes her into the path of the Russian fixer Nikolai...

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A ★★★ review of Escape Plan (2013) First seen 2013, 7.05pm, Cineworld Wolverhampton, Screen 2 In 1993, while being slaughtered by Jurassic Park, Schwarzenegger (on a side note that choice destroyed his career, because his politics sepa...

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A ★★★★ review of Decision to Leave (2022) First seen 2022, 7.45pm, Cineworld Wolverhampton, Screen 10 Det Jang Hae-jun investigates the death of Ki Do-soo, and he is drawn to the widow Song Seo-rae, who talks about climing a mountain after he...

A 4 star review of 헤어질 결심

If Saltburn had a physical release this would be my longest streak of rewatching films using physical media (I watched Last Night in Soho and The Blair Witch Project on DVD this weekend). letterboxd.com/darrenhusted...

A ★★★★ review of The Blair Witch Project (1999) First seen 1999, 6.15pm, Cineworld Wolverhampton, Screen 6 Over the summer of '99 one film was getting all the buzz, and it wasn't the film everyone had been waiting for. The Phantom Menace has the bu...

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A ★★★★½ review of Last Night in Soho (2021) First seen 2021, 8.45pm, Wolverhampton Cineworld, Screen 13 Shy Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) goes to London for fashion school, and after being bullied she takes up residence at Ms Collins's loft, and s...

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Good at home, less good in cinema.

A ★★★★½ review of Argo (2012) First seen 2012, 9pm, Cineworld Wolverhampton, Screen 2 Following from The Town Ben Affleck found himself directing and starring in the film about the evacuation of American diplomats during the Iran ...

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A four and a half star review of Argo

A ★★★★½ review of Looper (2012) Second time seen, 6.05pm, Cineworld Wolverhampton, Screen 4 Seeing this a second time 13 years ago I had a commentary downloaded from soundcloud from Rian Johnson, and so listened to it in cinema. Joh...

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A 4 and a half star review of Looper.

A ★★★★ review of Ghostbusters (1984) First seen 2014, 3.30pm, Cineworld Wolverhampton, Screen 8 I saw this at the cinema for the first time 11 years ago, for the 30th anniversary, and it was pretty fun. The three guys are fun, they add a...

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A ★★★★ review of Nightcrawler (2014) first seen 2014, 8.15pm, Cineworld Wolverhampton, Screen 4 An out of work and ambitious young man Lou (Jake Gyllenhaal) stumbles into being a tabloid paparazzo, finding horrific real scenes and filmin...

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A ★★★★ review of Spectre (2015) First seen 2015, 7.45pm, Cineworld Wolverhampton, Screen 6 A decade later and the most expensive film in history (at the time, it was quickly overtaken by The Force Awakens) is a curious thing. I am n...

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RIP to Robert Redford, star of Avengers Infinity War and Captain America The Winter Soldier.

A ★★★★ review of Doctor Strange (2016) First seen 2016, 8.30pm, Cineworld Wolverhampton, Screen 8 Mentioned in the previous film we get to meet Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), a very arrogant surgeon who owns a lot of watches. Afte...

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A ★★★★★ review of The Social Network (2010) Fifth time seen 2010, 2.45pm, Cineworld Wolverhampton, Screen 4 A Harvard freshman has a bad date and makes a website, which crashes the intranet, gaining the attention of an Indian-Amercian student a...

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A ★★★★★ review of The Social Network (2010)

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An OK week (last two days)

A ★★★½ review of Cat Person (2023) First seen 2023, 7.30pm, Cineworld Wolverhampton, Screen 8 From my review two years ago: Margot (Emilia Jones, CODA) takes an interest in a patron of the cinema she works at, Robert (Nicholas Braun, Z...

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A ★★★★★ review of Easy A (2010) First seen 2010, 6.50pm, Cinewolrd Wolverhampton, Screen 3 From an earlier review: Olive Penderghast (Emma Stone, still stuck playing a teenager for at least 4 more years) gets a reputation after lyin...

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A ★★★★★ review of The Big Lebowski (1998) Second time seen 1998, 6.50pm, Cineworld Wolverhampton, Screen 10 Who is this gentleman, dude! The meandering tale of a missing wife who probably wasn't missing, all to scam some money, while at least...

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I understand Kramnik has said some shitty things about Danya, so fuck Kramnik.

A ★★★½ review of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016) First seen 2016, 6.15pm, Cineworld Wolverhampton, Screen 8 From a previous review: Despite hating the military Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise, Jack Reacher) has been doing some work for Susan Turner (Cobie ...

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A ★½ review of Slap Her... She's French (2002) First seen 2002, 12.30pm, UCG Broad Street, Screen 5 I specifically purcahsed this on DVD to be able to watch this for this project, it is basically lost media (not streaming anywhere, not on Blu Ray)...

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A ★★★½ review of The House Bunny (2008) First seen 2008, 4.35pm, Cineworld Wolverhampton, Screen 12 The premise is simple, thrown of of the Playboy Mansion for being "too old" (just turned 27) Shelley (Anna Faris) finds herself being the ho...

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A ★★★★ review of Burn After Reading (2008) Second time seen 2008, Cineworld Wolverhampton, Screen 8 Having seen it first in New York I saw this a couple of weeks later at home. The three main plots include George Clooney cheating on his wife, ...

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Two Coens and two Emma Stones in the next six days.

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A ★★★½ review of Real Steel (2011) First seen 2011, 6.30pm, Cineworld Wolverhampton, Screen 9 Rocky but with robots. The graphics are very good (the robots are well realised) but the story doesn't make it clear the exact power classes ...

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